1958 Nash Metropolitan, eries III
Built: October, 957, Longbridge,Birmingham,West Midlands, ngland Colors: Frost White and Berkshire Green The Metropolitan was designed in the U.S. and it was patterned from a concept carthat was built byDetroit-based independent designer William J. Flajole forNash-Kelvinator. It was designed as thesecond car in a two car family, or Mom taking the kids to school or shopping or for Dad to drive to the railroad station to ride to work: the "commuter/shopping car" with resemblance to the big Nash, ut the scale was tiny as the Met's wheelbase was shorter than theVolkswagen Beetle's. The Nash Company calculated that it would not be viable to build the Metropolitan from scratch in the U.S. and with this in mind, n October 1952, ash announced that they had selected theAustin Motor Companyand Fisher, oth English companies based inBirmingham, ngland to manufacture the Met. Fisher & Ludlow would produce the bodywork, hile the mechanicals would be provided, s well as final assembly undertaken, y the Austin Motor Company. This was the first time an American-designed car, o be exclusively marketed in North America, ad been entirely built inEurope. TheNash Metropolitan was sold from 1953 to 1961 and was also sold as aHudsonwhenNashandHudsonmerged in 1954 to form theAmerican Motors Corporation(AMC), nd later as a stand alone marqueeduring theRambleryears. Statistics and fun facts: · 94,986 were built between 1953 and 1962 · Jimmy Buffett, teve Jobs, rincess Margaret, aul Newman, nd Elvis Presley owned Nash Metropolitans. · Motor Trendpraised the car’s economy: their test Metropolitan returned: o 39.4mpg-at 45mph; 27.4mpg at 60mph; 30.1mpg"in traffic"
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