Much of the story is based on the recollections of barber Angel Delgadillo in the Route 66 town of Seligman, Arizona, where business withered soon after the opening of I-40. In one restaurant, John Lasseter ordered one of every item on the menu for the Pixar group and spent four hours talking to the owner, absorbing information on the efforts to rebuild the historic byway to its neon-lit heyday. The in-film community is a composite of multiple locations before making the film, Pixar sent a group of fifteen artists with Route 66 historian and the voice of Sheriff Michael Wallis as a guide to take photos, talk to denizens of Route 66 and learn the history of the tiny towns situated along more than 1,200 miles (1,900 km) of road through five states. In the movie Cars, the town of Radiator Springs is seen on a map as situated in northwest Arizona, within fictional Carburetor County. "Ramone's" is based on the U-Drop Inn in Shamrock, Texas
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