- A Full History of DeSoto - Allpar Forums
DeSoto provided engineering advantages such as an oil filter and Lockheed hydraulic brakes that were either optional or not offered by contemporary makes DeSoto niceties included standard automatic windshield wiper, ignition lock, brake light, full-instrumentation, steering hub controls for headlights, and a tool kit with grease gun
- 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 - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge-DeSoto Fluid Drive - Allpar Forums
Depending on year, Chrysler offered the Royal, Windsor and DeSoto DeLuxe with Fluid Drive and the normal 3-speed manual This was also the only way Fluid Drive was offered by Dodge prior to 1949 Fluid Drive first appeared on the 1939 Chrysler Custom Imperial, and spread to the rest of the Chrysler line in 1940, and then the DeSoto and Dodge in
- DeSoto U. S. and Canada Model Year Production, 1946-1961
Firedome, Fireflite, and Adventurer (1957 - 1959) were all built on a 3 2 meter wheelbase platform Entries for 1957 and 1959 are official data, U S only; the entry for 1958 is the serial number total, U S only Entries for models other than Diplomat, 1946-1956, are drawn from official data: serial numbers in each country, and published model year production numbers which combine production
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