[Dealer Film] 1955 Desoto versus Buick, don't turn on the RADIO!
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- Don't put regular gas in it! Don't turn on the radio! This Buick has issues!
Going on a drive to California! Lets compare the 55 Desoto to the Buick
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The narrative in these film strips is humorous. 1955 was the first year for the Forward Look style DeSoto , very pretty cars which sold really well. Tell them Groucho sent you. But 1955 was a huge sales year for Buick. Thanks for showing this.
Honestly, I like them both! The Buick sweep-spear is one of my favorite accents.
And those Buick "mouse holes"! One of the most mysterious styling quirks in U.S. autos ever.
oh you are gonna start a fight :)
This was the 1955 Buick Line up, At the low end was the Special which was Buicks most popular model three portholes each side. Century which had the same body as the Special, but starting in 1955 the Century had 4 portholes per side even though it still had the Jounior Special body What made the Century unique was that it's Nailhead Buick V8 was the same as any Roadmaster or super, The 1955 Buick Century was Buicks HotRod !!!. The Super and Roadmaster were senior Buicks using the same body as the Oldsmobile 98 and the Cadillacs, The Super being the first of the senior cars and the Roadmaster being the top of the line,
The 1955 DeSoto was the latest of Virgil Exners New works of Automobile art and was the last DeSoto that had the Famous DeSoto teeth'That customizers loved so much!!!!.
Mercury ,Oldsmobile, was in de sotos medium price field ,maybe Hudson , clipper by Packard
One of my top dream cars is the 55 De Soto Coronado.
I'm sorry that your dreams are fckt up !
I'm sorry that your brain is fckd up!@@elfritts9895
And 6 years later Desoto was discontinued.
The world could only handle so many high end brands... and Chrysler merged the brands a little too much :) Olds and Pontiac would follow though eventually... I think China saved the Buick brand.
As with Edsel, they were an in between model in cost. A few dollars more, you could buy a Chrysler. Also, 1957 was a record year for auto sales and 1958 was a recession year.
Chrysler crowded the price class of DeSoto with the Newport and high option Dodge. Made people think why should I get a DeSoto when I can have a Chrysler for a few dollars more. Or why should I get a DeSoto with few options when I can have a Dodge with every option for almost the same price.
Well yes and no. Carried on through Dodge
I notice the Buick has three-tone paint...DeSoto must not have introduced the Coronado (which also had three-tone paint) yet
I'll take one of each, please!
Nice colorization.
Clever story!
My dad had three 1955 Buick Specials. He crashed the first two.
Hilarious how much conversation they have about styling details as if the viewer were blind. Whether or not a car is found to be attractive by the customer cannot be explained to them.
It's no contest because Burt Reynolds never did a movie about a DeSoto nor did Broderick Crawford in hiway patrol maybe de-soto wasn't the best name for an automobile company.
Desotos were no slouch man :) Pontiac held on longer due to GM's market share.
DeS 1955 sales 115,000... Buick 1955 sales 735,000... I guess not many buyers previewed this. Actually both were handsome and competent cars in 1955
Market share is just a number :) and this is the Chrysler sales pitch :)
David Dunbar Buick was Scottish. The protagonist in this story is Irish. I rest my case.
The DeSoto ate the Buick alive in 1955. DeSoto had a Hemi V-8 and TorqueFlite tranny, the Buick had the last straight-8 and "shiftless" DynoFlo true torque converter which killed it off the line. My Auntie Joy owned a '55 Buick and it was big, solid, extremely quiet, but my Dad's co-worker had a DeSoto. Lower to the ground, would eat a Buick for handling, and instead of GM's "feather bed ride" suspension, the DeSoto had a "road-tuned" firmer, but still comfortable ride. At a light, the DeSoto would leave smoking rubber for 200 feet if you floored it. Honestly, the Buick was the middle of 1950's engineering, approaching obsolescence, while the DeSoto was "next generation" design and build and especially power-train. The '55 Fords were definitely "old tech" (last year for flathead V-8's) all the way, including the Mercury's. Women loved the big Buick. It was a true "family sedan" while the De Soto was an early "sports sedan". Since the late 1920's when the were introduced, De Soto's were known as "taxi-cabs" as so many were used for taxis, and even after the War, Chrysler fought that "image". Watch old movies and 9 out of ten taxi's are De Soto's. Chrysler dropped the De Soto in anticipation of them purchasing Packard, which fell thru for political reasons.
The straight 8 was out of all Buicks by 1955
And OHV eights were in Fords in 1954
@@tomservo56954Last Buick with that Fireball straight 8 was the1953 Special by 1955 all Buicks were those nailhead v8s until 1966, except for the 1961 compact Special and Skylark!!!.
@tomservo56954 Oh your talkin' bout the Y block aren't you?.Some folks have forgotten this but Fords first overhead valve engine wasn't the 1954 Yblock but the 1952 I Block 223 cubic inch 6!!!!.
Powerflite 2-speed, not Torqueflite three speed, which was introduced a year later. Note the gear selector on the dash--that only lasted one year before the pushbuttons were introduced.
I look at the Buick and I see the upcoming 1957 Chevrolet. Badge engineering is an old technique! 😅😅😅
Nope. Completely different body. Chevrolet and Pontiac shared the A body, Buick Super and Roadmaster shared the C body with Cadillac.