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@richarddenny5340 9 күн бұрын
I've read that if KF would have invested in V8 power and station wagon production the company had a good chance of surviving. The Big 3 did exactly that and the rest is history. As far as looks go, I think KF had the best looking cars.
@paulcheek5711 3 ай бұрын
better than todays junk
@richarddenny5340 3 ай бұрын
Kaiser may have survived had they developed a V8 and an automatic transmission. The cars produced were beautiful and stylish.
@TheGbeecher 4 ай бұрын
Kaiser dragon 🐉- unique automobile, but a last ditch effort, to stay alive for Kaiser...😢❤
@edwardallan197 5 ай бұрын
A great parade of cars with their unique sense of style. That has aged great! 😊
@DanHolmes-o9b 6 ай бұрын
Also back in the day, Mopar had alot of innovations, designs and style. Who remembers the many highly chromed and eloquent Chryslers and Desotos?
@michaelbenardo5695 4 ай бұрын
I do!
@richarddenny5340 7 ай бұрын
I recall reading that one could pick up their new car at the Willow Run manufacturing plant if they so wished.
@scootergeorge7089 6 ай бұрын
Singer Burl Ives did exactly that when he purchased his new 1949 Kaiser Traveler; America's first hatchback.
@richarddenny5340 6 ай бұрын
@@scootergeorge7089 I have a picture of an ad featuring Burl Ives with hi Kaiser Traveler
@OldRustySteele 7 ай бұрын
Note the background scenes when they show the car running. Unlike the Detroit “Big 3” (GM, Ford, Chrysler), Kaiser was a California-based company. You can see early ’50’s home architecture and mountains in the background in those scenes. Car advertising budgets got much bigger by the 1960’s, so you saw cars in all kinds of scenes by then. But not so much in the early ‘50’s as they filmed those in more-local places to save money.
@user-zx8de8op9l 7 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@JohnReitz-ps2ct 8 ай бұрын
The seat shown would struggle to hold even two of the Big Berthas we see today.
@whatsamattayu3257 8 ай бұрын
In all my years, I've never seen a Kaiser or Henry J on the street. I remember Sears selling a rebadged Henry J, as the Allstate, in their stores in the early 1950's.
@howardgreenman2908 9 ай бұрын
Nice try but they just couldn’t compete with the big boys. Really like the Darrin. Have seen some at car shows and it is a beautiful sports car.
@scootergeorge7089 6 ай бұрын
The Darrin was a sports car powered by an anemic, 161 cubic inch F Head Willys engine and sold for the price of a Cadillac. The styling is good but not great. The tiny grill is just weird.
@michaelbenardo5695 4 ай бұрын
They might have lasted a lot longer if they had gone ahead with their proposed 288 cube V8 engine, instead of sinking all their money into the Henry J compact.
@DanHolmes-o9b 9 ай бұрын
My favorite in that era was a 1952 Hudson Commander (or Commodore ?)...what a roomy machine...
@DanHolmes-o9b 9 ай бұрын
So post WWII we has( besides the big 3) Tucker, Hudson, Studebaker, Packard, Kaiser/Frazier/Henry J, Nash...I know we had some mergers.. .but we had some terrific automobiles...probably more variety than ever!
@scootergeorge7089 6 ай бұрын
What? Tucker never went into production. Some 50 cars built using salvaged Coed transaxles. In the late 1940's, early 1950's, Nash president called for a merger of the four independents, Nash, Hudson, Studebaker, and Packard. Nash and Hudson did merge, forming American Motors. Then, Studebaker and Packard meged. Then George Mason left AMC, being replaced by George Romney, who, with the successful Rambler, had no desire to merge with Studebaker-Packard that was losing huge amounts of money. As for variety, if imports are included, there is a huge variety today.
@michaelfoort2592 9 ай бұрын
Laughable
@it1988a 9 ай бұрын
What a junk...a death trap
@chha6439 9 ай бұрын
I’ll take three of each please… not particular of color…
@TheGbeecher 10 ай бұрын
'Sing, Sing, Sing, Sing...All praise the Big Three - Wee, Wee'!...
@thomasdepaolo7622 Жыл бұрын
Too hard to get logged in . Impossible to log into .
@MohammadSadeqBozorgnejad-mv7rr Жыл бұрын
Beautiful cars and attractive music
@ekkosmith6077 Жыл бұрын
My Dutch nephew had a Kaiser. He bought it out of a surpus somewhere in Rotterdam ( Netherlands) couple of years after the war. There was a field with hundreds of army cars, trucks. He told me that his Kaiser had belonged to an US general.
@badstep7637 Жыл бұрын
54 Kaiser Manhatten 6:03 .. not bad either / unreachable : 53 Dragonn 6:39 WOW
@Marc816 2 жыл бұрын
A collection of roaches.
@ufoengines 2 жыл бұрын
Is Kiaiser coming back with a electric version? kzbin.info/www/bejne/anOToo2Fe56MiZI
@T-41 2 жыл бұрын
My favorite K-F model is the 1951 Frazer. Thanks for showing this.
@deanmoore1752 2 жыл бұрын
the 51 Frazer convertible at 5:14 looks like the one I was nearly born in... my first KFOC meet was Denver 68, I was probably a few months old. I taught myself to drive in a 1947 kaiser. love these cars.
@Marc816 2 жыл бұрын
Kaiser = roach, cinderblock, junkbox.
@postal_the_clown 2 жыл бұрын
Penny a mile hmm, if that was the REAL metric ($0.30/gal= 30 mpg, $1/gal= 100mpg) as the price of gas goes up, the milage magically gets better. EVs wouldn't stand a chance today. You know, I'll bet there were people who actually saw it that way. Their kids are flat earthers today.
@jessemclinden9789 2 жыл бұрын
One last thing guys…the Powers that be know how to count to 4.5 billion. I’m not interested in seeing it and I don’t think you guys want to either.
@jimihendrix1575 2 жыл бұрын
"Your safety is important to us." "Not important enough to provide safety belts, but pretty important."
@ronaldblackburn2483 2 жыл бұрын
46 to 53 Willow Run 54 55 Willys plant Toledo .
@eddylauterback1312 2 жыл бұрын
No additional charge for the ugly option!
@darylkik777 2 жыл бұрын
I would never buy a Henry J because they are not well equipped. That is why I bought a new Sears Allstate model that I ordered. Now that is a classy car.
@davehire1433 2 жыл бұрын
John Larkin played Perry Mason on radio, and was the original Mike Karr on “The Edge Of Night”. A lot of Henry Js got big block Ford and Chevy engines dropped into them and found their way to the drag strip.
@BillLaBrie 2 жыл бұрын
My dad had a 51 Frazier that he loved. Considered it among the best of the many cars he’d owned. It probably saved his life when he swerved to avoid a careless driver on a farm road and went through a telephone pole at highway speed, landing upside-down in a ditch.
@bryduhbikeguy 2 жыл бұрын
Smooth sailing and long lasting.Too bad we can't get anything today as good.
@zoltandomjan4764 2 жыл бұрын
CCCP SZOVJETUNIO SZOVJET POBJEDA GAZ M20 CARS!!!WARSZAWA M20/200 CARS!!!
@voidmstr 2 жыл бұрын
Not only did we have a Kaiser Frazier but I also remember watching Tv in the Dumont Network. Thanks!
@scootergeorge7089 6 ай бұрын
Was it a Kaiser or was it a Frazer? They are separate cars. The Frazer was a fancier and more costly version of the Kaiser.
@voidmstr 6 ай бұрын
@@scootergeorge7089Good question. I just remember the name. I was 4 or 5.
@michaelbenardo5695 4 ай бұрын
Try to find some pictures, as they are two different cars - the Kaiser was the "Pontiac" and the Frazer was the "Buick". But both were saddled with the old ex-Graham 226 flathead. The real Pontiac and the real Buick had 8 cylinders.
@ufoengines 2 жыл бұрын
I'm sold ! I'll take two!
@tonychavez2083 2 жыл бұрын
Were these flathead sixes in the Manhattan? I think these were more popular in the Eastern states.
@edarcuri182 2 жыл бұрын
Yep. Kaiser bought an engine originally designed for fork lifts and stationary generators, an industrial engine. They upgraded it and, despite its provenance, proved satisfactory as an auto engine. Kaiser even looked into designing a V-8 (which would have transformed the beautiful car) but determined it cost prohibitive. Considering how many of the independents needed such an engine, I am surprised that no joint ventures were put in place to design one for use by all of the companies in the venture.
@tonychavez2083 2 жыл бұрын
@@edarcuri182 I’m sure it was not quick but tough as nails.
@jmpecore 2 жыл бұрын
My grandfather had one like this. My father said it was the worst quality car. Door handles fell off, etc.
@jeffersondavis2530 2 жыл бұрын
So cool ! In Wisconsin ,I swear in the 60's every other garage had a Kaiser parked behind the barn . They simply could not forget their Kaiser.
@eddylauterback1312 2 жыл бұрын
I'd buy one today after seeing this! But seriously they even made cars for Sears in 52 and 53. Sears had them in their catalog. Many believed Sears made them. If you'd bought a car from Sears and had a Kodak camera in the glove box, you'd have 3 companies slowly going down the drain.
@BillLaBrie 2 жыл бұрын
Also a Xerox’d copy of the title in that glovebox….😂
@Floridapickleballexpo 2 жыл бұрын
What was your favorite commercial?
@kcindc5539 2 жыл бұрын
The one where the guy gets up from his desk, walks toward to the camera and with all the seriousness of a parent telling his son not to “get a girl in trouble”, to go to the dealer and buy a car RIGHT NOW.
@DanHolmes-o9b 4 ай бұрын
@@Floridapickleballexpo early mid 60s, on Bewitched...driver floating down from sky into driver's seat.
@whalesong999 2 жыл бұрын
Drove my step mom's '51 Kaiser 4 door all through high school and, honestly, didn't appreciate the use so much at the time. They were good looking, had a Continental 6 cylinder, flat head engine, nothing special there but was easy to work on (had to replace the head gasket once). My birth mom had a Henry J for a while and we used to take jaunts in it but I recall it being sorely balanced and over washboard surfaces, wanted to swap ends, took a mighty grip on the wheel and good reflexes to keep it out of the ditches.
@dlb3512 2 жыл бұрын
I remember in the 50's they also produced a low-priced car marked un the name Henry J and also sold by Sears Roebuck named the Alstate.
@desertbob6835 2 жыл бұрын
One of my friends had a '51 Manhattan with a 303 Olds 4 bbl and Hydra-Matic, a swap that Henry J himself wanted for his full sized cars, but Al Sloan nixed any chance of that, drawing the line at the Hydra-Matic. A Manhattan with a Continental 6 wasn't very lively. Kaiser developed a prototype V8 of their own, but by the time it was ready for production, Kaiser had already decided that fighting GM wasn't worth it, and sold the V8 to the new AMC, which put it to very good use.
@privatepilot4064 2 жыл бұрын
I worked with a guy at Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix that had one of these. I’m pretty sure he was a member of the owners club too. He’s retired now. But he talked about it frequently. I worked with him on the Turbine Wheel Line.
@SuperBullyone 2 жыл бұрын
That is a better deal than a VW bug.
@kfclub 2 жыл бұрын
Yes it was!
@alanolson6913 2 жыл бұрын
In 1946-47 Kaiser truly made Ford,GM & Chrysler take notice. K-F had modern looking vehicles and better interiors than the “Big 3”. K-F was among the top manufacturers at the time when the others were offering warmed-over 1942 designs. But the others who had the money & factories to build more vehicles soon caught up and passed K-F.
@kfclub 2 жыл бұрын
Good point!