Anyone like '42 Desotos...have one?

[Red Ram]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10JFLyew-40

[BB1]

You betcha, I'd love a Desoto that you could put 6 bodys in the trunk. 

[Sublime/Sixpack]

Very cool! Wish it were mine.

[Brock Samson]

that red illustration above has been widened and lowered,.. a common practice..

like this one..







I bought a 1936 Desoto Saleroom brochure it's a huge 36x 22" fold out and very cool... pre war ya' know,.. that video is of course is shot in Europe and is a business coupe..

"Aside from its Airflow models, DeSoto's 1942 model is probably its second most memorable model from the pre-war years, when the cars were fitted with powered pop-up headlights, a first for a North American mass-production vehicle. DeSoto marketed the feature as "Air-Foil" lights "Out of Sight Except at Night".
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile)

"The old guy Sam who lived  accross the street now passed on,.. used to sell them up intill the early '60s..

this is Richard Carpenter's.. A '59 Adventurer...

and an interesting view of some of his collection..



I'm partial to the 1956 Convertable pase car and the 1957 Firedomes..



this 1961 De Soto Cella I "fuel cell" car was never built, as the company folded..
the passing of De Soto sounds alot like the Chrysler of today...


DESOTO IDEA CAR
CD 1967044 E&MP59.001

Fuel Cells

no date

A.E. Kimberly, DeSoto chief engineer, examines "idea car," DeSoto Cella I, which introduces some revolutionary styling and engineering principles.

In lower half, cross-section shows arrangement of four high-speed electric motors positioned adjacent to the wheels where they would drive through short universal-jointed shafts to independently suspended shafts, eliminating transmission, differential, drive shaft and rear axle. An electrochemical principle would power DeSoto Cella I. 



  the last Desoto Mock up.. the 1962 "S".

 

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1960s-chrysler-concept-cars.htm