Dated.
On the sweeter side of the fence sits a
brick-and-glass showroom, looking
shaggy with vegetation hanging off
its roof like a mop-top. It's a relic,
a place that slipped into the cracks
between past and present, where the familiar
red, white, and blue AMC signs forgot to
come crashing down along with American
Motors 25 years ago. Pikeville, North
Carolina--a town of 700 people--has rolled
off the tongues and keyboards of AMC junkies
for years, with this seemingly abandoned
dealership attaining near-mythical status as a
slightly more flammable Shangri-La for gearheads.
Ten years of blog posts, newsletters,
and gossip say the place is like 1987 frozen in
time, and where untitled cars still wrapped in
plastic and bearing window stickers relax as
fresh and gleaming as the day they sat on this
lot and watched AMC slip from existence.
Evidence is scarce enough to encourage
rumors, appetizers to whet the hunger for
proof.
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A neat way to monetize this time capsule would be to bring small tour groups through... $25 a head, 30min tour of the place.
ReplyDeleteMaybe rent out the facility for scientist types to study...
Sounds good.
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