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

[farna@xxxxxxx]

I wonder if it's someone's attempt to duplicate the Adventurer or just a custom job loosely based on it? The slant six has me wondering if it's the real thing. By  the 60s just about every show car would have had a V-8. 

On June 26, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:

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