1948 DeSoto Coupe - Better Weather Means More Progress
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Now that Texas has thawed out, we can get a bit more done. Removing the transmission access panel in the floor, freezing that pesky stuck head bolt with dry ice in hopes that enough heat cycles will help free it up, and a set of junkyard wheels ready for the media blaster
That sweet 1948 Desoto could have been born the same day I was! My dad worked at the Wyoming Ave. plant in '48. he was a payroll clerk. I'll be following the progress on this project!
Found you tonight, gave the appreciation and subb. I am a seventy three year old native man, Choctaw and Cherokee with a white dad., no issues or other as to race but when I was born, we just didn't go to white schools hence I spent a lot of time in the shop with other mechanics as dad was a logger and hobby miner. He made enough money logging to go mining was the deal which meant some times there was meat on the table and then come lean times was oatmeal. If you were hungry, you shared the oats the mule was getting. Never really got to enjoying oats after that and even in the army when oats was the meal for breakfast, you either ate it or wished you had. All of this just to say I was one strong and oversized lad. At thirteen working a seven day job in the shop, or the woods if dad was short a hand or three... I filled in, we worked from still can't see to plumb can't see again and in washington state, it was raining or so hot that if you found some foamy water on a hillside, you just closed yer eyes and sucked it up. Come winter it was a challenge to beat the snow and then log some more till the equipment was getting hurt more than we did. As a youngen, I tried to stand up to my dad who just did not care for nothing about nothing except his own meals and alcohol, mothers came and went so we got a lot more moms than underware/lol. I got my emancipation shortly after my fifthteenth birthday for which my dad landed in jail many times before he let go of me and then one day out of the blue says; I just hope your tuff enough to be on yer own and thats why I was ruff on ya. You are undoubtedly my best hand ever to come to my shop and can do anything I can. There was no hugs or other, just acceptance he was done fighting with me. If I was to tell you just how big a man my dad was, ya wouldn't even believe me. My dad was a mopar man all of his life so I tended to be anything else. I have owned any and all of many brands of rigs, catering to the ford brand. It was cause all the kids that had made fun of me were chevy brand anything. So at sixteen, I built on my own dime, a 56 ford that did the low thirteen seconds and hit a few high twelves. I also broke a lot of parts and sent pistons somewhere unknown. Just a hole in a hood from the abuse of my foot and a 471 blower. I worked in the motor pool a bit while in the army but really my job was being a target for which I did find at. I never had anywhere else to be so just stayed in when offered to be sent home.
From the sparks in the grindings, showing a lot of low grade steel, but it formed a whole lot easier also. Those transmissions are doable but so many better ones out there now. On the other hand, chrysler was so far ahead with their flathead, the start of the continental engine that has been used in more applications probably than any other engine for its time. I am sure there are millions of them in service yet to this very day. I turned out a fair amount of those old rigs back to the road as this is the one style of body well copied with other makes and models,.. My own forty ford business coup was my favorite one rig to restore to original body... thats where things stopped as it had set in a chicken coup too long so set it on a 64 buick wildcat framework with a 326 aluminum V8, and four speed transmission. It was a near new wrecked beyond repair car I picked up at a auction back in that time for ten dollars as I started that bid and no one even tossed a bid towards it or I might a got it for a dollar. Never judge a book by its cover. It was said that I could fix anything but a broken heart, and weld everything but the crack of day. I don't know about all that, just had a lot of success when someone was watching as I really made a lot of mistakes, it just didn't stop me., If ya read all this then thank you for your time... just a old and miserable old man now
I’m just glad that you called it a DeSoto and not a “Dodge DeSota”
I have owned a number of these cars over the years. If you lived here in the Northeast, that floor would be toast!
Love seeing these old cars getting a new lease on life.can't wait to see it on the road. Great video.
My dad had a 1947 Chrysler Windsor Club Coupe - same body style and probably same size as this car. We made many a trip in that car. Its engine was a 250.6cu. in. displacement. It also had the fluid coupling and clutch arrangement as your DeSoto. As the years passed the last Chrysler Windsor in 1954 had a 264.5cu. in displacement. 1954 was the last year of the flat-head 6 in the Chrysler Windsor. The 1955 models had a 301cu. in V8 called a "Spitfire" engine which was one of the Polyspherical combustion chamber designs. The old 1947 model was quite comfortable and had a smooth ride. It was not a race car - acceleration was rather sluggish, but it always got us to our destination. I have lots of memories going places and making trips in that car. Good luck with this restoration!
Floors are looking good .
Great car, like your video!
I would turn a wrench with this guy. :)
Just a comment for you. Two things. After I builtmy1949 Plymouth business coupe, I have some parts left over. The engine transmission is gone, but I have the brake hubs, front and rear, damn near new shoes, wheel cylinders, ect. Also the drive shaft with the u joints. I live in ohio, and if you’re interested, and pay the shipping, they’re yours. Let me know here in the comments. Just sayin, there’s an outfit in New Mexico called scare bird. They make a disc brake kit for old molars. They will work with the stock master cylinder. Also that damn fluid drive will break your heart. They use WHALE OIL in them. Good luck!
My Dad had a Dodge version back in the Dark Ages . Nice car though no ball of fire . The Fluid Drive worked OK but is prone to leaks from the Fluid Clutch . Otherwise you have 2 speeds , each with an Overdrive = 4 speeds or 2 RANGES of 2 speeds each . 1st -to-third ( 'Town' ) or 2nd to 4th ( 'Country' ) , and you can change between the ranges on the move using the clutch ( within certain speed parameters )
Just thought I'd throw this at you because I wasn't exactly sure what your plans were but, I've been looking at that cavernous engine bay & all I keep thinking is 12 valve Cummins! DeSoto & Cummins. Both Mopars. Just saying. Best of luck with your project!👍
1948 DeSoto Coupe be like 😁
Im a 52 model bout in the same shape!
If your planning to regularly drive it when you are finished restoring it adapt a different transmission to it. I owned a 39 chrysler saratoga and the fluid drive transmission will cause you endless problems
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It's a nice car and there is not many rust! We like your effort and your video move on please!