Iowa man spent decades amassing muscle cars with a tactic you can’t use today
- A man from Iowa spent decades building his muscle car collection
- It includes Chargers, Challengers, Corvettes, Baracudas and more
- He used a neat little tactic to track down rare models
Published on Oct 25, 2024 at 4:22 AM (UTC+4)
by Claire Reid
Last updated on Oct 25, 2024 at 11:54 AM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Alessandro Renesis
A man in Iowa has spent decades building up his collection of muscle cars using a neat little tactic that you wouldn’t be able to utilize today.
Coyote Johnson, from Red Oak, Iowa, took almost 50 years to build up his enviable collection of motors.
The super-sized collection includes Dodge Chargers and Challengers, Plymouth Barracudas, Chevrolet Impalas, Corvettes, and Chevelles.
All in all, it’s the sort of collection that most gearheads could only dream of.
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He used a neat tactic to find rare muscle cars
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Over in Iowa, Johnson spent many years slowly adding to his haul until he ended up with almost 100 muscle cars.
Speaking to the Des Moines Register, Johnson explained how patience paid off for him when it came to growing his car collection and revealed the simple tactic he used to find cars.
While hunting for new motors, Johnson would scour the classified adverts in newspapers in the hopes of finding a hidden gem.
“Do you know, everybody would just grab a paper, but now it’s different,” he said.
“You don’t even see a car in there.”
‘Back in them days, you got your money’s worth’
“You know, the old classics – we just took them and redid them. Back in them days, you got your money’s worth,” he added.
Of course, nowadays most car sales are advertised online to a much larger audience – but that doesn’t mean you can’t still bag yourself a bargain if you know what you’re looking for.
After spending decades building up his haul, Johnson decided to sell up in 2019.
“When they start weighing you down, you want to get rid of them,” he told the Des Moines Register.
However, while he was happy to part with most of his collection, Johnson decided to hold onto the 1969 Road Runner that kickstarted his love of muscle cars.
Claire Reid is a journalist who hails from the UK but is now living in New Zealand. She began her career after graduating with a degree in Journalism from Liverpool John Moore’s University and has more than a decade of experience, writing for both local newspapers and national news sites. Across her career she's covered a wide variety of topics, including celebrity, cryptocurrency, politics, true crime and just about everything in between.
