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:
That's a 1951 Kaiser.
George Patterson If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess to anything.
George Patterson realised it was Thu, 22 Feb 2007
04:18:20 GMT and decided it was time to write:
Yep, 1951 Kaiser Frazer Continental. Production figure was 8,888. Or thereabouts.
======================================== 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
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.
Joe
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.
The giveaway is the windshield. You'll notice it dips down in the middle; it was dubbed the "Sweetheart Dip". Kaiser had it, Frazer didn't.
Rabbit
Also, 1951 is a split windshield/screen. For 1952 and on Frazers, it was one piece.
Grrrr. I meant Kaiser, not Frazer.
its a Hudson Hornet mid 50's
No, it isn't. It's a Kaiser.
With a time machine to take the photo back a few years?
George Patterson If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess to anything.
"Premier Bush" wrote in news:JeWdnVua1KTFZXfYnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@centurytel.net:
You may find this picture of a Kaiser advert interesting possible inspiration perhaps
second picture down
Chris
Hudson Hornet? You've got to be kidding me. The Kaiser doesn't even vaguely resemble the Kaiser.
I meant the Hudson doesn't even vaguely resemble the Kaiser.
Rather than the other way round?
Ian
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Otto Skorzeny" saying something like:
That moustache would fool anyone.
I think what bothers me about this whole discussion is that I could have driven car when it was new. (Not legally, of course...)
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