Wow! That’s a LOT of cars!
Friday, 18th June 2010 by Chris Hannigan
Check out all of these white cars parked on an airfield in Green Cove Springs, Florida! GSS reader Jon who sent us this sight thought the all-white cars might be hidden UN vehicles stashed behind trees at a US airbase.
The cars are actually a shipment of new imported Kias being stored at a unused section of an old Naval Air Station, and the white colour is due to the protective plastic wrap the cars are covered with on their way to the retailers. Despite the rational explanation, that's still a LOT of cars to cover two 5,000 ft runways!
In some places, the cars are parked in very neat and tidy rows, and in other locations you'll find gaps and holes in the formation. How do you think they got the middle car out?
The facility itself was once called Naval Air Station Green Cove Springs (Lee Field). The base was decommissioned in 1960, and today aviation sectional charts mark the site as a private field called Reynolds Airpark. Only one of the original naval base runways remains in use.
It’s pretty cool to see thousands and thousands of cars lined up somewhere, so here are a couple of other places that do this as well. Outside of Portland, Oregon you'll find a storage yard for imported vehicles, and outside of Warwick, Rhode Island a large group of cars can be seen stacked by the ports.
Previously on Google Sightseeing: The World's Largest Car Parks.
Thanks again to Jon for the link!
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this has to be a secret code ! maybe ET callin’ home 😀
The cars in Rhode Island presumably are Volkswagens, as they are at VW’s Davisville import facility. It’s located on the site of the former Quonset Navy base.
Speaking of car transport, here’s an amazing writeup about (obsessively) tracking the new BMW you’ve ordered from Germany while it’s making its way to the USA.
The second link is a GMaps view of what seems to be the BMW offloading facility in Elizabeth/Newark New Jersey.
http://www.bmwblog.com/2009/07/14/how-to-follow-a-new-bmw-from-order-to-shipping-and-to-delivery/
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Koper, Slovenia: Largest main import port for Europe for Hyundai View Placemark
Well, it sure didn’t take long for the cars to disappear from the satellite imagery…Must HAVE been a secret code. 😉
Haha great timing I guess! 😀
“now where the hell did i park my car?”
speaking of a lot of cars, what is going on at mall of america. why are these cars in the adjacent lot parked the way they are? View Placemark (44.854173,-93.234433)
looks like someone nicked them all…..