Yesterday, even though I was still feeling ill, I took a long walk. I felt good while walking and saw this car on my return trip. Naturally, it made me think of danthered. I went back this afternoon for the model year: 1960.
Here’s a car I remember from my childhood…
sweet ride
Jeep’s came from American Motors but, you know that.
I didn’t have my camera yesterday when I saw this ’75 Lincolon 2 door, with a matching gold trailer behind it. All Minty-Fresh like grandpa just pulled the pair out of his garage. Not as old as that Rambler, but still kinda neat! Plus it was parked in front of an A-Frame barber shop downtown. Damn I need to carry my camera around more!
What a great shot! That’s a terrific angle. Cars should still come with vent wing windows (and the ignition switch in the dash, and the headlight beam switch on the floor…all in accordance with scripture). I can’t figure out what the rubber strip is that’s draped across the trailing edge of the hood near the antenna. Piece of windshield seal…?
And the split-level old touring bus in the background is an added bonus. Thanks for posting this.
American Motors cars rocked. I had completely forgotten — thanks.
Italian design
If you compare what the Big 3 were building at the same time as this Nash appeared, the difference in approach will be something like night and day, even radical. The Italian styling house of Farina had been retained since the late 1940s (I believe) to pen the lines of the Nash and later Rambler lines. Other companies such as Fiat and Peugeot employed the services of stylist Batista “Pinin” Farina to give their products an attractive appearance. The house of Farina later came to be known as Pininfarina. Although I know this about Nash and Farina, I can’t tell you much about the car in particular. My hunch, sad to say, is that they may not have been terribly good cars. This should be taken to mean that I don’t like them! It’s just that they are so scarce today, that my assumption is that if they were good cars, more of them would have been stored away and survived. It’s fun to see this one.
Re: Italian design
Its design is rather plain, not like a race car. There are many cars I think are outright ugly but, are highly collected. This one is plain and bland. Maybe, that’s part of the reason you don’t see many. I remember the Ford Pinto was a rather plain looking car also. You certainly don’t see many of those either.