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The Adventurer
Posted 2015-03-21 6:11 AM (#473034)
Subject: 1958 Desoto Firedome 2 Door For Sale Canada



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Not to many come for sale restored ready to go . But there are a lot of things I don't like the way this guy has done to make me question buying it unseen , so I will stick with mine and keep going and/or wait for a Fireflite to come for sale .

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/261819410119?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT...
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58coupe
Posted 2015-03-21 11:24 AM (#473056 - in reply to #473034)
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What does he mean by "numbers matching" 413? The largest engine available in 58 Desotos was the 361 IIRC. Beautiful car but you are right about questions.
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soiouz
Posted 2015-03-21 12:02 PM (#473059 - in reply to #473034)
Subject: RE: 1958 Desoto Firedome 2 Door For Sale Canada



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Indeed, the engine is not original. This is a (rare) Canadian DeSoto Firedome, so it originally came out of the Windsor factory with a 354 c.i. engine.

Beautiful car, nonetheless (except for the ridiculous wheels and tires).
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moparsteve
Posted 2015-03-21 12:45 PM (#473062 - in reply to #473034)
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maybe he got it confuse or thats what he was told..... could be a 354 last used in 1956 in the usa or a 361... ok something happened to the orig motor

and was replaced w/a chrysler 413 from 1959-60-61 but still beautiful car...
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Lancer Mike
Posted 2015-03-21 3:35 PM (#473080 - in reply to #473062)
Subject: RE: 1958 Desoto Firedome 2 Door For Sale Canada



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Wow! that is a really wonderful car!
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Posted 2015-03-22 12:37 AM (#473105 - in reply to #473080)
Subject: RE: 1958 Desoto Firedome 2 Door For Sale Canada



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Do you think it is a Spring Special, or do you think he just added the trim bars on the trunk?



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firedome
Posted 2015-03-22 11:00 AM (#473122 - in reply to #473034)
Subject: Re: 1958 Desoto Firedome 2 Door For Sale Canada



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And it has the Spring Special wide trim over the side window drip rails, but not the stainless rocker molding. Pretty car.

354 poly was last used in USA in '58 Chrysler Windsor, 354 hemi in '56 NYer, DeSoto had 341/ 345 in '57, 350/361 B- wedge engine in '58.

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Lancer Mike
Posted 2015-03-22 2:47 PM (#473144 - in reply to #473122)
Subject: Re: 1958 Desoto Firedome 2 Door For Sale Canada



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You can almost read the block number on the front of the engine: it looks like I3962?

Lots of neat touches on this car. Bumper guards in the rear, but not in the front. Fender ornaments. Hooded mirrors. Signal seeking radio. My car had the same gas and break pedals (later model). Very nice interior (great steering wheel) and wedgewood blue and pearl white paint. The mags and radials don't bother me - I kind of like the look...
Someone will get a really neat car just going by the pictures.

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1959Dodge
Posted 2015-03-22 7:40 PM (#473168 - in reply to #473034)
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"The mags and radials don't bother me - I kind of like the look... "

Oh OH, that high mtn, low O2 air is getting to you Mike, or izzit cruising around in the
convertible without a hat on?

Those wheels and tires might be "OK" on my 64 Dodge, but no way on my 58 Chrysler or 59 Dodge!

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Lancer Mike
Posted 2015-03-22 8:42 PM (#473173 - in reply to #473168)
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you know Gary - ever since we passed the recreational pot law, I have been a little off!

When I was in high school, I had a set of American racing wheels and radials on my 58 Lancer sedan - it looked pretty cool. In college, I switched back to standard wheels, wide whites and wheel covers and never looked back.

Still, a set of 14" chrome wheels and radials are so easy to switch back and forth, they don't bother me at all. As Doc often points out, the '58 De Soto wheel covers were not exactly the bees knees, so this look is not offensive to me.

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1959Dodge
Posted 2015-03-22 9:58 PM (#473181 - in reply to #473034)
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Well, now that I think of it, the 57 Hub caps were nothing to write home about either, at least to me as a 20 year old kid. I think it's the blackwalls that bother me the most.



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The Adventurer
Posted 2015-03-22 10:01 PM (#473182 - in reply to #473034)
Subject: RE: 1958 Desoto Firedome 2 Door For Sale Canada



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The car is indeed a Rare Canadian car and would have been a 354 Spitfire Motor . The 413 is a great choice , but not original as he claimed . The car Mike is in fact Haze blue , Wedgewood blue is the light non metallic colour.

I have seen the 100 resto photos and as I suspected , its had some nasty poorly done bodywork . On ebay the car appears ok , but the only give away is look at the right hand door/rocker and you will see it doesn't look right .
But in the trunk , the floors etc.. it has had patch panels very poorly just laid over and welded in . For a car that has had $70K spent its a shame someone did poor body work as many of the details on the car look ok .

The details on things like the seats , cheap carpet , full rusty exhaust system /manifolds , poor engine ebay detail say to may that the car has been worked on by the wrong people for the most part . Its a shame as I think it may have been a rare well optioned original car before these guys started on it .
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ToMopar
Posted 2015-03-23 4:13 AM (#473206 - in reply to #473034)
Subject: Re: 1958 Desoto Firedome 2 Door For Sale Canada



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James, could you share some of your 100+ pictures, or email me the pics
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The Adventurer
Posted 2015-03-23 7:48 AM (#473210 - in reply to #473034)
Subject: RE: 1958 Desoto Firedome 2 Door For Sale Canada



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Pics sent to your email Tom . Look carefully

Edited by The Adventurer 2015-03-23 7:36 PM
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2015-03-23 10:58 PM (#473265 - in reply to #473056)
Subject: Re: 1958 Desoto Firedome 2 Door For Sale Canada



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Roger,

I have never known the roof mouldings to be part of the Spring Special trim goodies.
They were just a normal option, as far as I know.

As I know it, the 58 DeSoto SS "kit" included rocker trim, decklid bars, color sweep
aluminum inserts, and 3-4 Spring Special paint colors. One could buy one or all of the
pieces. Few are seen with all of the SS goodies.
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firedome
Posted 2015-03-25 10:53 AM (#473420 - in reply to #473034)
Subject: Re: 1958 Desoto Firedome 2 Door For Sale Canada



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Brent: That may well be true for DeS, it seems for Chrysler all the SS/Dartline hardtop models (2 and 4 dr) had wide roof rail trim as part of the SS package, at least I've never seen one without one. They also had what I call the Art Deco Eagle center hood ornament as well, and no fender ornament., as well as Aqua and Frost Tan special Spring colors.

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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2015-03-25 5:39 PM (#473446 - in reply to #473420)
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The SS DeSoto didn't seem to garner much excitement from the buying public.
I see a LOT more SS Dodges, and I really would not know a SS Chrysler if I saw
one. Anyway, I've never seen paperwork to include the roof mouldings with the
other SS gear mentioned above, but I wasn't there, so I really can't say for sure.
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Lancer Mike
Posted 2015-03-25 7:05 PM (#473454 - in reply to #473446)
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Dodge production figures were plentiful compared to Chrysler and De Soto, so it is no small wonder we see more spring special Dodges and Plymouths. Add into the mix there are turkeys like me out there who convert their nice non-spring Dodges to springers just to mix things up! I think De Soto may have a body code for spring specials, but I don't know for sure.

If so, I would expect all the ss trim to be on a spring special coded car. Then, like Dodges, you have lots of non-spring coded cars that may have all the trim or some of the trim or one spring trim item. A spring trim car may not necessarily have a spring paint code and a non-spring trim car may have the spring paint.
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2015-03-25 10:34 PM (#473470 - in reply to #473454)
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I suspect a lot of SS cars were dressed up at the dealer, either to create more
showroom interest for in-stock cars, or to suit individual buyer's requests to add
this or that or the whole package. As we know, it is a rare car that got the whole
enchilada, especially the color sweep inserts on the DeSoto.
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Lancer Mike
Posted 2015-03-27 11:17 PM (#473634 - in reply to #473470)
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Tru dat!
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The Adventurer
Posted 2015-03-28 8:43 AM (#473649 - in reply to #473034)
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The car got pulled from ebay , I wonder if it sold ? The 58 Desoto Firedome Sedan at Teds tuna boats sold also , as did the 58 Red Fireflite Sedan which was for sale online in the US .
So to my accounts , there are no 58 Desotos for sale anywhere at this time that I have seen .
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Posted 2015-03-28 12:08 PM (#473671 - in reply to #473649)
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The Adventurer - 2015-03-28 12:43 PM

So to my accounts , there are no 58 Desotos for sale anywhere at this time that I have seen .


Only other i know of is for sale in Netherlands, This Ad went live on March 7th.. 1958 DeSoto Firesweep Convertible - 135.000 euro

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C285959

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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2015-03-28 2:34 PM (#473687 - in reply to #473671)
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And to think you could not GIVE these cars away in 1975 and people would key my
paint and spit on them well into the 80's. In my search for the Fireflite, many I contacted
told stories of crushing them because nobody wanted a #@! DeSoto !!! My friends
thought I'd lost my mind paying what I did for it when I finally found one (after nearly
ten years of HARD searching) !
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The Adventurer
Posted 2015-03-29 9:37 AM (#473761 - in reply to #473034)
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Sorry Firesweeps don't count lol !
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christine-lover
Posted 2015-03-29 12:45 PM (#473774 - in reply to #473761)
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If you have a quarter million dollars:

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/desoto/firedome/1693041....
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Posted 2015-03-29 1:37 PM (#473778 - in reply to #473034)
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I thought that green one sold at auction not long ago, iirc it was for much less than a quarter Mil.
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Posted 2015-03-29 6:42 PM (#473811 - in reply to #473778)
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I talked to a fellow WPC member today who actually owned this car back in the early 90s. He used it as a parts car!! He told me that the lower body and frame on this car were rusted out. He sold it and then -the frame was replaced with one from a New Yorker, and the lower body was patched. He confirmed the floors and trunk have had extensive patching, with plain sheet metal. 2 other parts cars were also used to build this one!
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Posted 2015-03-29 6:57 PM (#473813 - in reply to #473778)
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firedome - 2015-03-29 1:37 PM

I thought that green one sold at auction not long ago, iirc it was for much less than a quarter Mil.


It was, and sold for around $200k all in, new buyer is apparently this guy selling it now.
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firedome
Posted 2015-03-30 9:35 AM (#473843 - in reply to #473034)
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Even $200k for that green vert is insane!
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Posted 2015-03-30 10:17 AM (#473846 - in reply to #473034)
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The world is full of dreamers......

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BSoto
Posted 2015-04-06 8:26 PM (#474563 - in reply to #473034)
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The green car sold last August - hammer price was $170k with bidder fees on top of that. So it was a notch less than $200k. Nice car though, I crawled around it and took a lot of pics last June when we were side by side at the AACA Grand National. Then a few months later, boom, it sold at Auburn. Hope it keeps going up!
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BSoto
Posted 2015-07-07 2:12 PM (#483854 - in reply to #473034)
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And by the way, if you want the green 58 Firedome vert, it's up for sale again. Auction in PA in a few weeks. Any bets on what it goes for this time?

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/desoto/firedome/1...
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Lancer Mike
Posted 2015-07-07 4:20 PM (#483861 - in reply to #483854)
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BSoto - 2015-07-07 12:12 PM
Any bets on what it goes for this time?


My guess: top bid $130,000 - reserve not met. Keep us posted!
I kind of hope it goes up too, but my instinct says they already paid the top price.
It reminds me of the $240,000 Coronet Super D-500 convertible - nowhere to go but down.
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