Kaiser Carabela

The Kaiser Carabela was the Argentine version of the Kaiser Manhattan, localised for production in Argentina by Industrias Kaiser Argentina (IKA) at its Santa Isabel factory between 1958 and 1962, according to the English Wikipedia article on the model. It was largely a carryover from the 1954 and 1955 Kaiser Manhattan, and nearly complete cars were shipped to Argentina from the Toledo, Ohio plant to be reproduced there. For Argentine use the transmission and the supercharger were deleted, and the suspension was improved and modified for the unpaved roads of the country. Instead of the automatic transmission of the 1955 Manhattan, a domestic three-speed transmission was fitted. About 10,225 Carabelas were produced, of which 57 were used as taxis. Because of the relationship between IKA and the Argentine government, a number of limousines were built for Argentine officials, among them the president Arturo Frondizi, and funeral car and flower car variants were made locally; how many of those were built, and how many survive, is unknown.