12 Eerie Abandoned Car Dealership Photos

Broken glass

Once a place of possibility and purchase in Nashville, Tennessee, it now evokes a dark history as just another eerie, abandoned site. Who knows what treasures you could find in this building now?

Boarded up windows and a bullet hole?

This dealership in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, looks like a ghost town. They still have their “new business” streamers up, but had to close after being confronted for not paying their cuota, which is a monthly tax charged by criminal gangs to local businesses.

No one’s home

Weeds have overtaken the closed Kennedy Cadillac dealership off Camino Real in San Bernardino, California, making the abandoned building look even eerier.

Grand opening!

With the “grand opening” sign still hanging proudly in the window, this dealership in Colma, California, was shut down after the 2008 economic downturn. General Motors and Chrysler were forced to close thousands of locations like this one.

No sale

These boarded up windows and the minimalist sign could be the setting for your favorite indie band’s next album cover. Imagine the cars that never got sold here, leading to the painful abandonment of the dealership.

No service, either

The dark clouds behind this Nashville service station add a sinister feel to another sad entry in the list of abandoned car dealership photos. If the exterior looks this haunting, who knows what’s inside?

Dark and gloomy

The decline of the automobile industry is reflected in this Detroit building formerly filled with shiny new cars and eager buyers. Abandoned car dealership photos stand as stark reminders of the failures of this proud industry.

Boarded up and gone

E.A. Miller & Son, a former new and quality used car dealer, looks closed for business in this abandoned car dealership photo from Crewkerne, Somerset, United Kingdom.

Buy, sell, trade

This oddly-shaped building that likely once held a used car dealer looks like thousands of others you could see on a great American road trip.

Turn off the lights

Some abandoned car dealership photos are less depressing than others. This Daimler Chrysler and Mercedes Benz dealership in the United Kingdom looks like it could be refilled with cars tomorrow.

A deserted showroom

Another Nashville entry in the abandoned car dealership photos list makes you really feel for the town. Like abandoned hotels, uninhabited dealerships capture the desolation resulting from the mass closing of car dealerships due to the 2008 recession.

Thank you, Nashville!

As part of a reorganization plan under bankruptcy protection, General Motors and Chrysler had to close approximately 3,000 dealerships around the country in 2008, including this one in Nashville.

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