57burb - 2009-01-09 5:58 PM

I've got a really dumb question. Can you get those EFI badges from the aftermarket?

d500neil - 2010-07-08 8:26 PM

LOL....all that time/money/sweat/tears spent in restoring this car, and someone decided to paint-over the
asphaltic trunk sound deadener panels, rather than to replace them with proper panels, or, to (re-)paint
them (very difficult to do, btw) to replicate their proper OEM appearance.

Bet that those panels swallowed up a whole-bunch of gold paint, before they acquired their uniformly-gold color!

Doctor DeSoto - 2009-01-23 1:35 AM


This is what happens when the dollar value exceeds the value of the machine as a car .... it ceases to be a car and becomes something of a paperweight.

I did Buicks before I discovered Mopar and ultimately settled on DeSoto. My Buicks (58-59-60) were pretty cool cars in their own right, but tell someone you drive a Buick and there is no response. Tell them you drive a DeSoto and the reaction is immediate.

Besides having a few really great cars, the name itself was a major attraction for me.

Doctor DeSoto - 2009-01-13 11:52 PM



Danny - I am with you, .... these rank right up there with the Forward Look emblem themselves as being the ultimate fender badge. There is nothing I would like better than to see these re-popped. I would consider offering it up as part of a repro project.

I could even spearhead the machine work. The missing link is an impression or super tight specs on the chrome "bubble bar" with the letters. If someone had the goods on that part to put into the computer, we'd be off to the rodeo.

Oh yeah, .... and a little $$

d500neil - 2010-07-09 3:50 PM

Matt, the OEM color-appearance of those asphaltic deadener panels can vary with the models/years and
may even vary within the model years.

Usually, they have a sort of mottled appearance, rather than having a completely uniform coloration, and a
lot of them have a dark brownish color, but I've got photos of light-ish colored deadener panels, as well.

I've got quite an extensive collection of open trunk photos (kinky, I know) showing their appearances.

From all my observations, those liners were inserted when the outer and the inner sections of the trunk were
mechanically crimped together (no welding), and there was some sort of masking paper, which was either already
installed onto the panels, or, some sort of masking was applied over them, when the trunks were painted, because
you will see no evidence of overspray on the panels, but, on some of them you WILL see paint-runs/dribs/drabs which were
left/deposited onto the panels, when something was removed, or separated from those panels, right after the trunks were painted.

sidesho_bob1961 - 2010-08-16 5:50 AM

Not if I win the powerball!!!! I'll drive the darn thing!!! All over too.........

GregCon - 2011-10-11 9:27 AM

I agree that money has ruined the hobby, but there is one silver lining to it. If the cars were cheap - let's say you could buy a nice 58 Desoto for $3,000 - you'd have every jamoke out there buying them and trashing them out. The monetary value tends to preserve the cars. It also drives the market for reproduction parts. No one would be making repro parts for valueless cars.

dukeboy - 2011-10-12 3:47 AM

BTW Doc., you seem to be talking an aweful lot lately about driving these cars....How many times have you driven that DeSoto Lately? I put about 35 miles on my Plymouth this weekend....

This "Holy sh*T!!! Let's All watch some rich pr*** spend more money on a d@mn car than you and I will ever see in a lifetime" just seems to fasinate some folks to no end. It isn't enough to simply know you own a piece of history that not too many would even TRY to restore, Oh wait! I have to have the RAREST, WORTH THE MOST, and optioned out the ass...This BS is what's ruined the hobby...

Doctor DeSoto - 2011-10-12 1:53 AM

While I could not agree more with the "Look at ME!" crowd being a major negative force
on ANY hobby, another real drag are the car guys who want to make personal stabs at others
in the hobby.

Duke, .. I think you know my status and relative ability to do anything more than look at my
cars in photographs. I think you are also hip to the fact that I drove my cars daily for over 25
years and that other life priorities had me put them in mothballs for a while.

But my reference to driving them is obviously NOT in the literal sense. How could I ? I am in
F#@ING Afghanistan. I am speaking from a state of mind about how I view the cars ... kind of
an extension of your comment about the "Look at ME!" crowd being more about status symbols
that a genuine love for the cars and driving them.

But really ? What's up with the nipping at the heels ? I know you know what I am saying about
driving our cars. Let's not be so divisive. I get enough of that sh!t at work. Thanks.

Lancer Mike - 2011-10-12 1:52 PM

Is Tom White the owner of White Post Restorations?

dukeboy - 2011-10-13 4:00 AM



Doc. I know you know that some here have or almost have, 10K posts about the same thing...OEM this, or Factory that. You like to run like a broken record as I was about the 440 about a year ago.
I was told the same thing you are being told right now. I asked the same questions you are asking right now. 'Ya know what?
Folks kinda get tired of hearing bout how badass a 440 can be if they want to build a poly 318. They also get tired of hearing bout how we need to drive these cars, you have either been there and done that at least fifty times before anybody else here has (you would have to be at least 75 Y/O to have done as much as you say), And there are people here that kinda get tired of hearing it in ever freakin' post. Once I had great respect for you, as did alot of others.
Now, I throw you into the same pile as the uppity, arrogant, self serving, post just to see his post count go up, sometimes stretching the truth till it tears and when called on it, simply whines about how they are being "Attacked". I make no apologies here Doc., You are a grown man. You post AS much as you do ABOUT as much as you do, someone's gonna call you on it....The only difference is, I all but stopped posting bout the 440 thing.
I guess you haven't had the pleasure of having a real "Personal Stab" as I did when that completely idiotic, Rambling, manifesto was posted about my family and how they should be so lucky as to catch a fatal disease and pass on. You should feel grateful Doc. cause there are some here that feel as strongly about you and your "I've been there and done that, that's nothing" type of replies to just about every post about anything...The ones that don't reply to you, or make "Personal Stabs" at you as you call them, they don't give a sh*t..Just trying to help further the hobby..
Don't feel too bad though Doc. there are a couple others that are just as bad.

Your friend in the hobby,
Duke.