1942 DeSoto Custom Business Coupe original custom

[inkey2]

wow....the front looks like a halloween skull face

[wiggums1]

I always wondered how the headlight covers opened.. I thought it was electric! Wonderful video, thanks! :)

[inkey2]

@wiggums1 even into the 1970s cars were made with a mechanical lever to pop the lights up.....like the Opal GT

[gusneaker]

What a beauty of car!! I LOVE DeSotos! This particular model, with the hidden front lights is SO elegant!! Thank you for this video.

[jkt8012]

A beautiful and rare car. Too many old cars are being butchered into so called street rods and low riders. I hope this one stays original to preserve it's rare historical significance which these days seems to mean very little.

[Marshallmiracles]

The hidden headlights really make the car fantastic. I would have put vertical tail lights on back and gone all the way with a continental kit!!! and painted the car cream/tan metallic!

[winter611]

I just bought a 42 buis coup it is being delivered thursday . Barn find parked in 1957 i am the third owner. minor dents paint poor . i ordered brake kits and hoses also tuneup parts ill be buisy for a while. winter611

[20alphabet]

Enjoy your fat pension and benefits package you'd never get for polishing chrome in the private sector!

[toltec13]

BEAUTIFUL CAR!!!

[loufalce]

Next to the 36-37 Cords, this was the only other car that featured retractable headlights. Looks neat and futuristic, but it ain`t a Cord.

[bluebomb49]

Bad to the bone

[wiboater4]

The pop up headlights are really neat! I didn't realize they had that .

[MrNorthernRed]

The '42 was the only year with the hidden headlights- they were eliminated when production resumed after the war. First hidden lights after the Cord too- thanks so much for posting this, great looking car!

[69Pixma]

Good suond goes, when u opened the trunk! :D

[moscowandy]

this is an amazing car )) I am in love

[reflectivegoat]

I thought a zombie was going to come crawling out of that trunk... screeeeek!

Fantastic looking business coupe.

[lalvarado63]

DeSotos were very cool cars!. I wish that we still made automobiles of that quality today especially in our country like before.

[jkt8012]

Nice to see an unmolested original business coupe. I hope you intend to keep it that way unlike many great old cars that have been destroyed by "Customizing".

[ldaccardi]

WOW

[VictrolaJazz]

It's got a very hypnotic face with the headlight doors open! Rare in two dimensions--business coupe and '42!

[71bee383]

WOW! beautiful car! I have never seen one before. De Soto should have sold waaaaayy more cars than only 120! I had no idea that they even had a concealed headlight option back in those days. is it by chance a straight 8?

BEEEEEAUTIFUL!

[raconter1]

I LOVE this car! Thanks for demonstrating those hidden headlights...I never saw the actuator before! There's a 42 white convertible in "The Strange Case of Laura Mars" a Hollywood movie of the time..you HAVE to see it...includes a contemporary Chrysler too! :) Jack

[Firefighter834]

Never seen it or even heard about it! Have too look for it -thank you. I have a friend in Seattle who has a conv -42 DeSoto.

Take care

Ola

[thedavidjoss46]

@raconter1 WHAT A RAT ROD THIS COULD  BE . LOL

[raconter1]

@thedavidjoss46 Very true! Not many around, though! :) Jack

[EdwardMolotov]

Those headlights are kickass.