Is there such a thing as a cool Desoto?

No, there's one other part....

 

Yep, that one Rik, is one cool DeSoto...a bit too much chop for me tho, but the look is correct. Is that a current build...or from your archives...???

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There's a guy on a popular auction site trying to sell a "1952 desoto chop top" but it looks to me more like a '49 Plymouth that someone sold him with a 1952 title.

 

Here's a really cool 54 custom convertable

 

All American cars built before 1960 have potential.

 

I love the Desoto with the Merc grille

 

Ya its "Glendales" im his cousin, i think its pretty bad ass also, we have alot of sweat and blood in that car ! my pops also owns a 51 dodge coronet and a 50 desoto im the out cast with the ford and chevy!

 

my 32 three window...(it had a Dodge grille sittin on it)...project waiting in the wings.

 

I'm trying to get a 1929 Desoto! Does that count? I have pics of it in a barn.

 

I'm too tired to fight my computer with posting a decent pic... But if you look to your left in my default pic... Thats my '55 Desoto... Its not cool, just bad ass.

 

kelseydum, that suckers almost identical to my chrysler I just dug out of the barn. Check out my album under my profile. I've been told mine is a '30, but has characteristics of a '29 and a '31. So I have no clue what I'm working with

 

one of the 2 i mentioned earlier. As bad as it gets.

 

Game. Set. Match. [/thread]

 

Thanks guys- lots of good pics and info.

This is the '52 that I was looking at


It has great style coming at you or leaving you but the profile, really frumpy.
The Hemi runs unbelievably quiet and would be a nice motor to have.

 

That car is screaming for a chop. Yes, It can be done!

 

Here is a picture of Dustin's bad ass Desoto!!

 

Just an old truck, but pretty cool for what it is. Drop a Desoto hemi under the hood and would be a ballsy parts runner.

 

One I flamed

 

Saw this one at the Beatnik Blowout.

 

You asked for ideas on EARLY-'50s DeS FOUR-doors.

THE MASTER, PhotoShopper JamesD , posted this cruiser concept, based on a '53 DeSoto 4DS, over on the popular thread, "The Photoshop thread to end all Photoshop Threads!" As you can see, he didn't even call for the time and cost of a chop.

 

Here is a sweet business coupe that I just sold for my pal in the classifieds. The buyer has 4 nos fenders for it and is going to bring it back to life. Love it when this happens. ~sololobo~

 

Sololobo! Yup, saw that in the classified and DROOLED! Thouh I have a '55, my DREAM has been to located one of these '46-'48 BUS. coupes, shorten the wheelbase, so a little shaving and put in a 341 Hemi and 727.

I HOPE YOUR BUYER WILL DO A BUILD THREAD! THANKS FOR SHARING THIS.

 

Photo from HowStuffWor?ks

 

HowStuffWor?ks estimated that as few as 500 of the tri-tone
DeS Coronado 4DS were ever built.



Ad THANKS to FlickR!

 

Photo of Darryl's Coronado, THANKS to AllPar. You can SEE that the '55 was pretty fine, just stock. Mine is slightly customized, but I love them stock, too, just like Darryl's.

 

jimishemi291 Check post #29

 

THANKS, Hillbilly! (And, I'm one of those, too.) Yup, I missed the connection. My BAD!

Anywho, I think JamesD did a nice job of showing the potential in a 4DS DeS. They are
GREAT cruisers, where you can get all the kids into the back seat, eh?

 

This is the coolest thing I've ever seen!!! Did Desoto really market this truck? Why have I never seen if before????

 

Thanks losthope. I think my car is turning out pretty cool. Bonez I think you one of my biggest supporters. And it almost got a Carson top. My buddy that helped me cut it keep talking about making it a lift off hardtop with the roof on that is on it. I think that would be very cool.