15 September 2017

Your father’s Suburban

By icefogger

1948 DeSoto Suburban

DeSoto built the long wheel based Suburban from 1946 through 1954.

This particular Suburban was purchased new in Connecticut and used by the Mount Washington Hotel of Bretton Woods, NH.

The car had several variations over it’s nine year run. I do like the suicide doors.

Complete with third row seating.

This particular DeSoto is powered by a 236ci Flathead straight six, coupled to DeSoto’s Tip-Toe Shift, which was their version of the semi-automatic transmission.

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Just a basic, down to Earth, laid back type of guy here, who loves the outdoors, the indoors, jazz on the turntable, a fire in the woodstove, the northern lights blazing across the sky, and the company of good friends. View all posts by icefogger

This entry was posted on Friday, September 15th, 2017 at 5:27 AM and tagged with desoto, driving, history, photo, suburban and posted in cars. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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3 responses to “Your father’s Suburban”

• Larry
  September 15th, 2017 at 2:52 PM

  Sweet !!!! Love the suicide doors and the great wood.

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• Larry
  September 16th, 2017 at 11:09 PM

  Can we get one for the 2018 Frozen Four ????

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  • icefogger
    September 17th, 2017 at 3:39 AM

    It is a sweet car. I believe the DeSoto is still available, since it failed to make reserve at it’s recent auction. The high bid was $19,000 and some change, so we may have to all go in on it together. It would be the perfect Frozen Four vehicle.

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