Amarillo Texas

The Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo Texas
In 1974 a group of artists called The Ant Farm approached a local millionaire about creating an art piece on his ranch. Stanley Marsh 3 (not III- Stanley thinks that's pretentious) was known to be eccentric and willing to try anything "Different"

People have always been encouraged to spray paint the cars.

Some of the statements are kind of profound.

We got here at 3 PM on 8/31/10

Notice that Mike A. got here the same day and his date had already been painted over

There are empty spray cans everywhere, hundreds of them.

The cars range from a 1949 to a 1963. They were purchased for an average of $200 each.

I think this is fantastic. It is constantly changing and has been since the day it was dedicated.

When people criticised the installation as junk, Stanley replied

"Art is a legalized form of insanity and I do it very well."

Written on the trunk lid is

"Our love would be as dumb as a bomb on a boomerang."

You can see some of the empty spray cans.

Stanley Marsh 3 sponsored other art projects but none were as well known as this one.

He once interrupted a live broadcast on the Weather Channel by showing up at their location wearing an Indian headdress and doing a "snow dance" to the theme of Star Wars. He had the music turned up so loud it knocked snow off tree limbs. He thought it was great.

In the 1990's he was involved in 4 lawsuits alleging imprisonment, sexual misconduct and harassment of teens. All were settled.

He and his wife, Wendy, live in an estate named Toad Hall.