WW2 was instrumental in changing the American culture in so many ways, but did you ever hear of car bumpers being donated to the scrap drives?

Rita Hayworth did her part... so if you come across her big old car with no bumpers, now you'll know what happened to them.

For an example of immense largese in donating to the scrap drives, read about Panmsy Yount's 1933 Duesenberg Model J Judkins Berline that was turned over to the war effort for it's use as metal for armor plate, or whatever they did with all that steel

the USA At Last hot rod from "Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation"

Anyone know what the story is about this roadster?

A couple of brass era vehicles from the movie "The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday" a Lee Marvin movie

Don't know what they are specifically, but the movie was fun to watch, and the antique cars were frequently on screen.

The biggest wagon I've ever seen! Might only have been a movie prop, because they blew it to smithereens

Three axles... I've never seen one with 3 axles. This was in the movie "Duck You Sucker" with James Coburn
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/

Hudsons, quite the difference between stylish cars, and odd looking trucks

The owner told me a bit of Hudson Hollywood information I've never learned before, the Hollywood was fundamentally a convertible chassis with a coupe top. They had to switch them between assembly lines from the convertible line to the hardtop line after getting all the undercarriage and chassis done. This is why it has such a roomy interior

This one is new to San Diego... it was just purchased from Florida. What does that matter? Well, I like the Hudson Hollywood look a lot, and realised I hadn't seen this one before, so I asked if it had been here long or if it was recently brought to San Diego.

The Beverly Hillbillies trucks

image via: http://thatcarguy.typepad.com

one is in a museum in Missouri http://www.rfostermuseum.com/ and another is at the Planet Hollywood at Downtown Disney http://wapedia.mobi/en/Downtown_Disney_(Florida)

One sold at Barrett Jackson in Jan 2008: http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/article/2008AZauctionupdate/ for 125,000

Old Hollywood, some stars and their cars, pre-1940

Above, the Little Rascals

Al Jolson and his custom 1928 Mercedes Spl

Buster Keaton and his 1928 Austin

WC Fields with a 1930 Bantam movie car, in the movie 300 Yard Drive

Rudy Valentino's (unbelievable biography: http://emol.org/emclub/?q=rudolphvalentino )cars above an Avoin Voisin, and below a 1925 Isotta Frashini. His 1923 Isotta can be seen in the Nethercutt Museum: http://www.pbase.com/gemc48/image/39217895

A 1910 Stanley Steamer and in the back is a 1940 Packard Darin

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in a 1914 Stutz Bearcat

a 1911 Ford and Jimmy Durante... what a pit crew!