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General Discussion / Kaiser Frazer Neon clock

« on: August 19, 2017, 04:10:32 PM »

Have a couple of questions for this knowledgeable group. I have managed to find a few posters, and many of the Kaiser tin product line (still looking for more!). I have come across an old Kaiser neon clock which I have attached the picture.

1. how rare is it?
2. A guess on value (it is in near perfect working condition).
3. If the deal does not go through does anyone have this for sale?

thanks much.
Rob 

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General Discussion / Some Pretty cool Kaiser products

« on: August 08, 2015, 05:54:52 PM »

Working hard the past couple of years to find all the Kaiser tin products along with every meaningful option. Getting pretty far...enjoy. It has been a lot of fun.

Help me finish!

Rob
still love my 1953 Dragon. Took home an outstanding in class at the Concours event in Minnesota this summer!

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General Discussion / Car show today pictures

« on: August 03, 2014, 06:18:58 PM »

So i offered the guy who drove in the Bugatti Veryon to race me for pink slips...he declined!

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General Discussion / Gas station attendant uniform

« on: August 03, 2014, 08:45:56 AM »

As I try to find time to show my Kaiser I continue to look for ways to "stand out from the crowd" at these events. I think you all know I am really looking for all the Kaiser products to display with my car and have done very well (mostly outside this forum) in finding a lot of the tins and products.
Today my car (and I guess that includes me too  have been invited to a car show that you need to dress up to attend. I am not the kind of guy who wants to dress up like the fancy people.

http://www.thepoloclassic.com/home.html


MY hope is to find an old Kaiser gas station attendant uniform!!!

Anyone have one I could buy?

Let me know.

Rob

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General Discussion / Cool Darrin and cool dealer sign

« on: July 09, 2014, 09:09:42 PM »

Went to see a friends collection yesterday and a part of his collection included these. Pretty cool although you would hardly notice it among his 250+ old cars...wow!

It was the only Kaiser in his collection.

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General Discussion / Kaiser Dragon at a concours show

« on: June 02, 2014, 06:43:30 AM »

Well I took the plunge and have tried to pass on the good word about kaisers and how really great these cars can be. I took my Dragon to a car show (well it was invited). I have to say it probably gathered the second most attention of any car at the show and there was many million dollar cars. It was a show they did not allow me to open the trunk but a few people asked so i showed the attached photo. What was so much fun is that many old timers attended and had never seen a Dragon. Created quite a buzz!

I had a real Superbird right next to it and the attention given to the Dragon was WELL beyond the Superbird. Love the Kaisers!

Rob

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General Discussion / Thought some of you might enjoy my newest addition to the collection.

« on: May 20, 2014, 05:21:40 PM »

In my quest to find all the Kaiser made products I had a VERY nice member contact me and send me this.He was the only person to reply to my ad in the KF newsletter.
The luster deal mirror light flashes...VERY COOL.
 Still looking for original kaiser tins and products. Have good items to trade.
On a related note my 1953 Dragon was invited to attend a Concours d'elegance show in town on June 1st. first real show for my car.
If you have any old kaiser items let me know.

Rob

 

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General Discussion / Henry J owners (or prospective owners)

« on: March 16, 2014, 05:15:17 PM »

I recently picked up a pretty nice collection of an old Kaiser Frazer dealer "stuff". One of the item i picked up is this postcard.
Well if you have a J and want one just send me your address and I will send you one for free. Only thing I ask is that you promise that if you ever find (or let go) of one of the Kaiser accessories tins I get a shot.  So far i have called, emailed, begged, posted in the newsletter and have had zero results!

this is a link to 4 of them (not mine) on ebay and one of them i have a few of.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FOUR-PHOTO-POSTCARDS-KAISER-FRAZER-MODELS-NEWARK-OHIO-/351022379215?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51ba9070cf&nma=true&si=O0Ex%252Bq16YGN%252B4ZqX6ubsCw03CmA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Oh please email me in private.

Rob

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General Discussion / Old Kaiser dealer items from a closed dealer.

« on: March 08, 2014, 11:09:38 PM »

Hello Kaiser Frazer enthusiasts.

As I think some of you know I have been actively attempting to find a lot of old Kaiser material so I can show it with my 1953 dragon I am working on (now have three…it is a sickness).
In my efforts to find old Kaiser material I stumbled on a VERY large lot of uncirculated Kaiser dealer information. This was a closed dealership that closed and had put all is Kaiser material in a box until last week when I purchased it. the dealership was  called De Cola Motor Sales in Newark and Circleville Ohio,

Lots of really cool items.
Of course many bulletins,
Quite a few various colorful brochures for various Kaiser (and non Kaiser) products.  Radios, options, merchandising, super cool Kaiser COMPARAGRAPH brochure, break in speed, instruction for air con and other options, org chart, blank car order forms, contests….. like a color ad for a Kaiser patch for your bowling team!
Lots of confidential pricing info
List of cars and owners from that dealership (so if your car was purchased from  De Cola I may have info)
Lot of Kaiser info on how to run a dealership/sales
Homemade postcard of Henry J
Replaced parts Tags NOS
Lots of owners service policy NOS
Various other Kaiser items and lot of dealer info.


If your car is from 1950 or before and from that dealership I may have some info on your car and of course willing to give/trade for any help in my quest for all the Kaiser accessory items 
Thanks for Larry B. for a nice visit this week and allowing me to buy up some of his Kaiser “stuff”.

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General Discussion / Fun Kaiser story (mulitple people and generations)

« on: February 08, 2014, 08:57:48 PM »

So as some of you know I am pretty new to the Kaiser community as i recently picked up a couple of Dragons (well it is up to 3 now). One of the big reasons I liked Kaisers is my father in law was a salesman at Northwest Kaiser Frazer in Minneapolis. So he is still around and very proud of my affinity for Kaisers and he always said the dragon was on of the nicest looking cars ever produced.

NOW i have been looking for items from Northwest Kaiser Frazer. Well on eBay someone lists an original paperwork/owner manual for a 1952 Kaiser and it includes the dealer sign put on cars. So i buy the item last night and it turns out it was the son of the original owner and by the way I was very good friends with his father and he lived in my retirement home (passed away years ago). In his 80's this dude took me out in his new impala SS and hit about 120MPH!!

So talk about multiple connections and confluence of many parts of my life!!

By the way I am restoring my first car (Dragon) and its not going well 

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General Discussion / Pretty cool pick up. Accessories Brochure

« on: January 26, 2014, 10:38:19 AM »

As some of you know I am trying to pick up all the Kaiser/Frazer accessories and in my hunt I was able to find a small stash of these very colorful advertising items. Glad to use one for a trade as  I have a few.
Looking for Kaiser protective material cans/tins!!

thanks

Rob

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General Discussion / Rim size

« on: December 07, 2013, 09:55:52 AM »

will a 15x7 rim size work on a 1953 dragon?

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General Discussion / Help a new Kaiser collector

« on: October 20, 2013, 11:50:12 AM »

I meant to put this on the General Forum

I need your help. Really hoping the Kaiser/Frazer community can help me.
I have purchased a couple of Kaiser Dragons in the past year. One I am mostly done working on and one that needs a restoration. I did this to have some fun and honor my Father in Law who sold Kaisers back in day at NW Kaiser in Minneapolis.

I understand that this community is not fully thriving. Saw a recent example of this where a very nice Kaiser Dragon sold for about 9k. In order for the next generation (or two) to enjoy and appreciate these very cool cars THEY NEED TO BE SEEN and talked about.

I hope to show my Dragon(s) in the next few years at shows. I have always found that when I attend shows I gravitate towards cars that look great but have some sort of display that can be attractive.

My hope is to find as much Kaiser type memorabilia I can to display with my car to generate some interest.

I am looking for any of the “tins” as in the Kaiser protective materials. Signage too.

I have been able to find a few (see picture…you can see my very cool superbird in the background!).

CAN YOU HELP?
Do you know of anyone who has these?

 

I have to say I have been hard at trying to find this type of thing and have only a couple of people seemingly willing to talk/email/help. John Hewlitt  needs to be called out as he has been a great help and actually willing to sell some items. I do pay just fine and am not looking for handouts.

Email, call, shout whatever it takes. Thanks  Rob L.

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Kaiser Forum / Help a new Kaiser collector

« on: October 20, 2013, 11:48:13 AM »

I need your help. Really hoping the Kaiser/Frazer community can help me.
I have purchased a couple of Kaiser Dragons in the past year. One I am mostly done working on and one that needs a restoration. I did this to have some fun and honor my Father in Law who sold Kaisers back in day at NW Kaiser in Minneapolis.

I understand that this community is not fully thriving. Saw a recent example of this where a very nice Kaiser Dragon sold for about 9k. In order for the next generation (or two) to enjoy and appreciate these very cool cars THEY NEED TO BE SEEN and talked about.

I hope to show my Dragon(s) in the next few years at shows. I have always found that when I attend shows I gravitate towards cars that look great but have some sort of display that can be attractive.

My hope is to find as much Kaiser type memorabilia I can to display with my car to generate some interest.

I am looking for any of the “tins” as in the Kaiser protective materials. Signage too.

I have been able to find a few (see picture…you can see my very cool superbird in the background!).

CAN YOU HELP?
Do you know of anyone who has these?

 

I have to say I have been hard at trying to find this type of thing and have only a couple of people seemingly willing to talk/email/help. John Hewlitt  needs to be called out as he has been a great help and actually willing to sell some items. I do pay just fine and am not looking for handouts.

Email, call, shout whatever it takes. Thanks  Rob L.

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General Discussion / Question about a Kaiser Dragon air con.

« on: August 31, 2013, 05:11:41 PM »

I am in the process of doing some work on a Kaiser Dragon that i picked up. It is my understanding that Kaiser did not offer an air conditioner. This is a pretty original car and I am thinking about making it very much like it rolled off the floor in early 54 (i do have the original paperwork so I know when it was sold).

In this car it has a Mark IV air con unit. what makes this a bit strange is that the serial number matches the year of the car and the fit and finish of the knobs match the chrome plating and front dash VERY well. If it was an add on it was so well done you would not believe it. Of course the unit is in the trunk.

My best guess is that it was added by the dealer before it was sold originally but that is just a guess.

SO...

would you guys keep it?
any shot it was original from Kaiser?

thoughts?

thanks

Rob
PS. I am really new to the club but having a lot of fun working on the dragon!!! Have some thoughts about the club and how to make these old beauties enjoyed by more people but that will come later.