A dying piece of American is the Muffler Man: a fiberglass giant used as advertising (I’m not really sure what’s up with the underpants lady). I can understand their decline in use, amusing thought they are, but they have a kitschy 50s vibe and almost always look run-down, so I’d like to propose some indie filmmaker do a Muffler-Man-as-kaiju movie, like Cloverfield meets Moonrise Kingdom. Who wouldn’t watch that? Surely not everybody ever.
EDIT: dammit, wait, that was the plot of a Simpsons Halloween segment, never mind
My town still has two in use. One is for an auto shop, the other was redressed as Lincoln. I think, I don't actually know the history. Then there are a couple used as decoration or museum pieces. And we have a restaurant/museum/gift shop that has a Top's Big Boy, along with a lot of other cool shit from Route 66.




















