Johnny Morris is buying up land along West Sunshine next to the new Angler's Inn. That includes the Seeburg Service Center, a business on the corner of Sunshine and Wedgewood that's been on the strip for nearly 50 years. With the move, the owners are focused on moving their famous muffler car and man, better known as Muffleupagus.

"It's been sitting here on West Sunshine for, I don't know, for 20 or 30 years," exclaimed Lois Schulte, the owner of the Seeburg Service Center. Schulte explained that while there are several Seeburg locations across the Ozarks, the one on Sunshine was the first to open in 1971. She also described how she came into the ownership roll when the previous owner came to her with an offer she couldn't pass up. "I had worked for the company and worked for David for over 20 years," she said. "When he approached me about buying it out I was very blessed and happy to do so since it was a company I was very familiar with and really had a lot of love for it."

"I always tell people, you're a work family too," said Schulte describing the environment within the yellow building. "We're a little bit of a dysfunctional family, but we're still a family," she said with a laugh and smile.

Part of that family is the muffler man and his very recognizable ride. "Whenever people call and they're like 'Where you at on Sunshine? Well, you know where the muffler car is? Oh yeahhhh, I know where the muffler car is, yeah!' I say, 'yeah, that's us.'"

Schulte explained how the business will be moving to West Sunset by the end of the week. This after, Big Cedar bought the building and land, she said she doesn't know what will become of it. "It'll be so sad to see this probably be a parking lot, I'm not really sure what their plans are for it."

However, Lois said there are no hard feelings about the purchase. "The Wonders of Wildlife and the Aquarium, it is amazing, I've been through it," she said. "I think it's been a great boom for the Springfield economy."

The new location will not be a Seeburg Service Center, instead it will be an A1 Custom Car Care. Even with the change of storefront, she's not too worried about the change impacting the popularity Muffleupagus. The plan is to still have the car out front as a mascot. She talked about funny stories and society trends brought right to the car itself.

"It's weird because if you ever google muffler car, it comes up on google like right at the top," she said. Schulte explained how things like a Route 66 Scavenger Hunts has visited the car, along with smartphone games like Pokemon Go. "It's kind of got it's own little fan following."

So, How'd they come up with the name? "We had our Facebook fans vote on it!" A pretty simple answer.

As she remembers all the good times and prepares to move the antique car just a short distance away, she knows she'll be a little more emotional driving down Sunshine from now on. "When you've been in this location for so long it's just going to be so weird to drive by and not see this building here and not see the muffler car here," said Schulte, but she knows that even after they leave, the corner of Sunshine and Wedgewood will always be home sweet home.

The muffler car and man is scheduled to be towed to it's new location on West Sunset Friday morning at 9:00 a.m.