Author Topic: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale  (Read 14642 times)

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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #30 on: March 20, 2019, 07:19:55 PM »
Thanks for posting it Lee.  I am sure that many of us are thinking hard about it.
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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #31 on: March 20, 2019, 10:16:26 PM »
I didn't notice where it is located.  Did I miss it?

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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #32 on: March 21, 2019, 02:03:01 PM »
JIM or anyone
What about free delivery?
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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #33 on: March 21, 2019, 06:06:55 PM »
Joe Frazer once offered his personal car to someone in our club and I heard that after not getting a reply from us he gave the car to a different car club.  Where is that '51 Frazer?  That is a pair of cars that should be in the same garage!
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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #34 on: March 23, 2019, 10:22:11 AM »
Free delivery is great but I have 2 real issues as most of us have - no space and I think the price is still too high for what needs to be done. I write this seeing your awesome collection of cars. I am not in the buyers pool.  If I bought this rare Kaiser, I would buy 1-2 more and sell all the Buicks and just go KF.  But that would mean yet another complete change out and direction in my hobby experience.

It would be interesting to see what this car might bring on ebay, with an explanation of it's history.

The KF buying crowd is the strangest I have seen. I don't mean that in a bad way.  I would think this car could be discretely offered within club circles and easily change hands.  Not entirely unrelated, I own 2 rare Buick Reattas neither of which there is any interest in. One is Maui Blue with a tan interior in the last year of production - and is documanted 1 of 1. It was headed to the crusher and no one within the Reatta collecting community wanted it, they were OK letting it get crushed, so I bought it.

I too wonder where Joe's 51 Frazer is. Maybe lost to the ages. 

This car (the 55 Kaiser) is very significant but I know where I can get a 53 Dragon for $1100, and a 48 Frazer with rare keather interior for $1000 and so on.  So, that is part of the reason I think $6500 is a bit steep.  A person needs to yank the small block, sell it, and find a date coded 54 engine and supercharger.  As soon as someone knows you want it, the price would double. 
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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #35 on: March 26, 2019, 07:15:23 PM »
Location? I have have interest and cash, but I've never made an offer on a car without seeing it in person. Assuming it is actually feasible to see in person.

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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #36 on: March 26, 2019, 09:00:11 PM »
Does anyone know WHERE this car is?

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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #37 on: March 26, 2019, 10:45:09 PM »
Contact him by PM, would be my guess.
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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #38 on: March 27, 2019, 03:12:43 PM »
I will find out for you.
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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #39 on: March 27, 2019, 06:35:15 PM »
The owner will call you PM me with your phone number.
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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #40 on: March 27, 2019, 10:27:36 PM »
No offense, but if someone can't even state the city & state of the vehicle it sounds kind of fishy.

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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #41 on: March 28, 2019, 04:19:57 AM »
The photo shows a car with California black plates on it.

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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #42 on: March 28, 2019, 08:27:59 AM »
No offense, but if someone can't even state the city & state of the vehicle it sounds kind of fishy.

I'm not a potential buyer but I've been thinking "cagey" simply on the seller not providing a phone number. City & state brings it up to a whole other level.
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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #43 on: March 28, 2019, 03:43:46 PM »
Leedeserves the benefit of any doubt.  This is perhaps the rarest and most interesting Kaiser left to restore. No one had to offer it. Normally I would agree with Mark and others if it was a random Craigslist seller. But this seller is using Lee’s help to market the car because he wants to stay anonymous. 
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Re: ***Henry J Kaiser's Personal 1955 Kaiser for Sale
« Reply #44 on: March 28, 2019, 08:22:14 PM »
No slight was being directed toward Lee at all, as he put it earlier, he's just "the messenger" and is trying to do a good thing here.

I've got a really good buddy with several nice collectable vehicles he wants to sell that is extremely cagey with his listings, and rarely completes a sale...…………….so I've seen this before, up close, several times.

PM me for the sellers number would work for me, PM me your number and the seller will call you would be the last message I would bother reading. Once again, Lee's just caught in the middle here with what appears to be a situation a bit out of the norm. Someone with a persistent desire for this car may land a really neat piece of history.
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