Who Has A '47 Desoto? Or . . .

[Bingster]

From looking through an October 1947 Desoto S-11 parts catalog, I have the suspicion that the attachment method to bolt the front grille pieces to the frame changed from when the model was released to later in the year.

I found those studs with two nuts used to bolt the grille on. The book lists bolts and washers but does list a stud washer but no stud.

Now, this may have been the same with Dodges and Plymouths as well.

If somebody has a '47 Desoto out there, could you look under the front grille area and tell me how the grille is bolted on? Thanks.

[DonaldSmith]

Studs and nuts (if these words will get past the site filiter). Of course this may not be original.

The car was restored by Les Pesavanto, the National DeSoto Club tech expert for postwar DeSotos, and currently the club president.

I'll be seeing Les tomorrow at the Ypsilanti, Michigan, "Orphan Car Show", and near the end of July at the National DeSoto Club convention at the other end of the state near Lake Michigan.

[Bingster]

Thanks very, very much! I know Les, more or less. Met him at the Binder Auction in Iowa a couple of years ago and have emailed him for this and that.

If yours has studs and nuts (sounds like an old Abbott & Costello routine) and is a '47, then mine must be correct. Of course, mine is a driver and so whatever holds the grille on would be fine. But I already made new studs with threaded rod.

[Bingster]

I'm looking for a right rear fender stainless trim piece for the Desoto if you run across one.