1958 DeSoto for Sale Firedome biggest fins made

[GooglFascists]

That engine sounds GREAT! So many on here the valves are clattering

like a sewing machine about to fly apart, but that engine sounds like

I remember them back in the day.

[guitarlesson]

OBO + or best offer the car did sell, just leaving it up for others enjoyment.

[charlesnorte]

For a arngentine´s customer: What means "O.B.O"?

[yootoob1958]

And the original sticker price for the car was under $4,000.

[robert3302]

@yootoob1958 $4,000 was a lot of money in 1958. A basic Ford or Chevy was less than $2,000.

[enigma413]

Wish I had the cash. I'd buy this car in a heartbeat.

[chargalant]

DeSoto's fins are legendary. There used to be a comic strip that often featured them. This a beautiful example...red & white no less! It was the color contrast that excentuated that Virgil Exner styling that blew GM out of the water...to the point that Harley Earl overreacted and brought out the 59 Caddy...scary!

BTW: I'd want to re-route the exhausts back to the bumper exhaust outlets. Sweet car tho!!!

[try2bpositive1]

Big huge and gaudy. I love em'! Awesome looking.

[ordep72]

Beautiful car, I hope to see one in person soon

[itsmegp46]

The '59 Caddy may have had bigger fins, but no body integrated fins into the body like Virgil Exner's Chryslers, DeSotos, Plymouths, Dodges and Imperials. The fins were completely a part of the car's design, not the tacky add on the Caddy's obviously was.

[elmerhdga]

@itsmegp46 For Your Information, check the 1956 and 1957 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, as for "integreted" tail fins, and get back to me.

[itsmegp46]

@elmerhdga I know all about Cadillac's fins. I'm not the only person of this opinion. Most of the automotive press during that period shared my sentiments. As a matter of fact, GM designers were so caught off guard by Chrysler's fantastic designs, they went back to their studios and tore up the upcoming 1959 face lifts. This is why the 1958 dies were a one year only design.

[elmerhdga]

@itsmegp46 You got back to me alright, but you ignored totally the points that I made about the 56 and 57 El Dorado specially-integrated tail fins on exquisitely beautiful automobiles. But, here is Your Problem, you are projecting a Mopar/GM managerial styling war in terms of things that are more political, and likely to be perpetuated by modern-day hacks. Take A Look at the Beautiful 56 and 57(and 58) Cad beauty and then look at a 56-57-58 Dodge/DeSoto/Chrysler and speak some truthful words.

[inoldswetrust]

is that a diesel?

[nik03pro]

@inoldswetrust  O MY GOD....

[nik03pro]

@inoldswetrust O MY GOD

[elmerhdga]

@inoldswetrust A Diesel? NO, it is NOT a diesel, do you hear the DETONATION of un-sparked fuel ? The damned Rattling of 400 tins cans full of small rocks? Certainly Not. What we do hear is mild rather steady murmur of a 361 Mopar V8, running on common gasoline. (and with a microphone nearer to the 2 exhaust pipes than anywhere else.)

[DancingSpiderman]

GOD I WANT YOUR CAR

[wheelz67]

The '59 Caddy might have an inch in height, but the over all fin is much bigger on the '58 DeSoto, it went at least 1/2 the length of the car! I have both models in my yard, but alas my DeSoto is a '59 so I can't be certain, either way American cars of the late 50s & early 60s had some of the best styling!!! Keep it real & Keep the rubber side Down!

[Indogyearsimdead]

@wheelz67 Maybe you should have said "Longest fins ever made"? At any rate, they are huge.

[briquetaverne]

The fire department in my town in 1958 used this model Desoto as their chiefs car. They kept it for 5 years then sold it. 15 years later it was recovered in someones back yard by a former fireman of this fire department who resored it and used it in Parades.

[hanleyfallsmn56245]

America was once a place where we made things, beautiful things.

[retroolschool]

@hanleyfallsmn56245 We need to start making things more like in the old days, not of course meaning to make stuff like this Desoto, but with craftsmanship, METAL, and DETAILS!

[sliderbox]

My Dad Had a Green and white 2 door Hardtop with the Hemi. Power windows Air conditioning, push Button Automatic, Power seats. Good Solid dependable Car. The gas Gauge didn't work so My Mother would Put a Dollars worth of gas in it anytime she went anywhere. One Saturday Dad was going to take the family on an Outing but decided to go fill up with gas before going anywhere. Well it wouldn't hold a Dollars worth. Gas at the time was About 27 or 28 cents a gallon for premium.

[sliderbox]

@dmc081 taller not bigger.

[silverbird58]

superbird and daytona charger had big ones too/

[planktonization]

They don't make them like that anymore, that was my point.

[johanbiff]

very unusal car here in sweden! butt my freind has a 57- 2 door ht witch i perfer mutch more

[planktonization]

Fucking great american car from the past.

[slitor]

ehm....great....yeah...sure

[ewd76]

I was agreeing with you.

[ewd76]

@dmc081

That's what I thought, at least what I've always been told.

[hustleman454]

58 plymouth fins are big to

[dawnnaYT]

Wasn't a Firedome a Hemi? Motor looks like a standard wedge.

[Auggie56]

Yes the F D was the Hemi.

[franklindavid]

They made beautiful, solid cars those days.

[herbienbrian]

cool, it looks like it has the same stering weel as a fury from the same year.

[holtzaustin]

thats a geart car but the car with the biggest fins was the 59 cadillac

[54spiritedwill54]

Stupendous! I loved the one I once owned

[RitzyTrailer]

Nomasain: Yes, originally, they did - but most of these eventually were prone to rust-through due to the gasses and gunk that the exhaust left on the chrome, eating away the metal. I can see why this guy would think twice about re-routing them back through that way - although it WAS super-cool. 57 Buicks had this feature, too if you can see a pic of one.

[Nomasain]

Arent the exhaust pipes/gasses supposed to come out from underneath the tail lights?

I believe the rear bumper is modified to house the exhaust.

[IQ136]

What about the fins on the San Diego taxicabs in IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD?

[batvette]

I dunno but that's probably the greatest greatest greatest greatest movie EVAR.

[barneyforever2008]

Great car

[themaclady]

I love this! My first car was a Firesweep with a stick shift modified 4 on the floor. My friends used to call it the batmobile.

[re6356]

Could never figure out why the mid fifties Chevvies commanded such high prices.  They were short and high with awful rooflines and usually loaded with chrome. I called `em circus cars. Gimme the Chryslers anytime, long, wide and low.

[NewarkAce]

Nice Car - 59 Caddy id the King of Fins

Only one thing missing in your Rocket is the FirePower HEMI 392 - other then that it's a great looker

[todd900]

25k for a 4 door? I don't think so.

[pescadoygamba]

bigger fins than a 61 Imperial?

[khhaizen12]

Check out VehiSale dot com

[josephdupont]

Item number: 320123763043

this car is a 1958 for 1000 bucks or less

last ran 5 years ago.

a motivated seller.

[espiel]

Stupendous! I loved the one I once owned, and wish I had it back. Thanks for the memories...