My dad had a 51 Rambler wagon. Great car, very sturdy but subject to rust in the hard east coast winters. Yet, it lasted until 1960 when my dad got a new rambler wagon. My mother had a 59 Rambler American coupe. Both good cars if well maintained
I purchased a 1951 Nash convertible the lowest Lane car from Superman, purchase it from my landlord who is a used car dealer in 1957, lived in Bensonhurst Brooklyn I never drove it up with mess around with it with my brother are landlords allowed us to put in the garage behind two story home it was a standard 3 speed on the column I didn't know how to drive or anything but messed around trying to fix little things broken on it the car cost me $50 pop the clutch and put it through garage wall brings back great memories thank you for posting
I have the rolled mattresses still in the original Nash bags from my fathers Nash. The back seats went down and the mattresses rolled out to make a sleeping quarters.
It turns out that sleeping flat but with your legs dropped is not very comfortable. You wake up before a full night's rest with sore legs because your blood has pooled there.
@@masterbondofox8982 Sure was for real. A old family friend, had one of these Nash Rambler cars, and man, he loved that car so much. He did a great deal of extensive traveling, and sleeping in that car. I rode in his car once, man, that thing was BIG! and I mean BIG! It was a smooth running, smooth riding car though. A very huge car. They say that you could never wear out a valve from one of these cars, they were built that good, and the engines practically lasted forever to.
Nash -- from Kenosha Wisconsin. The main assembly plant was in Kenosha and the body parts (stamping) were made at a plant on East Capitol Drive in Milwaukee. When Chrysler bought AMC the Milwaukee plant was closed. Today a Walmart stands where thousands of workers one made Nash body panels.
Kenosha closed down as well after becoming a Chrysler engine plant. It’s now gone too and there’s a city park located on the site. At least it got reused and didn’t become an abandoned eyesore or brownfield.
Nash also had an assembly plant in El Segundo, California. It was located near Los Angeles International Airport at the corner of Imperial Highway and, wait for it, NASH STREET! It later became the American Motors assembly plant in 1954. Nash and Hudsons were assembled there. When AMC sold the property, it was bought by Hughes Aerospace. It's now Boeing Satellite Division. As I write this, I'm sitting about two blocks from that site.
Hardly a car ahead of its time! A very conventional design under the body. The very soft suspension gave good comfort under certain conditions, but the load sensitivity was also great, and with just a few passengers and luggage, the car was heavily down-loaded and thus had poor springing and damping and also poor road-holding and safety. Not to mention the headlights pointing to the tree tops......
Thanks for sharing those films. I love this car, she's one of my favorites for this period, as well the 1949 and 1950, all round, soft and cute,, like a gold fish, than the Hydra-Matic of 1951, more elegant, more stylish and refined maybe, but still gorgeous and appealling. Good old time, did you say ?.... 😘🤩😗
Same for me! The true "back to the future car" Ding-Ding over the hose on the gas station and 2 chaps are there for helping you / getting the best service. For fun - watch: Donald Duck - lucky number 1951 . Donald's Super Service (family gas station) ... How I love his cash register (No Sale) and so on... the music of these films... Herrlich/Wunderbar! xD cordial greetings! Géréon (a north german watchmaker, Hannover, Hamburg, Kiel - living close to the lake Geneva switzerland)
Such nonsense still applies today, haven't you heard of dish washer liquid with *real lemon juice* and Orange juice with *artificial flavor* ? The level of stupidity is astounding, yet people still fall for that BS.
Em 95 comprei um Nash600 em seus últimos "suspiros". Sem internet, sem peças, cortei e fiz uma picape sobre um chassi C10 com motor e demais partes mecânicas e ficou um espetáculo de utilitário. Tenho-na ainda em pleno labor em Rib. Preto, Brazil!
In the 1950-'51 season, Nash sponsored a live TV anthology series (originating from New York and hosted by William Gaxton), "NASH AIRFLYTE THEATRE", on CBS' Thursday night schedule [10:30pm(et)]. It lasted one season.
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I believe you are referring to the first LOIS LANE (Phyllis Coates). Don't know if the second LOIS LANE (Noel Neil) drove one or not. I think she did, it was that rag-top number. Thank you for reminding me of my favorite show when I was growing up.
The legendary „OK“ sign at 11:44. It is said having its origins in the Ford car factories. The original meaning of those letters seem being lost since there are several theories about it.
I learned a long time ago it was derived from Martin Van Buren's presidential campaign: he was from Old Kinderhook, NY, and was known as "Old Kinderhook". Eventually it was shortened to "OK" and became his campaign slogan: "Martin Van Buren is OK".
@@ssjlkrillin Van Buren actually used it, but it was in use already. As an abbreviation of "oll korrect" which was a slang humorous misspelling of "all correct". The Old Kinderhook connection is true and was used as a handy campaign slogan. So that's why we say OK or okay, not AK There is also a record label "Okeh" that goes way back to 1918 or so that was mainly jazz and blues recordings. The Okeh came from the initials of the company founder, Otto K. E. Heinnemann. The label is still part of Columbia Records. They source of words and phrases can be fascinating.
I can tell you where O.K. came from: O.hne K.orrektur which is german for "without/no correction" (needed) Same as for the Myday which comes from the french "aide moi" m'aide... 37% (!) of the USA population has german origins. Rest are bloody english world conquerors/dominators (hence the pirate island UK) -please take that as a joke (with some truth)
Note the front and rear wheel openings are the same. To make that work the front track is 3" narrower than the rear track and it still had a massive turning circle.
Eventually nearly all Ford, GM and Chrysler autos would be made with unibody construction. Of course pick up trucks, full-size vans and SUVs still are body on frame.
Is the music in the factory from that old 1927 German movie, "Metropolis?" Where the workers are led in a revolt against their machines by a robot posing as a beloved matron but which really has evil intentions. The evil-doers are eventually destroyed but not before the workers bring down the entire city. Ominous music.
Terrible cars, by todays standards! But as early as 1955 the Citroen DS was way ahead of its time and the most advanced and safe car in the world with front wheel drive, mid-engined front motor concept, hydropneumatic suspension with constant ride height, individually sprung wheels, rack and pinon steering, inboard disc brakes at the front, aerodynamic body, and much more!
The DS was a weird gutless car that only sold fairly well in France. It was not mid-engined, but due to poor design the engine compartment was excessively long. Perhaps Citroen thought that would fool people into thinking it had a big engine and was fast. It had silly gimmicks such as pivoting headlights linked to the steering, which was dangerous and the authorities in various countries required that the headlight turning be disabled. A car that LOOKS aerodynamic (eg Citroen DS, Jaguar E-Type) isn't necessarily low drag in practice. Lowest drag comes from a teardrop or raindrop shape, ie the largest cross section near the front - the opposite to the DS shape. When I started doing an engineering degree at university, they were wind-tunnel testing cars. The car with the lowest drag turned out to be the Volkswagen. However, I agree those old Nash cars weren't very good. They didn't sell well either.
One of the most primitive designs in car industry. This line of cars were followed around the world in that era. Especially the Eastern European car manufacturers. I remember back in the 70 s they were around still.
I've herd that the Ambassador , Airflyte was had lower aerodynamic drag than the '53 Studebaker coupe, but I've never seen on built into a salt flat racer,
3:04 It's called monocoque construction. It is lighter and may be stronger so it has become almost universal in today's cars, though it is noisier, as there are no rubber blocks to isolate the body from the suspension vibrations. My 2018 BMW I3 has separate frame and body, it's part of the reason I bought it.
We had one. It was the first new car my parents ever had. It was beautifully black and shiny. Unfortunately, it should have been bright yellow because it was a big bright lemon! It was constantly needing repairs -- expensive repairs. I remember one bill was for $500! Before we went on a vacation my father had it thoroughly checked over. We drove from Los Angeles to Stockton -- something over 300 miles -- and it quit. The garage was told to patch it together so it could get back to LA, and my parents stormed into the dealership where they had bought it. They threatened everything from the Better Business Bureau to a lawsuit. The dealership took it back and gave them a beautiful Buick Roadmaster in return. That was a great car.
Thanks for this real-life comment. Allthough I think that perhaps your garage made the prices perhaps too high and they worked very likely bad. These cars are for a good mechanic (I'm a watchmaker) VERY good cars. Easy to repair. Your comment sounds for me like they have made a lot money with you and did finally no true repair/check work... AND next question is HOW the car is driven and HOW the early miles were driven.
@@Watchmaker_Gereon-Schloesser There is no doubt that my parents were cheated very thoroughly. They were young and had been through the Depression and the War. The Nash was the first new car they had ever bought. My mother chose it because she liked the way it looked. I am sure my father checked out the reputation of the Nash brand before he bought because he was a very careful person. You speak of how a car is driven, especially in the early miles, as important. I know our Nash was driven carefully, just as the instructions in the manual said to do, because my father was very methodical and careful about such things. He was a manual-reader and a list-maker. The car was well taken care of. It had beautiful gray upholstery and my mother was very watchful that nothing got on that lovely fabric. It ended in her father, my grandfather, giving her the money to have plastic upholstery put on the seats, "So the kid can eat an ice cream cone in the back seat without you nagging her." The last time my mother saw the car they were tearing out that lovely expensive upholstery so they could sell the car to the next sucker with upholstery fresh from the factory. The entire experience was very sad.
If I am not mistaken Nash-Hudson -- the original name of the merged companies -- imported the Metropolitan from England where small cars were far more popular than in the United States. After a few years Nash-Hudson adopted the name American Motors.
@@danbasta3677 Rambler was the model name of cars built by Nash and American Motors from 1950 through 1969. American Motors Corporation was the name of the company from 1954 until purchased and dissolved by Chrysler.
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Well those things sure are ugly and I have always thought so, I think they had a lot of positives but needed a better stylist studio and a stronger engine even for 1951. Lots of cars had done away with torque tubes and front buggy spring suspension. I have never seen one of the drop head coupe but I bet that was a hand full to keep dry inside.
They looked ugly in the early 50s, and still look ugly to me today. The 50s were a time when cars had style. Some were beautiful and some were not, yet all were distinctive. The tail fin wars of the late 50s and early 60s seemed to have brought an end to the styling effort
What an ugly looking car. There's no front wheel arches - since that would force a narrow front track, it must have noticeably degraded handling. And the film shows it wallowed around a lot even by the then American standards.
it's a comfort car - not a sport car. I like the 1949 version best. It was designed in airplane principles and had a consumption of only 25 miles to the gallon, where a cadillac needed more than doubble... Well, taste is of course a very personal matter. cordial greetings, Géréon
@@shable1436 Those old cars had lousy engine life- major overhauls every 20K miles, tires lasted maybe for 10K. The handling and performance was horrible compared to cars today, and much less safe. They got poor mileage and half the gas went out the exhaust pipe they were so inefficient. I could go on but you get my point.
Odd comment. The cars of 70 years ago were generally considered very modern. The big 6 was an overhead valve motor though the smaller 6 was still a flathead. In 1949 Nash offered seatbelts as an option - an industry first. Tubeless tires were only introduced in 1947. Tube tires were still in use ten years later. The radial revolution didn't really gather steam until the early 70s. And steel belt radials were cutting edge premium priced tires once upon a time. Fiberglass belts were the first long life radials. I'm old enough to remember the pre-engine management system days when unburned hydrocarbons were just part of everyday life and a car had to be laying down a smokescreen for the exhaust odor to be objectionable. Nowadays anytime you end up following a car with a carburetor and no catalytic converter (depending on wind conditions and if you have your windows open) you'll be able to smell the exhaust. I had that exact thing occur one day a few years ago. It turned out to be a 60s era Mercedes sedan that looked like a museum piece. I have owned three Mopars: a 68 Chrysler New Yorker, a 69 Dodge Charger R/T and a 70 Plymouth Duster. They all handled awful and the brakes on the New Yorker and the Duster were nothing to write home about. My nickname for the Duster was The Body Lean Special. But it got decent mileage - 21 mpg. The 440s in the other two? About 12! I would very much like to have a 1950 Ambassador but with a modern drivetrain - probably a front wheel drive out of SUV.
So it's their fault that they didn't have another 70 years of engineering and design experience when they built them? Compared to 1930s cars they were absolute dreams of safety, comfort, rideability, reliability, and economy.
My dad had a 51 Rambler wagon. Great car, very sturdy but subject to rust in the hard east coast winters. Yet, it lasted until 1960 when my dad got a new rambler wagon. My mother had a 59 Rambler American coupe. Both good cars if well maintained
I purchased a 1951 Nash convertible the lowest Lane car from Superman, purchase it from my landlord who is a used car dealer in 1957, lived in Bensonhurst Brooklyn I never drove it up with mess around with it with my brother are landlords allowed us to put in the garage behind two story home it was a standard 3 speed on the column I didn't know how to drive or anything but messed around trying to fix little things broken on it the car cost me $50 pop the clutch and put it through garage wall brings back great memories thank you for posting
I have the rolled mattresses still in the original Nash bags from my fathers Nash. The back seats went down and the mattresses rolled out to make a sleeping quarters.
You mean those were for real??
It turns out that sleeping flat but with your legs dropped is not very comfortable. You wake up before a full night's rest with sore legs because your blood has pooled there.
Interesting about Nash Motors: th-cam.com/video/dv9y0jrKFUI/w-d-xo.html
@@masterbondofox8982 Sure was for real. A old family friend, had one of these Nash Rambler cars, and man, he loved that car so much. He did a great deal of extensive traveling, and sleeping in that car. I rode in his car once, man, that thing was BIG! and I mean BIG! It was a smooth running, smooth riding car though. A very huge car. They say that you could never wear out a valve from one of these cars, they were built that good, and the engines practically lasted forever to.
@@danbasta3677 correct!
Nash -- from Kenosha Wisconsin. The main assembly plant was in Kenosha and the body parts (stamping) were made at a plant on East Capitol Drive in Milwaukee. When Chrysler bought AMC the Milwaukee plant was closed. Today a Walmart stands where thousands of workers one made Nash body panels.
Kenosha closed down as well after becoming a Chrysler engine plant. It’s now gone too and there’s a city park located on the site. At least it got reused and didn’t become an abandoned eyesore or brownfield.
Nash was the Kenosha Cadillac. I miss Nash and AMC, owned quite a few in my time, good cars.
Nash also had an assembly plant in El Segundo, California. It was located near Los Angeles International Airport at the corner of Imperial Highway and, wait for it, NASH STREET! It later became the American Motors assembly plant in 1954. Nash and Hudsons were assembled there. When AMC sold the property, it was bought by Hughes Aerospace. It's now Boeing Satellite Division. As I write this, I'm sitting about two blocks from that site.
@@mikethespaz372 Is the Boeing Satellite Division still using the former Nash/AMC facility?
Yes, they are.
A car way ahead of the times!! I got to ride in a 49 Nash way back in the 70s!! Like riding in a cloud!!
An American car up to par with the European manufacturers of the time: in Europe there were unibody cars already before ww2
Hardly a car ahead of its time! A very conventional design under the body. The very soft suspension gave good comfort under certain conditions, but the load sensitivity was also great, and with just a few passengers and luggage, the car was heavily down-loaded and thus had poor springing and damping and also poor road-holding and safety. Not to mention the headlights pointing to the tree tops......
The 1949, & the 1950 AirFlyte were my favorites as far as the design for the big Nash.
I like the funky streamlined style of the Nash.
My Dad bought our family a New one in 1951. It was a Statesman. That was a step down from the Ambassador.
What a lot of manual work that got into car manufacture in those days!
YES - that makes them so HUMAN. Even the tools were build WITHOUT any damm IC nor Computer... True skilled mens.
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I love the lady bug look, beautiful Nash classic cars.
Für 1951 eine hochmoderne selbstragende Karosserie. Da konnten sich andere Hersteller eine Scheibe abschneiden.👆👆👆👆😀😀😀😀😀 Viele Grüße aus Germany
Always fascinated with Nash style...
Yeah, back when cars had style and class and were built to last a lifetime
Thanks for sharing those films.
I love this car, she's one of my favorites for this period, as well the 1949 and 1950, all round, soft and cute,, like a gold fish, than the Hydra-Matic of 1951, more elegant, more stylish and refined maybe, but still gorgeous and appealling.
Good old time, did you say ?.... 😘🤩😗
Same for me! The true "back to the future car" Ding-Ding over the hose on the gas station and 2 chaps are there for helping you / getting the best service.
For fun - watch: Donald Duck - lucky number 1951 . Donald's Super Service (family gas station) ... How I love his cash register (No Sale) and so on... the music of these films... Herrlich/Wunderbar! xD
cordial greetings!
Géréon (a north german watchmaker, Hannover, Hamburg, Kiel - living close to the lake Geneva switzerland)
Interestingly, at the same time that Nash were developing their “AirFlyte” cars, Lockheed were working on their “RoadDrive” series of aircraft.
lol
Such nonsense still applies today, haven't you heard of dish washer liquid with *real lemon juice* and Orange juice with *artificial flavor* ?
The level of stupidity is astounding, yet people still fall for that BS.
The... "Auger In" , feature was VERY popular.
Em 95 comprei um Nash600 em seus últimos "suspiros". Sem internet, sem peças, cortei e fiz uma picape sobre um chassi C10 com motor e demais partes mecânicas e ficou um espetáculo de utilitário. Tenho-na ainda em pleno labor em Rib. Preto, Brazil!
What a lovely body design , a Potatoe on wheels .
In the 1950-'51 season, Nash sponsored a live TV anthology series (originating from New York and hosted by William Gaxton), "NASH AIRFLYTE THEATRE", on CBS' Thursday night schedule [10:30pm(et)]. It lasted one season.
I like the hellish factory music!
And the dramatic bombast (or bombastic drama) of the narrator!
A+ material, loved it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐✨✨✨✨✨
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Lois Lane on the old Superman TV series drove a Nash. That is all I remember about them.
I believe you are referring to the first LOIS LANE (Phyllis Coates). Don't know if the second LOIS LANE (Noel Neil) drove one or not. I think she did, it was that rag-top number. Thank you for reminding me of my favorite show when I was growing up.
Nash Kelvinator sponsored the original Superman TV series so all the characters drove Nash automobiles. There were even Nash police cars shown.
It was a strange convertible with full door panels, only the center section of the roof was canvas.
Damn, I want one now!
Very nice. Thank you.
Very interesting. 👍
The legendary „OK“ sign at 11:44. It is said having its origins in the Ford car factories. The original meaning of those letters seem being lost since there are several theories about it.
I learned a long time ago it was derived from Martin Van Buren's presidential campaign: he was from Old Kinderhook, NY, and was known as "Old Kinderhook". Eventually it was shortened to "OK" and became his campaign slogan: "Martin Van Buren is OK".
@@ssjlkrillin Never heard that one, but also interesting. Thank you!
@@ssjlkrillin Van Buren actually used it, but it was in use already. As an abbreviation of "oll korrect" which was a slang humorous misspelling of "all correct". The Old Kinderhook connection is true and was used as a handy campaign slogan. So that's why we say OK or okay, not AK There is also a record label "Okeh" that goes way back to 1918 or so that was mainly jazz and blues recordings. The Okeh came from the initials of the company founder, Otto K. E. Heinnemann. The label is still part of Columbia Records. They source of words and phrases can be fascinating.
I can tell you where O.K. came from: O.hne K.orrektur which is german for "without/no correction" (needed) Same as for the Myday which comes from the french "aide moi" m'aide...
37% (!) of the USA population has german origins.
Rest are bloody english world conquerors/dominators (hence the pirate island UK)
-please take that as a joke (with some truth)
All the effort and work that goes into building a car and people treat them like crap.
I remember the Nash. Always liked those cars on the road. What would the Nash evolve into now in 2022?
dang, these things had floaty suspension. people would have got seasick on a long trip LOL
Note the front and rear wheel openings are the same. To make that work the front track is 3" narrower than the rear track and it still had a massive turning circle.
Covering the front wheels may have brought a microscopic reduction of parasitic drag, as long as you don't need to turn.
Today this is called Unibody Construction I believe?
that's right
I didn't know Nash was the first to do it.
@@jagboy69 Chrysler was the first starting in 1934 with the Airfow, that I know of.
@@andyZ3500s Wow! That thing was unibody? no kidding!
Eventually nearly all Ford, GM and Chrysler autos would be made with unibody construction. Of course pick up trucks, full-size vans and SUVs still are body on frame.
Superior in their day!!! 😎
Wow, why would they produce the workshop bits as if where it a scary movie, lol. Sound, music and especially narration.
I guess it never dawned on Lucky Lott that he could spot weld those bolts he was so worried about loosening up on his little stunt track.
This film is a hoot! So dramatic! Those were some homely beasts ("Beauty" is not a fitting term for them). Eye of the beholder, I guess...
Styled like an upside down bathtub.
We had a Nash in late 50’s probably a 55 or 54. Ugly as sin but rode well. A good car.
Gee willikers! Where do I get one!
Is the music in the factory from that old 1927 German movie, "Metropolis?" Where the workers are led in a revolt against their machines by a robot posing as a beloved matron but which really has evil intentions. The evil-doers are eventually destroyed but not before the workers bring down the entire city. Ominous music.
I WANT ONE!!!
Hard to come buy these days. Been out of existence for a great many years now.
@@danbasta3677 try hard, you will find one...
It’s like listening to a narration from a mills and boon book, overlaid with a score from Disney Micky mouse cartoon.
The soundtrack slaps
Terrible cars, by todays standards! But as early as 1955 the Citroen DS was way ahead of its time and the most advanced and safe car in the world with front wheel drive, mid-engined front motor concept, hydropneumatic suspension with constant ride height, individually sprung wheels, rack and pinon steering, inboard disc brakes at the front, aerodynamic body, and much more!
The DS was a weird gutless car that only sold fairly well in France. It was not mid-engined, but due to poor design the engine compartment was excessively long. Perhaps Citroen thought that would fool people into thinking it had a big engine and was fast. It had silly gimmicks such as pivoting headlights linked to the steering, which was dangerous and the authorities in various countries required that the headlight turning be disabled.
A car that LOOKS aerodynamic (eg Citroen DS, Jaguar E-Type) isn't necessarily low drag in practice. Lowest drag comes from a teardrop or raindrop shape, ie the largest cross section near the front - the opposite to the DS shape. When I started doing an engineering degree at university, they were wind-tunnel testing cars. The car with the lowest drag turned out to be the Volkswagen.
However, I agree those old Nash cars weren't very good. They didn't sell well either.
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I'll take a Nash!
Back to the Nash factory where I'll use my deep and dramatic voice...
Every time he says rigid or stiff, take a drink!
I didn't know James Earl Jones was doing voice-overs this far back.
I'm expecting him to say "We've got the meats" any minute now.
Want one now
When I was a kid, to me they looked like an upside down bathtub.
As they were once commonly called... "The bathtub Nash".
The 49 and 50 Packards did as well. Kinda frumpy looking honestly.
One of the most primitive designs in car industry. This line of cars were followed around the world in that era. Especially the Eastern European car manufacturers. I remember back in the 70 s they were around still.
@ 1:34 Yeah, I'm sure Lucky Lott was real concerned about economy, lol!
The music sounds like a Horry movie back in the 50s.
Scary music.
Back in the days of wooden ships & iron men.
I want one!
YES!
Marshmallows for the suspensions?
I've herd that the Ambassador , Airflyte was had lower aerodynamic drag than the '53 Studebaker coupe, but I've never seen on built into a salt flat racer,
750 lbs is all the body weighed. Wow.
Did these cars take hi test or low test or no test?
It all depended on what the driver wanted. Some used "Super" {"Hi-Test"}.
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"Howdy Mister, regular or ethyl?"
"Ethyl, if she's working!"
Fun fact: Darth Vader’s brother narrates the factory footage starting at 4:45
5:41 - I found Waldo!!
Making prospective owners think it could almost fly. Nice car but stiffer shocks maybe?
Do they ever sell vars with any modicum of intelligence?
Stiff rear axle, drum brakes all around and leaf-springs at the rear......safety?
What do they mean by saying that "this car is safer"? In what respect?
3:04 It's called monocoque construction. It is lighter and may be stronger so it has become almost universal in today's cars, though it is noisier, as there are no rubber blocks to isolate the body from the suspension vibrations. My 2018 BMW I3 has separate frame and body, it's part of the reason I bought it.
Yeah a body made of carbon fiber reinforced with plastic and it's all powered by a watch spring...
We had one. It was the first new car my parents ever had. It was beautifully black and shiny. Unfortunately, it should have been bright yellow because it was a big bright lemon! It was constantly needing repairs -- expensive repairs. I remember one bill was for $500! Before we went on a vacation my father had it thoroughly checked over. We drove from Los Angeles to Stockton -- something over 300 miles -- and it quit. The garage was told to patch it together so it could get back to LA, and my parents stormed into the dealership where they had bought it. They threatened everything from the Better Business Bureau to a lawsuit. The dealership took it back and gave them a beautiful Buick Roadmaster in return. That was a great car.
Thanks for this real-life comment.
Allthough I think that perhaps your garage made the prices perhaps too high and they worked very likely bad.
These cars are for a good mechanic (I'm a watchmaker) VERY good cars. Easy to repair.
Your comment sounds for me like they have made a lot money with you and did finally no true repair/check work...
AND next question is HOW the car is driven and HOW the early miles were driven.
@@Watchmaker_Gereon-Schloesser There is no doubt that my parents were cheated very thoroughly. They were young and had been through the Depression and the War. The Nash was the first new car they had ever bought. My mother chose it because she liked the way it looked. I am sure my father checked out the reputation of the Nash brand before he bought because he was a very careful person. You speak of how a car is driven, especially in the early miles, as important. I know our Nash was driven carefully, just as the instructions in the manual said to do, because my father was very methodical and careful about such things. He was a manual-reader and a list-maker. The car was well taken care of. It had beautiful gray upholstery and my mother was very watchful that nothing got on that lovely fabric. It ended in her father, my grandfather, giving her the money to have plastic upholstery put on the seats, "So the kid can eat an ice cream cone in the back seat without you nagging her." The last time my mother saw the car they were tearing out that lovely expensive upholstery so they could sell the car to the next sucker with upholstery fresh from the factory. The entire experience was very sad.
Knock the glass out. Mount a 20 mm gun. You can run it around as a TANK.
As a Brit the only Nash we tend to know is the Metropolitan, which is very different indeed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_Metropolitan
If I am not mistaken Nash-Hudson -- the original name of the merged companies -- imported the Metropolitan from England where small cars were far more popular than in the United States. After a few years Nash-Hudson adopted the name American Motors.
@@MsJamiewoods the original name of the company formed by the merger of Nash Kelvinator and Hudson Motor Car Company was in fact American Motors.
@@danielulz1640 Rambler.
@@danbasta3677 Rambler was the model name of cars built by Nash and American Motors from 1950 through 1969. American Motors Corporation was the name of the company from 1954 until purchased and dissolved by Chrysler.
Roadability? 🤔
my mom had a nash rambler
pos car....couldnt get up hills
did you tried 2nd gear?
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Airflight construction led to joke," one smash, no Nash".
terrible joke xD - Do no shmashing Nashes around please....
That "suspense movie" sound track . UGH !
yes a shame for those nice shots of the production...
@4:37...looks like Mitt Romney's dad ?
George Romney, the first CEO of American Motors -- formed from the merger of Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motors -- was Mitt's father.
nash cans
Well those things sure are ugly and I have always thought so, I think they had a lot of positives but needed a better stylist studio and a stronger engine even for 1951. Lots of cars had done away with torque tubes and front buggy spring suspension. I have never seen one of the drop head coupe but I bet that was a hand full to keep dry inside.
They looked ugly in the early 50s, and still look ugly to me today. The 50s were a time when cars had style. Some were beautiful and some were not, yet all were distinctive. The tail fin wars of the late 50s and early 60s seemed to have brought an end to the styling effort
What an ugly looking car. There's no front wheel arches - since that would force a narrow front track, it must have noticeably degraded handling. And the film shows it wallowed around a lot even by the then American standards.
it's a comfort car - not a sport car. I like the 1949 version best. It was designed in airplane principles and had a consumption of only 25 miles to the gallon, where a cadillac needed more than doubble... Well, taste is of course a very personal matter.
cordial greetings,
Géréon
Thankfully, they don't make cars like these anymore!
What do you mean
@@shable1436 Those old cars had lousy engine life- major overhauls every 20K miles, tires lasted maybe for 10K. The handling and performance was horrible compared to cars today, and much less safe. They got poor mileage and half the gas went out the exhaust pipe they were so inefficient. I could go on but you get my point.
Odd comment. The cars of 70 years ago were generally considered very modern. The big 6 was an overhead valve motor though the smaller 6 was still a flathead. In 1949 Nash offered seatbelts as an option - an industry first.
Tubeless tires were only introduced in 1947. Tube tires were still in use ten years later. The radial revolution didn't really gather steam until the early 70s. And steel belt radials were cutting edge premium priced tires once upon a time. Fiberglass belts were the first long life radials.
I'm old enough to remember the pre-engine management system days when unburned hydrocarbons were just part of everyday life and a car had to be laying down a smokescreen for the exhaust odor to be objectionable. Nowadays anytime you end up following a car with a carburetor and no catalytic converter (depending on wind conditions and if you have your windows open) you'll be able to smell the exhaust. I had that exact thing occur one day a few years ago. It turned out to be a 60s era Mercedes sedan that looked like a museum piece.
I have owned three Mopars: a 68 Chrysler New Yorker, a 69 Dodge Charger R/T and a 70 Plymouth Duster. They all handled awful and the brakes on the New Yorker and the Duster were nothing to write home about. My nickname for the Duster was The Body Lean Special. But it got decent mileage - 21 mpg. The 440s in the other two? About 12!
I would very much like to have a 1950 Ambassador but with a modern drivetrain - probably a front wheel drive out of SUV.
@@LiLi-or2gm Aren't you exaggerating a little.
So it's their fault that they didn't have another 70 years of engineering and design experience when they built them? Compared to 1930s cars they were absolute dreams of safety, comfort, rideability, reliability, and economy.
The only American car uglier than a VW. Our neighbor had one and he was the joke of the neighborhood.