{"id":215,"date":"2009-09-27T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredspics1.wordpress.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2009-09-27T13:39:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:39:44","slug":"at-the-last-of-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"The Last Of The Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt was a cloudy afternoon and we were driving along the back side of Barnagat Light in New Jersey when my wife spotted this car. I took the quick shot above just in case, then we followed the car for less than a mile. The owner pulled into his driveway and then began to back into his garage. Wait, I called as I approached, camera in hand.<\/p>\n

Roger Halbing is the owner and a great guy to talk to about Kaiser motorcars. His is a very rare 1954 Kaiser Manhattan. Essentially, this was the last year the car was manufactured in this country. Kaiser did produce some 1955s but they were nearly identical to this 1954.<\/p>\n

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\nNote the padded dashboard. This was a key feature of this car line.<\/p>\n

When Kaiser stopped its run of Kaiser motorcars in 1955, it moved production to Argentina.\u00a0 There production continued for a few years after that.<\/p>\n

My father had a 1951 Kaiser.\u00a0 It was our families first new car.\u00a0 In fact, my parents flew to Detroit to pick up the car in 1950.\u00a0 I was about six years old but I remember this clearly.\u00a0 My father had extreme pain in his leg and difficulties walking and shortly after we purchased the car we (mother, father, 3 kids) drove to Hot Springs Arkansas from Jersey City New Jersey where my father took special baths to ease the pain.\u00a0 We stayed about sis weeks and he never had trouble walking again.\u00a0 The other thing I recall is that the car overheated on the trip many, many times.\u00a0 My mother was upset.\u00a0 We purchased a new car and still had reliability problems.\u00a0 We sold the car in about 1955.
\n\u00a9 Fred Winograd copyright 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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