DeSoto Custom
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 DeSoto Custom Sedan 4 doors (1949)
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| Custom | |
| Production period: | 1946-1952 |
| Class : | upper middle class |
| Body versions : | Sedan , station wagon , coupé , convertible |
| Engines: |
Otto engine : 3.8 liters (80 kW) |
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| successor | DeSoto Powermaster |
The DeSoto Custom was a passenger car that Chrysler manufactured under the DeSoto brand from 1946 to 1952. During this time the Custom was the series with the best equipment, offered with many different bodies, including on a chassis with an extended wheelbase as a Suburban sedan.
The Custom, like the more simply equipped Deluxe , was powered by a Chrysler six-cylinder with 3808 cc displacement and side-mounted valves, the 109 bhp (80 kW) at 3600 rpm. performed.
The custom models of the model years 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1949 (1st half) had the pre-war bodies from DeSoto. In the second half of the 1949 model year, a completely redesigned car appeared.
In 1950 the first station wagon was brought out. The DeSoto's series also got its first hardtop coupé, which without the B-pillars looked almost like a convertible.
The Custom lost its status as DeSoto's top model with the introduction of the Firedome with V8 engine in 1952. In 1953 DeSoto let the Custom and the Deluxe phase out; the Powermaster was then DeSoto's six-cylinder series.
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source
Gunnell, John (editor): The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975 , Kraus Publications (1987), ISBN 0-87341-096-3 .