A Long Shot - a Green 1953 Manhattan

[Benji]

My father bought a light green 1953 Kaiser Manhattan fordoor new in 1953 from East End Motors in Barnesville, Ohio, and I promptly jammed a vanilla Dairy Queen ice cream cone into the headliner above the right rear door as I was getting in it.  He traded the car in 1955, and I assume it is long gone....BUT (here is the long shot) anyone remember cleaning a white stain off a headliner of a 1953 Kaiser Manhattan?

Benji

[G.B. (All Vinyl Dragon)]

My father bought a light green 1953 Kaiser Manhattan fordoor new in 1953 from East End Motors in Barnesville, Ohio, and I promptly jammed a vanilla Dairy Queen ice cream cone into the headliner above the right rear door as I was getting in it.  He traded the car in 1955, and I assume it is long gone....BUT (here is the long shot) anyone remember cleaning a white stain off a headliner of a 1953 Kaiser Manhattan?

Benji

Benji,
Look up old Papers & get a Serial #... Then go to the K.F. Registry by Harold Hagen.       http://www.eskimo.com/~hhagen/reg/reg.htm
1953 Kaiser Manhattan 4 Door...

[pnw_oldmags]

All of the 53 Kaiser Manhattans I have owned had vinyl headliners and your ice cream cone would have just wiped off. 
Wonder if it might have been a 53 Kaiser Deluxe with a cloth headliner??  Just a thought

[Benji]

I'm sure that Ohio has cleaned out their old automobile registrations for 1953 and dad kept no records of the serial number of this car in any of his papers, and East End Motors is a gasoline station now.   

The headliner was indeed vinyl but it was never cleaned when it was owned by us as I was the only one who knew the spot was there.

Benji

[G.B. (All Vinyl Dragon)]

I'm sure that Ohio has cleaned out their old automobile registrations for 1953 and dad kept no records of the serial number of this car in any of his papers, and East End Motors is a gasoline station now.   

The headliner was indeed vinyl but it was never cleaned when it was owned by us as I was the only one who knew the spot was there.

Benji

OK,
So Last Onslaught on Detroit has the Color combinations of the 53 Manhattan. If We have a Club Member that might help give Us the Lt Green Color Code ?  Then You can look on the register & see How many still around Today...
Try to remember the Interior Colors if You can ? That would be the interior Color code.

[kaiserfrazerlibrary]

The color/trim info is also on your KFOCI HANDBOOK CD under 1953 Kaiser Manhattan.

[G.B. (All Vinyl Dragon)]

The color/trim info is also on your KFOCI HANDBOOK CD under 1953 Kaiser Manhattan.

Thanks , I forgot about the Handbook CD.

Do You have the CD the Club sent out yet Benji ?

[Benji]

Not yet.  I just joined in February. I was in the same resort that Mike Barker was in and he took all my information and payment and I assume he is just getting back up north just about now and hasn't had time to process it yet.

Ben

[kaiserfrazerlibrary]

Mike Barker does not "process" new member orders.  That should have been sent on to the Membership Secretary.

[Benji]

He put my application and my $35.00 in a cardboard box beside his chair along with a CD of several stories about my dad's 1953 Kaiser and an image of me standing beside his 1953 Kaiser (his wife Karen took the shot) that he is going to use in an upcoming newsletter.  I assumed he was going to wait until he got back up north to turn everything in, but I'm guessing he hasn't yet or something. 


Below is the shot Karen took.  This car is Mike and Karen's not mine.

Benji

[pnw_oldmags]

What a beauty.  Nice Deluxe!!

[mbflemingkf]

Benji...I got an e-mail from Mike this week.  FYI, He isn't returning to MI for another 2 weeks.  Mike