A Picture Review of the Henry J and Allstate

A Picture Review of the Henry J and Allstate
The cars that were 10 years ahead of their time

A number of years ago I saw a one page calendar that showed all the Ford
pickup trucks from the first one to the present day. I thought , what a nice idea.
I thought that I might try something similar with some of the car pictures I have collected.
I have been collecting pictures of Studebakers, Packards and Jeeps for
some time now and I first wrote a web page on the Studebaker.
Then one on Jeeps, American Motors, Pickup Trucks and Volkswagen followed.
Next I thought I would try a web page on the Kaiser and Henry J.

These pictures came for a number of sources including web pages of the manufacture,
news groups and my own.
Since most of these pictures came from news groups there may be a chance that your car is shown here.

I would like to invite any one that has a favorite Henry J picture or a Web Page
that they would like added to this page to
E mail me a copy.

John MacDonald

This page was last updated on Dec 20, 2009

After a nearly 20 year search, Eric's car was found by a Kaiser-Frazer
Club member. On January 14th 2006 the present owner allowed Eric
and this K-F Club member to view Eric's car and take some snapshots.

Surprisingly, it is only 99.9 miles from the New Jersey driveway where
Eric had built/rebuilt this convertible in the early 60's.
It is now stored in a barn and needs lots of TLC. There are no major damages,
as these pictures show..........

!!!!Coming Home !!!!
The following announcement was received from Eric Gordon
on the 28th of April 2006.

<> NEWS <> CONVERTIBLE NEWS <>

DRIVING TO PENNA / RENT U-HAUL
TOW MY 54 KAISER CONVERTIBLE BACK TO CONNECTICUT /
THE PRESENT OWNER CALLED / WE MADE A REASONABLE $-DEAL

THE MIRACLE OF GETTING
A CHANCE TO REBUILD MY CAR AGAIN, 20 YEARS LATER

Click here to watch the progress being made in restoring this one of a kind car

			A Brief History of the Kaiser/Fraser In 1945 California industrialist Henry J. Kaiser partnered with automobile executive Joe Frazer to respond to the American consumer's postwar demand for cars, mounting the last real American challenge to Detroit's Big Three automakers. They produced cars like 1949 Kaiser Vagabond, 1948 Frazer Manhattan, 1953 Kaiser Manhattan two-door sedan, the Dragon sedans, and Henry J compact coupes as well as some modified Henry J race cars. The Kaiser and Frazer Manhattan series were mainstays of the company lineup. Kaiser and Frazer automobiles were manufactured at Kaiser's Willow Run, Michigan, factory from 1946 to 1955, when declining sales forced the closing of Kaiser's domestic operations. At that time production was moved to Argentina and Brazil, where the company turned out a series of sedans, trucks and Jeeps until the company was sold to a combine of Ford and Renault owners in the late 1960s.

A brief history of the Henry J

The Henry J was introduced at a Chicago showing in February 1950 but it was not put on sale until September 1950
as a 1951 model. The price for the car was $1299.
The reason for this price was that the car was built using government funding from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Part of the agreement was that the car would sell for $1300
This price as achieved by stripping the car of a lot of features that were considered standard equipment such as a trunk lid and glove box.

Approximately 115,000 Henry Js were produced for the models years 1951, 1954
plus 2,300 Allstates for the 1952, 53 model years.
The Allstate was built by Kaiser Frazer and was nothing more than a thinly disguised Henry J with all Kaiser badging removed and replaced by Sears Allstate tags.
The 1952 Henry J Vagabond, referred to as Early issue in much of the factory literature, was simply those approximately 7000 1951 models that had not been sold at the end of the 1951 model year with a few trim changes.
The Henry J could be purchased new with one of two engines, a 68 hp four cylinder and a 80 hp six cylinder.

For a much more complete history of the Henry J please visit
Lowell's Henry J Page

Henry J

A Very Special Henry J, A 1952 Henry J Convertible
This car was just sold on ebay and I am trying to contact the new owner.
If anyone can help please e mail me

This 1952 Henry J was built by the Kaiser Frazer Corporation. The only other convertible Henry J like it was a prototype car that the factory built to showcase at the auto shows back in the early 1950's. The prototype was then destroyed. This car was purchased by the seller on eBay from the first owner who saw the prototype 1952 Henry J convertible at an auto show that Kaiser Frazer Corporation attended. At least 30 years ago and he decided to make one based on the detailed pictures of the prototype that he had taken at that auto show.

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To view another convertible that was built in a similar fashion look at
Eric Godon's convertible which is headlined at the start of this page

The following Henry J convertible pictures were submitted by Ryan Steffey, Naples, Florida and the belongs to his father Robert Steffery who bought the car in 1973. It is a 1955 prototype built for the Detroit auto show but the car was never produced since the Henry J ceased production at the end of 1954. He started the rebuild and now Ryan plans on finishing the project. This car's serial number (Body Number)is #1 as seen on the name plate shown below.
Ryan knows of only three of these cars being built and this one is the only one remaining.

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"Taking Nostalgia To The New Millennium"

1951 Henry J Top Sportsman - Driver Dave Granger -
Co Owners John Wiley and Dave Granger

565 Big Block Chevy - 12 degree Profiler heads - Dual Quads - Horse Power Motor
Best Et 7.51 at 183MPH September 6, 2008 Earlvlle, IA. Division 5

For all the details click on the link below

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1951 Henry J	1951 Henry J
This car is owned bt Ed Vensel, Port Orange, Florida The pictures were submitted by Eric Gordon and were taken at the 2008 Spring DAYTONA BEACH car show & swap meet.
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1952 Henry J	1952 Henry J
This car is owned by Debra Southgate and her husband Brian. The car was rebuilt for her by her husband Brian and her son. We had the car on the road for 2002. So she was 50 years old & revitalized. They drive the Henry J to the car shows and have been in shows from coast to coast in Canada & several of the States in the U.S.A.


1951 Henry J	1951 Henry J


1951 Henry J	1951 Henry J


1951 Henry J Delux	1951 Henry J Delux


1951 Henry J Deluxe	1951 Henry J Deluxe


1951 Henry J Deluxe


1951 Henry J	1951 Henry J


1951 Henry J DeLuxe	1951 Henry J DeLuxe Six Coupe


1951 Henry-J Deluxe Six Coupe	1951 Henry J


1951 Henry J	1951 Henry J


1951 Henry J	1951 Henry J


1951 Henry J	1951 Henry J


1952 Henry J Vagabond	1952 Henry J Vagabond


1952 Henry J Vagabond	1952 Henry J Vagabond

	A Henry J finds a new home. These pictures were submitted by Dave & Freda and the car belongs to their son Richard. Richard plans on selling the car on eBay in the near future.
1952 Henry J Vagabond


1952 Henry J	1952 Sears Allstate

1952 Allstate Brochure Cover
1952 Henry J Corsair Deluxe	1952 Allstate Brochure


	1952 Henry J


1952 Henry J Deluxe	1952 Henry J Vegabond


1952 Sears Allstate 2 Door Fastback Sedan {Early Model}	1952 Sears Allstate 2 Door Fastback Sedan {Early Model}


1952 Sears Allstate 2 Door Fastback Sedan {Late Model}	1952 Henry J


1952 Henry J	1952 Henry J


1952 Henry J	1952 Henry J


1952 Allstate A 230 Coupe	1952 Allstate DeLuxe 2 Door Sedan


1952 Henry J Vegabond This car is owned by Glenn Warner KF. no.8113 Ashtabula Ohio The picture was taken at Yipslanti orphan car show 2004. The car was restored and put back on the road in"99". It has the orignal 6cyl. with overdrive. The Odometer reads 42000 actual. I put about 1000mi.a year on it.	1952 Allstate Deluxe


1952 Henry J Vagabond
These two cars are owned by Lowell Fideler Lowell has a very nice web site showing all the Henry J's that he and his family has owned since 1950 In Lowell words "There has been at least one Henry J in my family since October of 1950." Click on the image to go to his web site.


1952 Henry J This car is owned by James Rucket of Maple Heights Ohio	1952 Allstate This picture was submitted by Rod Childs, Stafford County, VA. The picture was taken at their family home at 2008 Elgin, Nederland, TX in probably early 1953.

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1953 Henry J Corsair Deluxe	1953 Henry J Corsair Deluxe
This car is owned by Louis Johnson, Pendleton, NC He had one just like this in 1954 when he was in high school. It was his first car. He had searched for the past 8 years until he found this one on eBay on Feb 2009. This picture was taken at the NC Classic Car Show, May 29,2009

1953 Allstate	1953 Allstate


1953 Henry J Corsair	1953 Henry J


1953 Allstate	1953 Allstate


1953 Henry J	1953 Henry J


1953 Henry J Corsair	1953 Henry J Corsair


1954 Henry J Corsair	1954 Henry J Corsair


1954 Henry J Corsair	1954 Henry J Corsair


Mr. James McCloud in Doug Eiler's Henry J	Doug Eilers, James McCloud, his son Mark and my wife Joy
Doug was KFOCI Pacific Northwest Regional Manager Click on these images for a larger view in a new window	These pictures were submitted by Douglas "damsguy" Eilers KFOCI Pacific Northwest Regional Manager
Click here to view a complete photo album	Click here to view the Chico California meet where Jim McCloud was our guest speaker and includes photo's of the book Jim McCloud wrote about IKA

Click here to view the Cars of IKa and Mr. James McCloud's connection to them

The following are a series of ads run by Kaiser Fraser
in the early 1950's

Rows of Henry JA Row of Allstates's & Allstates

Jim Reyna submitted the above series of pictures and had the
following to say about them.

"Enclosed are pictures of a 1951 Henry J that I recently bought. The car has been stored for 16 years in a garage. Three of those years it was outside and exposed to the weather. The car is oxide and has some surface rust. The windows had ben left down and got the floors rusty. There is some rust holes mostly rust that can be cleaned. The body has no pinholes from rust. It is a six cylinder, no trunk. I started cleaning the chrome and it is in good shape. I am thinking of selling the frame with the rollong chassis transmission and
rear end in tact. The body I plan on using for a street rod."

The Henry J, Overseas

	This 1951 Henry J was found in Colonia City, Republica Oriental del Uruguay in 1998 by Juan Carlos Tuzzolino from Argentina



	One of the visitors to this page, Patrick van Griethuysen from the Netherlands found these two old relics 75 kilometers south of Paris. It's interesting to see that they were in Europe too.
By the look of those tail fins this one could be a 1951 or early 52

This one looks like a 1953

This 1953 Henry J was found in Germany and the pictures were submitted by
Juan Carlos Tuzzolino from España.

Another 1951 Henry J found in Argentina by Juan Carlos Tuzzolino

The following 1951 Henry J was just purchaced by
Adam & Belinda Lee, Queensland, Australia
It was imported to Australia in 2003 from South Africa.
The body number is 5144-36809

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Links

	John's Old Car and Truck Pictures
	Historic Aircraft Pictures
	Torq-O learns a thing or two about The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation from Jack Mueller, author of the recent book Built to Better the Best.
	Restoring a highly optioned 1953 Henry J This car was sold new by the salesman won the contest and received the monetary reward for naming the Henry J for Henry Kaiser
	The 1952 cars of The World
	The Old Cars of the Netherlands
	Where we live and what we do
	The Early Harley-Davidson Motorcycles
	The Model T Ford
	The Model A Ford
	Have a look and see how a Jeep can get really stuck
	The Chevy Tri-Five 55, 56 and 57 Chevrolets
	The Chevrolet Corvette From 1963 to 1970
	The Early American Sporty Cars
	The Oshkosh The Truck of Trucks
	The Divco Truck America's Milk Truck
	The Kaiser and the Frazer
	The Ford Mustang
The Cars Dreams are made of	Those Old Classic Convertibles Cadillac, Duesenberg, Cords and many more
	The Studebaker
If you remember it, could you ever forget it ?
	Yhe Cars of the Chrysler Corporation
	The Packard
	The Nash, Hudson and American Motors Cars

	The Hudson, Essex, and Terraplanes that were found in Australia
	Anthony Hazelaar's Model T Trucks and Cars Models
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	A Picture Tour of the Crosley
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	Don Pate's 1947 Chevy Aero Sedan View the rebuilding of this car from the bullet holes to the trophy winning
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	Wouldn't you Really Rather have a Buick
	The Chrysler Airflow

	The Tucker '48'
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	Eric Gordon's Kaiser Rebuild There are many pictures showing the details of this rebuild
	Eric Gordon's 1954 Kaiser Convertible Convertion
	"Coming Home" The story of Eric Gordon finding and bringing his Kaiser Convertible Back Home
	Eric Gordon's First Kaiser A 1951 Deluxe which comes to a startling end
	James Rucker's Car Collection
	View some of John' Evan's Auto Artwork
	WW II Jeeps

	The cars of IKA Argentina Kaiser's Jeeps and American Motors that were built in Argentina in the 1950's, 60's and 70's
	For those who would like to look at cars that are a little more modern, try Donnie Jones' Classy Cars
	West Coast Crosley Auto Group
	Kaiser Frazer Fans Auto Group
	King Midget Auto Group
	The Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation
	A website featuring many articles on many different cars If you can't find it anywhere else, try here
	Jim's Old Car Page A good page for Kaiser information
	View the steam locomotives of the CNR
	Another fun page involving a Jeep
	Tour the 64 remaining Covered Bridges of New Brunswick
	I have started a page on the Covered Bridges that once dotted Nova Scotia.
	If any one is interested in Microsoft's Flight Simulator I have written some scenery files for Summerville. Maitland, Windsor and Hantsport. Summerville now has an Airport
	Poetry and Tunes by Donald Jones
	Donald Jones' page on Canadian Heros

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