Kaiser Frazer Owners Club Forum

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: joefrazer on July 02, 2017, 07:21:36 AM

Title: Pink Kaisers
Post by: joefrazer on July 02, 2017, 07:21:36 AM

As most of us know, Henry Kaiser's second wife, Ale, loved the color pink. It was a special hue that came out of a mistake made when dyeing material for use at Henry's hotel in Honolulu. Ale liked trucks and liked to drive them so Henry had an FC170 assembled for her, painted that same pink. Here's a link to more about that.

http://kaiserpermanentehistory.org/latest/ale-kaisers-pink-christmas-truck/

Title: Re: Pink Kaisers
Post by: pnw_oldmags on July 02, 2017, 01:35:19 PM

Interesting article ... but Kaisers love for pink goes back further than that.

http://circlekf.com/sourceslide.php?pub=KF&typ=KS&nbr=1968&pag=53

He even painted his Oakland Concrete Trucks Pink in the 1950s.

Title: Re: Pink Kaisers
Post by: Fid on July 02, 2017, 05:14:32 PM

I remember seeing the Kaiser concrete trucks in San Francisco in the early 1970s.  They were pink and they had HJK's saying "Find a need and fill it" on the side of them.

Title: Re: Pink Kaisers
Post by: joefrazer on July 02, 2017, 08:35:31 PM

When I was in Honolulu I spoke to a gent who worked for Kaiser many years before and he said the concrete truck drivers hated driving Kaisers units - because they were pink.