Hello. This is an active business run by a man whose family owns the building and cars. He buys and sells car from an office in the back and he lives upstairs in an apartment in the back. I have met him several times and have toured the inside. Amazing collection of vehicles. This is not a collection of abandoned vehicles. The man also has driven his Ferrari in the Suzuka drivers parade.
Japan is like that. I know of a collection of 12 classic Toyotas that you may mistake for abandoned but actually they just stay behind the owners business
Actively i doubt google says its permanently closed stil sad to see things sit there so long that its rusting / rotting away. also any day things sit there things gone lose value until theres nothing left and thats the cars outside i wonder what things can stil be saved (most cars inside the shop look better). But yeah it looks like a old treasure vault i dont know how long the owner stil has on this earth but i would hope he sees he cant keep this forever in this state. so many nice and vintage stuf there. also a lot of things can be fixed with new owners if he would sell some stuf. + maybe keep something he realy wants himself in good conidition with the funds he gets if he would do that. But i geusse money issent realy the issue for the owner.
Hi, ProAuto isn't abandoned... The owner is a big renown collector here in Japan. I am lucky enough to have actually met him and I might be the only foreigner to have visited the place lol... His personal history is the reason why the place is like it is now... He's aware of it and tries his best with some help to get things "fixed". What you see on the outside there is nothing compared to what's inside and at other locations that he owns...
Great video! What a find. I should add that not all classic Minis are ‘Mini Coopers’ despite common misconception. The Coopers were the sports model and are actually quite rare. The majority of the Minis in this video and just standard Minis, they could be Austin, Morris, Leyland or Rover. The funky red car inside is a Mini based kit car called a Marcos. It was sold as a kit car utilizing a fibreglass/GRP Monocoque with running gear & subframes from a Mini. It had some good success in international motorsport, including running at the 24 hours of Le Mans.
When in Japan in 2004, we drove by that dealership, and a few people were outside. We didn't stop as we were afraid of getting in trouble for trespassing. Friend was in the Marines and had a bunch of leave, and we went with him to buy a car from a guy he was once stationed with.
Did some research on the "abandoned dealer" and found a thread where a guy personally knew the owner and said its still a operating biasness that buys and sells old classic cars but most of his cars aren't usually for sale sadly!
What exactly has been sold? It's literally bursting at the seams. Dust is everywhere. The ceiling has stains from a roof, which, I would assume has leaking engines on top of.
I went inside Pro Auto last year. There were rare cars inside, such as the Miura, 250 Testarossa, and Ferrari 275GTB. Until a few years ago, there was an F40 and three Miuras.
I think some of us are starting to have Sauce Angeles withdrawals. 😅 The weather is nice these days in Cali. Surely there's some great shenanigans to be captured.
Awesome video, I wanna find Abandoned places like that, I did find a Chevy Bel Air from the 50´s in a Barn in USA last month :) But this way crazy place, would Love to get inside to Explore. Thanks for sharing. Thumb up. 🙂
This helps us define what "classic car collectors" really are: folks who hoard cars to pretend to be well off, but who are so cash strapped, the cars do not actually get used. There are a few exceptions (Jay Leno and a few others), but when anyone boasts "I have 50 cars", ask them: "how many are actually used / usable" ?"
Good video but, @9:30 what is with that wiring just running out from under the fusebox door and tucked underneath the carpet? Its not much effort to remove the underdash and kickpanel and run it properly.
Imagine the value of a property that size in what looks like a corner of a main street in Japan. Not even mentioning the crap inside, just the propriety lot. That's A LOT of money wasting away in time right there
best guess given the cars it was an export import dealership that exported cars to and from england given their both right hand drive, although the controls are reversed when it comes to the stalks, as japan has it where we have it, UK has it turned around although its weird that the maserati bora is just sitting out infront, but theft is considered dishonorable to the japanease, unless its by the Yakuza hence why you have mini mokes, a rolls royce, a vintage mercedes just around, like if you know the city councel, or someone in that area that controls the business districts, you could ask them what the status is of the dealership and if any of it is for sale or even the police for that matter, as that officer seemed quite reasonable and also Japanease mini's were a really big thing over there, as I remember that being a thing before might car mods sold out as theirs some good money in that dealership, especially if you could get it exported back to england and the only fake car in that lot is the beck porsche 550 like spider sitting there, the rest look real, well maybe not the alpine, that thing is sitting too high and flared, like its sitting on a VW chassis and the wheels look like typical VW dune buggy fair,
Rather certain that I sat in that Dome Zero decades ago. It was so small, I couldn't actually sit up. And I can sit in most anything. Lotus Europa as an example. The Japanese model at the car show did her best to discourage me. Yet, she was incapable of actually telling me NO.
05:41...that's a Maserati Merak!!! How can you let a car like that rot like that???? Incomprehensible. Some “people” really have too much money!!!!!!!!!!!!
1:57 - F.Y.I. The only kit on that Lamborghini Countach are the wheels and tires. Everything else is stock. That's a 25th Anniversary Edition. The American version has a slightly different bumper in front and rear from that one.
Hey brother I live over here Pro Auto is permanently closed to the public ,it's a privately owned collection. I won't disclose the location don't worry
Sadly soon all combustion cars and trucks including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Car washs will be forbidden too because they are climate killers, now they want to slow down all the gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.!!! (BABVVEN & TEBBVEN & BEFVO laws)!!!!
I'd love to be super rich and just be able to buy those buildings with all the contents. So many cool things hiding inside I'm sure. Plus you would be able to save some cars.
Misha Charoudin is a person you should get in touch with. I always promote channels vice versa and for free. just like to see people prosper from the algorithm. Misha knows people that build custom race cars that can run easily in to a million that are purely art. I hope I could do a connection.
Is it really stealing if it's abandoned? I mean, you'd think the city or whatever governing body would want this "eyesore" cleaned up. At worst it's a public health disaster.
Yes it's stealing this specific location is not abandoned. Even if it was abandoned its on private land that does not belong to you, land that you don't have a right to tresspass. Greedy yanks..
