Re: [FWDLK] '60 DeSoto convertible

[spencer <bluemoon61@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I also took some photos of this car in 89' at the Chrysler show/swap that was
held at L.A. Pierce College that year;  will see if those pics can be
located...............                Spencer 61' Newport

Wayne Graefen wrote:

> I took digital photos of the '60 DeSoto convertible that was sold at the
> 2001 Barrett-Jackson auction.  Consignor was a very large collection in
> Albuquerque, as I recall, and he probably had 75 cars, mostly nice originals
> for sale there.  I had seen this same DS in Los Angeles numerous years ago
> (mid '80s?) at a WPC swap meet and it had just been completed (or nearly so)
> at the time.  It is a light metallic blue.  I remember speaking to the owner
> at the WPC meet who said he had used a DeSoto coupe and the mechanism, etc.
> from a '60 Chrysler Windsor convertible to build the car.  The car sold at a
> fair price for its very slightly deteriorated condition at the '01 BJ
> auction.