Orange County and the vehicles that ply its roads

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 […]

Ray Russell’s sectioned shoebox and other modified Fords

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. […]