1958 DeSoto Shopper Station Wagon! First Look! Obsolete Automotive MoPar Chrysler Forward Look Car
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- 1 of 1,303 built! 1958 DeSoto Shopper 6 Passenger Station Wagon. This is a very rare example of a Forward Look MoPar.
This is a short and quick first look at the car since several folks have asked to see more of it! A longer in depth video will come in the future.
I roll down to Alabama to pick up this finned beauty. Then after unloading the car back home in North Carolina the first step is to raise it back up to factory height and put some correct hubcaps on.
Enjoy!
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So satisfying to see those lowering blocks removed.
Big improvement to me
@@ObsoleteAutomotiveyup!
To each their own I suppose
It’s a thing of beauty when a well engineered system is brought back into spec. @@ryanwitman8672
Lowered cars are clapped out garbage.
Hubcaps look absolutely fantastic instead of those plastic bolt covers
Looks 100% better at proper height. Cool wagon
Definitely putting it back to stock ride height was in order. I like the trim rings with the dog dish hubcaps. I like this one you bought, a great looking wagon.
Been saving these dogdish caps for a long time. Finally got a use for them!
Getting the car so you could use your set of '58 DeSoto hubcaps was utterly brilliant.
Meant to be!
It is a Desoto, a wagon and it is green. I LOVE IT! I do not even care that it is a Dodge in Desoto clothing.
What a great car. Super cool. looks way better at normal ride height. I love all the forward look cars, but 57-58 Desotos are the best lookers of the lot
Nice wagon. Glad to see you raised it up to its proper height! Can’t wait for the next video!
My dream car, since I was a kid, is a 58 Fireflite Sportsman in red and white....a four door hardtop, please. Never found one. Love your wagon. Your colors were very popular. I have a Johan Fireflite hardtop promo that our salesman gave me when Dad traded in his 53 DeSoto.... for a Plymouth Belvedere sportsman in 1958. It was a recession year, so we couldn't afford the DeSoto.
That’s pretty cool that you got one of the promos directly from the dealer!
There are two 58 Fireflite 4dr htp here in Hamburg/Germany, both in very nice condition. The one is blue/white, the other is red/white.
@@olafthiemer5759 Wow. Spent a few days in Hamburg a couple of times. One of them there were many Smart cars on the streets.
That's a cool old rig, Austin. Glad you finally got her.
Looks way better at standard ride height and hubcaps. Nice looking old wagon- nice clean looking grill. Sad the geared starter hadn't been born yet. Very cool.
I want one 😊
I like that you try to keep them original
Lucky score man. I'd love to get my hands on a late 50s desoto, Especially a wagon
This is a great example of a great mopar wagon product. My dad had a '57 Chrysler wagon I loved it. Two tone blue . l loved riding in it. It looked beautiful. I remember seeing wagons all over the place all makes and models. My all time favorite of dads was a '50 ford woidie. Fad never bought new cars,, always used ones. I loved it because I always had different rides growing up. Mam, I really like the rings N caps. It was stupid lowered! Looks right and great now!!. I'm 76 yrs old I love seeing all these old rides!!!!
Neat car, looks much better raised back up. 🙂
I had a 1958 Desoto Firedome convertible 1 of 519 made. Bought from the original owner in the early 1990s with original paint. It was very valuable and I eventually sold it for over 30,000 but now worth easily double that. Loved that car. Nice wagon!!
Really like the beauty rings with the Desoto dog dish caps!!! And you're right, it's much better raised up to the original ride height!!!
What a nice, honest old car -- it's great!
I like cars that haven’t had too much monkeying done to them.
Nice score, Austin
You find really good cars/vans etc really good condition for their age. I just got done watching your 79 Dodge van from California road trip. I would have loved to pick up that van for a beater Home Depot runner. I live in California and makes me wonder how many of these types of vehicles exist sitting in someone's garage or backlot.
They are still out there! I love finding old original vehicles that haven’t been messed with!
Love this DeSoto wagon. My family had anew 58 Plaza that I still remember.
Pretty awesome and rare Mopar, Austin. Congrats! Thank you for restoring the suspension to normal height.
What a great video for this American car obsessed Brit! No music either, amazing how peaceful it is to watch videos without daft music over them.
@@carlmichael5592 I’m glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for commenting!
What a rare and charming old Mopar!
My favorite one so far Austin....I'm a wagon nut. Yes, Rare to begin with and I'm sure the rest were beaten into the ground...like MOST wagons.
Survival rate is probably quite low. 1 of 1303 makes this a very rare MoPar!
I never knew they made Desoto wagons until today It mustve never crossed my mind but seeing this thing with that long minty green 2 tone pattern is almost hypnotizing to see
Green is one of my favorite car colors. This car looks excellent in two tone.
@@ObsoleteAutomotive I personally think most 50s and even 60s cars have the body lines to pull off a green really well
Car looks 1000x better on stock suspension height
Yes. Just like Dodge Coronets loaded, appears like….( ours was 1959 Coronet’s)
Magnificent car it’s the worth effort you put into it !!! This car is a work of art…. Can’t wait to see what you are going to do with this bird….
First time watching one of your videos. Loved this car. A real treat. I have heard of a Desoto Firesweep...but never the Shopper model. Thanks for sharing.
The shopper nameplate was only used on the 6 passenger wagons. So seldom seen.
I have not watched the video yet but let's see if you're reading my mind I hope you put it up to stock Rinehart height again? Also get rid of them funky lug nuts and trim rings and put the stock hubcaps back on it then she'll be looking good.
That’s exactly what I did.
Man I love everything about that car! I'm glad to see you raised it back up and put the dog dish hubcaps on it. Can't say I've ever seen one before viewing it here.
They are super rare cars. I’m glad to be able to own it!
Awesome car really, really nice brings back.A lot of memories used to ride To school in one of those😊
You already improved it 1000%!
I think so too!
That's a really nifty and rare classic. Thanks for sharing.
God, that brings back some memories!! Thanks for posting! ❤️ I think the hub caps and trim rings look GREAT!
It's good to see that car returned to stock height. I remember years ago when a Chrysler product would come in for a wheel alignment I would check the front-end for loose parts and then check the ride height. You would just crank those torsion bars up and everything was cool; no need to replace springs or use spacers. Prior to 1958 those bars would break and need to be replaced, however Chrysler got that straightened out. I am wanting to say all Chrysler cars had torsion bars until the front-wheel drive K-cars arrived in 1981. This car has longitudinal torsion bars that extend toward the rear of the car held into a crossmember. Later, the F-body cars (Aspen, Volare) had transverse torsion bars up front and you could adjust those as well. GREAT VIDEO!
Thanks for showing your DeSoto. It is always enjoyable to see a nice survivor from the era.. 1958 was the first year for that B block. If memory serves, the longer produced 361 version appeared in 1959 . It looks like you've got a very nice car to start with. Good luck and enjoy it.
Love it. Great body style and colors. Much better without being "lowered" (why?) and with it's original hubcaps.
Very nice to see it at the proper ride height!
Great buy. These were rare when new.
I like the look of the hub caps and trim rings, especially if the wheels were the lighter, accent color. But, 58 Desoto wheel covers are good looking too. The hub caps ARE rare, I have never seen them before. Congratulations, Austin, on a fabulous find.
What an amazing find, especially since it is so rust free! Restoring it to the correct ride height with stock wheel covers is a definite improvement. My preference is to keep cars stock, but that’s me.
It’s stock for me! Not big on customs.
Nice find, that's a keeper for sure and yes to dual quads on the 350.
Never have seen one of these. Thank you for taking care of a bit of history.
That car is so awesome !!😎😎
Austin, Another gem!!! I love it. My Mom's first car and her favorite was a 1947 DeSoto Coupe. It was gray and she named it Betsy. My ex wife would say about your wagon that "it's green, it's old and it's ugly!" Boy was she wrong. My current wife loves it. It's a wagon and is one year newer than I am. I love it too. I sure do enjoy your channel and can't wait to see more. Thank you for sharing. --Dick.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I love the ‘47s!
Beautiful colour scheme.
Congratulations on your Firesweep, love it, its been on my bucket list since the 1970;s
Mr. B. Here ! 🍩☕️👀😎👍. Very cool , I have 1958 Olds Super 88 holiday coupe !
1958 DeSoto Firesweep Shopper wagon - very rare model now. A DeSoto in a Dodge body, the lower priced Firesweep series was only three model years, 1957-1959. Firedome was mid-series and Fireflite was the top of the line with the rare Adventurer super high performance sports model.
Nice wagon. Great find!
Love the look of this wagon great combo of looks and motor !!
Had a '60 Dart Pioneer Wagonback in the early '80s
Awesome Ride!!!
I never heard of a shopper edition probably marketed to suburban moms in the 50s
I Love it keep the beauty rings
My dad's 59 galaxy had those seat covers you sweated in the summer and got the chills in the winter
What a beauty. Thanks for taking care of it.
Love your videos and your car's and Vans
Your car is in amazingly good original condition. Congratulations.
Coral Gables 🌴🇺🇸 Hehe. You helped return to the original 👌 My Dad had one new back in the day.
There was a Firedome model too. My neighbors had one. Big engine, real fast.
Very jealous! That’s a fantastic vehicle! Love the green
Green is one of my favorite car colors. And it looks great on this one!
It’s just great! I’m stuck with my Italian project cars, but I need a winged Chrysler product at some point!
@@Mitkawatch They are great cars. You’ll enjoy owning one I’m sure!
Great job. I hope you got a great deal. Thanks for saving it.
An extra board or two behind the rolloff ramp would help.
DeSoto the first MoPar to have a Hemi. First DeSoto wagon I've seen.
You are living my dream! I’m a wagon man myself looking to buy one soon nevertheless love the new wagon you acquired! Greetings from Las Vegas.
I absolutely cringed when I seen that car so low in looking all worn out. It was so refreshing to watch you saw those stupid things off. Too busy doing that to make the car run right with proper choke as well as that cotter pin. Thank God you have that car that's all I can say
Definitely looks way better now!
love those wagons. one cool ass car!
Sounds like a PT Boat idling. It is super cool in every respect. And it's NOT computerized, doesn't resemble a Mini Van-SUV-Crossover crap they call cars. It does however need to be raised 4". I even like the color. It's got more chrome than 4 Toyotas put together in metal. Outstanding.
Nice 😊
Beautiful Desoto, we watched your videos here in Brazil
@@adrianodenk400 Glad you like the videos! Thanks for watching and commenting.
Now that's a nice grocery getter. Thank you for the lowering delete lol.
Yea I use my cars so lowered ones do me no favors.
That's a cool wagon!
What a find! Beautiful! I'm consumed with envy
I'm with you buddy I don't like those lowered cars
You can never go wrong with a dog dish hubcap
My sentiments exactly!
I’m just starting to learn a little bit about cars, This channel is so awesome. It’s really cool to get to learn about mopar stuff and see how things evolved over time
Beautiful car.
YES!! Thank you for restoring it back to it's original ride height!! I absolutely hate it when people lower classic vehicles, especially pickups. That's a duel headlight beauty!! Love duel headlight cars and trucks. I have a 1960 Chevy Apache pickup with duel headlights. Love it!! That is one looong car. Plenty of space when you go "shopping".😉
Well said turns cars into clapped out garbage
She’s a beauty
Great car. 58 was the beginning of the end for DeSoto. The Eisenhower recession really hurt sales of mid tier models and Chrysler didn’t sell enough cars to warrant 5 makes.
That's a beauty! I love the color. 👍
Has nice long arrow-like lines but probably handles like a sponge. I like the green and yellow chewing gum paint.
She's a beauty!! Great video!!
Nice ride,,,,,,,,,Chomping at the bit
Dang, I just thought I had a sidecar problem! (4)
Nice allusion to Christine with, "whoever sold me this should be ashamed of himself!" But you forgot the expletives. 🤣
😂
Nice survivor and a wagon too; YEAH!
My parents wheen I was a kid had a 1958 Plymouth Station wagon which is almost identical except the front and year which were a little different.
Proud owner. Congratulations.
Love the wagon!!!!!
I would leave the patina go to vice grip garage and order you some of the shine juice
Aaw man... I had my fingers crossed that it was a Hemi
Always like to see an "orphan" make car,especially an original, rare one like this.
It would be great to see the reverse lights work.
Back doors are reverse childlocks. Kids can get out but kidnappers and car jackers can't get in. Might be handy depending where you go.
There were TWO 1958 Desoto Explorer Firesweeps 9 passenger wagons in a local salvage yard. I tried to buy them for years. The man died and his sister crushed the yard out. The wagons were saved but never saw them turn up. Would live to know what happened to them.
Oh jeeze. I’d wonder!
You are very. Lucky these. Beautiful. Mopar s. Thanks
Love this car. 👍
That is so cool.
The '58 Dodge Sweptside pick-up uses the same rear quarters as these wagons.
The Dodge Sweptsides of the late 50s used 1957 Dodge 2dr wagon quarters which are essentially the same as this car just longer. I'd really like to own one of those trucks some day!
Very cool car ! I think it would look better without the beauty rings myself. They get lost with the big white walls. If you had black wall tires it would look fine with rings and caps.
Left them on since the wheels are scratched up with them being mounted. Whenever I repaint the wheels I’ll likely leave them off. But we’ll see.
I wonder what that car would be worth if it were completely restored.? I remember when I was a little boy I liked to sit in a broken-down green (what I always thought) Plymouth station wagon in the back yard. But could have been a DeSoto because it looked almost exactly like the car shown here. And it was green too!
@@Walter-xx6yp Unknown! There’s no sales to go off of with these being so rare.
I bet they could get a pretty good penny for it. Especially if the buyer was someone who had a thing for classic station wagons.