Item Info
Item No: arcd05608
Title: Chrysler De Soto Fire Dome V-8 Automatic - 1954
Media Type:
Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
Notes: De Soto Division, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. Head-on view of new De Soto Automatic Fire Dome V-8. De Soto's 1954 "forward-motion" styling theme produces a car that is longer, lower, wider in appearance. "Forward=motion" styling elements seen in this view include: massive, smoothly contoured bumper and guards, new "floating" grille with grille bars carrying the same styling motif of the guards, a broad band of chrome encircling the grille, new hooded headlights topped with decorative fin, with matching treatment in the new parking lights, set in either end of the grille.
Creation Year: 1953
Tools
- Pan and Zoom
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