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1958 Nash Metropolitan Description

1958 Nash Metropolitan, Series III

Built: October, 1957, Longbridge,Birmingham,West Midlands, England

Colors: Frost White and Berkshire Green

The Metropolitan was designed in the U.S. and it was patterned from a concept carthat was built byDetroit-based independent designer William J. Flajole forNash-Kelvinator. It was designed as thesecond car in a two car family, for Mom taking the kids to school or shopping or for Dad to drive to the railroad station to ride to work: the "commuter/shopping car" with resemblance to the big Nash, but the scale was tiny as the Met's wheelbase was shorter than theVolkswagen Beetle's.

The Nash Company calculated that it would not be viable to build the Metropolitan from scratch in the U.S. and with this in mind, in October 1952, Nash announced that they had selected theAustin Motor Companyand Fisher, both English companies based inBirmingham, England to manufacture the Met. Fisher & Ludlow would produce the bodywork, while the mechanicals would be provided, as well as final assembly undertaken, by the Austin Motor Company. This was the first time an American-designed car, to be exclusively marketed in North America, had been entirely built inEurope.

TheNash Metropolitan was sold from 1953 to 1961 and was also sold as aHudsonwhenNashandHudsonmerged in 1954 to form theAmerican Motors Corporation(AMC), and later as a stand alone marqueeduring theRambleryears.

Statistics and fun facts:

·94,986 were built between 1953 and 1962

·Jimmy Buffett, Steve Jobs, Princess Margaret, Paul Newman, and Elvis Presley owned Nash Metropolitans.

·Motor Trendpraised the car’s economy: their test Metropolitan returned:

o39.4mpg-at 45mph; 27.4mpg at 60mph; 30.1mpg"in traffic"