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 . . .
In continuous production since 1936, except for those gloomy years of World War II when Britain didn’t produce any civilian cars at all, the 4/4 has gone from contemporary to venerable to outdated to rejuvenated to out-moded to timeless over the course of its 7 decades. Now that a new millennium has dawned, with the British car industry teetering on the brink of implosion and/or suicide, it appears truly a miracle that the Morgan make has survived. Yet, survive, it has, and prospered.
to combat the more sophisticated and nimble sports machinery of the Europeans, but there was a time when the situation was just reversed. And in that period–1910 to 1915–the
on that day he acquired the Lincoln Motor Company, which was being run by his long-time nemesis, Henry Leland. Some two decades before, Leland and Ford had their first run-in.
Frankly, the 1966-76 Interceptor does bear more than a slight similarity to the ’65 Plymouth Barracuda, most notably in the mammoth curved rear windscreen, and the resemblance doesn’t simply stop there. However, equating an Interceptor with a Barracuda is like equating a Chevrolet Camaro with a Ferrari Daytona. Sure, the two cars share a certain sweep of line, but they’re not precisely the same thing now, are they?