NC: Collier AMC Dealership - The Living Dead

Via Cousin John

 

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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