QUAY COUNTY, N.M. (KFDA) - Ruben makes his way across the New Mexico state line where he visits a free museum filled with classic cars.

Barbara Russell, co-owner of Russell’s Classic Car Museum, says her husband Emory has always collected cars. He’s got over 200 or more trucks.

“He used to be a truck driver, but because he has all these cars and he had a lot of them refurbished, he wanted to have a museum to show them off,” said Barbara.

The family had another truck stop Emory built at Springer on I-25, and they knew I-40 was one of the busiest highways.

“Coming through here one day, I saw this corner and I told my husband, ‘I think that I found a place to build another truck stop.’ So he came and he liked it, and we opened in 2010 in July,” said Barbara.

Co-owner Mark Russell says wh

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