My love of the KF brand

[Adam47manhattan]

It started when i was a boy of 14 years old looking for my first car. My dad's business partner Bill Payne offered me his beautiful 49 Kiaser for 2500.00 but i hadn't saved that much yet. I tried like hell to come up with the money before it was gone but as the saying goes I was a day late and a dollar short..... Bill unexpectedly passed away and I never got to meet any of his club members but I had the quarterly magazines Bill gave to me reminding me how much I loved these cars.... 11 years later I made a barn find in Matthews NC and have dreamed of what it would be when I finished. My 47 Manhattan sadly was suffering heart failure ( engine block was cracked ) and I have searched but have not found one. So my dad gets on the internet every morning in Fl and looks for cars/parts that would get this restoration back on track, I think he wants to ride in the Frazer as much as I want to drive it!! This morning he asked me if I knew if Bill's son was on the forum because he had a small collection of KF cars and may be willing to sell one or have parts. So I ask if Mike Payne I believe was Bill's son is out there let me know.

Thanks
Adam Puentes

[Roadmaster49]

Adam
Where are you located now?  Appears to be NC.  KF parts are plentiful and should be cheap. I have a 49 6 cyl I would give you because no one wants it, but I am in Iowa.  Unfortunately the part you need sounds like a local pickup item only.

I would hazzard to guess there are several KFOCI members in your area that can provide a rebuildable core for $25 to $100.

[kaiserfrazerlibrary]

Remember that club members get free ads in the WANTED section of the KFOCI MONTHLY BULLETIN and that there is a significant K-F parts vendor in the Carolinas.   

It sounds like there may be better ways to chase parts for a 1947 Frazer Manhattan than you are currently trying to use, unless the car is one of the few (and I mean that literally) with Graham-Paige tags on it rather than Kaiser-Frazer tags. 

[Gordie]

Not a problem as Graham Paige made no Manhattans.  The Manhattan did not appear until March of 1947.

[kaiserfrazerlibrary]

Kaiser-Frazer's own production figures show a handful were produced before the last Graham-Paige tagged Frazer car types came off the production line.  Former member Glenn Wood****** from Canada looked at one of these and sent me pictures at the time showing the G-P tag on the firewall (he ended up buying a Manhattan up in Canada that was built for sale in the Dominion, complete with "2" in the DR heading).    This info is in KFOCI HANDBOOK Version 5.0.