FRYEBURG, Maine — If Fryeburg Motors proprietors Michelle and Eric Meltzer had a theme song, it’d probably be the Beatles’ “Baby You Can Drive My Car,” slightly amended perhaps to “Fix” instead of “Drive.”
They share a love for cars, both collecting vintage vehicles from the 1960s-’80s and fixing them at their Fryeburg Motors on Portland Street, which also houses Michelle’s upholstery business, Sew What, Michelle.
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