Vehicle Description
1951 Frazer Vagabond The Frazer was much face lifted for 1951, its
last year of production. The new body design was based on styling
proposals by howard Darrin and executed by Herb Weissinger. The car
featured crisp, highly defined body lines with rakish windstream
curves and unbroken fender contours. Elements included large
taillights set into high-crowned rear fenders sculptured crease
lines on front and rear fendersides and around the rear wheel
opening plus a heavily chromed wind tunnel grille. The standard
Frazer series comprised two body styles: the four-door sedan and
the five-door Vagabond utility sedan. The Vagabond body type
combined the features of a conventional sedan with the flexibility
of a station wagon. Other makes of the era used similar designs,
but Frazer used a unique design of dual rear hatches. In this one
panel folded down to form a tailgate while the upper hatch opened
upward to give nearly complete floor to ceiling access to the
interior. The rear seat folded flat forward to five a station wagon
like flat cargo floor. The word Frazer appeared on the rear door of
standard sedans, and Frazer Vagabond on the utility model. This
example is I'm sure the nicest 1951 Frazer Vagabond in existence
today. It has undergone a body off, nut and bolt restoration and is
close to perfect in every respect. Finished in Indian Ceramic with
Cream leather interior and the interior appointments and attention
to detail is magnificent. All bright- work, pot metal, stainless,
and paint finish is without fault. The Kaiser 'supersonic'
six-cylinder engine has been rebuilt and with the three-speed
manual transmission with overdrive it's a pleasure to drive.
Turnkey condition .... everything is operating as they should.
