Nash metropolitan

[meaneyedcatz]

First, someone please post a picture of a Nash Metropolitan here. Every time I try to post a picture it is microscopic or turns into a pic of Archie and Jughead.

So drive up to the gas station to top off my Ranger danger and fill all my mower gas cans. As I'm removing the nozzles and such a guy pulls up trailering a 61 red and white Metropolitan.
HOLY COW, I immediately was transported back to the mid 60's when we had one. Same colors also. These cars are not rare but you only see them from time to time. Made by Austin in England and were sold as Nash, Hudson and AMC.

We talked a bit which is rare for me as I don't normally initiate a conversation with strangers.
He was taken aback when I told him we were a family of FIVE in that car.
This was going to be a parts car as he's restoring one for his granddaughters wedding next year.
I wish I had a list of all the cars my dad had. He had some cool ones.

 

[snubbyfan]

One of these things?

 

[len917]

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!
Also, Nash's first size upgrade was the Rambler American--remember them

 

[VictorLouis]

I JUST SAW a bright yellow one at the light
here in traffic today. Certainly not a make/model you see often.
Neat little rides.

 

[WardenRoss]

Here ya go...

 

[kraynky]

I'm remembering a green and white car, very similar to the Nash. This was back in the 60's, when Dad would drive us down to the river floodwall in Paducah, KY. (not a convertible however) We watched this little car drive down the boat ramp and into the river! Then it puttered around it the river, and drove back up the boat ramp!

I was maybe 7 or 8 at the time and was completely amazed!

Did the Nash ever have that option? Or am I remembering something different?

Either way, I really like those little jewels, and thanks for the memories!

 

[WardenRoss]

I'm remembering a green and white car, very similar to the Nash. This was back in the 60's, when Dad would drive us down to the river floodwall in Paducah, KY. (not a convertible however) We watched this little car drive down the boat ramp and into the river! Then it puttered around it the river, and drove back up the boat ramp!

I was maybe 7 or 8 at the time and was completely amazed!

Did the Nash ever have that option? Or am I remembering something different?

Either way, I really like those little jewels, and thanks for the memories!

Here ya go...

 

[Rustyt1953]

In the late 60's my dad bought a rusted out Rambler Ambassador for driving in inclement weather. He called it his Rolls Canardly.

 

[Truckman]

In the late 60's my dad bought a rusted out Rambler Ambassador for driving in inclement weather. He called it his Rolls Canardly.

Rolls down one hill, Canardly make it up the next...I've owned several of those classics......Ben

 

[s&wchad]

I'm remembering a green and white car, very similar to the Nash. This was back in the 60's, when Dad would drive us down to the river floodwall in Paducah, KY. (not a convertible however) We watched this little car drive down the boat ramp and into the river! Then it puttered around it the river, and drove back up the boat ramp!

Sounds like an Amphibicar…
Don't know if they made a hardtop.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Early 1960s or so, a friend of my Dad's drove a Nash Metropolitan. Poor guy was brutalized by all of his peers, nothing but grief for him.

Wish I had a dozen in original condition, preferably stored indoors for the last 60 years. Add in one of those Amphicars and I could own Mecum's Auto Auction pretty soon.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

One of these things?

EXACTLY!!!!!

 

[TX-Dennis]

My first vehicle was a Rambler American. Ugly as sin. Terrible electrical system - I think I rewired everything on that car in the year or two I drove it. Good six cyl. engine with a whopping 97 hp. By today's HP measurement standards probably about 2/3 of that. Oh, almost forgot the horrible vacuum powered wipers. They only worked half the time - if you were lucky.

They don't make 'em like that anymore - thank God!

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Here ya go...

That's an amphibicar

 

[mrchick]

We had a Nash Metropolitan for a while when I was a kid. It was pretty small.

 

[Marshwheeling]

The bodywork for the Metropolitan was designed by the Italian designer Pinin Farina, who also designed the Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider roadsters of 1962-65.

 

[Bozz10mm]

Reminds me of this old ditty they used to play on the radio.

BEEP BEEP ~ THE LITTLE NASH RAMBLER ~ The PLAYMATES ~ ANIMATION - YouTube

 

[jimmyj]

I also remember the "Crosby" where the seat sat on the floor so the driver's legs were straight out from him.
Also the "Henry J" America's first compact car. Never could stop water leaking from under the doors into the floorboard during rain.

 

[Alpo]

Girl I was in high school with. They had two of them. I don't know if they worked - I never saw them move. But I drove by her house on the way to school and those two cars were in the front yard, with the propellers behind the back wheels.

 

[Farmer17]

My aunt drove a black and white Nash and I remember as a little kid how I thought it looked a bit goofy.