Created in 1974, Cadillac Ranch (I-40 Frontage Rd.) has become a sort of mecca for Route 66 pilgrims. Ironically, the construct, which was assembled by an art co-op calling themselves the Ant Farm, came along too late to be contemporary with Route 66 in the region. Instead, it was replaced in a field beside I-40, the highway which had supplanted US 66. That said, no trip through the Texas panhandle is complete without taking a walk out into that field to absorb some of the energy contained in those upended Cadillacs, which are said to be positioned at the same angle as the sides of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Encroaching suburbia led to the relocation of the ranch in 1997. It now sits in a field on the west side of town, between I-40 exits #60 and #62. For those of you who never visited it as its original location, it must seem improbable that such an installation would literally be picked up and moved after 20-odd years, but that's exactly what happened.
