The phrase ‘Cal-look’ has long been part of the Custom Car lexicon. Back in the 80s, it seemed like the world was being taken over by generic air-cooled Beetles done in the classic Californian style.
We’re not going to get into that debate right now. But we are going to get into another kind of Cal-looker. A 1972 Ford F-250, to be precise.
What, you’re wondering, are we on about?
We’re on about the California beyond LA and Frisco, beyond Venice Beach and Compton. The Golden State may be the home of Hollywood, hippie culture, West Coast rap and an eye-popping population of porn stars, and most of the world’s wealth might seem to have been sucked into a narrow strip of its coastline like light into a black hole, but more than anything else California is the home of farms. Big farms, and
