This place was one of the bigger repair & towing shops around when I was a kid but it closed a number of years ago, a enterprising group f guys reopened it with a twist & left all the simage from the original business and added their name on the front f the building. There will be a big show here this Saturday, November 9t 312 Sayre Street Anderson South Carolina Saturday at 12 PM – 9 PM 32–52°F Sunny Any old blaces being brought back in your area? HRP
It's hard to bring a shop back in to a building that was a shop. The ordinances have moved on pushing shops to industrial parks.
There are a couple of the old cinder block shop buildings left in Pocahontas. However they are simply private garages for the guys who own them. The old ford garage is setting vacant. the chevy dealership is a car lot and the back part a tire shop. everyone now has those colored metal & red iron buildings
Monty's Motors has been in town since 1956 (the same year the city was incorporated), it's the oldest business in town. Still going, I took an OT car there last week for an alignment.
If one was after the best of the best,race Flathead V8,or latter on GM v8s,there was one place. H.C.Wilcox 27Ave Miami Florida. And note some fun in the banner. For those that don't know who Jim Rathmann is,, look up Indy 500 winners. Gone now
I have one of the older ones in town now. I ran it as a full service shop from 1982 to 2012 and then re-branded it as a shop for Hot Rods, Classics, Muscle Cars and Antiques. It's a 7 car (comfortable) shop and I still do a fair bit of customer work, but today, 3 of the 5 cars in the shop seem to belong to me.
Yup, it's a bit of a struggle doing customer work when that '50 keeps calling for me. Got a complete front end job on a '65 Chevy to do ... back to work, maybe ...
I drove past McLee's dozens of times when my daughter lived on that end of town. It always made me sad to see it. Really happy to see it open again.
There's one in my town. I pulled it up on Google Street View and tried to follow the 12 Step Program directions I found online. No workee for rickshaw boy. I might have been ahead of the game to just put a new flint in the camera and drive the 6 miles to the building and do it like Ansel Adams would have done it than to try it on the 'pewter. Maybe next time I'm out and about I'll capture it for posterity.
This is the old Ford dealership where Brenda's grandmother bought the '54 Ranch Wagon. I had a photo of what the dealership looked like a few years ago before it was torn down, thank you photobucket for holding the photo hostage. HRP
Not many old repair shops left in my town. Most were tore down after they closed up, or have changed so much you would never recognize them. All the new car dealerships from the late 60s have moved to other locations in town and few of their old buildings remain. This town is all about getting rid of old buildings because "they are eyesores and pose a danger to the community". Gene
There are some small local garages, the buildings have been there a long time, they are operating on the tourist gouge price system with one exception that I'm aware of. They are using shop rates of $100+/per plus minimum markup of 100%/200% on parts. Here in the heart of tourist country you are better off dealing with the new car dealers IMO. I was in business for 36 years and am aware of the high cost of running a insured legit business. Our Local GM dealer is at $120/I had to have a repair I did not want to do so I paid up, It's the times we live in, It Is What It Is.
There is one a stones throw from me sitting vacant . I ask myself 1 million times , why not buy it . It’s on a main road intersection . It was built in the time when the world was a better place to live . It has tons of glass to make use of free lighting . I watch and watch it has never been broken into that I have ever seen or noticed . My luck as soon as I buy it and start to tinker , everything in there would be gone , including the wiring . I don’t trust any people and it would just make enemies for me I suppose . But it would be damn fun to own . I’ll get a couple photos in a day or so and post them .
There was a Ford dealership in Farmington, NH that would sell new Fords from catalogs, never had one you could look at. One man shop, who would keep two sets of tools, one for each side of the car, so to save time from walking around. Excellent mechanic who would rework the car you traded in so well that you would see it driving around when you were going to trade in the car you obtain several years ago.
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