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1960DesotoAdventurer |
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Expert Posts: 3588 Location: Plymouth Spaceport | 1958 Hi-D-Ho Drive-in,Lubbock,Texas. (carhop.jpg) Attachments ---------------- carhop.jpg (112KB - 233 downloads) | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2474 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | More from Bill... This is the made-in-metal prototype of a proposed Chrysler 500, obviously heavily steeped in the thoughts of the earlier 300 proposal, but also made easier to create in many ways from the standard car. Exner himself sometimes drove this 'around town' according to Bill: (0113frmcgChrysler500prop.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 0113frmcgChrysler500prop.jpg (26KB - 214 downloads) | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | I think that this creation was a push-mobile. | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | NY (Long Island, NY.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Long Island, NY.jpg (110KB - 225 downloads) | ||
1960DesotoAdventurer |
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Expert Posts: 3588 Location: Plymouth Spaceport | Ray Bell - 2013-01-02 3:37 PM More from Bill... This is the made-in-metal prototype of a proposed Chrysler 500, obviously heavily steeped in the thoughts of the earlier 300 proposal, but also made easier to create in many ways from the standard car. Exner himself sometimes drove this 'around town' according to Bill: As much as I love large fins this design has too many things working against it.For one thing I hate the continental kit type spare tire on the back,it makes the rear of the car look cumbersome and cluttered.I also think the fins would look less slab like if instead of the rapid "kick-up" behind the side windows there were a longer sloping rise extending the fin further forward,yes,I realize the fin would then partially obscure the view from the side windows,but you'd have a fin to look at,right? I also don't like the fact the fins slant forward like the 1959 Plymouths,fins raked backward are much more dramatic and give a sleek,swept back look that makes them appear to have supersonic speed. Wasn't there a picture of "Ex" driving this car,or it parked in his driveway somewhere? | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Yeah, that poor bastxrd was about half-past ugly. A good idea taken WAY too far. | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 1960 Plymouth Convertible at Captain Frank's Seafood House on E 9th St. Pier in Cleveland, Ohio Plymouth ForwardLook postcards | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Plymouths (Plymouth 2.jpg) (Plymouth 1.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Plymouth 2.jpg (49KB - 218 downloads) Plymouth 1.jpg (42KB - 201 downloads) | ||
1955Coronado |
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Expert Posts: 1918 Location: Hell's Outhouse - a.k.a. Buckeye, Arizona | Front and center: Scottsdale, Arizona - 1957 (1957 DeSoto Scottsdale.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1957 DeSoto Scottsdale.jpg (126KB - 226 downloads) | ||
wizard |
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13053 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Nice picture - thanks for sharing! Here we can all see the DeSoto in comparison with the '57 Chebby "Highboy"- makes the Chebby looks like a truck | ||
kmccabe56 |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 390 | Doctor DeSoto - 2012-12-28 11:04 AM I am digging the roof detail on that 61 Polara mockup. The 4 door roofs on these were pretty "uneventful". This one is nicely "overswept" and the bump-up on the decklid creates additional interest to the overall roof and glass profile. This rear window also teases at the shape of the rear window for the first Barracuda. Obviously not the same dimensions, but the same basic idea of continuing the shape of the greenhouse into the sheetmetal of the rear deck through the glass. | ||
spinout |
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Location: Bjorneborg, Finland | >Nice picture - thanks for sharing! Here we can all see the DeSoto in comparison with the '57 Chebby "Highboy" I have seen this postcard repeatedly here during years, probably 3 times. Two pictures show the showroom of Berner, Inc., DeSoto dealer in S. Esplanad St., Helsinki, Finland in 1959. Edited by spinout 2013-01-04 1:23 PM (esplanad1.jpg) (esplanad2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- esplanad1.jpg (29KB - 206 downloads) esplanad2.jpg (45KB - 221 downloads) | ||
wizard |
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Board Moderator & Exner Expert 10K+ Posts: 13053 Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Those pic's are new to us, thanks' for sharing! You know what? I have seen my car repeatedly uncountable times during the years - just can't get tired of watching it I get what you mean, but then it's really difficult not to post duplicates and multiplicates - the thread is ONE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE PAGES NOW and still going strong! | ||
mrtester |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 802 Location: Norcross (Atlanta area), GA | wizard - 2013-01-04 12:29 PM I get what you mean, but then it's really difficult not to post duplicates and multiplicates - the thread is ONE HUNDRED TWENTY ONE PAGES NOW and still going strong! What about when a picture you originally posted gets reposted by someone else? That happened with one of my pictures on this thread, and as I remember, my original was larger in size and I knew where and when it was taken---right near my dad's business in the spring or summer of 1959. I had remembered seeing that car, but not in that location. | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | Ex was unabashedly a fan of 'classical' automotive designs, including the side and the rear mounted spare tires. The K310, and other dream cars had working Continental kits on them. The above 57 "300" design was probably Ex's fulfillment of his tail fin and Continental kit dreams; a 3-dimensional iteration "just-to-see" what it would look like, in the steel...when carried out to its ultimate design effect. | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Rainy night (rainy night.jpg) Attachments ---------------- rainy night.jpg (60KB - 215 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | For a guy who oversaw some top-shelf designs of all time, he also had his name on some real ugly stuff. I'd like to give him and his designers a swift kick in the pants and ask them "just what were you thinking ?" | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 1956 Dodge Royal Lancer at the Frederick Hotel & Executive House in Endicott, New York 1955-56 Dodge ForwardLook postcards | ||
Chrycoman |
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Expert Posts: 1819 Location: Vancouver, BC | Ray Bell - 2013-01-02 6:37 PM More from Bill... This is the made-in-metal prototype of a proposed Chrysler 500, obviously heavily steeped in the thoughts of the earlier 300 proposal, but also made easier to create in many ways from the standard car. Exner himself sometimes drove this 'around town' according to Bill: This is Chrysler styling proposal No. 613, a proposal for the Chrysler 300. The clay mock up was done in late 1955, when the 300B had gone into production, and looked just like the final version shown, except for the grille. The final version has the grille used on the 1957 Chrysler 300 while the clay mock up had the cross grille theme adopted for 1960 and used through 1971 The roof line on the 613 appeared on the 1957 Plymouth and Dodge. The rest of the car, fortunately, was forgotten. | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | This is how this postcard originally looks ..., I think I'm going crazy, why am I doing this? (NYEndicottFrederickHotelandExecutiveHouse.gif) Attachments ---------------- NYEndicottFrederickHotelandExecutiveHouse.gif (213KB - 212 downloads) | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2474 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | You and Bill ought to get together, Bill... He's in Detroit, just over the river. Did you look at his website? | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | The dealership must have been very proud of the undercarriage detail, on that 59 Belvie, up above.... Well, Jim, can you clean-up/photo-chop that 59 Imperial postcard, now? Edited by d500neil 2013-01-05 7:34 PM | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Okinawa 1958 (OKINAWA%201958.jpg) Attachments ---------------- OKINAWA%201958.jpg (90KB - 195 downloads) | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2474 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | For those who missed the link, this is Bill McGuire's 'Mac's Motor City Garage' website: http://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/ | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | d500neil - 2013-01-06 12:32 AM Well, Jim, can you clean-up/photo-chop that 59 Imperial postcard, now? Nah ..., not really .... Edited by D500Jim 2013-01-06 8:35 AM (WASeattleGasperettisRomaCafe5.jpg) Attachments ---------------- WASeattleGasperettisRomaCafe5.jpg (66KB - 214 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | d500neil - 2013-01-06 4:32 PM The dealership must have been very proud of the undercarriage detail, on that 59 Belvie, up above.... ================================================ The 59 cars look better from underneath ! | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 1957 Chrysler 300C at the Municipal Opera House in San Francisco, California but it might as well be a 1958 Chrysler 300D ... Chrysler ForwardLook postcards | ||
mrtester |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 802 Location: Norcross (Atlanta area), GA | A funeral for a slain civil rights leader in Hattiesburg, Mississippi 1966 (71408-0350-photonegative.tif.jpg) (71408-0351-photonegative.tif.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 71408-0350-photonegative.tif.jpg (48KB - 210 downloads) 71408-0351-photonegative.tif.jpg (45KB - 224 downloads) | ||
spinout |
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Location: Bjorneborg, Finland | d500neil - 2013-01-06 4:32 AM The dealership must have been very proud of the undercarriage detail, on that 59 Belvie, up above.... Sure, it was proud of that. Torsion bar suspension and all - but you didn't notice that I mentioned the DeSoto dealer. It shows a '59 DeSoto Diplomat.. Edited by spinout 2013-01-06 2:23 PM | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | So, that's why the car is elevated; thanks! | ||
Valiant_200 |
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Veteran Posts: 124 | The funeral pictures are from the Vernon Dahmer funeral. That is his widow, Ellie, being helped into that Plymouth. These pictures are also from Hattiesburg. This is Freedom Day, Jan 22, 1964. A 58 Plymouth sits at the corner. (freedom_day_58_ply_hburg_ms_02.jpg) (freedom_day_58_ply_hburg_ms_01.jpg) Attachments ---------------- freedom_day_58_ply_hburg_ms_02.jpg (45KB - 205 downloads) freedom_day_58_ply_hburg_ms_01.jpg (43KB - 201 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Plymouth in neighbors driveway (neighbors car.jpg) Attachments ---------------- neighbors car.jpg (61KB - 210 downloads) | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | hemidave - 2013-01-07 1:18 PM Plymouth in neighbors driveway Nice hairdo! | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | No ForwardLook car at the Susie-Q Restaurant in Royal Oak, Michigan, Edited by D500Jim 2013-01-07 11:57 AM (MIRoyalOakSusieQRendition3.jpg) Attachments ---------------- MIRoyalOakSusieQRendition3.jpg (88KB - 197 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | I like the black/red color combo on the rendering of the Dodge! | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Somehow, I always like the 48 star/state flag, before Alaska & Hawaii joined in respectively Januari & August 1959 Edited by D500Jim 2013-01-07 1:35 PM (MIRoyalOakSusieQFlag.jpg) Attachments ---------------- MIRoyalOakSusieQFlag.jpg (15KB - 200 downloads) | ||
mrtester |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 802 Location: Norcross (Atlanta area), GA | Valiant_200 - 2013-01-07 5:31 AM The funeral pictures are from the Vernon Dahmer funeral. That is his widow, Ellie, being helped into that Plymouth. More protesting in downtown Hattiesburg, this time during the Dahmer funeral in 1966, and I see what looks like a white '61 Savoy in the distance in the first picture, with a '59 Savoy in the second. Edited by mrtester 2013-01-08 1:45 AM (71408-0376-photonegative.tif.jpg) (71408-0388-photonegative.tif.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 71408-0376-photonegative.tif.jpg (41KB - 211 downloads) 71408-0388-photonegative.tif.jpg (42KB - 195 downloads) | ||
Valiant_200 |
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Veteran Posts: 124 | Another one from the same collection. This is a 60 Plymouth parked outside the Forrest County Circuit Court during the 1968 Cecil Sessum trial. Sessum was on trial for the death of Vernon Dahmer, two years before. The lady in the striped dress is Sessum's wife, Mary who, according to the caption, tried to sneak a gun into court in her purse. Edited by Valiant_200 2013-01-08 3:14 AM (sessum_trial_60_ply_hburg_ms_01.jpg) (sessum_trial_60_ply_hburg_ms_02.jpg) (sessum_trial_60_ply_hburg_ms_03.jpg) Attachments ---------------- sessum_trial_60_ply_hburg_ms_01.jpg (38KB - 192 downloads) sessum_trial_60_ply_hburg_ms_02.jpg (66KB - 196 downloads) sessum_trial_60_ply_hburg_ms_03.jpg (44KB - 183 downloads) | ||
vedette |
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vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3069 Location: Scotland | Vermont (smugglersnotchVT1958.jpg) Attachments ---------------- smugglersnotchVT1958.jpg (105KB - 195 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | In the clouds (in the clouds.jpg) Attachments ---------------- in the clouds.jpg (25KB - 192 downloads) | ||
Kenny J. |
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Highwood, Illinois, 1963. The truck is visiting from Iowa, picking up items from this recently closed railroad. (nsl177.jpg) Attachments ---------------- nsl177.jpg (158KB - 198 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | OK 58 Plymouth fans, .... in the above photo of the Vermont ski area parking lot ... ... behind the 57 Ford wagon hides what looks like a 58 Plaza sedan. Is that car really painted olive drab, or is it just my computer ? Almost looks like O-D with a black top. | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 1957 Dodge Coronet Lancer at the Rainbow Motel in Reno, Nevada 1957 Dodge ForwardLook postcards | ||
Kenny J. |
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Chicago, Illinois. (nsl224a.jpg) Attachments ---------------- nsl224a.jpg (101KB - 184 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Four door/fender skirts (skirts.jpg) Attachments ---------------- skirts.jpg (33KB - 191 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | The skirts, combined with the colors, create a crazy / interesting look to this car. Not my bag, but I like it. | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 1957 Chrysler Saratoga at David's L & L Motel in Tonopah, Nevada Chrysler ForwardLook postcards | ||
rbmain |
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1955 Plymouth Belvedere V8 4-door sedan at David's L & L Motel in Tonopah, Nevada | |||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | rbmain - 2013-01-09 6:57 PM 1955 Plymouth Belvedere V8 4-door sedan at David's L & L Motel in Tonopah, Nevada Thanks Richard, I keep learning ... (NVTonopahDavidsLandLMotel5.jpg) Attachments ---------------- NVTonopahDavidsLandLMotel5.jpg (32KB - 184 downloads) | ||
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