We don’t really need a reminder of how widespread the automobile became in Southern California, especially after World War II. But after flipping through the Flickr stream of the Orange County Archives, it becomes abundantly clear how dependent Southern California became on the automobile so quickly. Many of the scenes in the collection that show […]

Where George Barris can point to the Batmobile as his chef d’oeuvre, his contemporary, Frank DeRosa, can claim this 1960 Cadillac for sale on Hemmings.com as his own masterpiece. In fact, Pittsburg, California-based DeRosa, who has since been inducted into the Oakland Roadsters Hall of Fame, has said that this car was specifically built as […]

A while back, Paul Bellefeuille let us borrow a few of his copies of Ford Times, Ford’s in-house monthly magazine that ran from 1908 to 1996, and after some perusing, we came across somebody who should be familiar to faithful Hemmings Blog readers, Ray Russell, he of the Gadabout and the hydraulic-drive and plastic-bodied cars. […]