Hello, As part of an art history research project I am trying to definitively identify the make, model and year of a car that appeared in a 1952 collage by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi. The car, along with the collage, is pictured here:
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I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who can provide any information at all regarding this. Thanks in advance. Regards, Ryan snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com
======================================== Ummm....been a long time since I owned a '51 Kaiser, and I didn't have it long enough to become knowledgeable, but I'm pretty sure I remember a couple of things about them.
The Frazer was the sister to the Kaiser, with different sheetmetal. See
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for a picture ofone.
So while there were several Kaiser model names, Frazer wasn't one of them but rather a different car.
I don't think Continental was used as a Kaiser model name until later...maybe '54 or '55. I could be wrong about that, though--as I say, I wasn't an expert even when I had one. I do believe the underpowered industrial 6-cylinder engine used in the Kaiser was a Continental.
The '51 Frazer was built on the 1950 K/F body, with attractive update / modifuication,making it the best looking of all Frazers. By 1951 Joe F and Hank K hated each other. Edgard K was running the company as best as he could despite the bad feelings. (POI The first Frazers that rolled off the KF assembly link bore the plate, "A product of Graham- Paige," a company which JF still owned. HK put a stop to that. Afet 1955, Kaiser moved to Argentina, building the '55 models for a while. Kaiser moved the Willys production to Brazil at about the same time. The Willys Jeep line had stayed in the US, under different owners.
Studebaker had the motto: "Give more than you promise.". I guess I did that with this answer.
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