Hemmings Classic Car

The Kaiser Bergantin

“American Motors was in an expansion mode overseas and looking for licensees to produce its cars, so the agreement suited both parties quite well.”

There used to be a saying back when I was a kid: “Old American cars never die —they go to South America.” There was a lot of truth in that; in the 1970s there were several 1960s-vintage American cars still being built in South America from old tooling.

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