My Family and Their 1949 Kaiser

[JoeKeys2010]

Here are some old family photos I rediscovered.  My mother is the girl in the photo (she was 15 at the time) and in the background you can see a 1949 Kaiser, just like mine.  My mother said the car was maroon, but I think it was Caribbean Coral (I cant quite make out the script).  My grandmother is in one of the photos.

Ultimately my mother hit the brakes on a wet brick road and the car slid and hit a telephone pole.  My grandfather came to the scene and supposedly all he said was "go home your mother is worried, we can always replace the car".

As a father of 7 I find that hard to believe.  My kids have destroyed three cars so far and I can tell you I had a little more to say than did my grandfather and the cars they destroyed were only Fords. If they had wrecked my Kaiser it would have only been worse.

[joefrazer]

Great pictures! Somewhere I have a picture taken about 1950 of my dad next to his newly acquired 47K. He told me his dad (my grandfather) looked at him and asked why he bought a Kaiser. He said they were an odd looking car. My grandfather was a Buick man...like the 1950 Buick wasn't an odd looking car...!

[Fid]

My mom sitting on the fender of an aloha green '51 J circa 1954

[JoeKeys2010]

I looked up a 1950 Buick as I was not sure what they looked like.  You are right, they were odd looking cars.  My parents married in 1953 and drove a 1947 Pontiac.  That was a awesome looking car.  Big fenders that stretched all the way back to the front doors.

I like Fid's photo of his mother and a Henry J.  I think old pictures are neat.

[Fid]

My parents had a 1950 Buick when they got married in 1957. Dad claims they were driving to a restaurant one night when a '57 Chev ran a red light and they broadsided it with the Buick. The said the Chevy disintegrated and the Buick had a little black paint on the grill work and that was it.  There was a nice '50 Buick at the Sublette orphan car show  in 2012.
I didn't know Buick was an orphan but it was a neat car.

[Aeroman]

Here's an old pic from 1974 of Dave Horton and Bill Tilden and Dave's '54 Aero Lark. It was taken just before Dave drove the car cross country and received quite a bit of publicity about it. The Toledo papers wrote him up when he visited the Willys plant there. Also attached is a recreation with the same characters in 2012.

[joefrazer]

Rick, great pictures! It is sad that Bill's no longer with us...