 As Kaiser exited the US consumer car market in 1955 it still had a number of Darrins in storage in its remaining facilities.Howard Darrin collected as many of them as he could and, along with the 50 write-offs that he had brought from the Toledo plant, offered them for sale from his Hollywood showroom.He retrofitted the engines of several cars with McCulloch superchargers and multiple carburetors to improve their performance.