The Cowboy's spurs.

Muffler Man - Cowboy

Bossier City, Louisiana

Type: Cowboy (22 ft. tall)

Arm position: Standard

Accessories: Spurs, Rope Lasso

This Muffler Man, promoting Topps Trailer Sales, is high above the fray on a pole visible on the north side of I-20. And it's a good thing. He wears a pair of giant spurs that, at ground level, might de-grill SUVs or disembowel inattentive children.

He also brandishes a loop of rope, the better to lasso a prospective trailer customer. The hard sell days of his pistol and holster are apparently over.

Muffler Man cowboy.

The statue is otherwise a normal cowboy model, with his accessory stetson painted black.

History

Many Cowboy model giants originated in the 1960s as part of a Phillips 66 gas station advertising campaign. When a Texas Phillips 66 station went out of business in 1982, Topps Trailer Sales acquired the statue.

Also see: Muffler Men Home Page

Muffler Man - Cowboy

Topps Trailer Sales

Address:: Topps Trail, Bossier City, LA
Directions:: Topps Trailer Sales. Overlooking I-20 just south of the Industrial Blvd exit. Take the Industrial exit and turn right if you were driving north on I-20 or left if traveling south. Then a quick right onto Topps Trail, the access road that leads to the trailer dealership).
RA Rates:: Worth a Detour

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June 19, 2013