Yahoo Autos Junkyard Gem: 1947 Dodge Custom Club Coupe
As we've seen in this series, most Detroit four-door sedans of the postwar era aren't worth much to enthusiasts and they continue to be discarded after languishing for many decades in fields and driveways. Chrysler products of the 1940s and 1950s are particularly vulnerable to this grim fate, particularly ones with flathead straight-six engines (i.e., most of them), and I've found plenty in just the last few years. Coupes, on the other hand, are worth something and tend be better at avoiding that sad tow-truck ride to the nearest Ewe Pullet. The bad news here is that today's two-door Junkyard Gem now resides in such a place, but the good news is that that place is a family-owned yard near Denver that will sell whole cars and not just parts.
I know it's a 1947 because the body number shows that it came out of the Dodge Main plant in Hamtramck that year.
CAP seems to believe it's a (nearly identical) DeSoto, but this dash badge shows the Dodge family crest and not the image of Hernando DeSoto. I've long admired those elegant Bakelite knobs on the dashes of this era of Plymouth/Dodge/DeSoto vehicles.
