ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — Many North County residents are familiar with the Joor Muffler Man, who stands about 20-feet tall at Juniper Street and East Valley Parkway. This piece of roadside kitsch has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joel Baker is a giant hunter. He travels across the country in search of towering sentinels that watch over small businesses. It's ...

Sure, the Porsche Experience Center, opening in LA in a little over a year, will feature a variety of exciting track configurations from road courses to a drag strip-looking thing, as well as varying ...

Are you really road-tripping if you’ve never pulled off the road to take a selfie with a 20-foot-tall fiberglass giant? Muffler Men Statues are one of America’s quirkiest, most beloved roadside ...

ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — The national program “Sunday Morning” on CBS broadcast a piece last Sunday on the restoration of giant “Muffler Men,” those roadside figures of advertising kitsch that appear in ...

First erected in the early 1960s as an advertising gimmick, these giants are rising again thanks to preservationists, kitsch aficionados and savvy entrepreneurs.

If you lived in Macon between the late 1960s and 1980s, you may have noticed a 20-foot-tall fiberglass cowboy towering over local businesses, blotting out the sun and greeting customers. After a ...

A newly reopened Route 66 service station will soon feature a treasured friend that shares a history with The Mother Road. Gearhead Curios, a gift shop in Galena, Kansas, will unveil a 22-foot Muffler ...