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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.762920973
EAN num: 9781932439335
ISBN number: 1932439331
Label: Mt Pub Company Inc
Manufacturer: Mt Pub Company Inc
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: January 31, 2005
Publishing house: Mt Pub Company Inc
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Kaiser Frazer built some very innovative vehicles. I remember a comment that said if the Kaiser Manhattan had been built and sold by Buick, it would have sold in the hundreds of thousands.
GM and Ford effectively killed off all the independent manufacturers, by deliberately undercutting their prices.
Now, in 2008, the shoe is on the other foot, as GM and Ford are going to Washington, to beg for $$ because they're being bettered by Japan INC.
I say let the marketplace decide; taxpayers should not be bailing out companies that can't make a product the public will buy.
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I recently received a book as a gift from a friend. I had intended to shelve it as just another 'old car book' that offers little in the way of historical value but it caught my interest and I am glad it did.
It is the BUSINESS history of Kaiser-Frazer corporation. The Author is a K-F owner and historian but he does not write about those piddly details related to production variations that concern most old car authors. (Which I am totally sick of!)
Instead he covers how K-F failed even though it was selling thousands of cars a year. A good review of loans, stock offerings and how money was passed between the factory, the distributors, and the dealers. He even covers the lawsuits related to a stock offering that hung on until 1962!
The typesetting STINKS. It is so full of typos you would think it was never actually proof read. This initially turned me off and made me question the credibility of the information. (hummmmm . . . poor quality control just like the K-F cars?) but if you can see past these, the story is excellent.
Certainly it rivals "The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company" By James Ward. Although Mr. Ward is a university professor and his work is perhaps slightly more scholarly, both books offer a good insight into the REAL reasons a car company fails. Reasons that rarely have any connection with the product and always more with those big business decisions that are little understood by auto historians.
Read these two books and you will never again think that Preston Tucker could have ever actually produced his car. This is a good book for a serious historian that wants the factual history of an independent automaker and not inane conclusions drawn by journalist who makes up facts while looking at publicity photos.
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Jack Mueller has done an excellent job of compiling the Kaiser Frazer historical data and writing an outstanding book on these two gentlemen and their venture into the automobile industry. As a Kaiser owner I found this book especially interesting and informative. The photos throughout the book are wonderful.
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