WILDFIRE CONSUMES DREAMS

Lost lives, homes and businesses from the recent western wildfires caught headlines, but dreams and some of the collector cars built from them were also lost. About one million acres burned from dozens of wildfires in California and Oregon during the month of September. Among the victims of property damage in Oregon’s Alameda Fire was Cadilina Deville, a painter storing two cars at his father’s home in Phoenix, Ore. Lost to that fire on Sept. 8 was Deville’s 1956 Buick “Rat Pink” custom with a 1957 Olds roof and a stock 1941 Ford Super De Luxe convertible. Both cars