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Location: The not-so-great, dirty-white North ( Michigan) | http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/DeSoto-desoto-custom-1957-Desoto-Rad...
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Guy states "built in Detroit by Desoto workers using leftover parts"...must have happened in the 80s, look at the seats!
In other words, do NOT trust anything this guy spouts, as the DeSoto plant was torn down by then...... |
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Location: .Norfolk..Mafia.. ,England UK | This is Looks the Same Car i posted a few weeks back , Except NOW it is a Different Seller. And the Car is more Complete.. Reserve Never got Met last time.
Here is the Old Thread...
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Well guys it sure doesn't get any better lookin just cause they've change the seller. Not even the creator of that thing could not be satisfied with the result. |
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Location: central oklahoma! | we should report it as fraudulent. there was no "desoto factory" in 1963.
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Location: Lemoore CA | Also, why would they import a t bird hood and Buick headlight rims to the Desoto factory? An obvious farce, still I am interested to know where this car came from and who did build it. The body work obviously took some talent to do |
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Location: Florida | Folks, I saw this "DeSoto" at a very rainy Zephyrhills car show last Sunday. Though I spent only a few minutes looking it over, I overheard many random comments like the ones made above regarding the source of the components that some hot rodder used to build this car.
There was no one around the car - had there been I would have informed them about the current discussion taking place and the previous thread here on the Forwardlook list. |
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Location: Kansas City, KS | I don't recall seeing a picture of the "VIN" plate on the last auction. Are they supposed to look homemade like that? The paint sure doesn't look as good in this picture either. Anyone have any guesses on where that grill came from?
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Location: Lemoore CA | That grill must be a recent add on, I picture this with something like a 53 or 4 Desoto grill that has been cut down and set into the oval opening. |
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Location: Skaneateles,NY(summer)/Port St.Lucie,FL(winter) | It sure looks like a mid fifties Custom. It looks like a heavily sectioned early fifties Mopar business coupe on a '57 DeSoto frame/running gear. Somebody has done a LOT of work on this car and it's probobly a "barn find" of some sort. I'd like to know the history of this car...it appears to be the sort of Custom you would have found in an old "Rod and Custom" magazine... |
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Location: The not-so-great, dirty-white North ( Michigan) | KcImperial - 2008-02-28 1:08 AM
I don't recall seeing a picture of the "VIN" plate on the last auction. Are they supposed to look homemade like that? The paint sure doesn't look as good in this picture either. Anyone have any guesses on where that grill came from?
Typically VIN or Body ID Serial Numbers used a reversed stamp die set, so the numbers/letters are raised off the background surface.
this on uses simple stamp dies...... |
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Location: Rushford Minnesota | The home made looking vin tag makes me wonder if this wasn't some "Home built" Project that had to have a VIN asigned to it to register it in the state it was built in, Back in high school I built a Kit car and had to make a VIN tag like that before the state would let me register it |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | KcImperial - 2008-02-27 10:08 PM
Anyone have any guesses on where that grill came from?
We'd all better check our barbeques and see if one of our grills are missing........... 
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Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | That's gotta be the same car in different hands. They're right about the headlamp doors being sourced from a 1953 Buick. The tail-lamp assemblies are pure 1950-52 Dodge. Of course the dashboard with instruments came out of a 1957 DeSoto. The seats probably came out of a 1980s GM intermediate. Somebody did some wrenchin' on this car(?) but I doubt they were really satisfied with the way it turned out. |
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Location: Kansas City, KS | Kenny J. - 2008-02-28 5:03 PM
We'd all better check our barbeques and see if one of our grills are missing...........
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I was going to check my side by side refrigerator for missing shelves. ha! |
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