Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for April 12, 2011

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    BigChiefDesoto  over 13 years ago

    Nyet! It’s a ‘59 DeSoto.

    http://www.seriouswheels.com/1950-1959/1959-DeSoto-Firedome-Sportsman-Hardtop-Cream.htm

    http://www.unapologeticallyfemale.com/2009/11/vintage-ad-of-day.html

    Remember when ladies were concerned with looking like LADIES!! It’s a rare one when you find THAT anymore, I’ll guarantee you!!!

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    Jeremy_Billadeau  over 13 years ago

    Miss Jeff, but I still love Shoe

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    kreole  over 13 years ago

    A Desoto it is! Those were the days…..

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    Yukoneric  over 13 years ago

    DeMised?

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    pamlicorat  over 13 years ago

    Let it go! Don’t put it on life support.

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    jkoskov  over 13 years ago

    @Dogsniff, good line.

    to add to it….

    It comes in one color… lemon!

    (Add rim shot where appropriate.)

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    MisngNOLA  over 13 years ago

    Big Chief, Dogsniff was making a pun… I’m pretty sure he knows it’s a DeSoto.

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    dsom8  over 13 years ago

    Easter’s coming. Resurrection is it’s only hope!

    (Not to mention that GoComics has already crashed my browser twice this morning! Where do they get their advertisers?)

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    ububobu  over 13 years ago

    Dodge made a Coronet (sp?) model. Perhaps that’s Dogsmiff’s link.

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    COWBOY7  over 13 years ago

    Rickmac1937 - - Both the ‘58 and ‘59 models had the big tail fins, but the trim on the side makes it a ‘59.

    Love those 50’s!!!

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    Dtroutma  over 13 years ago

    The amazing thing with da DeSoto was that the engines usually went on forever while the bodies rotted away(all Chrysler products)- so the longevity of this finned warrior IS remarkable!

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    ellisaana Premium Member over 13 years ago

    The car looks like road kill to me.

    dtroutma - most cars rusted away before the industry figured out rust-proofing…especially in the Pacific NW, NE, Midwest, East Coast and South…. Those lucky enough to live in the dry states (SW and California) still have to contend with dry-rot.

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    ilsapadu  over 13 years ago

    Just frame it and stop driving it. Add up all the money you’ve spent fixing it and fix it that much cosmetically and put it on display. Charge a quarter to see it. My other business is a lemonade stand.

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    BigChiefDesoto  over 13 years ago

    ^ your ‘61 Comet was a Ford product! Need I say more?

    I’ve got FIVE Chrysler products from that era (1958, the one I learned to drive in when it was Dad’s, through 1963). They are ALL the most reliable cars I have ever seen, or I wouldn’t still have them! They have ALL seen neighbor’s cars (certainly Ford’s included! and LOTS of General Motors trash!) come into the world and go to the junk yard regularly! I don’t own any other cars than these. I don’t NEED any other cars than these! They will ALL go well over 100 miles per hour with even the slightest encouragement from me! Yes, I DO live in the desert in California, so idiot governments’ putting salt on the roads in the wintertime is NOT a problem for my cars. But the phenomenal RELIABILITY of all these Chrysler product cars I have is absolutely astonishing! But of course, Shoe wouldn’t be a comic strip if they didn’t make unjustified fun of this De Soto. And, oh, by the way, I’m also a retired mechanical engineer, so I NEVER take these cars to a service station for somebody like “Irv” to screw up because HE never saw one of these cars in his life before either! I grease and maintain these cars myself, because I know what I’m doing!!

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