A secret collection of 93 vintage muscle cars was kept hidden in sheds in Iowa. Now they’re going up for auction.

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• Des Moines, Iowa resident Bill "Coyote" Johnson collected more than 100 classic muscle cars over the past 40 years.
• Now he is now auctioning off the majority of his collection.
• Johnson kept his collection relatively secretive and built five sheds to house them in on his property.
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Bill "Coyote" Johnson’s secret collection of over 100 muscle cars was nestled past bunches of trees in Red Oak, Iowa.

Now they’re going up for auction.

Coyote Johnson, nicknamed after the cartoon characters Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner from the Looney Tunes series, has been collecting muscle cars from his "glory days," according to VanDerBrink Auctions. Johnson used to pour through classified ads in the Des Moines Register and Omaha World-Herald looking for the cars to build his collection, according to the Des Moines Register.

He has since amassed a collection of over 100 vehicles, 93 of which will be up for auction. Johnson, a third-generation contractor, built five sheds to house his large collection.

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The admiration for muscle cars came when Johnson’s mother bought him a green and white 1969 Road Runner that he later used for drag races, the newspaper reported. His collection now includes the likes of a 1975 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe and a 1971 Dodge Super Bee.

Johnson plans on keeping around a dozen of his cars, and the rest will be auctioned off on September 14 at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Red Oak, Iowa.

Take a look at his extensive collection, public for the first time: 

Coyote Johnson looked through classified ads in the Des Moines Register and Omaha World-Herald to find his collectibles, according to the Des Moines Register.

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He has been buying them since he was 16 and built sheds to store them in.

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The collection has never been seen by the public.

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Source: Business Insider – bchang@businessinsider.com (Brittany Chang)