BobDeSoto
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Did DeSoto ever build any Business Coupes?
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Tell me about Business Coupes. What part was the Business part? Did a salesman travel around selling cars? or selling Fuller brushes? or vacuums?
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Thanks all
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Battery seems fine - I tried the headlights
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51 DeSoto - all original Installed a new six volt battery - fully charged It turned over for just a second Engine fired for a second and then quit. Now alI I get is click click click Always ran great
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My 1951 DeSoto S15-2 has two original bumper stickers, one says: Berning Garage Inc. Dodge Reedsburg, WI The other one says: POPE BARABOO I bought the car 35 years ago from someone in Reedsburg.
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Does it have a grease fitting or a sealed bearing?
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Pretty sure you should only use Dot 3.
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I have a 12V Jump Pack. Can I use it to start my 6V car?
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I flew yesterday. Luckily I learned how to open and close a seat belt!
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So, what is a Deluxe vs Custom Coupe?
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The car is in very good original condition but there had been a slight amount of body work on the right front. Trim is broken that wraps around the fender to the blinker, minor scrapes on the bumper and the headlights don't match. The car had less then 50,000 miles on it when I bought it and everything does look "factory fresh". This "scrape" has always been evident since I bought it, but you could be right. Cigarettes in the ash tray had lipstick on them.
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I have a 1951 2door hard top DeSoto. I always thought it was a Custom Coupe. Now I see there are trims on the front fenders that say DeLuxe. I bought the car in 1989! What else don't I know?
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Hood release cables?
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Smoke was blue. Outside temp was 72
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OHV V8 sat all winter inside on a concrete floor, no heat. Started it right up this morning. After ten minutes (maybe less) smoke started rolling out the exhaust. As it continued to run (fast idle) the smoke diminished and finally stopped. Temp was at 180 by then. Gotta be valve stems?
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I've had a Chicago Pneumatic and impact sockets. Works every time.
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So, no access through the trunk?
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Is the seat back bolted in? 1951 2door Custom
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Nobody mentioned 8 Volt!
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I see what you did there.
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Early 70's I was driving from Georgia to Madison - in the Rockford area. To pay the toll the driver threw the coins into a collection basket on the side of the booth at the time. As I approached the booth I ran over their rumble strips. Immediately BOTH rear Good Year tires blew at the same time after driving all night from Albany, GA. Why?
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Speaking of carpet; my 1951 DeSoto two door custom has a fitted rubber mat in the front (obviously original) and carpet in the rear. Is this normal?
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I stuck a piece of #12 wire in the castlenut for the trip home.
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I was driving from Madison to Rockford for work early one morning in a friend's car. As I turned into the parking lot the car stopped like I had run into a brick wall! I got out to look and discovered that the front wheels were splayed - the left pointing to the left and the right pointing to the right. I looked underneath and saw that everything had come apart. Luckily I was able to find the castlenut that had come off. I got everything back together, worked for eight hours and headed back home. What if that had all come apart at 70 mph on the interstate?
