#desoto

[coolvintagecars]

De Soto Firesweep Sportsman (1958)

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Please reblog so my art gets seen! 😁😁

Ladybug and Chat Noir hit the road!

Based off Sam and Max

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DeSoto Fireflite Convertible 1955

[hunter-husky]

A good way to start your day

Color practice based on that one gif I keep seeing 

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[frenchcurious]

DeSoto Adventurer Coupe 1956. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

The Chrysler Plainsman is the only concept station wagon known to exist from the entire 1950s and 60s. Designer Dave Scott sketched it in February 1954 and Ghia built it in Italy. When it arrived at the factory in Detroit on December 5, 1955, it immediately sank under its own weight. The lead-laden body was so heavy that a full New Yorker suspension had to be installed just so it could move.

It debuted at the 1956 Chicago Auto Show packed with features nobody had ever seen before: the first rear-facing third-row seat ever fitted to a station wagon, a full power tailgate with a retractable rear window, a power-operated hidden gas filler, rear entry steps, flow-through ventilation and a hidden spare tire behind the rear quarter panel. Every single one of those features eventually appeared on production station wagons sold by Plymouth, DeSoto, Dodge and Chrysler.

Then the adventure began. Because the body was built in Italy, US Customs gave Chrysler 18 months to get it out of the country or pay the duty. It was shipped to Cuba and loaned to the president of the Cuban bank as a family wagon. When Castro took over, Chrysler's export manager made a desperate escape, taking the Plainsman with him to Puerto Rico, then Australia, then Japan, then back across the United States. At auction in 2010 it failed to sell at $160,000. It was estimated at $250,000 to $300,000. One concept car. One Cuban revolution. Every modern minivan feature. No other station wagon has ever lived this hard.

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DeSoto Fireflite, 1957