What is your favorite car featured in a movie or TV show? Is the Batmobile? Is it the Mystery Machine? Is it the Ghostbusters whip?

Whatever your favorite movie or TV show car is, chances are you can find it at Rodz and Bodz Museum: Movie Cars and More, 1840 Greeley Mall. The museum’s gallery features 80 to 100 movie cars and other classic rides that rotate every month.

Museum owner Zack Loffert is a self-described “car guy” who one day decided he was tired of working for somebody else. So in 2017, he opened up the business in Littleton as a prop warehouse with a dozen cars people could rent out for weddings and other events.

“I wanted to start my own thing and start something that’s never been done before … at least in Colorado,” he said.

In 2018, the gallery grew to 24 cars, Loffert said, and that number doubled in 2019. The pandemic in 2020 paused work for a while, but it didn’t stop Loffert from thinking about growing his business. Initially, his long-term plan was to open a full-fledged car museum years down the road when he was in his 50s or 60s, but Loffert used the COVID-19 year to design the Rodz and Bodz Museum that opened to the public in May 2021 in Lakewood.

The Lakewood location had 60 to 70 cars, and after three years, Loffert needed a bigger building.

As he was looking for a new location, Greeley wasn’t on his list of destinations. Having visited the city before for the Greeley Stampede, he thought the city was small and a place people get in and out of swiftly.

“Greeley wasn’t even on our radar,” he said. “Greeley just wasn’t an option.”

However, Loffert said Greeley Mall owners and management contacted him in late January about viewing a building that has housed a slew of stores over the years.

He agreed to hear the pitch and see the building.

“I came up, and I hated it because it was perfect,” he said.

Not only was the Greeley location bigger — it’s just under 100,000 square feet compared with the 30,000 square foot Lakewood building — but it also has concrete floors, open space and no skylights for hail to break through.

After moving from Lakewood to the Greeley Mall in one month, the museum opened on March 16. Just under 1,000 people showed up that day, according to manager Alexis Stephan. Since joining the museum staff in July 2021, Stephan’s enjoyed meeting Greeley residents and learning about the community.

“I think people are really sweet up here, if I’m being honest,” she said. “It’s really like a tight-knit community.”

Rather than advertising, Loffert said, the museum largely relies on word-of-mouth to draw in customers. The museum attracts visitors from as far as Wyoming, New Mexico and Nebraska, Stephan said.

Being a car guy for most of his life and operating the gallery and museum for the past seven years, Loffert has formed connections in the film industry, with production companies and private collectors who supply the cars. Scott Velvet, owner of Celebrity Car Museum in Branson, Mo., is friends with Loffert and influenced his endeavor, Loffert said.

Loffert and his staff plan to join in some of the daily parades at the Greeley Stampede, which began Wednesday.

Loffert said he’s open to staying at the Greeley Mall or in Greeley, but “it will really depend on where the best fit” for the museum is. They have a four-year lease with the mall but can exit it at the end of each year, he said.

In the meantime, Loffert and Stephan are enjoying the new location and seeing the daily joy the cars bring to people.

“Every week we have people that are laughing and crying with excitement,” Loffert said. “They’re telling us why they remember this car or what it was from. That’s what it’s all about.”

The museum is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays.

General admission tickets are $12, and season passes cost $50.