Monday, January 30, 2023

Almost a successful new car company.

 


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  1. 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?

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  2. That's what I've been missing; a supersonic engine. I've come close with the 383.

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  3. 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.

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  4. 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.

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  5. 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"

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  6. I remember driving Kaisers as a SeaBee in the '80s. Deuce and a halve and five tons.

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  7. I remember rebuilding a Kaiser engine in auto shop back in the early '60s. 226 flathead Continental.
    I thought at the time that it wasn't much engine.

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  8. 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.

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    1. Your Father was a LEGEND! But I have to wonder what your Mother thought about it.......

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    2. Did he have a drum of shine in the trunk?

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