Most Cadillac cars used in a sculpture

The public art sculpture ‘Cadillac Ranch’ at Amarillo, Texas, USA consists of a row of 10 Cadillac cars, first manufactured 1948-1963, buried nose down into the ground. Commissioned by eccentric Texas millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 (USA b. 31 January 1938; d. 17 June 2014) and created by the San Francisco arts collective Ant Farm (including Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels) in June 1974, the sculpture was constructed alongside the famous Route 66 highway. The angle of each car apparently mimics that of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Originally, the cars had their own paintwork, but over the years the cars have been vandalised, pieces stolen and covered in ad hoc graffiti, so that, according to Marsh, ‘it looks better every year’. In 1997, the entire sculpture was moved to a new site 2 miles away, and the cars have also been repainted on several occasions. The Cadillac Ranch sculpture inspired a scene in the animated film Cars (2006), where a mountain range replicates the sculpture’s form. This mountain range in turn has been copied as at the ‘Cars Land’ section of the Disney California Adventure Park.