| Pixar's "Cars" Got Its Kicks on Route 66
 Thr cars of "Cars," the animated Pixar film that opens nationally on June 9, were designed on Route 66. But not entirely - they were also designed at Pixar's headquarters in Emeryville, Calif., where 800 animators and other dreamers work on 3,000 computers inside a former fruit processing plant. But to hear Michael Wallis, a historian of the highways, tell it, they were inspired by research expeditions to racetracks, styling studios and car shows. Inspiration also flowed from the ruins of a Packard plant on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit and from the Detroit Institute of Arts, with its car-factory murals by Diego Rivera - and from what's left of Route 66, the legendary artery through the heart of the American Dream.
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