Kaiser Frazer Owners Club Forum
General Category => Kaiser Forum => Topic started by: pcla1313 on August 02, 2010, 01:51:59 PM
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Was there ever a 52 kaiser convertabile prototype produced,and where would i find documentation
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The only known prototype 51-5 Kaiser convertibles were produced as 1951 models. At least one, maybe two were built by Dietrich for KF. No known 52's convertibles were made.
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Any 1952 Kaiser convertibles built were done as custom jobs by body shops (the Henry J was the car of choice for this kind of thing) or by an owner somewhere over the years. There was a body shop in Minnesota that worked with Irving English, the Minneapolis MN K-F distributor (he owned Northwest Kaiser-Frazer) and the factory features one of the cars in the December 31 1951 issue of KAISER-FRAZER DEALER NEWS and suggested interested dealers contact Mr. English direct for more info. Somne 1952 Virginians (the re-tagged 1951 Kaiser bodies with two-piece windshiehd, etc) may have been rolled out by this shop as convertibles. However these cars were not factory engineered or styled.
Documentation wise, if you found a 1952 Kaiser convertible, it would start with a body tag that showed 999 for Paint, 888 for Trim and have a number starting with K- at the SPEC-FO header if it was a factory job.