1959 Nash Metropolitan, Coupe, Ca Car, Restored, SOLD!

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1959 Nash Metropolitan, Coupe, Ca Car, Restored, For Sale!
This is a local Southern California "Blue-Plate" car that is completely rust-free and has been fully restored. This is the rare and desirable Series IV model with the upgraded engine, rear decklid and vent window model that was introduced in 1959. This motorcar has been well restored by a local southern California vintage sports car engineer and racer. The car is restored to original specifications and is in car show and touring condition as opposed to concours condition.
The drivetrain was thoroughly rebuilt and the car disassembled for repaint in its original livery colors of tangerine and white exterior with black and white interior. In the process of the restoration, the previous owner decided to change the rear end ratio from an inefficient 4.22: 1 to 3.9: 1. He also acquired new axles to ensure durability.
He bought the car 11 years ago from a neighbor who had owned it for many years and had bought it in Los Angeles. The car has been in California since new. In 1999 the car had amassed a total of 97,779 miles. A detailed maintenance log from the previous owner is included, which covers ministerial details such as tire pressure readings and oil changes as well as restoration activities. By 2000 he had broke 100,000 miles and today the car has a total odometer reading since new of 103,950 miles. Since the rebuild it has accumulated approximately 3,000 miles.
The car was repainted and reupholstered over the past year, including most of the stainless trim replaced, new window rubbers, seals, tires, etc.

[@Mr_PNW]

My wife has decided to sell hers. It's a 62 convertible in the teal/white combo color. We will be putting it up on Craigslist. Everything works perfectly, even the radio. It a cut car, but in WA state gets driven SO little.

[@babydollkiller]

I only recently was made aware of these cars so i'm on the hunt for one now. Don't know if i'll ever own one but I do beleive it'd be nice if I did. Make a nice little travel car for distances of about 100-200miles in one shot for me . Very stylish car indeed

[@Larkinchance]

I was more partial to the Sunbeam Alpine. I always thought the Nash Metro looked like it had escaped the crusher.
That being said, this little car is a treasure..

[@FreemTutler]

My very first car was a '59 Metropolitan. I was 16 yrs old, bucktoothed, toe-headed, nearsighted and in love with Alice Herman, a freckled redhead in Mr. Parminter's biology class. I might as well have been invisible to Dear Alice. Until I pulled into the school lot in my orange Metro. All the other boys roared in in their GTOs and 'cudas and Chevelles. Babe, I called her, and with the wind at her back, she might top 50, but man, was she a looker. Kind of like Alice. Nerdy, clunky, bulbous, homely in that beautiful way honest homeliness is. Alice gave Babe the once over as I guided my beloved machine into the space next to Darren Portnoy's lifted red Impala with the Audiovox 8-track. One week later, on an autumn night haloed by stars and taut with the imminence of winter and loss of innocence, Alice's sweater lay draped over the passenger seat, and her bare feet, white and coodie-less and soft, pressed against Babe's headliner. My heart beat louder than anything Darrren's 8-track could muster. Babe's puny, pint-sized AM radio wheezed out Bob Seger's "Night Moves." For awhile that night, I was convinced I was immortal, life was good, and the good really do die young. Babe, herself perfect goodness, blew a rod that Christmas, Mary moved to Lubbock and married an alcoholic Marine. I was in the junk yard last weekend, looking for a heater core for my Subaru Outback and there, nestled between a blue F-150 and a GMC half-ton with a demolished windshield, sat a picked-clean Metro, nothing left of its former glory but one sad headlight and a drooping front bumper. I swear on a stack of Bibles that I caught a glimpse of Mary's sweater fluttering in the warm breeze.

[@mikegovette1297]

Patrick Miller Thanks for this incredible story. I've read stories by well-known authors that pale in comparison to this compassionate tale. It helps that I am a Metro lover as well. Excellent!

[@TheDanial555]

I love your story!...Thanks for sharing...Erica

[@2011metalmaniac]

whos mary thought her name was alice lol

[@michaelanderson8464]

I am 3rd generation retired from AMC my grandfather worked for nash then AMC my father and uncle worked from AMC 100% I started at AMC finished at Chrysler my father loves the Metroplitan

[@LittleCamperNZ]

It really annoys me when someone selling a vehicle says things like " Not sure if the radio works" when all you have to do is turn it on. Don't trust people do that.

[@robertcallahan4065]

Wrong. This car was originally issued a yellow license plate with black numbers/letters. (if it is true that the car was always in California) In 1963 this vehicle was issued a black license plate with yellow letters/numbers. In 1970 all new cars were issued blue plates with yellow numbers and letters. If a vehicle had black and yellow plates it was not issued the blue and yellow plates. The license plate on this car was issued in 1974 which leads me to believe this car came to California from another state in '74.

[@ramblergarage]

there is very little on that car that is restored correctly.

[@michaelmedley1737]

this crazy dude tried to trade me one of these piece of s##t for a 1960 chevy panel van.man take it to the scrap yard you might get three hundred dollars for it.