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We all miss the inimitable POLAЯ , but at least we've got some DOTSBE photos that he shot on the streets of his native Toronto before running off to become Maximum Warlord of the Trilateral Commission. First up is this remarkably unrusty '59 DeSoto; make the jump to see the entire gallery and read some classic POLAЯisms galleryPost('DOTSBETorontoFireflite', 9, '1959 DeSoto Down On The Toronto Street'); This is one of two beauties that are within a block of each other, parked on a main artery in downtown Toronto! First up, I found what I believe to be a 1959 Desoto Fireflite four door. While taking the pictures at 10:30 a.m., a guy three sheets to the wind stumbles out of the house it's parked in front of, and although he's not the owner, he tells me that he knows the owner and says the car has not been not restored! She's beauty marked with some rust here and there, but aside from that she looks pretty solid for an almost 50 year old automobile. Drunk...
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Some grumbling about the non-wagon nature of yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll (which was won, unsurprisingly, by the '38 Traction-Avant) was heard around these parts, but I usually write PCH posts the night before... and the Maximum Wagon Day thing just sort of happened without warning. So, even though we've seen plenty of wagons here recently, we're having an all-out American Dream Station Wagon Edition PCH today... and we don't mean the kind of wagons with easy-to-find parts! What's better than a 50s station wagon with vast expanses of chrome and crazy swooping body lines? Yes, you got it: a 50s station wagon with vast expanses of chrome and crazy swooping body lines and a Hemi! Just imagine the kind of hooned-up family vacations that were had in this 1955 DeSoto Firedome wagon (go here if the ad disappears) back in the day, with the unbelted kids and dogs wrestling in the back, Mom and Dad chain-smoking unfiltered Luckies up front, Patsy Cline on the AM,...
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