WOW ! 1958 DeSoto Firedome Sportsman 2 Door in Rust / Beige & Ride - My Car Story with Lou Costabile 

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"Just put it to the floor" Gotta love it

Randy & L’Donna brought this beautiful car all the way from British Columbia! We had the opportunity to meet and spend some time with Randy & L’Donna. Very enjoyable. This restoration made this car at least as good as new. Everything is perfect ! Both exterior & interior. Congratulations to Randy & L’Donna.

Gotta love Father Lou in the confessional absolving the sins of a former speeder! I dig the way Exner started the fins just beyond door’s edge. This styling detail adds movement to the car, even when standing still. Forward Look forever!

These Desotos were the coolest cars of the 50's. Absolutely beautiful.

The look is so '50's when the suburban homeowner would wash and wax a car like this one and then stand back in pride of how it looked in the driveway. I particularly like the interior fabrics and colors. Gorgeous!

What an absolutely gorgeous car !! I loved it the first second the video started… I’m just short of words describing the impact this car has made on me.. just STUNNING !! Great car to highlight Lou, sweet !!!

What a great car! You can certainly tell it has been a labor of love to restore it and enjoy it for many miles to come. Heck, even Hagerty has approved. Thanks, Lou!

Thank you so much, Lou. High praise for today’s jewel. Just spectacularly STUNNING!

Beauty! Attention to detail is off the charts, a real showstopper. Thanks so much folks.

Magnificent restoration.

Wow! I can't remember the last time I saw one of these. The color is also pretty rare. Whoever did the body work is a master the lines are straight and correct. Lou great coverage. I don't know what he spent but I'll bet this is a one hundred-thousand-dollar restoration.

Gotta love the Canadian cars! This beauty is in spectacular condition - striking DeSoto. The water bag is unique, I’ve never seen something like that. The caretakers are great for this car, they definitely love and appreciate it. Thanks Lou!

Love this Firedome! As great as it looks in your video, Lou, it's even more magnificent in person. Ron and L'Donna are delightful and have performed magic in restoring this rare DeSoto - exterior, interior - every nut and bolt! And we see here that its 354 Poly (polyspheric head) motor is topped by Chrysler Corp's unique-style air cleaner that mounts on the carb with its neck running off to the side, containing the plenum holding the air filter. Very interesting to see it in this Canadian-built '58 Firedome, as this style air cleaner was a 1-year only design that Chrysler installed on its 1957 US-built models. Chrysler manufactured its Poly motors from 1955-1958, using the same block and crankshaft as the famed Gen I Hemi motors, but using different heads, as L'Donna mentions, along with various other different internal components. As DeSoto's period ads proclaimed - "It's Delightful, It's Delovely, It's DeSoto!!"

Learned something new today. I thought all 354s were early Hemis. But this has Poly heads. Great car! Thanks Professor Lou!

The style of this car is endless . Beautiful all the way down to the little details . Thanks for sharing this beautiful 1958 DeSoto Firedome Sportsman

L’Donna and Ron have a rarely seen Canadian beauty....The comic strip creator of "SHOE" (RIP) would have loved this. Thanks Lou!

THANKS LOU,RON,L’DONNA,FOR SHARING THIS BEAUTIFUL 🤩 CAR….INTERESTING STORY AND.MEMORIES OF THE UNIQUE CHRYSLER FEATURES 👍💚💚💚

What an interesting 1958 Dodge DeSoto Firedome Sportsman coupe. Since this car is Canadian, it's not a Mopar. I like the color scheme, and the 354 CI engine sounds healthy! It has a pristine interior and interesting instrument cluster as well. A real classic, Lou!

Absolutely stunning. How could anyone not love this stylish work of art???

Great video of a great car, as always. So nice to see an obviously loving father and daughter doing things together. It makes me miss my late father. Enjoy that time together...it is precious!

Love these 57-59 DeSoto's. MOPAR was THE car design of the late 50's, everyone else followed. Hard to believe DeSoto's were on the way out.

That's a great car! I love the Exner design and the instrument panel! Beautiful. Nice people who treasure their DeSoto!

I owned one of those in 1968! It was a 1958 DeSoto Firedome Sportsman 2-door hardtop, all original. It was Fire Engine Red all over, with two-tone black and grey interior. It had the 361-Poly V8 with Torqueflite. I loved it! I also owned a 1958 Plymouth Fury at the same time, in 1968. Then I was drafted into the Army, and I had to sell the DeSoto. The Fury was totalled out in an auto accident on June 5, 1968 in which I was severely injured (it wasn't my fault!), but it didn't keep Uncle Sam from drafting me on June 16. I got a medical discharge and was out on Sept. 30, 1968, and bought a 1960 Plymouth Fury with 383-V8 and Torqueflite.

My friend James had a blue '58 Firedome Sportsman in high school in the mid-70s. It was in beautiful shape; we really didn't know what he had at the time.

Another lovely "Forward Look" Chrysler product by Virgil Exner. Beautiful Desoto. I always thought the front end of these '58 Desotos looks like a '57 Ford...Thanks for posting Lou! Be blessed always.🤩

Hi, Lou! Always refreshing to see a DeSoto out on the road, especially a '58! That year saw the best-looking DeSotos ever made IMHO. And the details regarding this one as a Canadian specimen are particularly interesting. Two years is long time to miss out on driving it, but you're fortunate that Hagerty saw fit to forgive L'Donna so that she could take you (and virtually, us) along for the ride! Another awesome, post, Lou!

Lovely video. Lovely owners. Thank You.

What an absolutely gorgeous car! I had to google - factory color, I didn’t expect that.

WHAT A BEAUTY LOU REALLY ENJOY YOUR CARS

A Canadian car! With British Columbia plates, that's where I'm from. Very cool, love that shot of your favorite angle, I agree Lou. Like you said, looks brand new and just fabulous! Thanks again, Lou!

Just a beautiful old car thanks Lou.

I could go on and on about this car but I won't. Gorgeous!!!

Perfect time capsule. 👍

A really beautiful DeSoto in a fantastic color. When serving in the army in Africa in late ‘50s early’60s we had similar water bags which we hung on the truck’s exterior mirrors.

Another beautiful car!

Absolutely stunning car. Lou.......... since you made the reference of an ice cream cone............ this 'baby is a Creamsicle with those orange ( rust ) and beige colors. Beautiful ride !

This is such a great car! Lou, you always come up with good people and their beautiful cars!

Power windows and even more impressive power seat on a 58 Desoto...Younger folks would have no idea how so very rare this was...simply amazing...these comfort options would not become commonplace for years to come, and were generally only seen on top line cars like caddy, imperial buick ets...well done indeed

Like brand new! Beautiful 😍😍😍😍😍 Thanks Lou!

I saw your short clip...and came right over! I love the old Mopars. I don't know much about DeSoto Makes, I can't wait to learn about it! Beautiful front end. I love the Autum Rust with Rose Beige! Oh wow, it's a Canadian car, yet it seems the same body as our version. Love the roar of the engine and exhuast! Love the interior and dash! Thumbs up all around! Loved it!

Gorgeous Ride, Sir!

Lou, another beautiful classic. The car is awesome also 😊

Such a nice car. I wasn't familiar with this car at all previously. Thanks for sharing.

Drop dead gorgeous!!!

Go! Go! DeSoto! Personality in steel! A true autumn driver. Let’s drive to the Pumpkin Show in Circleville, Ohio! Watch that speedo!😀😞🎃🎃

It was my Lucky Day when I stumbled onto This Channel. I've got some catching up to do! What a Great Car, an never knew about the under hood and trunk lid "Canada Treatment". It reminds me of a friend's car from back in the day - It was a '58 Studebaker of similar design and they had a White Cat on the package tray whose red eyes would light up when you hit the brakes. (The first example of '3rd Brake Lights'?) Great Times

Thanks, All.. Great Elegant Classic MOPAR…..LOVE the Canadian…A lot **of-the 1959:Dodge Coronet stuff on this, similar to my Family’s Dodge ps:: I Seem to remember , a few of “ these” Plymouth, DESOTO, Chrysler had “ Special Performance” stuff ((?)) in 1957-58 s , etc..

From the 1st shot following to where Lou says "you can take in that" - well that's how it's done to enhance the Chrysler design of this Desota to capture such symmetry - what a super fine example. . . :>/

Знову канадська машина? Класне авто! Цікава історія реставраціі! Чудовий салон! Дякую!

Hi' lou congratulacion for car show DESOTO thank you lou I'm J.C.DESOTO. from uruguay😮😊

Gorgeous car. Great color!

If i ever own a 58 desoto firedome sportsman, it will be the coolest 50s cars that i ever would love to see one at the dealership, And drive like I can relive the 1950s Era. All The ladies would like me one day. Gotta love about the 50s and 60s cars.

great car Lou, I love it.

Amazing and gorgeous color combination for this great car in perfect, like brand new condition ! I just love this modelyear design ! Cheers for these who restored and take care of it ! This car is one of my ten preferate classic cars in "Americana style" !

Very nice 😀

Dream Machine OMG All the DeSoto Fires were historic monsters; politics; --"radiator water" stretched from coast to coast; on every highway; before the freeways. Cheers!

What a cool car. Great video as always!

Ah, Lou now your talking, what a great car, the Mopar cars of that time were great, and i like the fin cars of that time, a other great show.👍👍.

Very nice car and it brings back some childhood memories. I love anything 1958 as that is my birth year. A neighbor had a DeSoto of this era. I'm not sure if it was a 1958 or not, I was only about 5 at the time. The push buttons and the huge fins are what I remember.

What a glorious car! ❤ I love everything DeSoto! This is muscle I can love, and luxurious as well.

A piece of history ,cool car.Not as familiar with the 50s have to look up more on Desoto.

Given the history of the 1957 Mopars, I'd be reluctant call a color "rust!" Gorgeous car. "Poly" is short for polyspherical, as opposed to hemispherical.

For anyone not familiar with these cars, the camera gives no hint of its length. It had a 126 in. wheelbase, which made it too long for most garages in 1958! Sleek, trim and elegant.

My dad owned three different Chrysler products with pushbutton for the transmission his Dodge was the only one that you had to shove the neutral button then to start it

Wow! What can I say? Loved the 58 DeSoto as a kid and still think it is the nicest car ever made. Would love to find a Fireflite Sportsman four door hardtop in red/white, which I had a JoHan model of when I was a kid. The dealer gave it to me. Is that hood prop rod original? I do not remember them. Thank you so much.

Rad!

THIS was a real looker in its day ! Perfect example of the style and individuality a car used to have ! Now, it's just boring!

You tried, suggesting there was a little straightaway... I wouldn't have missed that clue personally 😄.

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Christine’s Canadian cousin

it`s a CANADIAN thing eh!

I guess that Canadians couldn't handle a hemi? That poly head engine probably has as much power as the hemi.

chryco or no car , ay

What a nice example of a late Desoto. From Lou's interview with L'Donna it sounds like it's driven daily. It's just my opinion but I would just use it as a Sunday car, there is too much to put at risk driving it daily.