Kaiser Frazer Owners Club Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gordie on January 26, 2015, 05:07:23 PM
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There is a beautiful 5' K.F. neon sign being offered on eBay for $8,500 opening bid. Not many of the lighted large signs have survived. It sure would look nice in my garage!
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I'm sure if you put in a bid of $10,000.00 you could have it!
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I think that I would really rather have a real Kaiser for the same price. I once bought a cast iron Lincoln Zephyr toy for $400 which was $50 dollars more than I had paid for a real Zephyr a few years before. It would be nice to have that much money to play with though!
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The Zephyr 12 cylinder distributor would bolt up to the 48 and earlier Ford and Merc. engines and had a much larger coil. The guts could be swapped for 8 cyl. use. No zephyr 12 cyl. engine was ever junked with out the distributor finding a new home.
I also remember something about the transmission or it's gears that appealed to the hop up folks.
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They used that transmission from 1936 thru 1948 with the same gears and the Zephyr gears had a taller first gear and they were very popular with the hot rodder's and the gears would interchange with the Ford V-8. I used to wind out my 1939 Ford in high school and could get 72 miles per hour in second gear. No telling how fast it would have gone with a Columbia rear end!