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03/04/2024 9:05 am
'53 DeSoto or Oldsmobile?
Be sure to make your selection.
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John Bono
North Jersey
03/04/2024 9:24 am
DeSoto please John. I love its toothy grin and it rode well too.
03/04/2024 9:33 am
The Olds is a Fiesta with its wrap around windshield. Love both but the Fiesta is such a rare car, it has to be Olds.
Topic starter
03/04/2024 9:41 am
The Olds is a Fiesta with its wrap around windshield. Love both but the Fiesta is such a rare car, it has to be Olds.
That it is!
John Bono
North Jersey
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03/04/2024 9:59 am
Definitely the Fiesta. I have the Brooklin turquoise/white and have had the pleasure to see the orange/white 1:1 that the Brooklin special is based on. It's a beautiful car.
Even if it was a lower spec Oldsmobile, it would get my vote, especially with its 'saddle bags' rear fender treatment. However, I like the DeSoto too.
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
03/04/2024 10:07 am
That generation DeSoto is growing on me. But it's not quite there yet. Olds!
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
03/04/2024 10:24 am
The Olds is a special car and knock-out handsome. But the DeSoto has gorgeous contrasting colors, chrome wire wheels and that chrome-toothed smile. DeSoto for me today please.
03/04/2024 10:30 am
@perrone1, it has been said, "Of the 1500 or so cars made in '53 that actually had wire wheels, there are only 5000 remaining."
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John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
03/04/2024 10:32 am
Don't care for the toothy grill, but prefer the DeSoto over any car GMC made in '53.
03/04/2024 12:41 pm
I like the Olds slightly more but prefer the styling of both of these cars much more in '54.
03/04/2024 12:50 pm
@jkuvakas Absolutely!
Same with the 1967 Corvette. There were 3,754 made with the 427-435 hp motor, 16 of the 427-435 with aluminum heads produced, and 20 of the 427-430 [L-88] made.
Today you can triple those numbers.
03/04/2024 9:47 pm
John, could you have made this one any tougher on me? The '53 and '54 DeSoto's are my favorite years of that marque. But then you put it up against a '53 Oldsmobile! You trying to push off the cliff? I went back and forth all day on this one, finally the only thing I could do is "flip-a-coin", declaring that "Heads" I vote for the DeSoto and if it came up "Tails", I vote for the Oldsmobile. I tossed a quarter in the air, it came down, bounced off a table, hit the floor standing on its side next to the table leg. I had no choice but to rule this one a "TIE". 
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
03/04/2024 9:51 pm
Oh, and a question. Why didn't one of the mints in the heyday of the 1:24 scale give us the Oldsmobile Fiesta? They gave us the Cadillac Eldorado, the Buick Skylark, and the Chevy Corvette! BUT NO OLDSMOBILE FIESTA! I will forever believe this was a no-brainer and a major boo-boo on the mints part for not producing it.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
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05/04/2024 8:06 am
Love the Oldsmobile, bit I love the DeSoto more.
John Bono
North Jersey
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