Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

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26 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

That's Cadillac Ranch. I first read about in Street Machine (or Custom Car) magazine around 1979.

 

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Forty Years of the Cadillac Ranch – Texas Monthly

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Here Doug Michels of Ant Farm, the group of California artists that created the project, seals the deal on the 1949 model in an alley in northeast Amarillo

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This fellow is a neon artist from England, Roger Dainton, who happened to be in Amarillo on an assignment and became an honorary member of Ant Farm by helping to bury the cars

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There was giant party to mark the completion of the Cadillac Ranch in late June. Everyone was invited from the bluebloods of Amarillo, the hippies, and here a ranch foremen from a nearby cattle operation and his wife

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Cadillac Ranch 1990. The caddies were painted several times in a variety of colors and shades of grey. The pink period was one of the most popular. No paint job stayed unmarked for long

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Ant Farm artist Chip Lord returned to check on his herd a couple of years after they were buried

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Cadillac Ranch was moved in 1997 from its original site along Interstate 40 to a new spot two miles west along the interstate. The move was necessary because Amarillo’s growth was westward and the property where the caddies were buried was becoming increasingly valuable

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