Frazer Manhattan question

[Logan]

I saw this 1948 Manhattan for sale on this website http://www.significantcars.com/cars/1948fraser/fullsize.html and noticed that it has separate F-R-A-Z-E-R script.  Maybe I am wrong, but I thought that this was only used on the 1947 models.  Also, is the $13,000 they are asking in the ball park for a car in this condition (which looks quite good to me)?

[Doc]

The Frazer script was used through 1951 in various sizes and shapes.

[Doc]

This one and another have been for sale at that sigh for awhile. Car does look pretty good except for that fuel leakage at the carburetor.  Parts for this year fairly easy to find unlike the '51s.

[Doc]

Interior really looks great on this car.  The dash knobs, chrome, sterring wheel, etc.

[montefrazer]

Yes, the 47's had seperate letters and the 48's had letters connected to a lower chrome bar. That said, this is a very early 48, number 10097 according to the door tag. The factory may still have been using up 47 bodies or parts.

[Fid]

The car you're refering to belonged to KFOC founder Tom Rankine.  He always claimed it was a 1948. Likely  the seperate letter script was used because it was restored at a time when parts were not easy to find. If the scripts were missing, you used what you could find, that's the way it used to be before the club held meets and there was an internet to find what you needed.  According to the KFOC Handbook, some late 1947s had the one piece script. I saw a late 1947 Kaiser in a salvage yard last fall and it had the seperate letters on the trunk lid and the one piece script on the hood. It could've been that way originally.
front side and
rear.  The serial number is K100 - 052973

[Logan]

Thanks for shedding some light on that, Fid.  I thought that script was not right for a '48.  It is a beautiful car.

[Doc]

Last picture, note the late 40s Studebaker in the picture. 

[Fid]

Early '47s also had a squeeze type trunk opener. This one has the turn handle which was adopted early in the 1947 model year. It looks like  a restorable car.

[Logan]

I hope someone will take that Kaiser and restore it.  It would be sad to see it sit out there in the open and rust beyond repair.