Plus I would like to add your car either has a Simplimatic Fluid Drive, or the M6 transmission. The M6 is the better of the two. If you want to know more about your desoto, go to Desoto.org and join all of us in the fun of Desoto ownership!
i just bought one to restore / customize your car is in awesome shape im going to put air ride and drop it on 20s but the only thing im missing for the whole car is the front grill
@PaulMietelka Why would you ruin a good car with that stupidity?
Im spending a lot of time turning my 1950 Desoto Custom BACK from some know-nothing ding dong who tried to rat rod it. Its a Desoto. Not a "donk" or "lowrider". These things are worth a TON more money when they are stock.
@50desoto1 im definately not ruining this car simply putting air ride on it no modifying that cant be turned back to stock check out my vid the only change that will not be original is the master cylinder i'll keep the pedal the same but safety is my concern with that
@PaulMietelka Its a 1950's era car. The brakes cant handle the rolling mass, there is no clearance, so you have to lift it, If you want to ruin a car, do it with a 70's car or 80's when everyone stopped caring. I have not seen any Desotos go across the Barrett Jackson block with 20" rims. Nobody would buy that. Look at what the stock desotos sell for. a bone stock 1950 Desoto Deluxe sold there for $50,000. You wont get any collector to pay more than $5,000 for a molested Desoto.
@50desoto1 actually the wheels fit perfect no rub nothing on the stock suspension i wont argue with you on what i plan to do with my car but i assure you if the air ride was taken off there would be no evidence of modification but i also dont plan to sell it so good luck with your restore last desoto i saw on craigslist completly original was going for 3500
@PaulMietelka Yup. everyone bases thier collector cars value off of Craigslist. Go to Desoto.org and read a little bit, and maybe we can continue this. Know about the car your butchering before you try to tell me what they can rake in.
@50desoto1 even cheaper on ebay sounds like you have a money problem if your worried about what its worth money wise but go ahead keep building your dream i hope you make a killing
@PaulMietelka Not a money problem. its called Investmenting. Already got a $7,000 offer on my car and its not even finished being put back together after being shot with primer, considering the interior needs reupholstered pretty bad, proves your theory quite incorrect.
Actually you put it in third and shifted to fourth. If you put the stick up, it would start in a very low-range 1st and go into 2nd if you let off the gas, then 4th when brought back down.
Yea, fluid drive is correct. The actual name of the transmission is called the hydrive. It was replaced by the powerflite in 53' then the torqueflite in 56 i believe.
Hydramatic is what gm called their transmission. They still use it today. When you see th350 as a transmission, it stands for turbo-hydramatic. Pontiac got the dual coupling hydramatic in 52 or 53 which was a clutchless 4 speed. Quite amazing transmissions.
@4d1Nash The Actual name of the transmission is Fluid Drive with Tip Toe Hydralic Shift. Hy Drive was a trnasmission only offered by Plymouth in 1953 DeSoto did not get Powerflite until 1954 TorgueFlite until 1957. The original Hydra Matic was a 4 speed made from 1940 to 52...Dual RANGE (not coupling) HM was made from 1952-56..they added the Park designation in 56 and after the debut of the trouble prone Roto Hydra Matic in 1961 the First 3 speed THM came out in the upper series of 63 Cadilacs
ALL Hydra Matics have been completely automatic. Also the difference between the original Hyrda Matic and the new for 52' Dual Range HM was the fact the Dual Range could be made to only shift as high as 3rd gear by putting the selector on the trangle to the righ of the D on the transmission selector. Putting to the triangle on the left let the car shift all the way to 4th gear. That was done so you could have better braking in hilly terrain then you did with the original HM tranny
Plus I would like to add your car either has a Simplimatic Fluid Drive, or the M6 transmission. The M6 is the better of the two. If you want to know more about your desoto, go to Desoto.org and join all of us in the fun of Desoto ownership!
50desoto1 1 month ago
i just bought one to restore / customize your car is in awesome shape im going to put air ride and drop it on 20s but the only thing im missing for the whole car is the front grill
PaulMietelka 1 month ago in playlist More videos from UndoneHaddock
@PaulMietelka Why would you ruin a good car with that stupidity?
Im spending a lot of time turning my 1950 Desoto Custom BACK from some know-nothing ding dong who tried to rat rod it. Its a Desoto. Not a "donk" or "lowrider". These things are worth a TON more money when they are stock.
Ill see you guys on Desoto.org!
50desoto1 1 month ago
@50desoto1 im definately not ruining this car simply putting air ride on it no modifying that cant be turned back to stock check out my vid the only change that will not be original is the master cylinder i'll keep the pedal the same but safety is my concern with that
PaulMietelka 1 month ago
@PaulMietelka Its a 1950's era car. The brakes cant handle the rolling mass, there is no clearance, so you have to lift it, If you want to ruin a car, do it with a 70's car or 80's when everyone stopped caring. I have not seen any Desotos go across the Barrett Jackson block with 20" rims. Nobody would buy that. Look at what the stock desotos sell for. a bone stock 1950 Desoto Deluxe sold there for $50,000. You wont get any collector to pay more than $5,000 for a molested Desoto.
50desoto1 1 month ago
@50desoto1 actually the wheels fit perfect no rub nothing on the stock suspension i wont argue with you on what i plan to do with my car but i assure you if the air ride was taken off there would be no evidence of modification but i also dont plan to sell it so good luck with your restore last desoto i saw on craigslist completly original was going for 3500
PaulMietelka 1 month ago
@PaulMietelka Yup. everyone bases thier collector cars value off of Craigslist. Go to Desoto.org and read a little bit, and maybe we can continue this. Know about the car your butchering before you try to tell me what they can rake in.
50desoto1 1 month ago
@50desoto1 even cheaper on ebay sounds like you have a money problem if your worried about what its worth money wise but go ahead keep building your dream i hope you make a killing
PaulMietelka 1 month ago
@PaulMietelka Not a money problem. its called Investmenting. Already got a $7,000 offer on my car and its not even finished being put back together after being shot with primer, considering the interior needs reupholstered pretty bad, proves your theory quite incorrect.
50desoto1 2 weeks ago
THANKS- ROLL UP THE WINDOWS NEXT SO WE CAN HEAR!
Surfinstro 2 months ago
Actually you put it in third and shifted to fourth. If you put the stick up, it would start in a very low-range 1st and go into 2nd if you let off the gas, then 4th when brought back down.
VictrolaJazz 9 months ago
@4d1Nash the service manual calls it the fluid drive, actually.
UndoneHaddock 1 year ago
@UndoneHaddock
Yea, fluid drive is correct. The actual name of the transmission is called the hydrive. It was replaced by the powerflite in 53' then the torqueflite in 56 i believe.
Hydramatic is what gm called their transmission. They still use it today. When you see th350 as a transmission, it stands for turbo-hydramatic. Pontiac got the dual coupling hydramatic in 52 or 53 which was a clutchless 4 speed. Quite amazing transmissions.
Beautiful car though. I have a 47 p-15 sedan.
4d1Nash 1 year ago
@4d1Nash The Actual name of the transmission is Fluid Drive with Tip Toe Hydralic Shift. Hy Drive was a trnasmission only offered by Plymouth in 1953 DeSoto did not get Powerflite until 1954 TorgueFlite until 1957. The original Hydra Matic was a 4 speed made from 1940 to 52...Dual RANGE (not coupling) HM was made from 1952-56..they added the Park designation in 56 and after the debut of the trouble prone Roto Hydra Matic in 1961 the First 3 speed THM came out in the upper series of 63 Cadilacs
vintageappliguy 7 months ago
ALL Hydra Matics have been completely automatic. Also the difference between the original Hyrda Matic and the new for 52' Dual Range HM was the fact the Dual Range could be made to only shift as high as 3rd gear by putting the selector on the trangle to the righ of the D on the transmission selector. Putting to the triangle on the left let the car shift all the way to 4th gear. That was done so you could have better braking in hilly terrain then you did with the original HM tranny
vintageappliguy 7 months ago