24 cars blue sky: Junkyard Find: 1951 Frazer

While I was photographing a burned-up '61 Caddy hearse and buying a '41 Plymouth Special Deluxe sedan at the Brain-Melting Colorado Junkyard last week, I stopped to admire some of the many Kaiser-Frazer products scattered around the many acres of old iron. You'll need to drop everything and read Ate Up With Motor's excellent history of Kaiser-Frazer before continuing with today's Junkyard Find, so go do that right now.
The 1951 Frazer was just a use-up-the-leftover-Frazer-parts deal, done after Henry J. Kaiser forced Joe Frazer out of company management. A quickie facelift was thrown onto the '50 Frazer's snout, but otherwise this car is identical to the 1950 Frazer.
Only about 10,000 '51 Frazers were sold, making this an extremely rare car today. Valuable? Probably not, but still cool for its historical value.
I seriously considered buying a Frazer instead of the '41 Plymouth, but these cars are just so heavy that I'd need to use tougher (i.e., more expensive) running gear to get the performance I wanted.
Check out that horn ring!
The Brain-Melting Colorado Yard has so many Frazers (the hood ornament from a late-40s Frazer is pictured here) that it may one day serve as the reservoir for all the competitors in a future Spec Frazer race series. Hey, if we can have Spec Dynasty, why not Spec Frazer?