Do You Know the 'Muffler Man,' Who Stands on Starkey Road?
The iconic lumberjack statue has held a pair of tires on top of a Largo business for years.
The statue of a man holding two tires has stood on the roof of a Starkey Road business for years. The Paul Bunyan-like statue has a yellow cap, red shirt, and blue pants. Known as the "Muffler Man" or "Muffler Men", the large fiberglass sculptures were originally made to hold full-sized car mufflers at automotive repair places. Most of the Muffler Men were made in California and stand about 20 feet tall, according to tripwiser.com. According to Roadside America, Largo's Muffler Man has been on Starkey Road for 25 years and came from Webb's City Store in St. Petersburg originally. The website tracks Muffler Men around the country. A Patch reader recently emailed us, concerned about the fate of the Starkey Road Used Auto Parts store with the…
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David
3:45 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
I always like seeing the Muffler Man on that roof when going through there. When I lived in Sanford we had an Art Grindle car dealership that had a huge statute of Art in one corner of the lot with it's mechanical arm caching your eye when passing by. These icons are hard to find anymore and it's a shame. more ›