And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Remember the Kaiser redi-mix trucks that were two-tone pink? The ones that had slogans on the drums, one of which was "Get a lot while you're young"? Remember that?
One of my uncles was a Kaiser enthusiast. He had five of them at one time. I recall going to a Kaiser collector's show with him and my aunt back in the '70's. Really cool show. He told me that Kaiser was the first car manufacterer to install AC as an option (true or not?). Darien (I think) was their sports car, predecessor in styling to the 'vette. He said that when Kaiser closed up shop in the US the equipment was shipped to South America where they continued being built for quite a few years.
My buddy's dad still had one in the early 70s many years after the dealer in town closed. The building sat empty for decades & was a used exotic & race car dealer last time I was past there. The car was almost '48 Studebaker fugly & faded blue-gray. The W/S wipers were vacuum operated. It really sucked if it was pouring & you were trying go up a hill. Kaiser was a division of Willy's I believe.
I had a '69 Kaiser Jeep SJ Wagoneer with the Buick Dauntless 350 , Fisher 7.5" plow. Great plow truck. Better than my '96 K1500. Totaled by an idiot in the "Storm of the Century 1993"
My Dad had a 48 Frazer with that Continental straight flathead 6 which out ran an Arkansas State Police 53 Ford with all 5 kids and our belonging when we were moving from Kentucky to Texas in the late summer of 1954.
Remember the Kaiser redi-mix trucks that were two-tone pink? The ones that had slogans on the drums, one of which was "Get a lot while you're young"?
ReplyDeleteRemember that?
That's what I've been missing; a supersonic engine. I've come close with the 383.
ReplyDeleteOne of my uncles was a Kaiser enthusiast. He had five of them at one time. I recall going to a Kaiser collector's show with him and my aunt back in the '70's. Really cool show. He told me that Kaiser was the first car manufacterer to install AC as an option (true or not?). Darien (I think) was their sports car, predecessor in styling to the 'vette. He said that when Kaiser closed up shop in the US the equipment was shipped to South America where they continued being built for quite a few years.
ReplyDeleteMy buddy's dad still had one in the early 70s many years after the dealer in town closed. The building sat empty for decades & was a used exotic & race car dealer last time I was past there. The car was almost '48 Studebaker fugly & faded blue-gray. The W/S wipers were vacuum operated. It really sucked if it was pouring & you were trying go up a hill. Kaiser was a division of Willy's I believe.
ReplyDeleteI had a '69 Kaiser Jeep SJ Wagoneer with the Buick Dauntless 350 , Fisher 7.5" plow. Great plow truck. Better than my '96 K1500. Totaled by an idiot in the "Storm of the Century 1993"
ReplyDeleteI remember driving Kaisers as a SeaBee in the '80s. Deuce and a halve and five tons.
ReplyDeleteI remember rebuilding a Kaiser engine in auto shop back in the early '60s. 226 flathead Continental.
ReplyDeleteI thought at the time that it wasn't much engine.
My Dad had a 48 Frazer with that Continental straight flathead 6 which out ran an Arkansas State Police 53 Ford with all 5 kids and our belonging when we were moving from Kentucky to Texas in the late summer of 1954.
ReplyDeleteYour Father was a LEGEND! But I have to wonder what your Mother thought about it.......
DeleteDid he have a drum of shine in the trunk?
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