Detour Pit Stop #90: Route 66 Motoporium, Arizona, USA
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Seligman, Arizona is a real-life Radiator Springs. It’s a classic Pit Stop on the Mother Road and one of several towns that inspired the setting of Pixar’s Cars.
It’s home to the largest metal Route 66 sign in America, the Stagecoach 66 Motel and The RoadKill Cafe, whose motto is “You Kill It, We Grill It”. There’s a general store, hardware store and, of course, an auto repair shop, all seemingly unchanged since the road’s heyday.
Parked outside the Copper Cart restaurant you’ll find a gently-decaying VW Bus adorned with autographs – a giant visitors book made of metal. Inside the restaurant, which looks the same as it did in the 1950s, there’s a gift shop loaded with Route 66 memorabilia and beyond that a tightly packed classic car and bike exhibit, known as the Motoporium.
Cadillacs and police cars, hot rods, Harleys and Hondas are all squeezed into this mini museum and, as you wander through these classics, it’s impossible not to be transported back to a simpler time.