Re: Pikeville, NC AMC dealership...spookily interesting...

[Jerry Casper <gremlingts@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jim wrote:

 
> ..., it had been suggested to me to stop by the
> Pikeville NC AMC dealership. 
> Found
> the dealership OK.

 Glad my directions were ok, Jim. - Jerry -
> 
> I don't know whether this place was great,
> depressing, or spooky.  It's like they just threw a
> fence up around it when the dealership closed. 
> There had to be a 100 AMC's around there, and a
> smaller number of other make cars.  Some were so
> overgrown with weeds and brush you could barely make
> out there was a car there, much less make/model!
> 

  Sounds like it hasn't changed since I was there. The
cars around back ARE heavily overgrown, more so than
up front, when I was there. Some only a bumper or roof
stick out of the brambles and vines. Sad! -Jerry -

> Does anyone know the
> story of this place?

 From my male CRS-infected brain, Jim, I vaguely
remember from a previous List accounting that the
owner of the dealership bought all the inventory from
Chrysler when AMC got bought up, and basically kept it
open "as is". Not sure of all the whys, hows,
motivations, etc., just that an individual kept this
one open. 
  Far as "spooky"...it's a combination of them all to
me...a time-warp look into the past. It looks like one
of those disaster films, where 99% of the world's
population dies off from a super-virus, and everything
just stopped for 20 years...cut to the film.  :) 
Everything is in it's place, there's just no one
around to care for it, except a few wandering souls
looking for "The Last Bastion of Civilization". Wow,
hey look, a Ram Air 390 Javelin! Lets hot-wire it and
see if it still runs!
  Only thing else I know about it is that the owner
will sell cars, but that his prices are supposedly
high...yeah, the Pacer may only have 100 miles on it,
but with the roof rusting out, it's not worth $5,000 !
Too bad, looks like a few of the cars are worth
saving, but not at top dollar up front! I would like
to go back myself, see it again sometime. Glad you got
to see a little piece of AMC history, even time
"warped" as it is.  - Jerry -



		
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