Happy to see you building a bathtub Nash AirFlite. I hated the look of these when I was a kid and up into my 40’s. But now that I am an old duffer, (as in old guy) I am enjoying the style and original engineering of these cars a lot more. For this body, I am not a fan of the regular hot rodder traditional 4 link design and the way it gobbles up space under the car and eats into the and raises the floor. Your losing chair, leg and head space out of this roomy coupe. It not only eats up space, it’s really only good for going fast in a straight line on a smooth road. It does lot like corners and.bumpy roads. Personally, I would shoot for a lower 2 trailing link, center torque arm extending to the transmission cross member with a Watts linkage to locate the side to side movement of the rear axle. This car already has a pretty efficient and stiff perimeter box frame rail design underneath. Why not take advantage of that and keep all that bodacious space inside the car that these cars are known for? Nash did offer V8 engines from either Packard or Studebaker in the ‘55 to ‘57 time period before these bodies were redesigned. You might have a look under one of those v8 motored cars to see how the set it up to handle V8 power and torque. No need to take a good car chassis design and turn it into a high rider pickup truck chassis.
I am building the 4 dr version of this car, with an AMC 258 in keeping with its heritage. air bags,4 wheel disc,904 chrysler auto, Ford explorer rear diff. A/C. really looking forward to seeing how your build goes. Different is good!
There's a f***book group for nash parts. I found a guy that can get ALL of the door and window seals! Also, I just inherited one of these when my dad died about a month ago. The floor is GONE. I will be building a full chassis with roll cage. What axle widths do you think you will have to be able to fit inside the outer wheel wells?? What front suspension width do you plan on using?
Oh my GOD i grew up in the 80’s..you know the saying: the bigger the hair the closer to GOD…lol..and the shoes..what we didn’t suffer thru for fashion..Jaimie not sure if your friend can take this because of the MS but NAC is good for bronchial type of situations..it’s a supplement you can buy over the counter..Hope she feels better. Take care kiddo
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My old man liked his old Nash's
I’m subscribing so I can check back on these when I have time to watch them. I love weird cars.
New subscriber here…really like the presenter and the project..looking fwd to future segments.
That`s a really good looking sub frame.
That shape!
That will 'freak' out the 21st century people at how fast that looks!
I love these type of builds. To use another 80’s term, Dare to be Different. Subscribed to watch this one progress
Happy to see you building a bathtub Nash AirFlite. I hated the look of these when I was a kid and up into my 40’s. But now that I am an old duffer, (as in old guy) I am enjoying the style and original engineering of these cars a lot more.
For this body, I am not a fan of the regular hot rodder traditional 4 link design and the way it gobbles up space under the car and eats into the and raises the floor. Your losing chair, leg and head space out of this roomy coupe. It not only eats up space, it’s really only good for going fast in a straight line on a smooth road. It does lot like corners and.bumpy roads. Personally, I would shoot for a lower 2 trailing link, center torque arm extending to the transmission cross member with a Watts linkage to locate the side to side movement of the rear axle. This car already has a pretty efficient and stiff perimeter box frame rail design underneath. Why not take advantage of that and keep all that bodacious space inside the car that these cars are known for?
Nash did offer V8 engines from either Packard or Studebaker in the ‘55 to ‘57 time period before these bodies were redesigned. You might have a look under one of those v8 motored cars to see how the set it up to handle V8 power and torque.
No need to take a good car chassis design and turn it into a high rider pickup truck chassis.
Cool project
Love these cars.
Love body style. Thanks
Very KOOL So Far
Loved what you named it!
I am building the 4 dr version of this car, with an AMC 258 in keeping with its heritage. air bags,4 wheel disc,904 chrysler auto, Ford explorer rear diff. A/C. really looking forward to seeing how your build goes. Different is good!
Awesome!!
Great project subscribed to follow the build. One small bit of a suggestion if I may. Less talk more rock Brother. 👍
There's a f***book group for nash parts. I found a guy that can get ALL of the door and window seals!
Also, I just inherited one of these when my dad died about a month ago. The floor is GONE. I will be building a full chassis with roll cage. What axle widths do you think you will have to be able to fit inside the outer wheel wells?? What front suspension width do you plan on using?
Hello
Could you please tell me how can I find window and door seals for Nash?
I have 1953 Nash and I really need new window seals for this car.
Looks like a VW Beetle inspiration…
Oh my GOD i grew up in the 80’s..you know the saying: the bigger the hair the closer to GOD…lol..and the shoes..what we didn’t suffer thru for fashion..Jaimie not sure if your friend can take this because of the MS but NAC is good for bronchial type of situations..it’s a supplement you can buy over the counter..Hope she feels better. Take care kiddo
You won't have to worry about steering wander on the T'bird. It's self -centering, lol.
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