If Nash Motors Company were a comedian, it would certainly be Rodney Dangerfield. If it were a baseball team, it would simply be the Chicago Cubs. If it were a food, it would be the old fashioned macaroni and cheese. You see, in Dangerfield’s vernacular, Nash never gets no respect, huh? Automotive historians sing the praises of Peerless, Packard, and Pierce-Arrow. They wax eloquent over Bugatti, Isotta-Fraschini, and Hispano-Suisa. But Nash, well, Nash is treated like yesterday’s mashed potatoes.
Vehicles for the middle class
Now, to be fair, Nash does not belong in the pantheon of the great marques that built luxurious conveyances for the rich, who, as Fitzgerald wrote, are different from you and me. But Nash always did a superior job of creating vehicles for the vast American middle class–vehicles that were solid, honest, and hard-working just like the citizens who bought them. Further, when one takes a close look at the Nashes of the late Twenties and early Thirties, Read more . . .