http://www.classiccar.com/forum/categories/kaiser-frazer/p2/feed.rss Tue, 21 May 13 21:40:32 +0000 Kaiser - Frazer Discussions on Classic Car Forum en-CA http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/38503/1951-frazer-burning-distributor-wire Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:41:34 +0000 fyrchieftx 38503@/forum/discussions http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/29428/where-do-the-k-f-guys-hang-out Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:53:26 +0000 Martin200 29428@/forum/discussions http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/29898/door-lock-troubles Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:44:24 +0000 Martin200 29898@/forum/discussions
Is this a relatively easy enough fix that an auto body or auto upholstery shop with some good classic car experience should still be able to fix it? Or will this require special K-F parts to fix? I do not have the means to take the door panel off since I have no manuals or diagrams, and I do not want to wreck what is otherwise an excellent door panel. Any advice or expertise would be appreciated. Thanx.... Tom]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/27692/help-with-motor Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:53:55 +0000 CT 27692@/forum/discussions
Also, I have seen an ad for a non-running Kaiser Super Sonic 6L161 engine for sale. Would this be nearly the same? And any advice on a good rebuilder for this type of engine in the Midwest would be appreciated.]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/25964/kaiser-axle Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:13:16 +0000 kringer 25964@/forum/discussions http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/25190/need-maroon-engine-paint-for-03954-kaiser Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:23:45 +0000 Martin200 25190@/forum/discussions http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/22860/long-gone-03955-manhattan Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:24:12 +0000 CountryCar 22860@/forum/discussions http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/20694/help-need-6v-reg-convert-to-solid-state Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:55:16 +0000 Martin200 20694@/forum/discussions without changing the external appearance. The name of the outfit was Mark Shields Electronics out of Hazen, North Dakota. This was done by removing the coils and related hardware and substituting a circut board. The old cover went back on and it was good as new. The board also had a potentiometer for operating with an 8-volt battery on a six-volt system. I tried Googling this outfit and found nothing. Is there anyone out there that still does this, or is Mark Shields still doing this under a different name? All I can find on the internet is converters for allowing your 6-volt gauges and radio to work on a 12-volt system. I am not going through all the rigamarole of converting the car to 12 volts when the 6-volt systems work as good now as they did then; I just want a little added insurance that it will continue to do so. Any leads? Hope to hear from you soon.]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/5261/looking-for-info-on-selling- Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:01:48 +0000 5261@/forum/discussions Lanearas@yahoo.com



Thanks!]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/14632/mccullough-supercharger-to-be-sold Fri, 02 Dec 2005 05:19:54 +0000 JasonNC 14632@/forum/discussions KFjasper3@charter.net (remove the KF first) and I'll email you some pictures. It's going on ebay after Xmas.]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/1458/kaiser-cars-made-in-argentina- Wed, 07 Jul 2004 21:10:21 +0000 frassinetti 1458@/forum/discussions
IKA –Kaiser Industries Argentina- was founded on January 19th 1955. The Argentinean government and the American businessman Henry Kaiser associated to establish an automobile industrial plant in the country.
Located in Santa Isabel, Córdoba, this was the first national automobile industrial plant. The Kaiser Industrial Center had about two hundred and forty hectares, where, after ten prosperous years, more than eleven hundred workers were employed.
On April 22nd 1955, the worldly famous Kaiser Jeep was, for the first time, produced and sold in Argentina. The next year, specially designed for rural purposes, the Estanciera enters the market, an icon regarding merchandize transportation that converged car’s commodities and velocity with the dimensions requested by transportation companies for shipping the products; also, this vehicle was more than suitable for the rocky Argentinean roads.
By 1958 the first car to be produced in the country by chain of montage was the Kaiser Carabela sedan. After launching this vehicle to the market, IKA controlled more than the 81% of the national car production.
IKA maintained it’s high productivity all along it’s short history, launching to the market almost one new model per year. In 1959 Baqueano, in 1960 Kaiser Bergantín and the Dauphine (also the Gordini version), in 1962 the famous Rambler, licensed by American Motors, in 1964 it produced a new Jeep: the Gladiator, and by December with less than ten plants in the country IKA exceeds the 250.000 autos production.
By April 1965 the company produces a new Rambler with Tornado engine, and includes this powerful engine to other models such as the Estanciera and the Gladiator Jeep. On October that year, IKA buys SIAM auto industries increasing even more its vertiginous growth.
In 1966 the Torino, IKA’s first integral national product enters the market. One year latter, on November 1967 Régie Nationale des Usines, Renault joins IKA. From then on, Kaiser would no longer be IKA, but IKA-Renault, a very profitable partnership that would soon give birth to mass consumption models such as the Renault 12. This opens a new era in the Argentinean car industry.
As for after 1975, the plant located at Santa Isabel would no longer be IKA, but Renault Argentina S.A.]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/6160/kaisers-in-georgia Tue, 17 May 2005 03:08:02 +0000 Trog 6160@/forum/discussions http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=297144&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1



Rojo22

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KAISER- Anyone interested in KAISERS????

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Went to south Georgia to pick up a Crosley for a nice gentleman and came across 3 1950's Kaisers. They will be crushed if I cannot find a home for them. I can bring the cars up to Atlanta, but I need someone who loves these things to come get them. Prices are cheap, 1200.00 for all three, and they have tons of parts, glass, and engines to make them very worthwhile. About the only thing not good on these cars will be the floorboards. If we dont have any interest here, can you guys point me in a direction, at least get the cars to someone who will give them a chance? I know the spirit of the "orphan" is strong....]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/4031/gas-guzzling-supercharger Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:16:09 +0000 4031@/forum/discussions


Thanks,

Jason]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/271/henry-kaiser-and-joe-frazer Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:01:47 +0000 271@/forum/discussions When Henry Kaiser and Joe Frazer teamed up after World War II to form a car-building enterprise called the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, both were already successful entrepreneurs. Kaiser's fame came from construction. His company participated in building the mighty Hoover Dam, and built Liberty Ships during the war.



Frazer had worked his way up from Packard mechanic to the presidency of Willys-Overland and then Graham-Paige. When K-F was formed, he controlled Graham-Paige Motor Corp., which had been active in war work but hadn't built a car since 1940.



They formed Kaiser-Frazer in July, 1945, to challenge the established auto manufacturers who had managed to survive the Depression. These were the Big Three (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler) and the Little Four (Nash, Hudson, Studebaker and Packard). Crosley was also present with its tiny cars and small production.



With no pre-war models to lean on, K-F had to design its cars from the ground up. There would be two nameplates for virtually identical cars: the popular-priced Kaiser and the upscale Frazer.



After testing such advanced features as front-wheel drive, torsion bar suspension and unit construction, K-F settled on a conventional body-on-frame, front-engine, rear drive car. Stylist Howard "Dutch" Darrin produced a full envelope, slab-sided design whose fender line ran straight and level from front to rear. With a long 3137 mm (123.5 in.) wheelbase, the K-F provided between- the-axles seating, which gave ample legroom and a good ride.



To speed development and save money, the firm used a modified Continental industrial 3.7 litre (260 cu in.) engine. This side-valve six developed 100 horsepower, and following some initial quality problems, K-F began manufacturing them itself under licence in 1947.



The K-F crew had its first two cars ready to show by January, 1946. They were well received, and K-F acquired the huge Willow Run bomber plant near Detroit, Michigan. Production was under way by June of 1946, and the cars were introduced as '47 models.



It was a real seller's market right after the Second World War. The war had shut down auto production from 1942 to '45, resulting in a huge pent-up demand for new cars. Kaiser-Frazer couldn't have started selling their very similar Kaisers and Frazers - the grille was the main difference - at a better time.



Things got off to a good start with total sales of more than 139,000 of the 1947 Kaiser and Frazer models. The 1948 cars saw few changes, and sales held at about the same level.



But competition was increasing. There was the all-new Raymond Loewy-designed '47 Studebaker, followed by the '48 "Step Down" Hudson. Then in 1949, the transition to post-war designs was complete with the Big Three's all-new styling and Nash's redesigned "Airflyte" series.



With the change to a buyer's market the combined sales of the 1949-50 Kaiser-Frazers, still little changed, fell to just over 120,000 cars. Something had to be done, and stylist Darrin, who had left the company and then returned, was able to accomplish it. With the assistance of stylist Duncan McRae, he created the 1951 K-F line, coming up with one of the most beautiful designs of the '50s.



Gone were the former boxiness and straight fenders. They were replaced by a low beltline with a gentle dip at the rear door, which followed the motif of the "Darrin Dip" at the top of the windshield. A particularly glamorous model was the Golden Dragon.



Large windows, a nicely integrated grille, and imaginative interior-exterior styling made the '51 Kaiser a winner. There was a '51 Frazer too, but few were sold. After a disagreement with Henry Kaiser, Joe Frazer had left the company and the Frazer nameplate would soon disappear. With its new styling and the addition of a compact car called the Henry J, K-F sales jumped to 231,608 for 1951.



The Kaiser had one serious disadvantage, however: the lack of a V-8 engine. The old side-valve cubic inch six just couldn't match the performance and smoothness of its eight-cylinder competition.



Nineteen fifty-two was the beginning of the end for K-F's car building efforts in North America, which included assembling cars in Toronto in 1950-51, when sales dropped to 57,265. The following year they would be down to 46,398.



Despite the addition of supercharging for the six in 1954, which raised horsepower to 140 from 118, just 10,097 were sold. A stylish fibreglass-bodied, sliding-door sports car, the Kaiser Darrin, was also offered, although few found buyers.



Only a handful of '55 models were built before production ceased and Henry Kaiser shipped the dies to Argentina where they were used to build a car called the Kaiser Carabela.



Kaiser-Frazer's demise as a North American car builder marked the end of the last and bravest attempt by a new, home-grown company to crack Fortress Detroit. Many mourned its passing.]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/15/kaisers Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:31:13 +0000 15@/forum/discussions http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/108573/pics-from-kaiser-convention-2009-iola Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:33:52 +0000 darrin502 108573@/forum/discussions
www.flickr.com/photos/41073179@N08/]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/120435/upcoming-kaiser-auction Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:16:18 +0000 James P. 120435@/forum/discussions


http://www.vanderbrinkauctions.com/auctions_details.php?detail=67&allimages=NO





Click on the "CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE AUCTIONS/CATALOGS" for photos and descriptions.]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/121324/nascar-henry-j Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:22:44 +0000 Lee ODell 121324@/forum/discussions


There were 38 cars that started in the 32nd Grand National Race for 1951 on Oct 12, 1951. Driver Reino Tulonen, in a Henry J, finished in 5th place at Thompson Int'l Speedway , Thompson, Ct. on the 1/2 mile paved track.



This is the only NASCAR Grand National race, that a Henry J finished in the top 5.



Have a good day. Lee]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/67224/54-kaiser-darrin-4-sale Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:04:31 +0000 49Frazer 67224@/forum/discussions
http://www.hymanltd.com/search/Details.asp?stockno=3601&recordCount=16

I'd love to have one of these.]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/69735/49-frazer-left-taillight-assembly Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:21:10 +0000 gwgarage 69735@/forum/discussions yurgutis@yahoo.com]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/72468/1951-henry-j-for-sale Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:06:21 +0000 my51henryj 72468@/forum/discussions


5000.00 asking price

937-604-2403]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/76058/good-solid-kaisers-for-sale-31-50039s Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:13:05 +0000 rpmonroe 76058@/forum/discussions Email me for details if interested. I'm not able to spend much time on the threads.]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/80511/bendix-master-cylinder Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:16:43 +0000 duncan 80511@/forum/discussions http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/32253/53-bumper-guard Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:58:25 +0000 few051 32253@/forum/discussions martin_hotrod@yahoo.com

montreal,CANADA:]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/48831/53039-manhatten-wiring-diagram Thu, 10 May 2007 12:44:38 +0000 scrid55 48831@/forum/discussions
I have just joined because my father and I have picked up a cute little 53' Manhattan and we are trying to get her road worthy again but we are having some trouble with the electrical. It seems someone has been cutting wires behind the dash, and they robbed the regulator off of it. If anyone could email me a diagram so we could get this mess straightened out we would be very appreciative. I could post up some pics when we get it backed out of the garage. Thank you

scrid55@yahoo.com]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/50290/1954-55-kaiser-manhattan Tue, 29 May 2007 16:48:30 +0000 taplante 50290@/forum/discussions tplante6@cox.net. Thanks.]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/60606/wiper-motor-removal Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:25:22 +0000 JasonNC 60606@/forum/discussions http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/60914/1946-56-visor-vents-kaiser-frazer-henry-j Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:09:10 +0000 2naboli5 60914@/forum/discussions
I just listed a set of NORS chrome visor vents on eBay for

1946 - 56 Kaiser Frazer, Henry J

Item number: 250180887985



http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250180864879&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT



Please let me know if you have any questions.



Thanks,

Keith]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/2586/for-sale-kaiser-for-parts-edsel-hudson-dodge Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:03:56 +0000 2586@/forum/discussions
Click here to view the cars & photos on eBay]]> http://www.classiccar.com/forum/discussion/4472/1938-supercharged-graham-on-ebay- Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:40:10 +0000 46HudsonPU 4472@/forum/discussions


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4530236393]]>