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Re: HJ For Sale in FL
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2015, 10:07:53 AM »
Looks like a factory radio in. The spare tire kit is definitely after-market and not KF but probably nice to have since the car does not have a deck lid. Because that spare tire is not the factory issue one, any potential buyer should ask the seller to post the tags/numbers on this one as I have seen forged '52 Vagabonds. Probably a good turn-key driver/looker if that's what someone wants.  I always wonder why people often switch the location of the bumper guards? Seems you see that quite a bit.  This is one of those "Kaiser-Frazier" Henry Js which are not as common as the Kaiser-Frazer examples.
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1953 Henry J Corsair Deluxe
Edgar Kaiser's custom 1951 Henry J
1951 Kaiser Special
1952 Allstate Deluxe

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Re: HJ For Sale in FL
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2015, 09:33:10 AM »
I'd like to have a spare tire mount like that, wonder who made,sold them?

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Re: HJ For Sale in FL
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2015, 03:12:21 PM »
at 1st look it looks like a VW wheel adapter ( the rear spare bracket )

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Re: HJ For Sale in FL
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2015, 09:08:35 AM »
It's definitely not KF issue (the Continental Kit).  Here's what the KF ones look like (tire removed) -
1953 Henry J Corsair Deluxe
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Re: HJ For Sale in FL
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2015, 08:49:33 PM »
That is an exact match for the one I had when I was 18 years old even the color. Only difference mine didn't have fuel injection.

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Re: HJ For Sale in FL
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2015, 12:29:58 PM »
 I would buy this car just to sit in it! Most tasteful ,best executed non original Henry J interior I ever found and the 51 seats have been padded to the point they are actually very comfortable! I spent one hour this morning going over this car and left very impressed. It won a blue ribbon at a KFOCI meet in 1994( ribbon and trophies in back seat)and has sat largely unused but garaged since then. It has an accompanying picture album showing the frame off restoration it underwent. The current owner traded a Dodge Dart for it and really knows little about it. He has never seen it run .He's is rebuilding the carburetor after not being able to start it. I pointed out to him the absence of a mechanical fuel pump. It has an electric one he did not know about and therefore has been trying start it up dry! He is a nice guy, but clueless on Henry Js .The paint is bubbling off and will need to be sanded off to metal, not stripped due to old body work. The chrome is all finely pitted and slightly pitted ,but definitely salvageable.
Could not start or drive but liked very much what I found and would bid if I had room to put it!
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Re: HJ For Sale in FL
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2015, 02:08:33 PM »
Thanks for the info Jim. As we know, Js are very easy to get running so it would make a fun car for someone.
1953 Henry J Corsair Deluxe
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Re: HJ For Sale in FL
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2015, 06:10:12 PM »
I have never had a Henry J hood to fit as well as the 52 Vagabond in Fla....And it did not even have stiffener rods!



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Re: HJ For Sale in FL
« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2015, 12:04:02 AM »
Nice Car
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