- The origin of DeSoto cars (a Chrysler division) - Allpar Forums
DeSoto was longer, wider, and sleeker than any previously It was also more colorful DeSoto Fireflites and Firedomes could be dressed up with enormous, fang-shaped color panels that were standard on the Fireflite convertible and hardtop DeSoto even introduced one of the earliest three tone paint jobs on the 1955 Coronado spring special The
- Illustrated Plymouth DeSoto Buyers Guide - Allpar Forums
DeSoto was introduced to the public on August 4, 1928, after a private dealer showing in Detroit on July 7th By year's end over 34,000 cars had been shipped to more than 1,500 dealers, most of whom handled DeSoto exclusively DeSoto would set a sales record for a new make of automobile that would not be broken for over 30 years
- DeSoto cars, 1928-1961, with specifications - Allpar Forums
1950 DESOTO CUSTOM, S-14: DeSoto's new 12-inch brakes with cyclebond linings were among the largest used on any American passenger car The introduction of bonded linings to De Soto and other Chrysler cars became another First Shipments for the year rose to 136, 203 as De Soto passed the 100,000 sales mark for the second year in a row
- Illustrated Plymouth DeSoto Buyers Guide – DeSoto: 1940s
DeSoto for 1942 DeSoto's 1942 models are among the most sought after of the prewar cars for two reasons-their relative scarcity caused by early production shut down for the duration of the war, and their one-year-only hidden headlamps
- The DeSoto-Warren Plant of Chrysler Corporation (and. . .
DeSoto-Warren finished its first fuselage sections in May, 1942, and was ahead of schedule when, in July, the Air Force asked the plant to restrict production to only 65 sets a month The Army also changed the wing flaps and moved them to DeSoto-Warren Then, in mid-1943, with 1,200 planes done, the plants changed to the new B-29 Superfortress
- Export DeSoto Cars and Trucks - Allpar Forums
Outside of DeSoto nameplates and DeSoto like swept-spear body side chrome, the car was pure Dodge Even though the senior DeSotos disappeared in the fall of 1960 after only a few '61 models had been built, the DeSoto Diplomat lived on, again as a name-change-only Dodge Dart
- Inside Chrysler: Losing DeSoto, 1957-1960 - Allpar Forums
The 1957 DeSoto Firesweep was, in essence, a Dodge Marketed as a low-priced alternative to the larger DeSoto, it rode on the 122 inch Dodge wheelbase, and was powered by a Dodge 325 V-8 Even though it had DeSoto styling, it shared just about everything else with Dodge
- Illustrated Plymouth DeSoto Buyers Guide – Introduction
Plymouth and DeSoto shared much of their early heritage Both were introduced in 1928 as 1929 models; both shared, for a time, production facilities, and many of the cars' major components were interchangeable Then they went their separate ways; DeSoto's path would lead it to oblivion, followed, but not for some forty years, by Plymouth
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