1957 DeSoto Adventurer

[cm23uoc]

The busy front lower valance Panel they even changed once during the 57 model run and the fridge door handles are some weak Points on the Fury IMHO. Dodge as with the missing equivalent with the fuselage SF GT and 300 Hurst had no exceptional flagship personal car equivalent in the Forward Look years, you sort of had it with the D-500/501 engine Option though.

 

[saforwardlook]

Steve the Adventurer had a 345ci engine. The 341 was installed in the Fireflite ie.

I take the Desotos and Chrysler and not the Dodge/Plymouth/Imperials in general.
But I don't want a Firesweep with the Dodge Front end. And I need the bigger rear glass

Carsten

I flubbed it Carsten, as I knew better that it was a 345. See, I am getting old!
Bigger rear glass is a requirement - goes without saying!

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

I flubbed it Carsten, as I knew better that it was a 345. See, I am getting old!
Bigger rear glass is a requirement - goes without saying!

yes, you are getting old.
That is your advantage.
You care about your health, your food and other things. Therefore you have plenty of time left to rescue cars.

 

[live4theking]

IMO the front end of the Chrysler looks the best.

 

[commando1]

You FL aficionados are moving around too quick for me.
What exactly is this!

 

[cm23uoc]

1957 DeSoto Adventurer US spec., the model designation came out in 1956 as a subseries to the Fireflite. It was the exclusive personal car from DeSoto, as with the letter cars and the Fury they gradually were watered down to a regular model.

Possible that Canada didn't have one until 1960 when it was in its last breath as a regular series.

 

[commando1]

1957 DeSoto Adventurer US spec., the model designation came out in 1956 as a subseries to the Fireflite. It was the exclusive personal car from DeSoto, as with the letter cars and the Fury they gradually were watered down to a regular model.

Possible that Canada didn't have one until 1960 when it was in its last breath as a regular series.

Thank you.
With that confirmed by you, I Google Imaged it and out of the ton of pics, it looks like there's only three of them floating around!!

Why isn't it grabbed up by now.

 

[saforwardlook]

Thank you.
With that confirmed by you, I Google Imaged it and out of the ton of pics, it looks like there's only three of them floating around!!

Why isn't it grabbed up by now.

It sold a few days ago for $8K (and there are more than 3 around) - as to why it was still not found before this, it is hard to say. Probably some hoarder nut case had it stored away and no one found it until his heirs wanted it taken off their new property. I can relate!

No one, almost, even wants to take on a restoration like this since few anymore even know what it is or how to work on it or how/where to find the parts, except for the ancients like me. The future is electrics and self driving cars, whether we like it or not, and not old crap like this.

Also quite a number of these are still around, but in Sweden, and many are convertibles selling in the $150K range still when completely restored to a high level like they do over there.

I had a visitor from Sweden last year that restores these specifically and his turn out like this one for example:

It was an interesting visit, with a lot to talk about.