Lost Buick-Pontiac dealership: Westerly, Rhode Island

On a recent photo trip through southern New England, Litwin and I passed a real neat building on Route 1 in Westerly, Rhode Island, with a couple old old Buick-Pontiac signs affixed to ‘em. One U-turn later, and we were investigating the remnants of Ray Hoxsie Buick-Pontiac.

On Google Maps StreetView, it still appears to be a thriving business, selling new cars out of the newer building and used cars out of the lot around the older building that caught our eye. In person, Ray Hoxsie is as abandoned as those photoessays depict Detroit nowadays. The older building doesn’t appear to have been used in quite sometime – a peek through the door reveals plants growing up through the mold- and lichen-encrusted linoleum floor. The newer building still contains traces of its dealership existence: a couple faded displays in the showroom, stacks of CDs on desks in the service department, even a fine collection of V-belts above the parts counter.

I would suspect Hoxsie was one of the hundreds of dealers culled by GM earlier this year as part of GM’s turnaround. Probably didn’t help that they would’ve only had Buick to fall back on once Pontiac had gone under.

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