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Nash Metropolitan (1958)
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Price: US $13,500.00

Description:

1958 Nash Metropolitan, Series III

Built: October, 1957, Longbridge, Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Colors: Frost White and Berkshire Green
The Metropolitan was designed in the U.S. and it was patterned from a concept car that was built by Detroit-based independent designer William J. Flajole for Nash-Kelvinator. It was designed as the second car in a two car family, for 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, but the scale was tiny as the Met's wheelbase was shorter than the Volkswagen 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, in October 1952, Nash announced that they had selected the Austin Motor Company and Fisher, both English companies based in Birmingham, England to manufacture the Met. Fisher & Ludlow would produce the bodywork, while the mechanicals would be provided, as well as final assembly undertaken, by the Austin Motor Company. This was the first time an American-designed car, to be exclusively marketed in North America, had been entirely built in Europe.
The Nash Metropolitan was sold from 1953 to 1961 and was also sold as a Hudson when Nash and Hudson merged in 1954 to form the American Motors Corporation (AMC), and later as a stand alone marquee during the Rambler years.
Statistics and fun facts:
· 94, 986 were built between 1953 and 1962
· Jimmy Buffett, Steve Jobs, Princess Margaret, Paul Newman, and Elvis Presley owned Nash Metropolitans.
· Motor Trend praised the car’s economy: their test Metropolitan returned:
o 39.4 mpg-at 45mph; 27.4 mpg at 60mph; 30.1 mpg in traffic

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