Pops' Desoto and harley.

if yall are anything like me, i know you love ol pics. I am hoping to find out more info on the car, i have heard its a desoto, unsure of year, i want one badly, but with my luck its prolly pretty hard to come by.

my grandma posing.



is this the same car? doesnt look to have the same trim.


one of his harleys


and last one just for fun.

 

Second car looks like a DeSoto. First one doesn't. The first car looks like a GM (Buick or Chevy???) to me, but I'm a Mopar guy, so who knows...

 

It's not the same car- lower one is a custom '37 Chevy. Great pictures! Thanks, Jim

 

Looks like I was wrong. First pic looks like '39 DeSoto.

 

thanks yall.

are these desotos hard to come by? i have not seen any on here or ebay, thats about the extent i have looked, i dont know of many other places.

 

They come up from time to time. Check Craigslist also. And of course Hemmings.

 

your g-maw was hot

 

The 37' Chevy is seriously cool.

 

Thanks... I guess

 

Harley is 66-67 shovelhead motor.Known as Electraglide because of the electric starter.

 

Last photo is a purebred horned Hereford most likely a steer ready for butchering. Sorry, I just didn't want to feel left out.........

 

you are dead on with the bull!!

that photo was used in the local newspaper, i will have to find out the story behind it, but it has to be good, because i dont see why he would have killed a bull on duty, just to slaughter it, but it was the good ol days.

 

any idea what year this harley is? deffinatly an older pic by at least 10 years.

 

Could have also been a mean bull that had someone's life in danger. Many farmers or ranchers were killed by their "tame" herd bulls back in the day.

 

cool pics................
looks kinda like mayberry,,,,,,
is your name opie by any chance?

 

The older Harley appears to be a Panhead. Rigid. Pre-Duoglide.

 

The Desoto may be harder to find than a Ford of Chevy but it'll sure be easier to afford.

Some advice - When you find one tell the seller that you are really hunting a Ford... but for the right price you might "settle" for the Desoto.

JH

 

well that would make me opie jr.

thats good the hear about the DeSoto being cheaper than a ford or chevy, i would have thought the complete opposite.

 

Were those pictures taken in Tulsa? I grew up there in that era.

 

In the "dead bull" picture he has a Smith & Wesson 38 spl. amd a M1 Carbine just like mine!

 

Wishbone frame and Hydraglide frontend puts the Harley somewhere between 1949 and 1954. There are ways of narrowing it down (like tank emblems), but that should get you in the ballpark.
I've heard of bulls getting loose at slaughter houses and running amuck in towns. Looks like this picture could be something like that.
Larry T

 

yes, there is a chance the early harley pic was from Arkansas, he grew up in Brinkley, Ar, but i believe after the war, they were in Tulsa.

We still have the smith and wesson, but its a 44, not a 38. it was my great grandfathers (his dads) which was a Tulsa Police Chief.

 

Seach on here for DeSoto, and you will find several different threads. One about a month ago was from Rolec in the Netherlands, looking for tips on customizing one. If they can get them over the Pond, you should be able to find one here.

 

This appears to be a circa 49-54 Panhead.In 55 they went to a straight leg frame where the front down tubes were straight.

 

Asphalt, LarryT, ha, all these years I thought those were "57 straight frames". So the straight front legs stayed that way until the swing arm came to be. When did the Swing arm come out?

I notice that is a "full dress" harley. It's got the "crash bars" or roll bars as we used to call them. If you dropped your bike they stopped the tank, pedals, or primary from getting smashed into the ground. Suppossedly easier to pick the bike up too, kinda rolled itself up on those protruding bars. It's unusual that a dresser like that does not have that giant seat for two. And if you had that accessory pad for the tank, you could ride 3 in an emergency.