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Bill and All After The Front Clip is changed- what else is needed to make it appear as a De Soto ? Rodger & Gabby GibaGab@msn.com ( not the em...
All I support The Ideal from James and to have The Annual Convention moved to every other year. The 2014 Annual Convention to be the staring point o...
Lisa As you start learning ( with some contacting of The 1950 Tech Advisor ), soon you will realize The 1949 and The 1950 Cars are The Same and yet n...
James With all engines the heat of The Exhaust Gas Molicules are "large" when hot and get "smaller" as they cool. This is why ...
Bob Aguire all the needed items/ suppies to do a correct "Pre-Painting" task. Triples on every item is OK. Then let as many as possible me...
Bob Which means if they can drive from Saint Paul to your place --- you can drive to Lake Elmo this July. There is a class for you when you arrive (...
Bob The Window Crank Handles or most of the other items you listed have very little reasoning to install the GM Unit. **** When you do open the hoo...
Gordon The Flat head Engine is a bolt in for any era De Soto and I feel as others could use it if you let the location of your city/ town be know. ...
Gordon I forgot to say the LA-318 ( of any year of V8 ) will not match the bolt holes or Starter location of your 1949 Bell Housing. Rodger &...
Gordon The 1986 LA-318 will better fit the Engine Bay of your 1949 De Soto better if you have a 1975 to 1988 Car Exhaust Manifold on The Left Side be...
Bob Most MoPar Owners do not get close to speaking with others about using GM anything in their vehicles so the response that you are asking may be l...
Bill Because of the location of the Fuel Pump it is a very hard item to do some "parking lot guru editing on". Why not just go to your lo...
Gorden Welcome to The De Soto Club's Site. Your 1949 ( and 1950 ) De Soto is much equal to The Olds 76 Series or Mercury's if you look at to whom t...
James This is the type of help-full information that all of us can learn about. Thank you for not only doing "The Study" but most of all s...
Tim If you are using a 1956 330 such as what came with a 56 Se Ville of course The 56 and 57 anything. Going to earlier years start at the 1952 Prod...