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. <\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n
The base price for the car was $3,997.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n
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