Journey to Collier Motors AMC

We are on the way to Pikeville, North Carolina right now to check out Collier Motors, known among the internet as the last remaining AMC dealership. I don't know what the what the full backstory is. We're going to figure that out, but all we know is it's an AMC dealership. All the signs are still there. It was abandoned for a long time, but still owned by the family, and they have, from what I've read, a couple hundred cars in their lot that have been there for 30 years or something. We're going to check it all out and get the story from the owner. So, let's go find this place. He said it was right across from the AutoZone. Oh, man. I see a car right there. I couldn't even tell you what that is. I'm not really familiar with all the AMC models, but Oh my god. This is like the coolest thing ever. I'm I'm so pumped for this. Wow, if you didn't know what you were looking at, you'd whiz right by this place and not even see it back there. No trespassing. We are not trespassing because the owner is coming to meet us. This is just the most epic thing ever. I can't believe this is real. Are you excited? This is so cool. I know he's selling stuff out of here now, so maybe we could walk through here and see if there's anything cool that we might want. I already told Mitchell that we should have brought a trailer. Well, good thing we're not that far away. Oh, I think this is him right here. How you doing, man? Pretty good. I had the camera filming when you pulled up. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. Nice to meet you. Robert Collier? Mitchell. Mitchell. All right. Was this paved at one point or was it a field? a It was a It's all grass. It was a lawn here. We This was no cars out here at all. And no cars over there except for the front line. And we had a back line back in the '70s. But it was It was manicured pretty good. I used to mow the grass when I was a kid here. We actually started downtown in Pikeville. It was a small building that had a garage in the back, showroom in the front. We were there from '55 to 19 '1973 or '4. That's when he had bought this property here. And uh