Niebling Auto Body

Specialties

Full service body shop

Lifetime warranty

ASE certified technicians

I-​CAR Gold rated shop

24 hour towing

Rental cars @ special rates

Preferred shop of major insurance companies

History

Established in 1892.

In 1887, a German wagon maker named Louis Niebling immigrated to the U.S. and moved West to St Louis. Horses, wagons and carriages were the mainstays of transportation. Gasoline-​powered vehicles were for the rich and eccentric. However, the desire to own one of these noisy, cantankerous and expensive machines had begun to spread across the nation.

Louis Niebling opened his own wagon shop at 1707 South Broadway in 1892. However, his success was marred by Mother Nature when the tornado of 1895 destroyed his enterprise. He persevered and started again, building a new two-​story shop at 2146 South 12^th Street. By 1905, Niebling’s shop was building the bodies for Mack’s five-​ton capacity truck in which the driver sat over the engine.

A year later, the city had its own car manufacturer when the St Louis Car Company started producing the American Mors under license from a French company. Louis Niebling Carriage and Wagon Manufacturing also built the body for the Mors. At a time when the aver