{"id":9540,"date":"2014-05-12T00:07:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T05:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=9540"},"modified":"2016-03-14T00:18:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T04:18:21","slug":"spunkys-auto-sales-5403-two-notch-road-april-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=9540","title":{"rendered":"Spunky's Auto Sales, 5403 Two Notch Road: April 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1070552.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1070552_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1070552_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1070552_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140023.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140023_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140023_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140023_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140025.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140025_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140025_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140025_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140026.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140026_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140026_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140026_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140027.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140027_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140027_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140027_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, that didn't last too long.<\/p>\n<p><i>Spunky's Auto Sales<\/i> was the follow-on operation to <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8121\">Prestige Hitech Autowerks<\/a> which moved down the street into the old <i>Dick Dyer<\/i> bodyshop.  They opened sometime last fall (the picture I have is from October 2013) and lasted, I'm thinking, until last month (April 2014).<\/p>\n<p>I continue to like the gull-wing lights at these old service stations.  The roofline is nice too.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 20 November 2015<\/b> -- This place has been extensively remodeled and is to become a gas station:<\/p>\n<p><b>pix 8 August 2015<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260177.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260177_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260177_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260177_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260178.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260178_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260178_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260178_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>pix 16 August 2015<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260238.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260238_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260238_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260238_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260239.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260239_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260239_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260239_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>pix 23 August 2015<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260283.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260283_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260283_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260283_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260284.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260284_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260284_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260284_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260285.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260285_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260285_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260285_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260286.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260286_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260286_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260286_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>pix 12 September 2015<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260466.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260466_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260466_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260466_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260467.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260467_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260467_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260467_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>pix 18 October 2015<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1270388.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1270388_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1270388_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1270388_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>pix 6 November 2015<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280107.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1280107_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1280107_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1280107_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 14 March 2016<\/b> -- Almost ready to open as <i>King Fuel<\/i>.  It appears the store only needs to be stocked:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/03\/p1300824.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/03\/p1300824_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1300824_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1300824_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/03\/p1300825.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/03\/p1300825_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1300825_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1300825_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that didn't last too long. Spunky's Auto Sales was the follow-on operation to Prestige Hitech Autowerks which moved down the street into the old Dick Dyer bodyshop. They opened sometime last fall (the picture I have is from October 2013) and lasted, I'm thinking, until last month (April 2014). I continue to like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1463,13,104,54],"class_list":["post-9540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-5403-two-notch-road","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-two-notch-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540","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=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}