Radiator Springs

Radiator Springs is a rural town and the primary setting of the Disney/Pixar Cars franchise. Located in Carburetor County, gateway to Ornament Valley and the Cadillac Range, Radiator Springs is a town along Route 66 in eastern Arizona that was once a thriving community half a century ago, but was greatly diminished when a new interstate bypassed the town completely. However, with the events of the film, the town is revived and has since become Lightning McQueen's new permanent residence and racing headquarters. The inspiration for the creation of this town was the town Peach Springs.
==Background==
===Official Description===
:Although Lightning McQueen ventures far from home in an effort to rediscover what makes him a great racer, his heart will always be in Radiator Springs. But it's been a few years since his hometown last saw the big screen. "We had to upgrade it a little," says production designer Bill Cone. "The rest of the world will have the kind of detail we're capable of achieving now, so we needed to bring Radiator Springs into the same movie."
Radiator Springs was founded by a named Stanley on May 9, 1909, and a statue of him is outside the town courthouse. Stanley, who was selling radiator caps in Ornament Valley, found an oasis of water (later called Stanley's Oasis). There, he also found new customers, so he decided to build a town there. He named it "Radiator Springs". Later, Stanley married Lizzie. After Stanley's death, more cars came to live in Radiator Springs, and the town grew. It was a popular rest area where almost all cars would stop to shop and fill their gas tank. However, Interstate 40 was later built near Radiator Springs, which greatly decreased traffic for Radiator Springs, since the Interstate bypassed the town. As result, on June 26, 1985, the Route 66 was decommissioned.
In 1954, famous Piston Cup racer Doc Hudson suffered a severe accident that put him in a hospital for several years. After Hudson fully recovered and returned to the Piston Cup, he found that the sport had left him behind because of new-comers, sponsors, the money had been spent, and the competitiveness in the races had grown. Hudson felt like nobody appreciated him anymore and retired completely from the Piston Cup before vanishing off the face of the Earth. Eventually, Doc Hudson found shelter in Radiator Springs. His wisdom and tough grandfather-like attitude earned him respect from the town, enough that in the late 1980s, Hudson was hired as mayor, judge, and the CEO of the town.
Years later, famous race car Lightning McQueen destroyed the town's main road in a hurry to get to a Piston Cup race in Los Angeles, California, and was arrested for five days to fix the road. He soon became friends with the Radiator Springs populace, and after his race, he set up a racing headquarters in the town, and thus the town started to flourish again.
After the World Grand Prix was suspended due to Miles Axlerod's conspiracy, a fourth Grand Prix eventually took place in Radiator Springs.
==Places of interest==
===Inside town===
*Budville Trading Company 
*Carburetor Repairs Emporium 
*Courthouse & Fire Department
*Cozy Cone Motel
*Eat 
*Fillmore's Taste-In
*Flo's V8 Café
*Foggy Windshield 
*Glenrio Motel (temporarily became the Racing Museum and changed backed to its original state prior to Cars 2)
*Hudson Hornet Racing Museum (Ornament Valley Mechanical Clinic; in Cars 2)
*Lightning McQueen's racing headquarters
*Lube O Rama 
*Luigi's Casa Della Tires
*Miss Piston 
*Mr. Curb Feeler 
*Mrs. Muffler 
*Muddy's Mudflaps 
*The Oil Pan 
*Ornament Valley
*Ornament Valley Mechanical Clinic (Doctor Hudson: Dr. of Internal Combustion; in Cars)
*Pop N Patch Tire Repair 
*The Racing Museum (building was previously the closed Glenrio Motel)
*Radiator Springs Courthouse & Fire Department
*Radiator Springs Curios Shop
*Radiator Springs Drive-In Theatre
*Radiator Springs Garage 
*Radiator Springs Municipal Impound
*Ramone's House of Body Art
*Rusty Bumper
*Sarge's Surplus Hut
*Sarge's SUV Boot Camp
*Sparky's Spark Plugs 
*Stanley's Oasis (in Time Travel Mater and Radiator Springs Racers) (mostly gone; water tower and oil bottle house remain)
*Tow Mater Towing & Salvage
*Tractor Pasture
*Wheel Well Motel
*Willy's Butte
*Wimpy's Wipers 
==Disney Parks==
A simplified version of the town is the setting of the Cars Race Rally attraction in the Toon Studios area of Walt Disney Studios Park in France. Disney California Adventure has a themed land under the name of Cars Land, which was opened on June 15, 2012.
Radiator Springs later appeared as a simplified scene in the Hong Kong Disneyland version of It's a Small World. However, no character of Cars appeared in this boat ride, instead three Toy Story characters appeared in this scene, including Woody, Bullseye and Jessie.
==Gallery==
Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-2702.jpg|Welcome to Radiator Springs
Cozy cone motel1.png|Cozy Cone Motel
Flo's v8 cafe.png|Flo's V8 Café
Ramone's house of body art.png|Ramone's House of Body Art
Tow mater.png|Tow Mater Towing & Salvage
Doctor hudson dr of internal combustion.png|Doctor Hudson: Dr. of Internal Combustion
Radiator Springs Drive-In Theatre during the day.png|Radiator Springs Drive-In Theatre
Fillmore's taste-in.png|Fillmore's Taste-In
Casa della tires.png|Luigi's Casa Della Tires
Radiator springs municipal impound.png|Radiator Springs Municipal Impound
Mrs. piston.png|Miss Piston
Pop 'n' patch tire repair.png|Pop 'N' Patch Tire Repair
Radiator springs curios.png|Radiator Springs Curios
Sarge's surplus hut.png|Sarge's Surplus Hut
Courthouse & fire department.png|Courthouse & Fire Department
Sarge's suv bootcamp.png|Sarge's SUV Bootcamp
Tractor pasture.png|Tractor Pasture
Willy's butte.png|Willy's Butte
Racing museum.png|Racing Museum
Cadillac Range.png|Cadillac Range
Ornament Valley.png|Ornament Valley
Wheel well motel.png|Wheel Well Motel
Original Radiator Spring Carsland.jpg|The original Radiator Spring at Stanley's Oasis
File:Toy Story It's a Small World.jpg|Radiator Springs in It's a Small World, with Woody, Jessie and Bullseye from Toy Story
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