The whimsical Slug Bug Ranch near Conway, Texas, will pick up and move to a new location shortly after New Year’s Day, its owner said in a phone interview.
Slug Bug Ranch, which was inspired by the internationally famous Cadillac Ranch 35 miles to the west in Amarillo, is a site where five vintage Volkswagen Beetles are planted nose-down into the Texas soil just off Route 66.
Slug Bug Ranch owner Steve Clegg said he’s in the process of moving about a mile due south of the current location. He said he’ll have signs on Route 66 and directions on the website directing travelers to it.
Jerry McClanahan had more details in a Facebook post about the new location:
Like at Cadillac Ranch, visitors often spray-paint the VWs at Slug Bug Ranch. That led to Clegg’s landlord wanting the Beetles off her property.
“She wants to tear the place down and keep people away. She’s tired of people tearing up everything, people disrespecting everything,” Clegg said.
Clegg also said his landlord also wants the 3 1/2 acres there to be used for a motel chain.
Clegg said he hopes to have everything from Slug Bug Ranch moved “by the first of the year.”
When asked whether the nose-down VWs would survive the move, Clegg was undeterred.
“If it doesn’t work, we have 32 other VWs to put in,” he said.
Tommy Crutchfield created Slug Bug Ranch in 2002. He died in 2009.
(Image of Slug Bug Ranch in Conway, Texas, by Martha T via Flickr)
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