Frazer1946-1951After 40 years with Packard, General Motors, Pierce-Arron, Saxon Motor Corp., Maxwell-Chahner, Chryssler (where he started both Plymouth and DeSoto), Willys Overland (where he got the credit for the Jeep), Joseph W. Fazer felt ready to produce his own cars. In 1944 he bought shares in Graham Paige, in order to have a well-known name which could manufacture his automobiles. In March 1945 the drawings were ready for a new modern car. Designed by Howard Darrin.
In June 1946 the first Frazers rolled off the production line at the Graham Paige factory in Detroit. Graham Paig had orders for several hundredthousand cars, but within the end of 1946 they had only produced 6000 cars. After the the first 8946 units of the 1947 model was produced, the production was moved to Willow Run, where Frazer and Kaiser had rented an abandoned factory which was used to make fighterplanes during the war. After that time the Graham Paige name was not associated with any cars ever again. After some reasonably successful years in 1947-48, the problems between Mr. Frazer and Mr. Kaiser started to become big. In march 1949 Frazer left the president chair in Kaiser-Frazer Corp. and Henry J. Kaisers son Edgar became the new president. Frazer continued in the board of directors as a consultant of some sort, but was never asked for any advice. The 1950 model of Frazer was basically the same as the 1949 model but with a new chassisnumber (that is the same for the 1950 Kaiser). The 1951 models was the 1949 and 1950 models of both Kaiser and Frazer but with a new front and tail end. The last car shipped out with the Frazer name left the factory the summer of 1951. It was a total of 151983 cars produced under the name Frazer. |
We have the following Frazers in the club: 1947 1 pc. 1948 1 pc. 1951 1 pc. |
