Posted by WA-Hal on December 14, 2010 at 13:57:10 from (208.81.157.90):
In Reply to: Desoto Pics posted by Howard H. on December 14, 2010 at 07:15:23:
I had a 53 DeSoto back in the 60's. It was pretty worn out when I got it, and I never got it road worthy.
As I remember, it had a weird system where the engine oil was pumped into the fluid drive system. It took a LOT of oil to do an oil change, and I never could get it to not leak oil. It was about the last year of the semi-automatic transmission. The little hemi sounded good, but with that transmission, it really accelerated slowly.
Your car looks really nice. Hopefully you will be able to get it going. DeSoto parts are harder to get than Chrysler or Dodge parts, but lots of things are the same. It was really stupid for Chrysler to have built 4 different V8 engines for the 4 divisions. Good luck!
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