1953
Kaiser Manhattan
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following people got the answer correct:
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Franklin (Auckland, New Zealand),
Pete (USA),
Christian D. Pamp (Hannover, Germany),
Alan Blanes (Edmonton, Canada),
P. Kothari (New Jersey, USA),
Amar (San Francisco, USA),
Afroz (Kuwait),
Ronny (New Delhi, India),
Vicky Arora (Mumbai, India),
Murli K. (Bangalore, India).
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1953
Kaiser Manhattan
Even badly rusted Kaiser-Frazer cars command high prices today
on the collector's market due to their rarity.
The story of Kaiser Frazer is a short but interesting one. Most
of the heroes of World War II were military men and political
leaders, but one industrialist who became a hero was Henry J.
Kaiser, was an American industrialist whose shipyards produced
the famous ugly "Liberty" merchant marine ships. Kaiser managed
to pare down the time to produce a Liberty ship from 244 days
through 72 days down to 46 days. As a publicity stunt he even
produced one ship from scratch in five days!
After the war, he signed up special-body designer Howard "Red"
Darrin to design cars. Darrin came up with futuristic and beautiful
designs, some of which were to difficult to produce in volume.
The 1953 Kaiser Manhattan was an elegant design with an unusually
modern and well-proportioned body. It's widow's peak windshield
was a styling unusual.
A high-end version of the 1953 Manhattan was the Kaiser Dragon.
It featured a special reptilian theme trim package with "dragon-skin"
vinyl roof and interior upholstery, was a truly beautiful and
advanced automobile.
The cars had outstanding 6-cylinder engines, but the American
buyer was seduced by the high-powered V8 engines that Kaiser's
competitors offered. In the end the 6-cylinders could not match
the appeal of the high-compression V8 and hemi-head V8s that
won the horsepower race and the hearts of the American motoring
world.
The innovative genius, Kaiser produced the world's first hatchback
sedan, four-door Virginian hardtop, and the Kaiser-Darrin, a
fiberglass reinforced plastic sports car with sliding doors
which still looks modern today!
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