Frazer

Frazer was the upper-medium-priced luxury car marque of the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, sold for the 1947 through 1951 model years and named for Joseph W. Frazer, the longtime automobile executive who had become the corporation's president and general manager. The cars were styled by Howard "Dutch" Darrin with some input from other Kaiser-Frazer stylists. Production began on 29 May 1946 and the first car was shown to the public on 29 June 1946. Every Frazer used one four-door sedan body shell that it shared with the cheaper Kaiser, and it was powered by a Continental 226 cubic inch L-head six that reached 115 horsepower by the end of production. A Manhattan luxury series joined the plain Frazer in 1947, and the restyled 1951 cars added a four-door convertible, a hardtop sedan and the Vagabond hatchback sedan. Kaiser-Frazer ended the marque after building 10,214 of the 1951 cars, once Joseph Frazer had left, so that it could concentrate on Kaiser production.