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Fid

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Update for the club handbook?
« on: December 06, 2015, 10:51:00 AM »
Directed at everyone but focusing on Jack - since I recently re-aquired my dad's '51 Kaiser Special, I was reading through the handbook about that model. I see the paint/trim combination for it was not listed.  I don't know if the intention is to make the list of combinations as complete as possible but here's the info on the car:  Model K511, paint 130 (Horizon blue), Trim 1169 (not listed in the Handbook or Last Onslaught On Detroit).
I do have a picture of the original door panels before they were redone so it may give an idea of what Trim Code 1169 was/is:

He took them to SMS in Portland and this is what they matched it to:

I tried to take a picture of the data tag yesterday but it is bit dark in the shed where the car slumbers for the winter months so the picture is not real clear:
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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: Update for the club handbook?
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2015, 09:50:00 PM »
As I have noted various places on various occasions, I would like to remind members that I do not have a complete (nothing missing) set of Confidential Bulletins and one of the missing items is a piece issued during Summer or Fall of 1951 listing colors and trims available at the time.  It is known that there are other Kaisers out there that have paint/trim combinations I have no information on.  If someone has a paint/trim availability Confidential Bulletin from K-F or information from a distributor on their letterhead, please let me know so I can update the information in Version 6.0 before its release.

If nobody has it and doesn't want to share that is their right.

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Re: Update for the club handbook?
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2015, 10:18:49 PM »
This particular car was purchased new in August of 1950. I have all the original paper work for it somewhere but I can't find it right now. It has most of the "early" features discussed previous - square window frame trim, no bright work around the windshields, no rub rail moldings... It does have the early 6 button GE radio.
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1953 Henry J Corsair Deluxe
Edgar Kaiser's custom 1951 Henry J
1951 Kaiser Special
1952 Allstate Deluxe

Need your classic car radio repaired? I repair vacuum tube radios

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Re: Update for the club handbook?
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2015, 07:02:49 PM »
Thanks to OUR HISTORIAN we know have 68 ALL DEALER Confidential Bulletins online.  The one reference below is one of them!

http://circlekf.com/sourceslideb.php?pub=KF&typ=CB&nbr=045&pag=1

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