Projects My wife's 'New' car 1951 Kaiser

I've been kinda quite lately ~ building other stuff, But I managed to save this from the scrapper ( Before anybody get upset ~ The scrapper bought it at a junk auction) Any how my buddy the scrapper bought it & offered to me for $850 on payments........ since I'm broke almost every bloody day!
As soon as my wife saw the picture he texted to me she wanted it!! and she doesn't get to overly excited over too many old cars.
No major plans yet other cleaning out the garage for some extra room to park it & get a title for it and find some of the missing parts like the gas tank which is M.I.A and some side trim pieces & figure out the wiring than some asshat pulled from behind ignition switch trying to hot wire it all they had to do is turn the bloody switch!!!

 

Nice!

 

Wow!!...$850...What a bargain!!

Get a Kaiser and surprise her.
Get a Frazier and amaze her.
Get a Tucker and...........

 

The only real rust I could find is in the trunk pan (not major)

 

Real nice Kaiser! weren't some supercharged?

 

A Kaiser cruiser!
I'm imagining that car as a 2dr roadster with that dip in the door.........oooooh!
(no time to photochop 2day...)

 

I can't help it, the side shot just makes me smile, what a friendly car.

 

Cool - what are her plans for it?

 

Yeah and the little heart-shaped dip in the windshields is just totally Kaiser.

(Ditto the bison on the horn button.)

 

Dang that car is sweet. Get her wired, check the brakes and go for a cruise. With your wife, of course.

 

As of right now, we're hoping just to get it running & cruise it. I read that a mid 80 Chevy big body car frame will swap? (just incase the engine is shot)

I need to replace the master cylinder for sure (no pressure)

 

Doesn't the King of Kaisers AKA Kaiser Bill live in Colorado?

 

Even if the engine is shot why would a complete frame swap be required?

 

No Clue?

I been reading that engine swaps are a night mare & the rear are geared low.

 

Frame swaps are no day at the beach either!

 

looks nice.....good jog getting it......betting the gas tank was pulled for a cleaning.....which might mean a good motor.....good luck.....

 

Damn that's cool. i love those, especially with a lowers roof I wouldn't frame swap it, clip the front if needed and swap rear end.. Great score

 

Kaiser chassis are not exactly something to sneeze at, very rigid according to my friend that also has a '51 that was made into a roadster. He claims some dealers used to pop one wheel off and drive around town on 3 to show how rigid their frames were. Is it true? I'm not sure, but salesman were probably more adventurous and daring back in the day, so I'm going with maybe...

 

Cool car. Who in their right mind would scrap a car in that condition??!!

 

Really cool car! Hopefully won't take much to get her back on the road!!!

 

I wondered the exact same thing. I've seen much, much worse cars on Craigslist for a couple thousand dollars. I would have jumped on that thing so fast for $850 that my shoes would have been left behind!

 

A Classic made in Ypsilanti, Mi....pretty cool kaiser / Hudson museum there to check out. They have a original Manhattan body on a body cart from the plant.

 

beautiful car to save from the scrap yard

 

Wow! Love Kaisers... I'm extremely jealous! Good luck on returning that beautiful beast to the road.

Shotgun Rod & Kustoms

 

Kaisers used continental 6 , industrial engine . Some had GM hydros adapted to them . My dad had a "Traveler" model , 4 door hatchback , rear seat folded flat like a wagon. We used it for camping/fishing trips .

 

Wow! you really got lucky on that one! Bruce.

 

There is one around someplace that was made into a full custom, I have seen it in a mag within the past couple years, really turned out nice.
My granfather had an older model Kaiser (not sure of year, more rounded body) and it was a light faded peach color, we use to car her Pinky, she was built like a tank.
Did they make these in 2 door or convertible models, never seen one, always 4 doors.
Kool Future Kustom!

 

In 1957, my Dad and Mom and us 5 kids traveled across country from Los Alamos NM to Norwood MA and back in a 1951 Kaiser just like that except it was dark green. I remember listening to "The Wayward Wind" by Gogi Grant on the AM radio as we traveled the two lane roads. Great memories!

 

They did make them. I have seen one.
It was laying in some swamp water in the woods behind a junkyard in Kansas and there was almost nothing at all left of it. Literally every square inch of metal was soft to the touch from rust. But being the car geek that I am I was still excited to find it and I still stood and stared at it for a few minutest trying to figure out how to "save" it. (First step would have involved a bulldozer to take out a couple dozen trees, second step would have involved a front loader to pick up the hulk, third step would have involved picking up the body by hand after it broke into pieces.)

 

This one?...
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1951-kaiser-dragn-build.272171/