Somewhere in the Old AMC Headquarters, hides this.

"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95) 02/12/2015 at 18:51 • Filed to: None

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This is an insanely cool building though. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

ranwhenparked > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/12/2015 at 18:57

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That's really a shame. It's a beautiful building and was maintained in perfect shape up until Chrysler vacated it, but we all knew this would happen. A vacant building that size in New York would get renovated and repurposed but in Detroit, it had very little chance of seeing any further use. I believe AMC had preserved Charles Nash's office intact over the years as he left it, bet that's all gone now.

Chrysler used it as their Jeep/Truck Engineering Center, responsible for all light truck development. The employees that worked there liked the arrangement, since it kept them further away from direct corporate control and gave them a bit more freedom. The move to Auburn Hills definitely made sense from an economic standpoint - why pay for two sprawling office facilities when one will do? - but it was controversial internally.

E. Julius > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/12/2015 at 19:00

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I wish companies still had names like "Kelvinator"

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > ranwhenparked 02/12/2015 at 19:03

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Another issue is that its in the middle of fucking nowhere. There really isnt much a reason to put anything there.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/12/2015 at 19:03

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This pic is epic.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 02/12/2015 at 19:04

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I love the " >Chrysler again "

jkm7680 > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/12/2015 at 19:10

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Really cool pictures!

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/12/2015 at 19:23

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"The championships were settled long before the dust"

I want that poster.

Milky > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/12/2015 at 19:25

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Ha that was a good read. The new owner ended up in jail and had the property seized. I'll have to stop by some day since I drive by so often (expressway is right next to it) and get a pic, since both of my Jeeps were engineered there.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/12/2015 at 19:28

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Yeah, that was great.

ranwhenparked > E. Julius 02/12/2015 at 20:05

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Kelvinator is still around, Electrolux owns them now.

E. Julius > ranwhenparked 02/12/2015 at 20:06

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Nice! Electrolux is almost as good of a name anyways

ranwhenparked > E. Julius 02/12/2015 at 20:07

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This is true.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/13/2015 at 05:22

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needs to be preserved.