Old Cars Weekly – Car of the Week: 1954 Kaiser Darrin
By Brian Earnest
Photos by Pino Ruggiero
Donald Dettore figures he’s had his eye on his 1954 Kaiser-Darrin roadster for about five decades, give or take a year or two. For most of that time, he tracked the car from afar as it changed owners multiple times. When he finally had his chance to bring home his own copy of the famous, and some would say star-crossed, two-seater, there was no hesitation.“I followed the car for about 35 years,” admitted Dettore, a retired physician from Hinsdale, Ill. “It was picked up by a friend of ours on the East Coast, and the car was a blue metallic color. He eventually died and the car went into his estate and was purchased by a buddy of mine — and most Kaiser-Frazer guys in the Midwest — George Buchinger. George never really did anything with the car… It just sat. It was kind of in disarray, but everything was there.“Then when he died in 1990, I picked up the car from his son. I got my ’51 Frazer Manhattan the same way.”
via Old Cars Weekly – Car of the Week: 1954 Kaiser Darrin.
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