Nash Rambler dealer film, c. 1950, from the Vincent Ruffalo Collection.
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- This came us from Vince Ruffalo, a renowned collector of Nash and AMC material.
It's very likely from the launch of the Nash Rambler in the middle of the 1950 model year. There is a scene of a Rambler at Indy, and the narrator says it was a stand-in hard top. The launch of the Rambler only had the landau model: a convertible with fixed profile. So they'd need a stand-in if they didn't want to give it away. Additionally, late in the film the Rambler is integrated into the lineup of existing Nash models as they existed in 1950: the Ambassador and Statesman.
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Thanks for showing this. Nash-Kelvinator Corp. sales were pretty strong in 1950. Rambler was much more successful in the early 1950s market than the compact cars from other US car companies. By 1960 Rambler was the third best selling brand.
My dad had a 1951 rambler station wagon. He loved that car and so did I
My dad had a four door Rambler early 60's. It had "overdrive." we got it up to over 100mph on it's overdrive on the newly built Cape Cod 4 lane highway from the Canal almost to Otis AFB. Decent enough car.
The Bathtub. Probably the ultimate in production model streamlining, if that's what you wanted. But Nash's star was waning relentlessly by this point.
I like the way the driver casually flicks his cigarette ash out the window. LOL #5:41
Nash Rambler. The first fully successful American compact car, and the platform (in a stretched, 108" wheelbase version) that saved American Motors in the 1958-59 era when other American cars got so big that many garages of the era wouldn't hold them, and were breaking budgets with their gas-guzzling ways. The short 100" wheelbase car was mothballed for 1956-57, but reintroduced almost unchanged as the [American Motors] Rambler American for 1958. Restyled for 1961 but largely the same under the skin, continued until its 1963 retirement in favor of the all-new 1964 American.
I know...I owned a 1959 Rambler American...three-on-the-tree, flathead six, 90 whopping hp! Even back around 1980, when I owned this car (2nd owner), you hardly ever saw them on the road in the Seattle area...They were cheap to buy when new, but in the long run, you get what you pay for!...My car had 90,000 miles on it when I bought it, for $800 bucks. Four years later, at 125,000 miles, it was beginning to fall apart, in several ways. But a guy paid me $800 to take it off my hands. That was 40 years ago...I have not even seen one of these on the road, since that time! People drove them until they broke, then towed them to the junkyard. But they were indeed, the car that helped to temporarily save AMC from their eventual demise. I miss that little tank! That flat six was the smoothest running engine you would ever see...at idle, I could balance on edge, a nickel on the engine block!
@5:52... It puffed a bit of smoke, when it pulled into that California parking lot.
Their inline six 4.2 liter would outlast any of the new cars.
What an engine
Didn't Lois Lane or Clark Kent drive one of these Nash convertible during the Superman series?
Lois did through at least part of the show's run. Most of the main characters drive Nash products at various points. Clark Kent shows up in a Nash-Healey in one season. Jimmy had some kind of Nash in a later season, as well, a Metropolitan maybe. I don't know what George Mason paid for the product placement, or whose arm he twisted, but Nash was prominent in The Adventures of Superman.
The "Disguised Hardtop Model" looks awfully close to the production 2-door sedan roof that was offered starting in 1954-55 and as the first-generation Rambler American from 1958-60. I think it was planned from the start and Korean War material rationing forced Nash to concentrate on the higher-margin convertible, wagon and sport coupe.
It was Nash's marketing strategy to introduce the convertible and station wagon first. These were the most expensive models in every car maker's lineup. Also, as they mentioned in this video, all cars were fully equipped with radio, cigar lighter, deluxe trim etc. This was to impress the public that these were quality cars, not cheap cars for the poor man. Later on they brought out lower priced stripped models and sedans.
This fixed their image in the public mind as being a desirable small car and avoided the stigma of being a cheap car .
Many cars from this era look like inverted bathtubs ! Why would anyone buy a bathtub on wheels 😂 .
Oh now we "need" a second car for "convenience"!
I don't think it's trying to create the demand for a second car to make a two-car family. But is, rather, saying their car can fill the demand that already existed. More and more people were moving to the suburbs, where accessing public transport required a drive to an interurban station. And more people in cities were losing public transportation options to work as the locations of their work shifted from inner cities to the hinterlands of development between cities and suburbs. If there's a stay at home parent, they increasingly have a legitimate need. And families with two working parents had fewer options for longer trips.
@@KenoshaHistoryCenter well Stihl advertising legit need is reminding people hey come take part in this market we want your money.
32 miles per gallon thats really great gas mileage 😅
That's the first reversible car.
those poor cars were as ugly as sin but were built very well................
What a ugly car
Yes it looks like an inverted bathtub, but that was part of its charm.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!...and it was a cheap car to own.
Looked good alongside other cars of its time. Still looks OK if you can ignore contemporary styling expectations.