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Six and the City: 1928

San Francisco, 1928. "DeSoto Six sedan." Perhaps doing some advance location scouting for Jimmy Stewart's Firedome coupe three decades hence. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

San Francisco, 1928. "DeSoto Six sedan." Perhaps doing some advance location scouting for Jimmy Stewart's Firedome coupe three decades hence. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

 

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Coupe?

Jimmy Stewart's '56 Desoto was actually a Firedome 2 door hardtop not a coupe. A coupe would be a 2 door Vehicle with a B pillar. Great Hitchock movie with dozens of 40 & 50 vehicles to identify.

[Um, no. A coupe can be any two-door car. For example the Cadillac Coupe deVille, among the very first hardtops. Jimmy Stewart's car was a Firedome two-door Sportsman, "Sportsman" being DeSoto lingo for hardtop. (Proprietary lingo for hardtops in the 1950s had an exotic taxonomy: Over at Oldsmobile (below), hardtops were "Holidays"; at Buick, they were "Rivieras"; Pontiac hardtops were "Catalinas"; at Chrysler they were "Newports"; at Lincoln, "Landaus"; Imperial hardtops were "Southamptons"; pillarless Mercurys were "Phaetons.") Coupes with B-pillars were generally called two-door sedans or business coupes. - Dave]

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