Equipment
Skirts, whitewalls, Orange steel spoke wheels. Fair repaint in an odd color, good upholstery and interior trim. Failing chrome, dirty chassis. A well used old restoration than needs some expensive attention. No Reserve.
Market commentary
This price is as good as this cars erratic and inconsistent condition warrants. Its superficial cosmetics do nothing to enhance the expectation of mechanical quality even though the consignor says it runs and drives anywhere, VERY reliable. Airflows were an important advance in engineering and aerodynamic design but were offered to a public indifferent to anything but predictable reliability in the depths of the Great Depression. DeSoto built only 6,843 of the revised 1935 models, their survival rate is low. They have a well deserved following among collectors who appreciate engineering and design, but that is a small segment and therefore they bring modest prices like this.