Justin Plant
Well-Known Member
Should've named it "The Grease Pit". Opportunities missed....
Photos of Vintage Auto Dealerships, Repair Shops, and Gas Stations
- Thread starter ayilar
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San Francisco 1969
Wytheville VA
Hoffman Motor Car Company Porsche, New York City, 1954
Kenyon, MN
Clarksburg, WV
MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
The building was there till May 2012, a June 2012 aerial shows it to dirt.
2001 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
2011
2022
Alan
The former Tower Garage, Engham, Surrey, England.
Built 1935 by Vauxhall, remodeled/enlarged in 1955 (to the right/deeper into the lot mainly), bought by Shell in the 1960's becoming a gas station and service center.
Maranello group got it late 1960's, and has been selling luxury auto brands on this site ever since. Finally a Grade-II designation (like a historic building designation, so it can no longer be altered.
Other that being bigger over the years, it retains a lot of its art-deco charm, particularly the "clock tower" (and left of that) and curvilinear street-side, facade, large, straight line window and glass-block style.
WAY too big/way too much history (too many restrictions) to be a "hobby house" .. but I'd really like to own it for that purpose anyway
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Chewed up my lunch looking for vintage photos but struck out. Love to see it under Vauxhall's and Shell's ownership.
2008
Today
Built 1935 by Vauxhall, remodeled/enlarged in 1955 (to the right/deeper into the lot mainly), bought by Shell in the 1960's becoming a gas station and service center.
Maranello group got it late 1960's, and has been selling luxury auto brands on this site ever since. Finally a Grade-II designation (like a historic building designation, so it can no longer be altered.
Other that being bigger over the years, it retains a lot of its art-deco charm, particularly the "clock tower" (and left of that) and curvilinear street-side, facade, large, straight line window and glass-block style.
WAY too big/way too much history (too many restrictions) to be a "hobby house" .. but I'd really like to own it for that purpose anyway
. Chewed up my lunch looking for vintage photos but struck out. Love to see it under Vauxhall's and Shell's ownership.
2008
Today
Clark Street Cadillac assembly line, Detroit.
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
Sweden,Dalsland.
Kyiv Ukraine
Sweden
Botnick Chevrolet, 179 Front Street, Binghamton NY. Above, ca. mid 1950's
Still there. updated for the brand stuff, but mid century moderne architecture early in the "big box" showroom era after WWII largely intact (bummer though what he lost on left side - GM might have forced that - of his frontage .. brick work was cherry.)
Nashville, TN.
2016 pic. I think it's the same location, but can't be sure. It became Wyatt Johnson Ford in 2017.
2016 pic. I think it's the same location, but can't be sure. It became Wyatt Johnson Ford in 2017.
ostensibly, same building to me but remodeled with Ford's brand box..
if no other confirmation is available, you could compare the addresses 60 years apart to check "footprint" of the buiildings on the lot?
Historic Aerials: Viewer
if no other confirmation is available, you could compare the addresses 60 years apart to check "footprint" of the buiildings on the lot?
Historic Aerials: Viewer
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