IF YOU GOWhat: National DeSoto Club Car Show and Rally.When: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.Where: Camp Jordan Amphitheater and Pavilion, 323 Camp Jordan Parkway.Admission: Free.Phone: 490-0078.
Richard Carpenter likes them. Cosmo Fishhawk drives one. You couldn’t walk a block in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles in 1960 without seeing one dressed as a taxi.
They’re DeSotos, a discontinued car model made by the Chrysler Corp. from 1928 to 1960, and you can see a number of them around the Chattanooga area this weekend.
Judii Krasienko, vice president of the National DeSoto Club, said there likely will be 40 to 50 cars from around the country at this weekend’s National DeSoto Club Car Show and Rally at Camp Jordan Amphitheater and Pavilion.
“The cars are so different,” she said of the model, which featured a stylized head of explorer Hernando de Soto.