LUBBOCK, Texas — Eccentric Texas businessman-turned-artist Stanley Marsh 3, whose partially buried row of Cadillacs became a roadside tourist attraction in the 1970s, died Tuesday. He was 76.

Marsh, long known in his hometown of Amarillo as a prankster and philanthropist but who faced indictment alleging he molested teenage boys late in life, died in Amarillo, said attorney Paul Nugent.

An heir to an oil-and-gas fortune, Marsh was a successful banker and television executive. But he was best known for his art, most notably “Cadillac Ranch,” a row of 10 graffiti-splattered cars standing on their noses along Interstate 40 west of Amarillo.

In 1994, he said he wanted his epitaph to read in part: “Thanks, everybody. I had a good time.”