Automotive landmark signs

[barry2952]

They're disappearing fast. Post pictures of cars used as building signs in your area. I've been going to this place for 40+ years. The guy that owns it now was a teenager changing tires in his father's business when I first started going there.

This former Packard dealership is located on Woodward Avenue just north of 9-mile in Ferndale, MI. I just learned today that buried in the building is a Frank Lloyd Wright commercial structure. The wheels on the car roll nonstop 24/7. It's a highly visible landmark during the Dream Cruise.



If you ever need a front end aligned on a vintage vehicle, this place is old-school.

[lostmypassword]

Always a highlight for me on the way to the airport as a kid.

[barry2952]

Always a highlight for me on the way to the airport as a kid.

Did you know that that started off as a Ferris wheel.?

[lostmypassword]

Did you know that that started off as a Ferris wheel.?

Yep, and they had a video on Freep.com I think a while back where they went inside it as it currently sits.

Such a Detroit landmark for everyone who flew into Metro to see.

[jettagli1991]

Niagara Falls Hard Rock Cadillac. It was sad to see it sitting amongst Caravans and other mundane modern cars waiting for the crusher.

I need to go shoot a pic of the junkyard around the corner. They have an old Fiat and a 50's car with a flame paint job mounted up high by the fence, and they've probably been there longer than I've been alive.

[WeeTallDidTiming]

i thought you meant something like this

[vwlarry]

Imagine if this had been preserved.



Studebaker management, in the late thirties, decided that this landmark did not represent their newer and more advanced products well, so they had it torched. Twas a shame.

[JOHNS92JETTA]

[LG6R]

[barry2952]

[BRealistic]

Timely story.



http://www.courierpress.com/news/201...-ev_cargoesup/

[qgqg]

This one in SF, off 101. It's nothing fancy but I've always loved passing by it as a kid.

[Yo Teach]

This Monza advertises a garage in Sandusky, OH

[BRealistic]

^
I think that is actually a Buick Skyhawk.

[Jrod511]

I encountered this giant chopper last year getting on to US 129

[Biff Beltsander]

The very religious and actually dry town of Steinbach Manitoba is home to a lot of car dealerships. And for that they've had this gigantic car sculpture for many decades.

[Biff Beltsander]

i thought you meant something like this

Nah, more like this.

[Biff Beltsander]

Blog all about art cars and cars used as advertising.
http://artcar.blogspot.ca/2009/12/39...s-and-few.html

[SoCalDubber]

This one in SF, off 101. It's nothing fancy but I've always loved passing by it as a kid.

My friend lives in the red building behind the plumber... Please blur his house.

Edit: Thanks.

[JCT]

[LG6R]

Last but not least:

How about a car UNDER a pole?

[Aonarch]

I always loved these going on base. On Marine bases they typically would recover DUI fatality vehicles and display them on base, or by the gate. Then they would have signs showing statistics and stories.

[barry2952]

Was it effective? I've found that some drinkers blow that stuff off as, "Can't happen to me".

[AdrockMK2]

Always a highlight for me on the way to the airport as a kid.

That was always a landmark icon for me on the way down to Akron for the Soap Box Derby races.

[GRNWNV]

This is a few minutes away from me.

[deucestudios]

I see your cars on a pole and raise you an 18 wheeler.

[Chris_V]

I can't see all the pics in the thread, so apologies if it's been posted already. Long time Seattle landmark:

[barry2952]

[LG6R]

And they have a 3-D sign made to look like a giant muffler