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Nash developed its post–World War II automobiles using an advanced unit-body construction with fastback aerodynamic styling under the Airflyte name, reflecting a popular styling trend in the 1950s. The cars were available as a two- or four-door sedan. A distinguishing feature of all Nashes are the "skirted" fenders.
Nash Statesman 2-Door Sedan 1951 The Nash shield, as it appeared on cars of the 1940s and 1950s. The aerodynamic 1949 Nash "Airflyte" was the first car of an advanced design introduced by the company after the War. Its aerodynamic body shape was developed in a wind tunnel.
The Nash 600 is an automobile manufactured by the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation of Kenosha, Wisconsin, for the 1941 through 1949 model years, after which the car was renamed the Nash Statesman. The Nash 600 was the first mass-produced unibody-constructed car in the United States and the era's most advanced domestic car design and construction. [ 5 ]
The Golden Anniversary Nash Airflyte featured styling publicly credited to Pininfarina. Yet, the design was a combination of the Italian coachbuilder with ideas from Edmund E. Anderson, the lead designer at Nash. [43] The new cars had more conventional lines than the previous 1949 through 1951 Ambassadors and they received several design awards ...
The smallest car in the 13 July 1951, 400-lap NASCAR sanctioned Short Track Late Model Division race in Lanham, Maryland, was a Nash Rambler Country Club (two-door hardtop). [ 39 ] [ 40 ] Owned by Williams Nash Motors of Bethesda, Maryland , the car was driven to victory by Tony Bonadies of Bronx, New York . [ 41 ]
For car designers, two-door models can offer more striking proportions to play with, long hoods that evoke power and tapered, aerodynamic back ends. “They can get a more raked windshield ...
The Nash-Healey is a three-seat luxury sports car or grand tourer produced from 1951 to 1954. It was marketed by the Nash-Kelvinator conglomerate in North America as a halo car to promote sales of its Nash Motors division. The car resulted from a joint venture between Nash-Kelvinator and British automaker, the Donald Healey Motor Company.
The Nash Metropolitan is an American automobile assembled in England and marketed from 1953 until 1962.. It conforms to two classes of vehicle: economy car [3] and subcompact car.