Before & after vehicles and locations

Nice. I'd like to see this one get some momentum.

 

The Best I can add to this is this shot of the Service Door entrance of Dunlop Pontiac in Bay City MI Taken around 2010 about a year after the dealership Closed. From the Local Bay City Newspaper

And My Car at the same location this afternoon. I was Surprised earlier this year to see the Logo Still there if a little worse for wear.

 

I hope they leave it be. So, Dunlop used a Pontiac-like logo

 

I think that's the name of the dealer owner, not Dunlop tires.

 

Chief Dunlop?

 

https://www.pressherald.com/2011/08/31/the-ugly-birth-of-preservation_2011-08-31/

 

For someone originally from Detroit...that's one of the older Pontiac corporate symbols, from around the time of Grizz's project car.

 

The tore that big beautiful architectural masterpiece down for a crappy looking strip mall? for shame!

 

I know. That's absolutely horrible. I almost regret starting this thread, when I see artwork like that blatantly destroyed, to make way for utter blight

 

Hey they could have just kept the building as a strip mall... called it Union Station Mall... maybe attach a bigger building behind it?
So much potential to preserve a building from 1888 with its unique characteristics than a bland, ugly, strip mall...
Welcome to corporate America, every place looks the same...
"little pink houses for you and me" John Mellencamp - Pink Houses

 

It's all about graft and payola. Some city government, if the property is no longer railroad-owned, gets contacted by some "developer" to knock down a building at taxpayer's costs. Then erect his own, in place, and live through charging rent. Such types are the real "Enemy Combatants" who should be made to walk the frog at Gitmo, instead.
Over here in Germany, they have federal laws against tampering with historical buildings.
This is what that "developer" should get blasted day and night with, while wearing his orange jump suit:

 

Classic Motors car dealership in Richfield, UT.