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



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.








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