1958 Desoto Adventurer 2 Door Coupe 361 CI in Black / Gold & Ride on My Car Story with Lou Costabile 

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Beautiful car. Wonderful color combination. Yes, the styling is excessive and so is the level of gaudiness. But this is just a wonderful specimen of an era that has long disappeared. What makes it better is that it is not an SUV, CUV, or a Tesla golf cart. Thanks for sharing, Lou!

Yeah Lou, That factory 150 mph speedometer REALLY caught my eye and that was in '58!! Never a loss of style AND performance back then. Today's stuff is nothing but cookie cutter computer chip drudgery. Thank you for this POSITIVE eye candy!!

This car captures the wild styling of the late 50’s. Beautiful!

It's another great fin car for the channel, Lou! I love how the restoration turned out for Mr. Frank. The black and gold look great together. Thanks, Lou!

Spectacular’58 Desoto,a very rare Adventurer,painstakingly restored to perfection!

Sweet machine. This is no Howard Cunningham De Soto! 😄

That car is a PIECE OF ART!!!

Beautiful DeSoto- love the colour combination. Great restoration and a wonderful glimpse into a different era. Thanks for sharing this classic with us Lou!

Beautiful style and wonderful rumbly sounds.

It wasn't long after these classic lines in 1961 that Desoto was gone for good.

A wonderful classic! Keep restoring and preserving our great American cars .

Love these big old Mopars. Thats a beautiful Desoto. You did it again. You feature the best of the best. Thanks Lou!

The interior of this beauty is wonderful! Did not know the “Christine” fact. Interesting! This gentleman is a great conservator of auto history.

🙋‍♂️THANKS LOU,BRUCE,🤗 FOR SHARING A BEAUTIFUL. 🤩 RESTORATION AND THE GREAT STORY 😎💚💚💚

Morning Lou. Great video. My neighbors growing up. Had a 53 green 4dr sedan. With the Hemi at that time. He bought a different car . A 62 Pontiac 4 dr Hardtop. His 2nd son. Was basically my age. He graduated in 1969. now. He got the Desoto. He drove it. To high school. We lived in SEK He drove it 4 2 years to 2yrs college.He drove it to Topeka. To Washburn law school. Came back home . Drove it to work then . This old Desoto was flawless. His mistake was he sold it or traded it for Vega the hot rod GT. One morning he knocked on the door. His Vega would not start. I asked him about it . He had taken it to get a tune up. It had a loose wire on the distributor. I tell you this . The Old Desoto except for light maintenance. It never let him down. ❤

What a beautiful "brand new" 1958 Adventurer.

Built when cars had style. When I was growing up my dad knew people that owned Chrysler's and Plymouth's..But no Desoto's or Dodge's that I remember. Thanks for posting! have a blessed day!

This was one of the most beautiful cars you've featured on your channel Lou! A definite 5 wows 😍😍😍😍😍 Thank you!

I love the color combination and he did a great restoration job. It looks like it just rolled off the show room floor. This is the first time I’ve seen a speedometer in a passenger car go up to 150mph.

My brother was 13 years older than me. In 1961 when I was about 12 or so he had a 1959 Light blue/white Plymouth station wagon. Obviously wasn't the DeSoto above, but it had massivre fins and was super cool to ride in.. That was about the time I began riding my bike up Cicero Ave in Chicago where all the car dealers were, collecting car brochures. Turned me into a life long car guy with lots of fun and no regrets.

Just wow. IMO the most beautiful car of the 50's and this is from someone owning 50's cars of other makes. It really does not get better than the Forward Look and to my eye the 57-59 DeSoto is the best looker of the bunch. I had a friend with a 59 Fireflite hardtop coupe and it was amazing, the style and performance.

Chrysler was full of style and technical innovation in the 50's. Compare the styling of this to a 58 Impala...I'd take this. Thanks Lou.

Another great episode. This car reminds me of a re-aire of an old Dodge commercial I saw from the early sixties: “You’ll really float when Dodge is your boat”. From your description of the ride, Mr. Lou, it had to be more so for the Desoto.

1957-58 Exner styling was the GOAT. My absolute favourite is the 57-58 two door hardtops by Plymouth and Dodge (the roof lines were even lower than Desoto's and Chrysler's) but that Desoto is gorgeous still. Those big fins with the triple stacked tail lights 😍

Absolutely fabulous ❤

Hi Lou! These DeSoto Adventurers seem to keep coming out of hiding. You covered a '59 convertible just a few months back, and now this '58 hardtop! Adventurers were rare even when they were new; that is the biggest reason they're so scarce today. Seeing another Adventurer in 2023 is a one in a million chance. This car should be preserved, because I bet those unique parts are very difficult, unless you connect with a few other owners of these cars and start your own "De Soto Adventurer Owners Club." Driving one must be something else. When you and the owner took a drive, I can picture how exciting it must have been! Thanks again, Lou, for another exciting video. Hopefully you'll come across another Adventurer like this one! _(10/29/2023)_

This '58 Adventurer is a favorite in Bruce's stable of DeSotos. Not knowing to what extent the condition of the collection of boxes of parts that Bruce trucked home when he bought this beauty, it's incredible to hear him say he completed his body-off resto of this rare coupe in only 1 year! The 150 mph speedo seen in his dash was installed in Adventurers for only their 1957-1958 model years, different from the Chrysler 300 Letter Cars that presented the 150 mph speedos for years 1955-1963. So much eye candy, this car looks fabulous in black. Sweet video!

Start up sounds fabulous Lou!!

Bruce's Desoto is a great example of a rare limited series w/ unique only features that the 50's offered...Spring Colors et. Thanks Lou.

Beautiful car. I love the older cars. This is back when they had artist designing these rolling works of art.

Cars used to look different from each other. Cars used to have class. This car is a prime example! 👍

Thanks for saving this car👍

Thanks, Lou. We love the DeSoto that's for sure. I never got to see them as a kid.

My uncle had one of these. I can remember standing behind it and looking up at the tail lights.

That car looks like a dream. The backup lights are seemingly placed in the center of the taillights. DeSoto was a fine make. Chrysler let a good thing out of its sight. DeSoto, RIP.😢😢

Thank you for sharing your video of this absolutely gorgeous 1958 DeSoto !❤

Love the back of those cars! Superb! And that exhaust note is a symphony. Would've loved seeing the second 4bbl kick in.

That gold and white combo must have looked superb. I can picture it.

The styling of that car is just beautiful

Beautiful car! My grandfather bought a new 55 Desoto 2dr. He died a year later and my dad purchased it from my grandmother. It had a 2bbl 272 Hemi. Not fast but very cool. I got to drive it once on the road before my dad sold it in the. 60s. I would be proud to own this car!

I wish more people would showcase more DeSoto's to me they were very handsome and powerful cars, my dad had a '57 Desoto Firesweep! What a car!

Oh goodness gracious! Yet another jewel. My mind is blown.

My parents had a 1958 Firefight 4 door hardtop. The DeSoto was my favorite family car out of all the cars my family had. My dad ordered it with factory air conditioning that also had clear polycarbonate air conditioning ducts that were on the rear package tray. It was a great car to take on vacation because of the rear a/c ducts. It was the first car they had with power everything, windows door locks, seats and transmission. After the DeSoto they bought Imperials. But no other vehicle ever looked as good as the DeSoto.

Bliss on wheels, and a fabulous refurbish.

Thanks for showing this beautiful car guys.

Holy mac and cheese! Beautiful! Love DeSoto. Thanks for sharing, Lou. 👍

My dad's ride 57 DeSoto had the hemi. He always would have some kid wanting to drag him at the stop light. Miss them both.

Thank you for sharing this beauty. When I was a kid back in 58, I said cars could not be this beautiful when I grew up. I was right. Back in the early 70s, I found a white/gold 1957 Adventurer in pretty good shape, the owner "almost" sold it to me for $1200 (which was quite a price for a first-year teacher making $6800) but last minute decided to keep it for his son. Sure wish he had sold it to me. My classic car is a 71 Dodge Challenger convertible. Great car, BUT a 58 Desoto would look great in my garage.... even a Fireflite. Learned to drive on Dad's 63 Fury with a Commando 361. Mopars forever.

Oh yes great trim on it I do appreciate he did his best to keep original

Great Desoto Lou

That is an absolutely beautiful car! Amazing job on the restoration. Congratulations.

Mopar certainly had years where they really hit their style hi-points and to me from 55 through 58 were some of their greatest years. DeSoto for 57 and 58 to my eye were the best looking cars of those 2 years.

Beautiful car Lou don't see many Desoto at car shows. My Uncle had a 57 Desoto in the 1960s

Hey Lou, what an awesome rare car!! Love these '57 & '58 Chrysler products. Thanks for showing!!

That there is a damn beautiful car, I didnt know Desoto built cars like this!!

Keep up the great work and the great cars you bring to us with their owner's UNIQUE stories!!

"Adventures" in Moparland! One of the absolute GOATs of Chrysler's Virgil Exner-styled Big Fins era.

What a great looking Desoto, there again and other great Mopar, good show Lou.👍👍.

These cars were super cool thanks Lou.

This interior certainly does not disappoint... For me, the ext/int schemes harmonize perfectly. Thank you for this presentation and upload💯

A beautiful and incredibly rare Adventurer. Bruce has some fantastic cars with those Adventurers. Don't you just love the name...Adventurer? It kind of makes you want to hit the open road! The other car with a really cool name was the Mercury "Turnpike Cruiser" of '57 & '58. Nice work Lou & Bruce.

I know you don't do this, but it would be nice to see a video of the restoration. Such a great car.

Achingly beautiful… in and out… thanks for sharing!

I miss that chrome detail they used to do back then, nice car.

Beautiful restoration. Back when acres of chrome, tail fins, and whitewalls were king! That 361 likely pumps out around 350 HP? That car really has soul, which is sorely lacking of most of today's vehicles.

My parents have always owned old Chrysler products from the 50s and 60s. Dad still drives his 1961 Dodge Pioneer. I once owned a 1958 Plymouth. My uncle owned a 1959 DeSoto. Beautiful cars. US car manufacturers need to go back to these designs. Very pretty.

What a beautiful car! It's a wonder that the Dodge Corporation wasn't No. 1 in the Automotive Industry between Ford & Chevrolet in the "50's" their styling, power and the quality! Lou you find the Greatest examples of classic cars! You're The Untouchable of finding Beautiful fine Cars! It makes me think back to being a kid on the Southside of Chicago! When playing outside on the streets a fine car would come through the block! Everyone & everything would stop to look at the car! Kids, Moms and yes begrudgingly even the Dad's if they were home! I see a car like that! It makes me proud that it was built in the USA by hard working people that took pride in building a fine car! That they probably couldn't even afford to buy! But they dreamt about it! That is One Handsome Car!

Pure artwork.

Beautiful!

383 without the two 4bbls in Mom's '68 Plymouth Sport Fury. Thanks for the heads up on the introduction of the 383 in '59. Excellent workhorse (383) Chrysler Corp. motor for a lotta years; next step up from the 318 for many 60s mid-range Mopar models, across divisions (i.e. Ply/ Dodge/ Chrysler) as marketed back then.

Thanks Bruce! Amazing job. Amazing work.

Fantastic futuristic car! Looks like a prototype or concept car. Exner Excellence!

Had the Gold with the black side sweep it was originally gold with white side sweeps , 361 with the dual quads but I added a 3/4 Race Crane Hydraulic lift cam for fun!! Amazingly large car and quite distinctive!

Nice oldie.

Gorgeous great classic car.

Absolutely gorgeous DeSoto. How surreal would it be to see a black DeSoto flying down the road. In 58 fuel injection was also an option. Electronics at the time prevented it from catching on

Beautiful Car!

Nice 😀

Hey Lou, It's Delightful 🎶 It's Delovely 🎵 It's DESOTO 🎶. And tell them Groucho sent you! 😉. Thanks for another great post! Still waiting for a post on 80S RWD Fifth Avenues. Saw a letter to editor in a recent Hemmings from a guy has one handed down from Dad. Can't find it but will keep looking. Might be a possibility. Believe it was in upper Midwest.

Beautiful car!

I always thought the De Soto was the best of Chrysler's lineup. Thanks, Lou.

Beautiful and rarer then hens teeth!

Your video 2Day.what was awesome. Beautiful Car

That car is outstanding it's a Brand New car Amazing I just noticed that it has a different roofline than the Plymouth and a different rear window

Gorgeous.

Absolutely fin-tastic!

Still beautiful!

Цікава історія про реставрацію! Чудове авто! Дякую!

Nice!

Absolutely love DeSoto/Dodge and Plymouth models from 1957-1959. They were fantastic..nothing else comparied. However I liked the 1955-1956 Chryslers best. The 1957-1959 Chrysler models looked too much like their other makes and to me it cheapened the Chrysler name. . . This is a great example of a 1958 DeSoto Adventurer. The car sounds fantastic. The tail end view of this car is so big and beautiful! WOW, as usual I learned something. The gold paint and the medal insert! Who would have known? Love the interior an dash. Fantastic 50's Mopar! Always a thumbs up for Lou!

Has a better looking shape than the '58-'59 GM ones with their wide bathtub car bodies.

Hey, Lou, the Fifth Avenue I mentioned is on p. 12 of Sept 2023 Hemmings Motor News. Great story and MIGHT be a possibility for you? Always happy to be of help 😊

Is this the stock cam? Sounds like the ol 280...factory vac reservoir is too cool and the exposed chrome headliner bows are awesome!! Nice job on the resto no detail went unnoticed.

Awesome car

361 w/2 4barrels and 10.25:1 comp ratio was good for 345 HP. This sounds like it's slightly cammed up so probably a little more than factory.

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Drop dead beautiful car. I love the 2-door HT roof line of the DeSotos and Chryslers much better than the Plymouth or Dodge. As a side note, the Plymouth in the movie "Christine" was a 1958 Belvedere HT, not a Fury. Why people refer to Christine as a Fury is something I do not understand.

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I need one everyone would give me thumbs up and girls would go crazy.