One of America's most quirky roadside attractions, the Cadillac Ranch, continues to draw in a steady stream of visitors year after year. Doubling as an artist's canvas, a line-up of vintage Cadillacs were set face down in the dirt, ranging in years from 1948 to 1963. With tail fins pointing skyward, their multi-colored paint jobs do little to disguise the Cadillac’s iconic appearance.
   A famous Route 66 attraction since they were first planted in 1974, the name Cadillac Ranch has now been duplicated throughout America. Copied by restaurant owners, used as a title of a motion picture, a Springsteen song and covered by every imaginable type of media outlet, the intrigue of the Cadillac Ranch and its name has no signs of slowing. Financed by late billionaire Stanley Marsh 3 and built by the Ant Farm, the Ranch was one of many Marsh-related art endeavors. Relocated a few miles further to the west from the growing City of Amarillo, the Cadillacs were reburied along the I-40 frontage road in 1997.
   Briefly repainted several times for specific projects and a commemorative occasion, the cars were seen as a blank canvas and quickly enticed a fresh coat of graffiti. Even thought the cars have been stripped of everything that wasn't welded in place, and spray paint cans litter the grounds, not even a muddy pool seems stall the enthusiasm for a one-time, but fleeting claim to fame.

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