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Thread Number: 37316
/ Tag: Other Home Products or Autos
1959 Desoto Firesweep Sweepy |
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| Post# 398205 9/14/2018 at 08:53 (2,043 days old) by Luxy1205 (Wilmington, IL) | ||
Hi everyone! I hope super-sweeper Alex will see this! I finally posed with my Sweepy like the 1958 Desoto ad!
Sweepy still hasn't been restored yet! I just got my title for him, so he is legally mine! I also bought a 58 Plymouth Savoy named Little Red that needs a complete restoration, I got my dad's 1964 Chevy Impala I named Lily that he had since I was 7, I am restoring her right now, and I got a 1967 Pontiac Lemans named Mr. Blue that we got going this year and have taken him on many car show adventures! -Michelle | ||
| Post# 398264 , Reply# 1 9/14/2018 at 23:49 (2,043 days old) by dartman (Portland OR) | ||
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When I was a little kid those were the 10 year old cars we could get dirt cheap. We had a 57 Plymouth wagon with a 315 poly, a 60 full size Dart 4 door, 55 Cadillac coupe de ville hard top, and others in the immediate family and parts cars. Both of the Mopars still used the push button torqueflights. | ||
| Post# 398277 , Reply# 2 9/15/2018 at 02:09 (2,042 days old) by midcenturyfan (Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England) | ||
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| Post# 398284 , Reply# 3 9/15/2018 at 12:25 (2,042 days old) by Luxy1205 (Wilmington, IL) | ||
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Dartman
That's amazing how cheap classics used to be! Any forwardlook fetches a good price now! I could only afford the ones that need a bit of tlc! Those are some nice cars you had there! My Desoto has push buttons and a 2 speed Powerflite. My 58 Plymouth Savoy named Little Red has a 3 on the tree and a flat 6.
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| Post# 398285 , Reply# 4 9/15/2018 at 12:32 (2,042 days old) by Luxy1205 (Wilmington, IL) | ||
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Midcenturyfan
Thank you very much! I too have a Savoy! I have a 58 Plymouth Savoy named Little Red! He needs a complete restoration. Little Red has a 3 on the tree and a flat 6! I sure will keep updates! I have 4 classics! I will have to sit down sometime and post about all of them!
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Post# 398289 , Reply# 5 9/15/2018 at 13:24 (2,042 days old) by JustJunque  (Western MA) |
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Beautiful '58!
I know Little Red is a Savoy sedan, but from certain angles, there's a definite resemblance to "Christine".
As a side note, Christine was a '58 Fury. But, I remember reading somewhere that the Fury wasn't actually available in red in 1958. I guess they just wanted her to be red for the story/movie to make her look more evil. I don't think Little Red looks evil, by the way. When I look at a car like that, I just see images of happy family outings, picnics, state fairs, etc. Men and boys in suits and hats, women and girls in dresses. Yes, yours needs restoration, but looks like a nice solid original starting point! Good luck with all of your projects! And yes...pictures please! Barry | ||
| Post# 398315 , Reply# 6 9/16/2018 at 00:26 (2,041 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
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| Post# 398331 , Reply# 8 9/16/2018 at 10:34 (2,041 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
Hi Michelle,
Always good to hear from you. You always have the coolest projects going. Sounds like your plate is full of car projects for the foreseeable future. My favorite car we had from that era when I was a kid was a'59 Oldsmobile Fiesta 88 wagon, silver with a white top. It's the only car we ever had that got a name. It was the Grey Ghost. I just picked up a vehicular toy myself, albeit a little newer than yours. It's a '95 Cutlass Supreme convertible. I had a '91 CS coupe as my daily driver about 20 years ago and always sort of regretted selling it. This one's the same color--bright red--so it reminds me of that one but also fills a desire I've always had for a convertible. Amazingly, at 23 years old, is in about as good a shape as the coupe was when I last saw it. Part of the appeal is the car needs very little work and I can enjoy it immediately--which I am. I wish I had the time, facilities, expertise--and money--to take on a more ambitious project but as a humble English professor who occasionally likes turning a wrench, the '95 was the best option. I actually inherited two vintage convertibles from my dad--a '64 Olds Dynamic 88 and a '67 Cutlass Supreme--neither of which have been on the road in 25 or 30 years--and the more I thought about it, the more I felt like I was staring down an open money pit with either of them, even selling one to cover at least some of the cost of restoring the other. So now I'm selling both, enjoying the '95 convertible--and most importantly--putting some money in the bank. Michelle, any name suggestions?
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| Post# 398826 , Reply# 9 9/26/2018 at 21:34 (2,031 days old) by Dustin (Jackson, MI) | ||
Nice Oldsmobile! I had a 96 Cutlass Supreme sedan, and I absolutely loved that car. I would honestly love to own another one someday. I would probably still be driving it, it ran perfect and had low miles, but it had spent all it's life in northern Michigan and rust had it's way. When I finally let it go there was literally nothing holding the rear axle in place (Both rear trailing arms had rusted out of the frame and would bang on the bottom of the car when going over bumps) so needless to say it wasn't safe to drive anymore. I sold it as parts, running and driving, because I couldn't handle taking it to the junk yard. I still cried when it left for the final time. Someone must have repaired it somehow though, I moved shortly after selling it, and believe it or not the car ended up in my new town, 4 hours away, and I saw it a few times. Haven't seen it in several years now, I assume it finally met it's end.
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| Post# 398827 , Reply# 10 9/26/2018 at 22:17 (2,031 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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Best Olds I ever had Was a 65 Ninety Eight Luxury Sedan...a friend had a new 80 something IROC and I out ran him...liked to embarrassed him to death...LOL, 360 horsepower will pull 4200 pounds,,,LOL | ||
| Post# 398881 , Reply# 11 9/28/2018 at 10:17 (2,029 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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My grandfather would agree with you, Hans. One of my earliest car-related memories was my grandmother seat belting me into the front seat of their '65 Ninety-Eight (no booster seat) to ride to their house. They kept that car into the '70s, replacing it with a '70 Cadillac Sedan Deville in about 1973. A couple of years after that, got passed on to the housekeeper (shades of 'Driving Miss Daisy') and was subsequently stolen and totaled. It seemed like every car they got after that would get compared to the '65 Olds and the '70 Cadillac and always seemed to come up wanting in one way or another, even two other '70 Cadillacs that came and went fairly quickly.
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| Post# 400964 , Reply# 14 11/16/2018 at 18:56 (1,980 days old) by Luxy1205 (Wilmington, IL) | ||
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| Post# 400969 , Reply# 15 11/16/2018 at 19:07 (1,980 days old) by Luxy1205 (Wilmington, IL) | ||
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Human
Thank you! That's awesome that you got a car you like! That's a nice looking Olds! I agree, all of my classics do add up cost wise to build! How about Ophelia for a name? I always liked that name!
I have a : 64 Chevy Impala named Lily 67 Pontiac Lemans named Mr. Blue 58 Plymouth Savoy named Little Red 59 Desoto Firesweep named Sweepy 85 Ford F250 truck named Moose I just bought Moose last weekend! Drove him 2 and half hours home one way! Nice talking with you! -Michelle | ||
| Post# 409814 , Reply# 16 5/27/2019 at 00:10 (1,789 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.) | ||
Blair The Belair 
I haven't written for a long spell now, but her she is in all her glory, within the shadow of the BB60 (Alabama). Supersweep, where is you me old-time friend!?
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| Post# 409859 , Reply# 17 5/27/2019 at 23:10 (1,788 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
Hola
There are some sweet old cars. My father's dream car is 1956 Bel air 2 door hard top. I have a list of never going to get are.
1970 olds 442 convertible with 455 and Hurst edition. 1963 aqua blue split window Corvette 1967-1969 Camaro or firebird with a Chevy 327. 1969 as 396 Chevelle. I'll never own any but I can dream. We're early Plymouth/Dodge called Mopar Greetings calem I've read alot of your posts. Les | ||
| Post# 409882 , Reply# 18 5/28/2019 at 17:10 (1,787 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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