Re: Fresh Squeezed...try a Desoto Adventurer circa '54...

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Jerry Casper wrote:
>
> >  Might you be thinking of the Desoto Adventurer? It
> > was a beautiful concept car in '54. Here's a link to
> > some color and black and white shots of it :
> >
> >
> > http://www.shorey.net/Auto/American/DeSoto/htmltree.html
>
> Page won't load... but this car is definitely 1960's. It's a slant
> six, and the pushbutton shifter is the same as a 1965 Valiant or
> Dart.
>
>
> It's got the Valiant crest logo thingie in "hood ornament" position.

I take it back -- it's very much like that car (1953).

(It's the stupidest www page -- every image file is GARGANTUAN, it
takes many minutes to load on my DSL line!)

Differences:

* horizontal/rectangular tail lights, with plain flat lens
* smaller wheels (14's?)
* different dash (from what I can tell), trapezoidal guages, Valiant shifter
* electric windows

It's not the 54. It's like a customized 53 (well, at least
approximately).


It does have the hump in the line over the rear wheels, but more
like a Firebird, integrated into the line, rather than a vestige
of old style pontoon fenders.