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Comment by Motorcycle Hippy Al on November 7, 2009 at 12:49am

The Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, located along the tatters of historic Route 66, was built in 1974, brainchild of Stanley Marsh 3, the helium millionaire who owns the dusty wheat field where it stands. Marsh and The Ant Farm, a San Francisco art collective, assembled used Cadillacs representing the "Golden Age" of American Automobiles (1949 through 1963). The ten graffiti-covered cars are half-buried, nose-down, facing west "at the same angle as the Cheops' pyramids." In 2005, the Cadillacs were painted pink in a tribute to breast cancer victims. Since visitors are encouraged to add their own graffiti, this look probably won't endure

I'm going on a 3 month roadtrip tp California in a 1966 Yellow & Orange painted schoolbus and trailering My Friend & mY Harley's, a golf cart and a Moped and on the way back, We are planning to take Old Rt. 66 & I-40. So We will be coming this way and will check it out. "Thanks" for turning Me onto this, through the picture You had "Happy Trails" Peace, Al