1956 Desoto Adventurer

[mdh157]

if anyone is interested enough i am close enough to get good pics....just pm.

 

[cantflip]

I think it's a bargain. One of the most beautiful and rare forward look cars.

I really love this car, and its at a price point where I could get into all kinds of trouble. But I have enough time and space issues as it is... I sure hope she gets a good home.

 

[73Coupe]

I really love this car, and its at a price point where I could get into all kinds of trouble. But I have enough time and space issues as it is... I sure hope she gets a good home.

If I had a nickel.....

Haha

 

[Fireflite56]

Yours was a 57 Forward Look car, the 56 is pre Forward Look.

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1955 was the start of the Forward Look. 1956 was no less a Forward Look than the 1957.

 

[Fireflite56]

or maybe a 58 Desoto Sportsman?

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That's a 1957, not a 1958.

 

[Fireflite56]

The driving experience, post #12.

Somebody IIRC corrected me and told me our old family car was a 1956 .. does the front end of this alleged '56 in the OP (not debating -- i just dont know the answer) look like my Dad's DeSoto (digital pic from a early 1960's family Super 8 movie)?

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I am not on FB (jumped off that train one month after joining .. 10 years ago).

can someone who can see this care on Facebook PM a link that I can send to one of my kids to look up for me.

if this car is the "right one" (condition, serious seller, etc) , its gonna be in my "Fleet Storage" storage building within two weeks

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

That's a 1957 Firedome. The Firesweep was a completely different headlight treatment with a heavy brow. The Adventurers were all quad headlights, had fender guides, and no hood ornament. The Fireflites had fender guides that your dad's does not, making this a Firedome.

 

[Fireflite56]

if anyone is interested enough i am close enough to get good pics....just pm.

Good luck. My friend tried looking at it (he lives in the next town over) and the guy wouldn't send him a location to come see it. Kinda hard to view a car when you don't know where it is.

 

[tbm3fan]

If I had a nickel.....

Haha

At least 70,000 of them...

 

[tnlowrider]

The driving experience, post #12.

Somebody IIRC corrected me and told me our old family car was a 1956 .. does the front end of this alleged '56 in the OP (not debating -- i just dont know the answer) look like my Dad's DeSoto (digital pic from a early 1960's family Super 8 movie)?

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I am not on FB (jumped off that train one month after joining .. 10 years ago).

can someone who can see this care on Facebook PM a link that I can send to one of my kids to look up for me.

if this car is the "right one" (condition, serious seller, etc) , its gonna be in my "Fleet Storage" storage building within two weeks

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

The one in your photo is a 1957...Probably a Firedome based on the presence of the hood jet and the absence of the fender top ornaments.

 

[mdh157]

Good luck. My friend tried looking at it (he lives in the next town over) and the guy wouldn't send him a location to come see it. Kinda hard to view a car when you don't know where it is.

i am not surprised

 

[polara71]

i am not surprised

I was trying to look at a Ramcharger that was listed for sale in Trenton, bout an hour North.
The kept saying come look at it anytime but wouldn't tell me where...WTF?