{"id":23845,"date":"2024-11-13T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T03:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=23845"},"modified":"2025-02-10T23:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T04:46:35","slug":"cars-beyond-2416-broad-river-road-summer-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=23845","title":{"rendered":"Cars &#038; Beyond, 2416 Broad River Road: Summer 2024 (Open Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/01\/p1930326.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/01\/p1930326_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1930326_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1930326_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000106.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000106_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2000106_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2000106_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000107.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000107_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2000107_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2000107_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000111.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000111_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2000111_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2000111_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000112.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000112_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2000112_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2000112_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000113.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000113_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2000113_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2000113_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000114.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000114_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2000114_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2000114_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000115.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000115_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2000115_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2000115_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000116.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000116_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2000116_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2000116_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000117.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000117_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2000117_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2000117_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Cars & Beyond<\/i> set up shop on the old <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10063\">National Pride Car Wash<\/a> lot after the existing structures were razed (other than the sign, which was re-purposed).  From the name of the place, I assume they were connected with the nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21670\">Tires & Beyond<\/a>, which closed in 2022 with a promise to re-open, though that appears to have fallen through.<\/p>\n<p>Actually until commenter Gypsie mentioned that this place had closed, and that it had definitely had had an online presence as open, I had it in the \"never opened\" category in my mind.  I saw some guys setting things up, as you can see in the first picture, but after that, it never actually seemed to be a working car lot -- at least I never saw any stock there when I would drive by.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Gypsie)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 10 February 2025<\/b> -- They are back:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/cars_beyond.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/cars_beyond_tn.jpg\" title=\"cars_beyond_tn.jpg\" alt=\"cars_beyond_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2416+Broad+River+Rd,+Columbia,+SC+29210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cars &#038; Beyond set up shop on the old National Pride Car Wash lot after the existing structures were razed (other than the sign, which was re-purposed). From the name of the place, I assume they were connected with the nearby Tires &#038; Beyond, which closed in 2022 with a promise to re-open, though that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1597,45,104,3616,2215],"class_list":["post-23845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2416-broad-river-road","tag-broad-river-road","tag-cars","tag-marley-drive","tag-used-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}