Pixar Cars fans in love with “real life Radiator Springs”

If you’re a fan of Pixar’s Cars movie series, Radiator Springs and all of the people who live there will feel like a second home — and that’s something that many fans have realized after a viral TikTok showed a driver going through the “real life Radiator Springs.”

For those unaware, or who don’t remember, Radiator Springs is the sadly-forgotten town alongside Route 66 that features throughout the Cars series.

When Lightning McQueen gets lost on his way to Los Angeles for a tiebreaker race, he goes through Radiator Springs, befriending the people who live there and learning about what was once a bustling through-town, but got cut off by a nearby highway.

What many viewers won’t be aware of, though, is the towns that the creators at Pixar drew inspiration from: namely the likes of Williams and Seligman in Arizona, the former of which TikToker GlobeTrottingGinger went to explore and was gobsmacked.

Real life Radiator Springs goes viral

Driving through Williams, AZ, the video, soundtracked by Rascal Flatts’ and Cars’ iconic ‘Life is a Highway’ shows the town at its finest, showing exactly how much inspiration Pixar took from the town and others like it.

The gas station, bars, and cars on show look straight out of a different decade, reminiscent of the style of Radiator Springs in the show, with the same charm of the animated location too.

In the video’s comments, a number of people said that the town was now “bucketlisted” for them, or that the place was simply “beautiful.”

Others made recommendations of nearby towns or stores that the movies drew inspiration from, making for a dream road trip for Cars fans.