Hernando de Soto travelled widely, but ended badly, dying of a fever along the Mississippi River in the 1500's. The car named for him fared similarly. I had never seen a DeSoto automobile that was still in running condition at close range until stumbling on one in a back street of Damascus, Syria in April,2007. For years I've had a chrome DeSoto hubcap on my wall, which I found on an abandoned car lying on its roof in the woods near Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania. That hubcap will no doubt make its way into this blog sooner or later. A noble hood ornament if there ever was one... but another example of man's endeavors coming to naught.
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Oh what a collection of museum pieces those Syrian taxi drivers drive :-)
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