The first ever Taco Bell is taking a road trip this week

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This Thursday night, you can watch the first building to ever house a Taco Bell take a road trip through Southern California on your computer.  Yes, you read that correctly and I am not high…well, yet anyway.

The original 400-square foot Taco Bell, nicknamed “Numero Uno”, was set to take the wrecking ball earlier this year.  But those plans were thwarted when outraged (and probably constipated) fans of the fast food restaurant heard the news – and now, Taco Bell has stepped in to save the building and will move it move from Downey to its Irvine headquarters.

“This is arguably the most important restaurant in our company’s history,” Taco Bell Chief executive Brian Niccol told OC Register. “When we heard about the chance of it being demolished, we had to step in. We owe that to our fans; we owe that to Glen Bell.”

The big move happens this Thursday night starting at 10:30 p.m.  The structure will move through Downey, Norwalk, Cerritos, La Palma, Buena Park, Anaheim, Orange and Tustin. Officials expect it to take 4 or 5 hours and the whole thing will be broadcast on a live webcam.

And even though the move will come at night, you should have no problem seeing it as the company plans on “bedazzling” Numero Uno.  As Niccol told The Register, “We’re lighting this thing like the Fourth of July.”