Kaiser Frazer Owners Club Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Roadmaster49 on June 17, 2018, 09:48:36 PM
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I read where one 1949 Frazer Virginian was made. Probably gone now, but was the car ever located and accounted for in previous generations?
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If you're referring to the '50 Frazer hardtop, it was at the KFOC National in Auburn, IN in 2004. Nicely restored and owned by Ben Halko for many years. Ben died a few years later. The car sold at Hershey in 2012
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/HF12/Hershey/lots/r147-1950-frazer-manhattan-sedan/280873
It is likely still around as it was a top-notch restoration. It was featured in Hemming's Classic Car magazine circa 2005/2006. It was not called a Virginian as Kaiser hardtop were.
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It is interesting that it has a Kaiser serial number.
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There was an article about it in the Winter/Spring 1970 Quarterly. See attached.
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I think that someone made it up with a Frazer parts car but it sure is pretty! There seems to be no documentation. Maybe Earl Muntz did it before he started in the truck business!
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Ben was the man behind the project as I remember it. The car was not factory but was made a number of years later from a Kaiser Virginian. A fairly simple project as the dashboard bolted in, taillights would mount on the Kaiser and the Frazer front cowl would fit on the Virginian body.
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Thank you all for adding to this narrative. The Last Onslaught mentions the car, and Langworth wrote that book when? Late 1970's?? He states it was a special order car. The article that Fid notes was written in 1970, so would have been available to Langworth. The article makes it sound like a factor car, custom ordered. I am glad it was saved.
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https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/hcc/2005/03/1950-Frazer-Hardtop/1281161.html
The Hemming's article mirrors what we know. Interesting article.
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I remember them showing the car and showing the restoration step by step in a vendor space at Hershey. Ben used to bring it every year. Does anyone know where the car is today?