| Kaiser Motors Info
In 1945, Henry J. Kaiser partnered with expert auto industry executive Joseph Frazer to form Kaiser-Frazer Corporation from the remains of Graham-Paige, where Frazer had presided. It used a surplus aircraft production factory at Willow Run, Michigan. Kaiser-Frazer started making automobiles with the brand names Kaiser and Frazer. They also built a small car called the Henry J, named for Henry Kaiser. A slightly different version of the Henry J was sold as the Allstate by Sears-Roebuck at select Sears Auto Centers in 1952 and 1953. Joseph W. Frazer left his official capacity as president in 1951 and the corporation was reorganized as Kaiser Motors Corporation in 1953. Shortly after that same year, Kaiser purchased Willys-Overland, designer and manufacturer of the Jeep line of utility vehicles. Kaiser changed the Willys-Overland name to Willys Motors. Kaiser Motors produced cars under the Kaiser and Frazer names until 1955, when it abandoned the U.S. market and moved production to South American plants in Brazil and Argentina. In 1963, the Willys Motors name was changed again to Kaiser-Jeep. In the late 1960s, the South American operations were sold to a combine of Ford-Renault. Kaiser-Jeep was ultimately sold to American Motors Corporation in 1970, when Henry Kaiser decided to leave the auto business.
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