Hernando DeSoto

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Hernando DeSoto (1496-1542)

DeSoto cars (1928-1961)

1928 roadster with flappers

1931 roadster with rumbleseat

Sleek 1933 sedan with sidemounts

Disastrous DeSoto Airflows 1934-36

Fast, hurried retrench 1935 DeSoto Airstream

Dumpy 1939 sedan

1940 Convertible

1942 DeSoto: covered headlights. Fluid Drive with tiptoe shift

Postwar convertible: 1946, 47, 48

1949 DeSoto sedan

1949 DeSoto woody wagon

1950 sedan

1951, 1952 DeSoto Suburban leather interior, 9 passenger. The 1951 and '52 were visually identical except that green tinted windows were first offered as optional accessory on all 1952 Chrysler products. Also, the USA was thick in the Korean War at the time, and there were material shortages, and the 1952 DeSoto and other Chrysler cars as well, used very inferior chrome material for the bumpers and the chrome trim. A result was that the 1952 models quickly went shabby, while the 1951s lasted on and on. This is the kind of nonsense Bubba remembers, even though he cannot remember one Bible verse from another.