Tis' the season to scramble for a deal. But at this retired WalMart with 720 parking spaces, something is missing.
It’s not the cars in the lot, or the gum ball machine still intact. Here, the free magazines are still a bargain. Yet, leave it to the garden section to provide a clue.
"Hey! I can have all of my cars under one roof for the first time in 20 years,” says Rick Treworgy, the owner of Muscle Car City.
Under the same fluorescent lights that used to bathe WalMart shoppers, between the Z/28’s and the 302’s, awaits a classic car collection.
"I've played with cars since I was 14-years-old,” Rick admits.
Rick first began a love affair with General Motors 40 years ago, when chrome was king and tail lights looked like rockets. To see his inventory spanning 99,000 square feet, Rick travels the showroom of Muscle Car City in what else, but an electric car.
“I bought my first car, a 55 Chevy convertible, and it just pyramided from there. I would buy one or sell one and buy two, sell two and buy six,” Rick explains.
Today, you’ll find more than 200 cars under one roof. Most of the vehicles at Muscle Car City are from the 1950s to 1970s are not for sale. Yet, his collection of Camaros, Chevys and El Caminos are available for gawking.
"Sharing everybody's enthusiasm is much more rewarding, and it makes the whole collection more enjoyable to me now, now that's it's out in the public like it is."