7/20/2023 0 Comments Robert plaster lindenwood![]() “Yeah, it was very much a father and son thing,” he smiled. He just liked the idea of finally sharing what his dad shared with him. He said he didn’t know the cars’ total worth and didn’t want to. I love the old cars,” Steve Plaster said. ![]() Bob Plaster was a Springfield, MO, grocery store worker who founded the Empire Gas Company with nothing in 1963 building it into a propane gas empire, quietly stocking the “car barns” with his son, Steve, along the way. His dad, the late, Bob Plaster, started it all in the 1970’s. ![]() The cars are as much about family history as anything else. He was talking about the cars, their stories and his story. It seems a shame to keep it all hidden anymore, Plaster said. Plaster has one employee whose only job it is to keep it that way. An employee’s son took it to the prom.Īll the cars are in mint condition and they all run. He also owns the Mutt Cuts car van from the movie “Dumb and Dumber”.He owns a Batmobile from the TV series.He owns everybody style of Corvette ever produced.He has cars once owned by Rod Stewart, Sam Snead, Alan Jackson, and Michael Douglas, among others.Plaster is a walking encyclopedia on everything there: He has about 550 cars, nearly all convertibles including the 1932 Lincoln KB that FDR used for his first inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. Do you have a convertible?’ I say, ‘well, what color?'” Plaster laughed. “People uptown call every once in a while say, ‘oh we’re doing the Christmas parade we need a convertible. There are 3 acres of cars under roof in show rooms he calls “car barns”. Plaster has a real life Doc Hudson and a whole lot more. “Doc Hudson in that movie was a ’51 Hudson Hornet,” said Steve Plaster, owner Evergreen Historic Automobiles. Louis just off Route 5 outside Lebanon, Missouri. There really is a great “Hudson Hornet” like the one in the Disney animated movie “Cars”, about 150 miles southwest of St. It’s called Evergreen Historic Automobiles. ![]() LEBANON, MO (KTVI) – In a drive down memory lane, FOX 2 unveiled a monument to history Wednesday night that had essentially been hidden in rural Missouri for decades. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]()
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