Along with starting up service at the new 8-story glass car dispensation machine on the former Big Tex Tree Nursery lot on I-10 this month, Carvana has released a bit of drone footage of the new facility (shown above). It doesn’t show the tower in action (though a video of a coin-triggered run-through of the original Nashville machine, which boasts only 5 stories of car-storage tower space, can be found here). The fly-by does show off some new grassy parking lot landscaping and the billboard that Carvana leased out to explain themselves, as well as a few of the residences on Lasso Ln. directly behind the machine. (That’s the east-bound Katy Fwy. on the left, with the flying ramps of Beltway 8 visible in the early morning haze.)

• Previously on Swamplot: Used Car Vending Machine Germinates in Former Big Tex Nursery Lot; Paving the Way for the Automobile Vending Machine Headed for the Katy Fwy. at Beltway 8; The Coin-Operated Car Vending Machine Planned for Big Tex’s Former Katy Fwy. Spot; Big Tex Tree Nursery Uprooted from Katy Freeway

Photo of Carvana facility at 10939 Katy Fwy.: elnina via Swamplot Flickr Pool

Video: Carvana