The family KF cars...

In a previous post and in many other places I stated that my dad bought two KF products--a 1948 Frazer Manhattan and a 1951 Kaiser Special. I remember both these cars. The Frazer was a combination with a darker green on top and lighter green on bottom. The Kaiser was a very unadorned car with practically no chrome. Now I have a "faint" memory of an earlier Frazer that came before the Manhattan but always deferred to my dad who thought he only bought the 48 I remember.

Now my dad was a car man when he was young and traded often. He managed to keep some decent cars even during WW II. In the early postwar time he went though several cars--an early Studebaker based on the last prewar design that had paint that fell off in chucks from day one; a gunmetal gray Buick (my dad and his brothers got several cars in a deal with General Motors for lumber); and finally a Hudson of some sort.

I thought he next got an early Frazer that was in a light brown color but he did not think so.

Well I bring this up because I was going through some of my mom's photographs that I boxed up when she passed several years ago and ran across a couple of car pics.

The pic with my brother and me with mom and dad obviously shows the left side of the Manhattan. It has a processing date of January 1951 on the back. We moved back to Texas in the summer of 1949.

The other pic looks like a different car to me. It appears to be one color and the plate looks like one from Louisiana where we lived for several years before coming back to Texas. Also this looks like a plain Frazer to me.

What do you think?