DeSoto quickly capitalized on the performance car Chrysler had developed with the famous 300 models and created the Adventurer model in 1957. Featuring a Hemi engine with dual four-port carburetors that delivered 345 horsepower from the 345 engine combined with a push-button automatic transmission, the car fit perfectly into Virgil Exner’s “Forward Look” design language and is perhaps the most extravagant of all Mopar cars from the late 1950s.
As standard, the Adventurer was fully equipped with a push-button Torqueflite automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes, dual exhaust pipes, push-button radio, dual rear antennas, dual exterior mirrors and padded dashboard, and gold-colored hubcaps to mark the “luxury” ADVENTURER!
The base price for the car was $3,997.
Only 1,650 examples were built in this two-door hardtop version, making it one of the rarest and most exclusive high-performance cars of the late 1950s.
This car was imported by the “DeSoto guru” Arne Nilsson in Torsby in the early -90’s as a very nice, stainless steel item from northern California, in recent years fully restored by a well-known gentleman here in Sweden who knows what he is doing and thus the car is in a fantastic condition!
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