Darrin to be DIFFERENT
Bill Smith, known to his friends as ‘Barnsley Bill’, likes unusual American cars and he’s certainly got one with this 1954 Kaiser Darrin… When faced with a rare car such as this one, I’m always intrigued to hear why the owner decided to buy it. “I’ve had Yank cars for years,” answers Bill, “I’d first seen a Darrin in the Encyclopaedia of American Cars back in the Seventies and always fancied one, but it was only more recently that I went on to the Hemmings website and spotted five for sale. It’s a really weird design and the look just grabbed me. I wanted a complete one in as mint condition as possible – I’ve done restorations in the past and didn’t need another project. The brakes and chassis bits you can mostly get, but bodywork is far rarer. I’d considered one with supposedly factory black paint, but doubted it was original. After it sold, I heard it was a very rare special-order version, so I
