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Location: Vancouver, BC | 345 DeSoto - 2009-12-22 5:45 AM
That VIN SEEMS to have too many numbers...I could very well be wrong. The first time it was listed, the $12,000 opening bid got no responses...the second time, the bids only went to $7,000. I wonder what the bids will get to this time...
50420579 - correct number of digits for a 1957 DeSoto Fireflite built at the Wyoming Avenue plant.
Serial numbers for 1957 DeSoto S26 ran from 50396001 to 50426380. Adventurer numbers were included in the same sequence.
Thus that VIN makes the car the 24,579th S26 off the Detroit line of a total 30,380. 1957 Fireflites and Adventurers were built only at the Detroit plant, although beginning LA plant serial numbers were announced when 1957 production began.
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Location: Parts Unknown | Ed can verify this, but without the build card, differentiating an Adventurer from a Fireflite by VIN is not possible ... they were all sequenced together. From there it is a matter of equipment. The engine block should read "S26A", the interior is brown, the 150 speedo, the six leaf springs, the heavy torsion bars, the decklid bars, the badging is what set the Adv. apart. DeSoto "stacked" their equipment on their models, so a Firesweep got "X" as basic equipment, Firedome got "X+1", Fireflite got "X+2", and Adv got "X+3", so to speak. So, to find a purported "Adventurer" without a lot of the Fireflite equipment would be a red flag that this was no genuine original car, unless it was some crazy special order job. Best plan would be to order the build card after doing some serious detective work.
I would submit this car is a parts pile, assembled from many with the idea of creating (or recreating) an Adventurer. Since few non-hardcores understand the scope of really doing one right, this guy has fallen a few pieces short of having the whole puzzle.
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Location: Grenoble - France | The car is back, but now, only the body shell is for sale (???).
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1957-Desoto-Adventurer-Car-BODY-SHEL... |
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Location: Florida | And a freshly-painted shell is somewhat questionable in itself. What surprises does it hold? |
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Location: Florida | Won't this just GO AWAY??!! 
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1957-Desoto-Adventure-Car-ANTIQUE-Ra...
Edited by Chopper John 2010-10-29 4:14 PM
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Location: Skaneateles,NY(summer)/Port St.Lucie,FL(winter) | The "Christine" of 57 Adventurers... |
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Location: Florida | It's back AGAIN! $6500 and no reserve.
It certainly is a DeSoto "Adventure" as the seller states!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1957-Desoto-Adventure-Car-ANTIQUE-NO... |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil!
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Location: bishop, ca | Well, at least he calls it a DeSoto "Adventure" !
OOPs---that's what you just said, too, but I spotted that, independently, as well.
Edited by d500neil 2010-12-24 5:31 PM
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1957 Desoto Adventurer 345 Hemi in Missy
