Since I was the official “store clerk” at the age of 8, I would always look forward to this family showing up to fill their Traveler/Vagabond with a month’s worth of groceries. Specifically, my grandfather owned a grocery and economy store in the 1930s through the 1960s in Ranshaw, Pennsylvania, and one of his customers had one. The attached advertisements clearly show that both the Vagabond and Traveler came from the same manufacturer, namely Kaiser-Frazer.Īs noted in previous columns, I remember seeing my first Kaiser Traveler/Frazer Vagabond in person. All Vagabonds and Travelers featured a rear license plate assembly that could be flipped out and down, allowing driving with bigger cargo and the “hatch” open. The cabin featured wood skid strips that helped hold the cargo in place, and both Kaiser and Frazer advertising pointed to the fact that an owner could put a double bed in the pickup truck like cargo space. These vehicles offered the consumer a hatchback style drop-down trunk, a flip up rear window and rear seats that folded down. Thanks.Ī: Thomas thanks for your recall on my column about the Frazer Vagabond and Kaiser Traveler. You said that both had “all of the necessities to be called the ‘Godfather of the modern era hatchback.’” I appreciate any additional information you can supply and also about manufacturers sharing parts way back then. I wonder about its near identical parts compared to the Kaiser Traveler, built from 1949-1954. My question is about the Frazer Vagabond, built from 1949 to 1951. Q: Greg, I enjoy your columns that I see in the newspapers and on the Internet sites.
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