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Adventures Magazine - DeSoto Fuel Gage System

Paul Murkowicz — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:07:05 +0000

I am back to tweaking my 1953 DeSoto S16 V8. I believe I have the charging system working correctly. I will find out when I take it for a drive tomorrow.

The fuel gage read empty so I put about 7 gallons in it. It still reads empty so I am going to see if I can get this working. There was a very good article in the Adventures magazine but I do not know what issue it is in. I believe it could have been in the last two years so I will check those issues and probably more. Does anyone know or does anyone have any kind of index of subjects discussed in case it is a lot further back? My gage was working at that time. I believe the car sitting for a while caused this problem. Thank you in advance for any help.

Adventures Magazine - DeSoto Fuel Gage System

Paul Murkowicz — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:06:55 +0000

I am back to tweaking my 1953 DeSoto S16 V8. I believe I have the charging system working correctly. I will find out when I take it for a drive tomorrow.

NDC Member Open House During Hershey

DavidFrank — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:01:24 +0000

All NDC members attending Hershey are invited to attend an open house at fellow NDC member Hank Hallowell's Mopar collection on Thursday, October 8th, from 3-6. For anyone interested, contact Hank via the info in the club roster. I don't want to post his personal info or address here for privacy reasons.

Rare Adventurer For Sale

DavidFrank — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:57:13 +0000

This is NOT mine. I did decode it and it's the real deal, a very rare mostly gold with black sweep and roof '56 Adventurer. One of only 2-3 known to still exist in those colors and seems like a good deal. Comes with another Adventurer as a parts car. Serial number 50384359.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1076862378280279/?referralSurface=messenger_banner&referralCode=2&ref=messenger_banner

Photos included for when the link disappears eventually.

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Any schedule get together at Hershey for the NDC members. Has anyone organized a location, date and time

RichardHartung — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:28:32 +0000

Well MECA is calling all of us AACA members and also Desoto owners to attend the greatest antique swap mee on the east coast.

Has any one member and or Trustee scheduled to have a meet and greet at one of the vender sites during the week for us DeSoto owners or has this idea been pushed under the rug with no thought of any type of get together again.

Lots of members live on the east coast and attend the Hershey swap meet. Please post at meeting location, date and time.

Hershey is only about 3 weeks away

RichardHartung — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:24:51 +0000

If you are planning to attend the Hershey swap meet Oct 6-9 remember that the first official day of sell is Tuesday 10/6/26 and the last day 10/9/26 is the official car show day. There are still some venders left in the fields but most have left by Thursday night.

If you plan to attend you can stop by the site of Rich Hartung GAE 14-15. We will be in the Green Field on thrid street. Unfortunately Les Pessavento who also shared the site with my will not beable to attend this year. All Desoto owners and MoPar owners are welcome to chat and take a rest from walk the fields. I plan to be onsite on Monday 10/5/26 to setup and then do some walking around to look for some great buys.

Rich Hartung

Desoto1939@aol.com

'58 Firedome Ambulance disc brake conversion

Shawn Saving — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:13:52 +0000

Not much news to report on the ambulance but I am piecing together everything I need for the front disc conversion. I got the basic stuff from aajbrakes but I've run into a little trouble finding the proper dual master cylinder (MC571). Has anyone recently purchased one? So far, I've only found it from Mancini Racing ($110) and Pirate Jack (comes with an underneath adjustable proportioning valve for $185). Trying to search other sites but part of the problem is that "MC571" gets me nowhere, or gets confused with a modern Nissan m/c. And I'm getting conflicting information about which applications this fits - 60-74 B-Body or 73-78 B-Body? (even then, there seem to be a several different ones used).

According to Roger, for use with the RPB8001 booster, specs are
1-1/8" bore
9/16" and 1/2" ports on left side

I believe the Bendix casting number is 2225621

I've got a call back in to Roger but he's not an internet guy sonot sure he's going to be up to date on latest availability of parts.

With Centric going bankrupt, it has thrown a real wrench in the works. I was able to find a good interchange listing for rotors on parts hawk but not for a m/c yet.

thanks

the Hershey October swap meet is only 10 weeks away

RichardHartung — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:28:36 +0000

If you are in need of any parts for your 1939 DeSoto please let me know. I have four sites in the Green Field GAE14-17. I can bring the parts to Hershey and save on the shipping costs.

Just let me know what you are looking for and you email and phone number so I can get in touch with you. Lots of NOS and other very hard parts to find.

Also refer to my posting of some of the major items that I have for sale in the classified section.

Rich Hartung

Desoto1939@aol.com

C: 484-431-8157