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Sally Carrera | |
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Porsche 996 | |
Gender | Female |
Occupation | Town attorney, Hotelier |
Significant other | Lightning McQueen |
Nationality | American, German |
Sally Carrera is a fictional character in
Sally is the love interest of Piston Cup racer
Background
In Cars, Sally owns the Cozy Cone Motel, a newly refurbished tourist court similar in design to a Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Arizona but with each individual motel room constructed as an oversized traffic cone. She has cones all around the motel, inside and out; even the lamps, planters and alarm clocks follow the theme. Neon lighting at the Cozy Cone, one of the first historic restoration efforts in Radiator Springs, displays the "100% Refrigerated Air" slogan of Tucumcari's historic US 66 Blue Swallow Motel.
She once was a successful California lawyer but, unhappy, chose to leave the state and eventually came upon Radiator Springs, immediately falling in love with the town.
"Well, it's really pretty simple. I was an attorney in LA. Livin' life in the fast lane. Well, that was my life, and you know what? It never felt happy. So I left California. Just drove and drove and finally broke down right here. Doc fixed me up, Flo took me in. Well, they all did. And I never left."
— Sally Carrera, Cars
Sally is a 2002
"It's the nicest body I've ever had on film. I'm telling you, it's a luxury. I really thought they were going to cast me as a Buick."
According to director John Lasseter. "Sally is the one modern car in the town of Radiator Springs. She's beautiful. It's interesting that people mostly think of a Porsche as powerful and a guy's car, but the lines on a Porsche are so beautiful that it fits perfectly for the character of Sally."[6]
Her character is based on Dawn Welch of the historic Rock Café on U.S. Route 66 in Oklahoma,[7] an advocate of the promotion and restoration of Stroud, Oklahoma after the town had been both bypassed by the Turner Turnpike and heavily damaged by a 1999 F3 tornado. Welch had long traveled cross-country promoting Route 66 and rallying support for keeping it alive.[8] Like Sally, Dawn Welch is a relative newcomer to U.S. Route 66, having left the travel industry to purchase the Rock Café in 1993 and list it on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Originally, Sally was going to be a Ford Mustang, but Pixar animators found that the large grill too closely resembled a mustache.[9]
"We met people out on Route 66 and we're thinking, at first, 'What are you doing here? You've travelled the world. You're educated. You speak three languages. But you run a restaurant out in the middle of nowhere.' But then, after an hour of having dinner with this person, you think, 'Wow, this is perfect. I'm so glad you're here because you're keeping it alive.'"
— Jonas Rivera, Pixar production chief for Cars[10]
Character
Sally is instrumental in convincing Doc Hudson to direct Lightning McQueen to repair the town's Main Street, a section of the now-bypassed U.S. Route 66, as a community service obligation upon his conviction in traffic court. Sally often calls Lightning McQueen "Stickers", at first because of his fake headlights and later as a friendly nickname. Her desire that McQueen stay to assist in rebuilding the town places her at odds with Doc's intransigence that "I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town!", motivated by his desire to break all ties with a racing community which once abandoned him.
Sally leads McQueen on a leisurely drive on picturesque but serpentine mountain roads through Tailfin Pass to the vacant Wheel Well Motel,[11] an abandoned motor court and filling station near a scenic lookout point with a wide panoramic view of Ornament Valley, Radiator Springs and the entire surrounding region (including US 66 and I-40). Surrounding scenery strongly resembles Arizona landmarks such as Havasu Falls near Grand Canyon National Park or Monument Valley.[12]
She explains the history of the town with a nostalgic flashback, describing the two-lane Route 66's busy heyday and the construction of the parallel but unconnected six-lane I-40; the fact that it would not connect with Radiator Springs was unknown to the excited locals, who were expecting a new influx of visitors. The disappearance of cars from Main Street on the new highway's completion is every bit as abrupt as that (described to the film's makers by Arizona business people Angel and Juan Delgadillo) when I-40 opened in Seligman on September 22, 1978.[13] When Interstate 40 is completed, US 66, Radiator Springs and Ornament Valley are all seen to simultaneously vanish from road maps as all highway traffic on 66 disappears and local businesses close, their business names fading into the underlying brickwork.
Forty years ago, that Interstate down there didn't exist. Back then, cars came across the country a whole different way. Well, the road didn't cut through the land like that Interstate. It moved with the land, it rose, it fell, it curved. Cars didn't drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time.
— Sally Carrera
Lamenting that "the town got bypassed just to save ten minutes of driving", she often wishes to have seen the community in its heyday. Her efforts are devoted to historic restoration and tireless promotion of "Radiator Springs, the glorious jewel strung on the necklace of Route 66, the Mother Road". The town has been without visitors for years despite the fact that many businesses are still open. As the task of rebuilding is huge (the Rock Café, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, represented a $60,000 restoration effort) she needs to convince a long-demoralized local populace not only that the town can be fixed but also that "we're a town worth fixing" and that "someday, we'll find a way to get this place back on the map."
Her ultimate objective is to get the once busy and neon-lit 1950s main street rebuilt to its former historic glory and obtain much-needed publicity for the town to restore "Radiator Springs" to highway signage and "Historic Route 66" to standard printed road maps. Sally serves as a vehicle to deliver a message which individual small towns, historic preservationists,
After the big race is complete, McQueen and Sally rebuild and reopen the Wheel Well as a bed and breakfast, restoring the historic 1930s fuel pumps to its forecourt.
Appearances
Cars (2006)
In Cars, Sally is the local attorney who convinces Doc Hudson to sentence Lightning McQueen to repave the main road of Radiator Springs as community service. When Lightning first sees Sally in the courtroom, he mistakes her as being from his own attorneys office and attempts to flirt with her. Sally is unfazed by Lightning's actions at first and asks Doc to sentence him to fix the road, arguing that the town would never attract customers with a broken road. Sally is later appalled at Lightning after he fails to repave the road correctly, and attends the race between Lightning and Doc at Willie's Butte, in which Lightning loses and crashes into cacti.
Later, Sally starts to warm up to Lightning McQueen after seeing what a good job he has done repaving the road. She offers him to stay at her motel for the night instead of
When Lightning finishes repaving the road, he surprises everyone in town by saying that he will stay one extra day. When night falls, Sally arrives at the town center to find Lightning stripped of his racing spoiler and outfitted with a new paintjob and whitewall tires. Radiator Springs' neon lights start shining, and the whole town starts cruising to Sh-boom, fulfilling Sally's wish and opening up her love for Lightning McQueen. Suddenly, a swarm of news reporter cars and race officials enter the town and reveal Lightning McQueen's true identity as a famous Piston Cup racer. Sally confronts Lightning before he leaves and parts ways with him, thinking that she will never see him again. After Sally finds out that Doc Hudson gave the authorities Lightning McQueen's location, she admonishes him for sending Lightning away and returns to her motel, turning off the lights at the thought of losing the car who changed her and the other resident's lives.
Sally later watches the tiebreaker race from Radiator Springs with
Cars 2 (2011)
In Cars 2, Sally's relationship with Lightning McQueen has grown stronger over time. After Lightning returns to Radiator Springs from a successful Piston Cup season, the two go on a date at the Wheel Well Motel, which as been converted into a restaurant. Soon Sally and Lightning find Mater arguing with Italian racer and World Grand Prix competitor
Later, Sally travels to
Cars 3 (2017)
In Cars 3, Sally continues to be the love-interest of Lightning McQueen, and attends his races to show support. She is present when Lightning crashes while trying to keep up with the nextgens, and gives Lightning the inspiration to continue racing after he is rebuilt. When Lightning is summoned to the Rust-eze Training Center, Sally chooses to stay with the other cars in Radiator Springs.
At the Florida 500, Sally witnesses firsthand
See also
- Sally (short story)
- Mustang Sally (song)
- Susie the Little Blue Coupe
- Portia (Merchant of Venice)
References
- ISBN 978-142311925-8.
Charming, intelligent and witty, she became the town attorney.
- ^ Mike Hanlon (March 26, 2006). "Disney's cute Porsche - Sally Carrera".
- ^ "A-List Auto Shop". Popular Mechanics. October 1, 2009.
- Newhouse News Service. Archived from the originalon June 15, 2006. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
- ^ Daniel Schorn (February 11, 2009). "Bonnie Hunt Is Revved Up In 'Cars'". CBS News.
- ^ Lori Bedingfield (June 9, 2006). "Sold on Cars". Jacksonville, Florida Times-Union.
- ^ "Oklahoma Businesswoman and Route 66 Promoter Dawn Welch Honored by State Senate". Oklahoma State Senate. February 4, 2010.
- ^ David Hanigar (August 2006). "Dawn Welch, the Little Blue Porsche". Edmond Outlook.
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- Porsche AG. pp. 72–78.
- Disney. misidentifies the Wheel Well Motel as the "Wheel Wagon Motel", presumably a reference to the Wagon Wheel Motelon US 66.
- ^ Ron Warnick (June 9, 2006). "A Route 66 guide to the "Cars" movie". Route 66 News (blog).
- ^ Pauline Arrillaga (May 29, 2011). "At 84, one man is still the 'guardian angel' of Route 66: Angel Delgadillo". Associated Press.