Kramer Ferrington III. Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 There's this place I've seen in photographs and I'd love to know what it's called. I don't have the photograph so bear with me while I describe it? It's out in a desert and somebody has grabbed a bunch of cars (at least one of them is from the 50s) and they've BURIED the front of each car in the sand. So basically, you've got a row of cars standing at a 45 degree angle in the sand. There's a few cars, I'd say about five or six. It's really quite beautiful, especially in photos taken either at twilight or at dawn. I've tried typing "car monument" or "car sculpture" in google but I can find nothing useful. Anyone have any idea what that place is? Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklava Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 vegas....Cadillacs mmmmmm I give up The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Geezer Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 Give me a few minutes and I'll get you a link. The cadillac Ranch in West Texas. Owned by an eccentric Texas Millionaire. Lynn G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklava Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 I was close The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Geezer Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 Here you go Vince http://www.legendsofamerica.com/TX-CadillacRanch.html I been there, once as a little kid. Lynn G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Ferrington III. Posted December 21, 2005 Author Share Posted December 21, 2005 Originally posted by Guitar Geezer: Give me a few minutes and I'll get you a link. The cadillac Ranch in West Texas. Owned by an eccentric Texas Millionaire. Yeah, from the pictures it looks pretty much like what I was thinking of. Thanks! I had no idea that they were covered in grafitti though. In all the pictures I'd seen, the dawn light hid all that. Oh, here we go... they USED to have the original, sedate, paint jobs. http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=cadillac+ranch&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt Thanks again for the name, I was going crazy trying to find the name of the place. Uhmm... wow. Love things like that Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Geezer Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 I think the graffitti is fairly recent Lynn G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Ferrington III. Posted December 21, 2005 Author Share Posted December 21, 2005 Yeahm the page says the owner doesn't mind. Oh, well... if he's happy... Personally, I think they looked better without it, but that's just me. Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 They need some inlay and binding. And spinning rims with quilted-maple inserts. Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar55 Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 Originally posted by Guitar Geezer: .... an eccentric Texas Millionaire. Courtesy of the Department of Redundancy Department Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billster Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Here\'s another link for ya... I love this kind of weirdness. Check out the www.roadsideamerica.com domain for other bizarro stuff you can see in this great land Buy my CD on CD Baby! Bill Hartzell - the website MySpace?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesape Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Good thing they don't build cars on Easter Island! Never a DUH! moment! Well, almost never. OK, OK! Sometimes never! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiC Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 I guess it's sorta like the Stonehenge of cowboys?!? "Treat your wife with honor, respect, and understanding as you live together so that you can pray effectively as husband and wife." 1 Peter 3:7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Ross Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Originally posted by BiC: I guess it's sorta like the Stonehenge of cowboys?!? Yeah, a couple of thousand years from now our decendants are going to formulate a bunch of crackpot hypotheses about how the cars are aligned with Venus and that we worshipped the god of Chevrolet It's not simple to be simple. -H. Matisse Ross Precision Guitars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 It's on old Route 66. You can see it from I-40. I just drove by it a couple months ago. "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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