"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
04/07/2019 at 19:42 • Filed to: None
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"Boxer_4" (Boxer_4)
04/07/2019 at 19:42 • Filed to: None | 8
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Remember how GM had a unique design for the Hummer dealerships? Well, one local to where I grew up went through some rebranding throughout the years. The first picture is from streetview around 2008.
By 2011, it was rebranded by the same dealer family as a Saab and Cadillac dealership.
As of 2016, the Cadillac dealership has moved down the road and joined the Chevrolet dealership. Meanwhile, the original Hummer dealership was once again rebranded,
this time
as a Mazda dealership.
What has become of your local Hummer dealership?
jminer
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 19:59 |
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One of them here in the St Louis area is a heavy equipment dealer now.
daender
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:00 |
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...I didn’t even know Hummer had their own dealerships! I’ve never passed by one before!
facw
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:01 |
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No Hummer dealership where I lived during that era. No Mazda de al ership either for that matter, which is probably good because there’s a decent chance I would have bought a Protege5 instead of an S40, and then been left with a pile of rust a few years later. I feel like there should have been a Saab dealer, but I can’t for the life of me think where it would have been.
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:02 |
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My favorite is one of the ones we pass on our route to Chicago. It was a hummer dealer and has the very obvious dealership design as you mentioned. It is now a Fiat dealer.
Chuckles
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:03 |
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I would say that you summed up my local Hummer dealership pretty well.
not for canada - australian in disguise
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:04 |
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My local one was always a boring Pontiac/Buick/GMC dealer that also sold Hummers. So naturally other than the signage and a slight renovation to the building itself, it hasn’t changed much.
Speaking of dead (at least in the US and Canada) GM brands, just down the road is a “ Suzuki” dealer that has yet to remove their signage after about 6 years or so of the brand being dead in Canada. No they don’t sell motorcycles. They’re just a used car dealer now.
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:09 |
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Parts and service for the Cadillac dealer next door.
lone_liberal
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:09 |
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This is it back then featuring the Quonset hut look.
Now I think it’s a Porsche dealership under the same ownership.
ranwhenparked
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:17 |
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Not sure, but this is what happened to the old Ford dealer in the town where I grew up.
Built in the 1920s, closed as a dealer in the 1960s, now its an upscale hipster supermarket.
fintail
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:41 |
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The Hummer Quonset in my town is now a Caddy dealer.
XJDano
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:49 |
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Went from hummer to a gun store and now a equipment sales. It was a cool looking building at the time for the early 2000 ’s when hummers were hot, more than any other dealers that were box buildings
https://goo.gl/maps/qgCrzfqRR9q
punkgoose17
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:54 |
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Hummer and SAAB dealerships buildings, now Subaru and Cadillac:
HammerheadFistpunch
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 20:58 |
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At least its still a Chevy dealership. Intact with its off road course.
I’ve been tempted to stop by and ask if they’d let me run it. but I already know the answer.
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 21:13 |
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Here’s one near me in Libertyville. I think Napleton bought up the local Mazda dealer and moved them into what I think might have once been the Saturn building (though it looks very nice)
QCGoose
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
04/07/2019 at 21:42 |
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Are you talking about the one in Davenport, IA on the north side of I80? It's also an Alfa Romeo dealer.
dogisbadob
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 21:49 |
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
TheJWT
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 22:07 |
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I completely forgot about these; the one near me became a Buick/ GMC dealer. The curved roof actually works pretty well with the curved entryway that Buick Dealers use (also that e46) -
You can see where the old offroad track was to the north too-
Just Jeepin'
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 22:54 |
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I have no idea where one might have been around here, but your post reminded me of what must have been one of the smallest Ford dealers still around (although I believe it finally succumbed in recent years).
This is in a small town in Indiana, Spencer.
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sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> QCGoose
04/07/2019 at 23:06 |
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Yup I believe that’s the one.
shop-teacher
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 23:21 |
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Its a Chevy dealer. I was actually chatting with the owner about it, and he said, “Well, I was renting the facility my Chevy store was in, and I owned this building, so it made sense to move the Chevy store here once Hummer folded.”
Makes sense to me.
m-b-w loves his SUBAROO
> Boxer_4
04/07/2019 at 23:45 |
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The one in my town is now a coffee shop that employs people with Down Syndrome, and other intellectual disabilities.
Chariotoflove
> HammerheadFistpunch
04/07/2019 at 23:56 |
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That’s pretty cool that they have that. It seems kinda gimmicky, but still.
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> m-b-w loves his SUBAROO
04/08/2019 at 00:10 |
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That is good upcycling!
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SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> Boxer_4
04/08/2019 at 00:16 |
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The second verse of thi s song has pretty much the only hummer reference left in Oz...
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12and35
> Boxer_4
04/08/2019 at 09:40 |
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The building to the right used to be a Saab and cool enough a Spyker dealership.I don’t think we EVER sold one when I worked at the auto mall.
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Boxer_4
> Just Jeepin'
04/08/2019 at 10:32 |
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That is tiny! I like it!
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Boxer_4
> TheJWT
04/08/2019 at 10:33 |
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I don’t think I realized many of them had an off-road track. Ours didn’t have one, I don’t think.
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Boxer_4
> punkgoose17
04/08/2019 at 10:34 |
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I’ll admit, Subaru is a bit odd for the location. However, I guess Mazda is too.
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punkgoose17
> Boxer_4
04/08/2019 at 11:17 |
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They are super sized dealership. They started with Pontiac then Hyundai. Then they had all the GM products, Subaru, and Mazda. They tried to sell Fiats but that only lasted to 2016.
Verdog ~ manual Bro, Bro - HellHawk Equipped
> Boxer_4
04/08/2019 at 15:23 |
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Its storage for its sister’s Chevy fleet department.
It also has a cool off road track, notice the angled drive on the right.
TahoeSTi
> Boxer_4
04/08/2019 at 18:03 |
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Still selling hummer here in Nevada http://www.mustangranchbrothel.com/