Abandoned Cars of Detroit Pt. X

"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95) 10/07/2015 at 17:26 • Filed to: Abandoned Cars of Detroit

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Some weird stuff this time, including what one report called, a makeshift chop shop.

That “chop shop” would be from the first two pics

Stripped MKZ?

Woah! A German car, one of only a few in this series.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/07/2015 at 17:32

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It boggles my mind how stuff like this is just...sitting around....0_o

I’m Canadian and we all know Detroit is in bad shape, but stuff like this just hits home as petrolheads...

Moves-Like-Senna > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/07/2015 at 17:33

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Is Detroit really this depressing?

MonkeePuzzle > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/07/2015 at 17:34

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broken window but no glass on the ground?

or as I’ve heard it called, “detroit diamonds”

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Moves-Like-Senna 10/07/2015 at 17:35

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Nah, its a huge city. The inner areas are super cool but the outskrits are pretty depressing.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 10/07/2015 at 17:37

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Detroit is turning into two very different cities very fast. A “gentrifying” center (Read: turning into not shit) and old Detroit is left to fester in the outskirts.

MonkeePuzzle > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/07/2015 at 17:42

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you gots a cop light on the roof?

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > MonkeePuzzle 10/07/2015 at 17:45

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Not my car. I get these pics from a site where people can report things to a local govt.

Its appalls me that you think I would take vertical pictures in these situations.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Moves-Like-Senna 10/07/2015 at 17:53

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I’ve been there a couple of times over the past couple of years - it’s still alive in places but there are areas which are rundown and don’t look very good.

If you go downtown, you see what the city was at one point - the streets are wide with multiple lanes and even the sidewalks are very wide. The weird thing is, even mid day, there would be times where my friends and I would be the only people walking on that block. Even the traffic seemed light during rush hour (although it was definitely busy in places, like around the Renaissance Center).

Then, you see downtown come alive because of sports - Lions games are tremendous to go to (although it looks like they’re doing real shitty this season) and I love the Red Wings games I’ve been to as well. There are plenty of great places to eat (I love coney dogs, but I think my favourite place there is the Green Dot) and people I had run into were quite friendly. Heck, after a beer festival (Michigan is home to AMAZING beer, by the way) a drug dealer offered me cocaine, which I politely declined, and he gave me a wave and said, “God bless,” as he went on his way. To be fair, that was the only time I was offered drugs in over the many days spent there, and it’s not like this is completely out of the question in other major cities.

Detroit is definitely not the hyperbolic cesspool of violence and decay that it's made out to be. There are great people there doing great things - I'm very hopeful for the city.

Brian, The Life of > MonkeePuzzle 10/07/2015 at 18:07

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Stolen somewhere else and dumped there, is my guess.

dtg11 - is probably on an adventure with Clifford > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/07/2015 at 18:56

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Fusion. Similar enough that I’ll give you credit.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/07/2015 at 19:20

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I’d say they’ve taken a good bit off of this one.

ranwhenparked > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/07/2015 at 19:24

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So, basically like Delta City, except happening more organically.

T5Killer > gin-san - shitpost specialist 10/07/2015 at 20:17

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I would love to go check it out. Being a big domestic car guy plus I am a big Red Wings fan just because I “discovered” hockey and cars at the same time as a teen. (I say discovered because pretty much no one watches hockey here in the desert southwest)

crowmolly > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/07/2015 at 20:40

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pip bip - choose Corrour > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/08/2015 at 04:51

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gib!.......to the wreckers.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/08/2015 at 04:52

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no loss.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/08/2015 at 04:52

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no loss.

thebigbossyboss > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 10/08/2015 at 15:42

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Can you contact the local govt and get permission to take one of these things home? I’ll bet there’s some value in some of these. Probably not so much that corolla but yeah.