Beautiful car..She couldn't have ended up in better hands! A huge thanks for sharing her with us! All the best from a cold Montreal..Brrrrrrr PS - You've got a new sub :)
Many thanks! I’ve been to Montreal a few times! I have a friend there who runs the vintage Vespa shop in town! You live in a very nice (but cold) city🤠👍🏻
Your DeSoto is in great shape, it even had the three, (usually missing), chrome details on the taillight lenses. All the big "C" body Mopars were beautiful in 1960. I had the 1957 DeSoto Fireflight 2dr throughout the 1970s, it was such fun to drive. Enjoy your car!
I love the 57 DeSotos too! But since I had one of these in Hungary I’ve always focused on findig one of these. Like an unfinished story in my head. Thanks for writing!
Beautiful example from the brilliant mind of Virgil Max Exner. Your own personal spaceship, that was the style idea of the Forward Look, high flying tailfins. Does not get any better than this. Keep her running 😊❤.
@@RichardQuitel I remember in one of the ads for its late '50s Exner stablemate the New Yorker the copy read "it appears to have come from a more advanced planet"...I've always thought that was so cool...and just right!
Very cool. The Torque-Flite automatic transmission was a very elegant design and easy to work on, so the speedometer repair should be a very low stress affair.
DeSoto's, 1954 through 1960 are my all-time favorite classic cars. My Great Grandparents always drove DeSoto's, and my Dad still has their 1956 Fireflyte four-door hardtop. This car is magnificent! The 1961s grille is garish, ruining a gorgeous car's overall look. I am glad this car has a parent who loves his baby!
What a great story! Im glad you got your dream car! In 1997 Dad and I looked at one of these but ended up buying a 61 NewYorker two door instead.....I still have it......But have added a 60 NewYorker two door to the collection....Look forward to see what you do with it!
@@1977jed I'm jealous (but happy for you, too!) I think the 1960 model is also the best looking Chrysler and the pinnacle of Exner's New Yorker designs. Congratulations on your fine choice!
What an absolutely stunning design. The DeSoto of 1960 caught the moment of "Modernity". As a child my parents bought a 1958 Dodge Coronet, and my Uncle owned a 1959 DeSoto. All three cars had the coral , or coral and white finish and shared the tail fins of the era. I thought the design of these Chrysler cars spoke volumes.
You are so lucky to experience those cars back then! Chrysler always had futuristic designs. I love the 59’s fins too! I beleive the coral color was called salmon. I have a 56 Buick wagon as well. The original color of it was white and salmon.
We had this same model with the same color but the interior was a different color pattern. Ours had A/C with the "vent cups" on the top of the dash, it was a very cold. I always liked the "swing-out seat." We also had a spot light feature also. We had a 1953 DeSoto too that my dad used as his "work car and fishing car" which he pulled our boat with. I forgot what engine was in it but I think it was bigger than the 318 Cid. Those early 318s were the old "poly-head" which was a lot heavier and bulkier than the later models. My dad was a DeSoto man and my uncle was a Packard guy and sadly they are both gone lije so many iconic American muscle cars. Thanks for sharing your beautiful car with us.
What a nice story! Thank you. I have miss spoken about the engine. This one has a 383. I love the car it’s very usable as is. Nice to hear from someone who has experienced it first hand when it was new!
Congratulations on owning your Dream Car! It is truly stunning. Yours has my favorite American car name of all time (Adventurer!) which is perfect for exploring the highways of the world. I really enjoyed your assessment of the styling. I love the aggressive design of the large grille, which would be intimidating to see approaching in one's rearview mirror! While I love Exner's 1957 Adventurer design, I think your 1960 is even more exciting to look at from every angle. The stylists pulled out all the stops for 1960, and I think they scored a bullseye. Too bad their best efforts couldn't save the DeSoto division, which succumbed to changing market realities. I agree that it's better to drive it now and enjoy it, and think about a perfect restoration later on down the road, so to speak. Thanks for the great video! (My dream car is the Facel Vega Excellence (with fins!) Pretty much all I can do is dream...maybe someday I can at least see one in real life!)
Thank you for your nice words! Now that Facel Vega you are dreaming about it a crown jewlel. To me it looks a little awkward but the craftsmanship is outstanding no matter where you look on that car! I’ve seen one in Europe once. Never gonna forget it.
@budapestspeedshop You're welcome! I know what you mean by "awkward", but it's French, and they have their own unique approach to car design, which I generally love. I consider the Excellence as the French version of our '61 Lincoln Continental, just five years earlier! Some of my other dream cars are the Panhard 24, Citroens SM, CX, & XM, and the Matra Simca Bagheera. Plus the original Matra Espace, which I still think is the best looking minivan. When I visited Europe a few years ago, I was lucky enough to have seen just one each of my other favorites: NSU Ro80, Lancia Gamma Coupe, Fiat 130, 1990s TVR Griffith. But I have not yet seen my second place Dream Car, the Tatra 603 (the earlier the better). If I could ever own a 603, you can be certain that I would drive it rather slowly and carefully!!
Amazing Exner classic Forward Look futuristic spacemobile! One of my Top Ten dream cars also, along with the 1960 Chrysler 300-F, and the 1960 Plymouth Fury, and 1960 Dodge Polara.
Th car is very clean and straight, few chips and body details, and with this conditions, the ride deserves a nice clean a wax job in order to preserve the brightness of the paint. Suspension parts, engine, electrical, fuel, cooling, brakes, filters, all them, still are available in spare parts stores around U.S. thanks to many Mopar cars using exact components for many models in those years.
Thank you! The paint is not original on the outside. But it was painted only once. I got all the suspension parts and planning on changing them soon. I also collecting NOS parts, a few bins are full of them by now. I even found a never used speedometer!
I saw one of these for the first time this year. It was at the Des Moines concours d'elegance in Iowa. Perfect condition! The chrome down the side was amazing.
@gruntherblendin388 The 1957-1966 318 "poly" engine had great low end torque for it's size, but accodring to my books, the 1960 DeSoto Adventurer came standard with a 383 2-barrel.
@@budapestspeedshop These cars have also plastic and vinyl door panels. That are very notorious for decay or prone to breaking after being baked in the sun. Arm rests are something you have to have made cause these tend be a favorite chewing material for mice. Ask me how I know 🤣
@@budapestspeedshop That is very unfortunate but that among the padded dashboard are first two things to spoil first. Honestly you still have one of the best examples. These cars are prone also to structural rust. Just as there cheaper Dodge and Plymouth counterparts.
Totally agree with your approach. Enjoy the car, fix things as they come along, making it a little better along the way. Perhaps twenty years from now, if circumstances allow, consider restoring this baby doll. As you know, taking it back to showroom condition would be ridiculously difficult and expensive. Don't forget to factor in the toll it takes physically and emotionally as well. And once you've made it pristine and perfect, you'll be afraid to drive it, lest you get a rock chip in your $15K paint job.
A real classic! If you can, check out the current (December 2024) issue of _Collectible Automobile._ A nearly identical car is one of the photo features. Thanks for posting.
Now thats a very good question. I’m not from there😅 It was on a roural road outside of the city. A large property, as you entered there was a house then garages to the right and in the back. The guy had a very young kid back then. Maybe that helps? He did some really incredible work there!
I’m not sure what wagon your uncle had but they never made 1960 DeSoto Wagons. Those were Chryslers. Any good vehicle can become a POS if regular manitanance are disregarded.
@@budapestspeedshopactually the DeSoto name was used on some export cars which were plymouths and Dodges with DeSoto front clips. Some of them had poly engines with rear distributors.
Thats what I’m getting but it’s not the same. Maybe because it’s a pre production model. I’ll send the original back and hopefully that will work then.
Sadly due to the BABVVO and TEBBVO laws, all petrol cars will unfortunately soon be banned from public streets in the EU, CH USA and Scandinavia :-( In Germany, the Green People's Party has given the order to shorten the fuel supply from 2025 by reducing all conventional gas stations to just one state-run central gas station per city or county Now they even want to slow down all gas pumps by 20 liters per minute to 2 liters per minute... From 2027, some car spare parts will also be banned in the EU... such as exhaust systems, turbochargers and even some engine and gearbox oils. .. California and New York will do the same from 2027... So no more investing in petrol cars... They even created a new type of crime here called emissions and smoke crime . "Bundesabgasbespaßungsverbotsverordnung" BABVVO in Germany and HESCHLAVVO in Switzerland and SMORVERBIDDEN in Sweden. Unfortunately, aditionaly the Green Jesus Federal Exhaust Gas Funneling Prohibition Ordinance (BABVVO) will soon ban the driving of combustion engines in public outside of verifiable commuter trips and transport trips, as exhaust gas fun will then be a traffic offense! In addition, the green Jesus of Germany is probably planning to shut down all chimneys and have them filled with foam from June 2025.
The only problem with that is the electric cars don’t work too well plus they create more pollution then gas cars. Battery production and energy production is very messy process. As the latest car industry news, more and more companies are betting on gasoline engines other than electric ones. Rental car companies dropped most of their electric stock recently as well. I’m trying to keep politics out of this channel so I’m not even gonna mention the senctions against Russian energy…. Germany is finished on many level. Hopefully people will wake up one day and vote accordingly if they still can.
😅 I just made it run again after 35 years of sitting. I guess 15k would buy it but I really like to drive it. I’ll have a long video of the work I’ve done on it. It’s still not perfect but now it’s usable.
I grew up in Hungary. This was the only car we were able to afford. I would disagree about “the worst car ever” statement. We drove many of them for years and seldom had any trouble with it. I have 4 of them right now. This one drove across the US collecting money for a sick German girl. I got it after the 4000 mile tour.
I found it very reliable and I don’t see how would it be more dangerous than any other contemporary vehicle. I think it was positioned wrong in their lineup and in the previous years they confused the buying public with renaming their cars.
You are mistaken or misinformed. De Soto was squeezed out of the marketplace by Dodge moving upscale (same size car at a lower price) and Chrysler introducing the Newport (a more prestigious brand name at the same, or slightly lower price). The 57 58 recession hurt the sales of all mid price cars, De Soto more than some others.
Beautiful car..She couldn't have ended up in better hands!
A huge thanks for sharing her with us!
All the best from a cold Montreal..Brrrrrrr
PS - You've got a new sub :)
Many thanks! I’ve been to Montreal a few times! I have a friend there who runs the vintage Vespa shop in town! You live in a very nice (but cold) city🤠👍🏻
Beautiful car!
Thank you!
Your DeSoto is in great shape, it even had the three, (usually missing), chrome details on the taillight lenses. All the big "C" body Mopars were beautiful in 1960. I had the 1957 DeSoto Fireflight 2dr throughout the 1970s, it was such fun to drive. Enjoy your car!
I love the 57 DeSotos too! But since I had one of these in Hungary I’ve always focused on findig one of these. Like an unfinished story in my head.
Thanks for writing!
Beautiful example from the brilliant mind of Virgil Max Exner. Your own personal spaceship, that was the style idea of the Forward Look, high flying tailfins. Does not get any better than this. Keep her running 😊❤.
@@RichardQuitel I remember in one of the ads for its late '50s Exner stablemate the New Yorker the copy read "it appears to have come from a more advanced planet"...I've always thought that was so cool...and just right!
Well said!
Awesome looking car! Thanks for posting!
Glad you liked it!
Very cool. The Torque-Flite automatic transmission was a very elegant design and easy to work on, so the speedometer repair should be a very low stress affair.
I certainly hope so. Looks like I’ll have to release the torque tubes to get the transmission support down. Will make a video of it for sure😅👍🏻
DeSoto's, 1954 through 1960 are my all-time favorite classic cars. My Great Grandparents always drove DeSoto's, and my Dad still has their 1956 Fireflyte four-door hardtop. This car is magnificent! The 1961s grille is garish, ruining a gorgeous car's overall look. I am glad this car has a parent who loves his baby!
Love it for sure! Dedpite all the belmishes I love to start it up and hot the road!
What a great story! Im glad you got your dream car! In 1997 Dad and I looked at one of these but ended up buying a 61 NewYorker two door instead.....I still have it......But have added a 60 NewYorker two door to the collection....Look forward to see what you do with it!
Very cool! My Dad was driving Trabants when I was growing up😅👍🏻
@@1977jed I'm jealous (but happy for you, too!) I think the 1960 model is also the best looking Chrysler and the pinnacle of Exner's New Yorker designs. Congratulations on your fine choice!
What an absolutely stunning design. The DeSoto of 1960 caught the moment of "Modernity". As a child my parents bought a 1958 Dodge Coronet, and my Uncle owned a 1959 DeSoto. All three cars had the coral , or coral and white finish and shared the tail fins of the era. I thought the design of these Chrysler cars spoke volumes.
You are so lucky to experience those cars back then! Chrysler always had futuristic designs. I love the 59’s fins too!
I beleive the coral color was called salmon. I have a 56 Buick wagon as well. The original color of it was white and salmon.
É um dos meus preferidos da Chrysler, este é um exemplar icônico sem sombras de duvidas. maneco - Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil.
Super excited that my video found you in Brasil! Thats a country where I’ve never been to!
my first car was a 1960 Chrysler Windsor coupe. 413 2 barrel, I bought in June of 1969.
Super cool!!!!
You have a prise winner. In 1960 Desoto was soon to become history as we say. This model year was by far the most beautiful.
Thank you! I look at it as a survivor car.
We had this same model with the same color but the interior was a different color pattern. Ours had A/C with the "vent cups" on the top of the dash, it was a very cold. I always liked the "swing-out seat." We also had a spot light feature also. We had a 1953 DeSoto too that my dad used as his "work car and fishing car" which he pulled our boat with. I forgot what engine was in it but I think it was bigger than the 318 Cid. Those early 318s were the old "poly-head" which was a lot heavier and bulkier than the later models. My dad was a DeSoto man and my uncle was a Packard guy and sadly they are both gone lije so many iconic American muscle cars. Thanks for sharing your beautiful car with us.
What a nice story! Thank you. I have miss spoken about the engine. This one has a 383. I love the car it’s very usable as is. Nice to hear from someone who has experienced it first hand when it was new!
Congratulations on owning your Dream Car! It is truly stunning. Yours has my favorite American car name of all time (Adventurer!) which is perfect for exploring the highways of the world.
I really enjoyed your assessment of the styling. I love the aggressive design of the large grille, which would be intimidating to see approaching in one's rearview mirror!
While I love Exner's 1957 Adventurer design, I think your 1960 is even more exciting to look at from every angle. The stylists pulled out all the stops for 1960, and I think they scored a bullseye. Too bad their best efforts couldn't save the DeSoto division, which succumbed to changing market realities. I agree that it's better to drive it now and enjoy it, and think about a perfect restoration later on down the road, so to speak. Thanks for the great video! (My dream car is the Facel Vega Excellence (with fins!) Pretty much all I can do is dream...maybe someday I can at least see one in real life!)
Thank you for your nice words! Now that Facel Vega you are dreaming about it a crown jewlel. To me it looks a little awkward but the craftsmanship is outstanding no matter where you look on that car! I’ve seen one in Europe once. Never gonna forget it.
@budapestspeedshop You're welcome! I know what you mean by "awkward", but it's French, and they have their own unique approach to car design, which I generally love. I consider the Excellence as the French version of our '61 Lincoln Continental, just five years earlier! Some of my other dream cars are the Panhard 24, Citroens SM, CX, & XM, and the Matra Simca Bagheera. Plus the original Matra Espace, which I still think is the best looking minivan. When I visited Europe a few years ago, I was lucky enough to have seen just one each of my other favorites: NSU Ro80, Lancia Gamma Coupe, Fiat 130, 1990s TVR Griffith. But I have not yet seen my second place Dream Car, the Tatra 603 (the earlier the better). If I could ever own a 603, you can be certain that I would drive it rather slowly and carefully!!
@ I hope you really gonna enjoy my next two friday videos! I went to France for a huge car show!
@@budapestspeedshop super cool. Can't wait!
Amazing Exner classic Forward Look futuristic spacemobile! One of my Top Ten dream cars also, along with the 1960 Chrysler 300-F, and the 1960 Plymouth Fury, and 1960 Dodge Polara.
I love that sentence!!!! “Forward looking futuristic spacemobile”👍🏻🤠
Awesome car
I love it!
Th car is very clean and straight, few chips and body details, and with this conditions, the ride deserves a nice clean a wax job in order to preserve the brightness of the paint. Suspension parts, engine, electrical, fuel, cooling, brakes, filters, all them, still are available in spare parts stores around U.S. thanks to many Mopar cars using exact components for many models in those years.
Thank you! The paint is not original on the outside. But it was painted only once. I got all the suspension parts and planning on changing them soon. I also collecting NOS parts, a few bins are full of them by now. I even found a never used speedometer!
Incredible design and wheels, 1960 was the last year for De Soto
The last year for DeSoto was 1961.
@danielthoman7324 yes
Technically correct what you wrote. The production stopped in 1960 but at that time they were allready making the 1961 modell year.
Incredible Motor ❤
It really is!
Nice,informative video. I can tell you are fond of this Desoto.
Thank you! I was lookong for her for a very long time!
I saw one of these for the first time this year. It was at the Des Moines concours d'elegance in Iowa. Perfect condition! The chrome down the side was amazing.
Must have been gorgeous and a rare siting!
@@budapestspeedshop Painted Willow Green over Cypress Green 383 CI
THE LEGEND IS BACK! Nice car, I'm glad that you could get your dream car, My dream car is a 1990 Trabant Universal.
Thats a very obtainable dream! Good choice!
Thank You, Any update on Jan's Trabant?
Are you sure that's not a 383 engine? I believe 318 engines have the distributor at the rear of the engine.
You are absolutely right!
I'm glad you mentioned that. I was wondering how a 318 could squeal the tires in such a large full-sized car.
@ I have mixed up the engines😅 my bad👍🏻
@gruntherblendin388 The 1957-1966 318 "poly" engine had great low end torque for it's size, but accodring to my books, the 1960 DeSoto Adventurer came standard with a 383 2-barrel.
@@budapestspeedshop That's OK. Congratulations on your beautiful DeSoto, and your awesome 383!
This one is nice example. Love these Forward look era cars.
Thank you!
@@budapestspeedshop These cars have also plastic and vinyl door panels. That are very notorious for decay or prone to breaking after being baked in the sun. Arm rests are something you have to have made cause these tend be a favorite chewing material for mice. Ask me how I know 🤣
@ mine got chewd up too….
@@budapestspeedshop That is very unfortunate but that among the padded dashboard are first two things to spoil first. Honestly you still have one of the best examples. These cars are prone also to structural rust. Just as there cheaper Dodge and Plymouth counterparts.
Very nice!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Totally agree with your approach. Enjoy the car, fix things as they come along, making it a little better along the way. Perhaps twenty years from now, if circumstances allow, consider restoring this baby doll. As you know, taking it back to showroom condition would be ridiculously difficult and expensive. Don't forget to factor in the toll it takes physically and emotionally as well. And once you've made it pristine and perfect, you'll be afraid to drive it, lest you get a rock chip in your $15K paint job.
Thank you! In tha past I’ve fixed up a few cars myself. Some took 9 years to do. And you are right! I’m scared to drive them😂😅
Nice Austin Healey 3000 appears to be in great shape !
It looks good on camera😅 The Healey is a survivor. I have a few videos of it if you like Healeys I recommend watching them.
A real classic! If you can, check out the current (December 2024) issue of _Collectible Automobile._ A nearly identical car is one of the photo features.
Thanks for posting.
Now thats super exciting! I gonna find a place to buy the magazine! Thank you
@@budapestspeedshop If you can't find it, let me know and I can scan the pages (4) and post them to one of my web sites.
WOW
Thank you!!!
Oh, Magoo....You've Done It Again!
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Christine's niece!
Yepp! The mean one
You were in Tacoma Washington were you where Jamie's famous dead Dodge garage is?
Or his other Mopar buddy that's right up the road
Now thats a very good question. I’m not from there😅 It was on a roural road outside of the city. A large property, as you entered there was a house then garages to the right and in the back. The guy had a very young kid back then. Maybe that helps? He did some really incredible work there!
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My uncle had a tan wagon this year
I was only 3 years old and thought "what a piece of crap".
I’m not sure what wagon your uncle had but they never made 1960 DeSoto Wagons. Those were Chryslers. Any good vehicle can become a POS if regular manitanance are disregarded.
318? Should have either 361cid or 383. No DeSoto ever had a 318. Superlative ride you have, nice work.
You are absolutely right! I have way too many numbers in my head… 383 is the right number👍🏻
@@budapestspeedshopactually the DeSoto name was used on some export cars which were plymouths and Dodges with DeSoto front clips. Some of them had poly engines with rear distributors.
Fix the speedo cable; you'll need it!
Not goin’ fast enugh to need it😁
Car cannot be dream, because it's reality.
It was a dream of mine to own one of these. So I made my dream come true and make it to reality
'60 Dodge dash, blacked out..all the same switchgear. Maybe check this out re: your glove-box lock assy..Dodge should fit.
Thats what I’m getting but it’s not the same. Maybe because it’s a pre production model. I’ll send the original back and hopefully that will work then.
Sadly due to the BABVVO and TEBBVO laws, all petrol cars will unfortunately soon be banned from public streets in the EU, CH USA and Scandinavia :-( In Germany, the Green People's Party has given the order to shorten the fuel supply from 2025 by reducing all conventional gas stations to just one state-run central gas station per city or county Now they even want to slow down all gas pumps by 20 liters per minute to 2 liters per minute... From 2027, some car spare parts will also be banned in the EU... such as exhaust systems, turbochargers and even some engine and gearbox oils. .. California and New York will do the same from 2027... So no more investing in petrol cars... They even created a new type of crime here called emissions and smoke crime . "Bundesabgasbespaßungsverbotsverordnung" BABVVO in Germany and HESCHLAVVO in Switzerland and SMORVERBIDDEN in Sweden. Unfortunately, aditionaly the Green Jesus Federal Exhaust Gas Funneling Prohibition Ordinance (BABVVO) will soon ban the driving of combustion engines in public outside of verifiable commuter trips and transport trips, as exhaust gas fun will then be a traffic offense! In addition, the green Jesus of Germany is probably planning to shut down all chimneys and have them filled with foam from June 2025.
The only problem with that is the electric cars don’t work too well plus they create more pollution then gas cars. Battery production and energy production is very messy process. As the latest car industry news, more and more companies are betting on gasoline engines other than electric ones. Rental car companies dropped most of their electric stock recently as well. I’m trying to keep politics out of this channel so I’m not even gonna mention the senctions against Russian energy…. Germany is finished on many level. Hopefully people will wake up one day and vote accordingly if they still can.
@@budapestspeedshop In Germany the green morons just try to bann reverse gears in cars! They are nuts!
How much for the Corvair van?
😅 I just made it run again after 35 years of sitting. I guess 15k would buy it but I really like to drive it. I’ll have a long video of the work I’ve done on it. It’s still not perfect but now it’s usable.
A daffodil of a car!
Uh😅 I’m trying to make sence of this. DAF was a tiny dutch car with a variomatic trans. They had a car named “Daffodil”
Why would you want a Trabant? One of the worst cars ever made. A waste of your time and money. Get rid of it.
Trabi Is iconic you blithering idiot
I grew up in Hungary. This was the only car we were able to afford. I would disagree about “the worst car ever” statement. We drove many of them for years and seldom had any trouble with it. I have 4 of them right now. This one drove across the US collecting money for a sick German girl. I got it after the 4000 mile tour.
@@budapestspeedshop I guess I can undestand that but those cars are so cheap and ugly!
@ to me they look cute🤠👍🏻
I believe that the DeSoto was dropped from production because it was so bad , even dangerous .
Pretty sure was in a book on the history of Chrysler .
I found it very reliable and I don’t see how would it be more dangerous than any other contemporary vehicle. I think it was positioned wrong in their lineup and in the previous years they confused the buying public with renaming their cars.
You are mistaken or misinformed. De Soto was squeezed out of the marketplace by Dodge moving upscale (same size car at a lower price) and Chrysler introducing the Newport (a more prestigious brand name at the same, or slightly lower price). The 57 58 recession hurt the sales of all mid price cars, De Soto more than some others.
@ thank you!
@chuckmaddison2924 Hogwash! This DeSoto is basically a Chrysler Windsor with DeSoto styling. There is nothing bad or dangerous about it.
@@KDoyle4Chuck is probably just some kid, born this century, that has never even seen a Desoto, much less know anything about them.