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John Ford - Ford Publishing 5/05/03 johnford@2fords.net |
1951
Nash Rambler Semi-convertable.
Development came fast and furious in the intervening time. The name Rambler meant a new small car in 1950. It marked the dawn of our present compact era, and turned out to be one of the few successful compacts introduced before 1960. With just a little imagination, one can see the future Metropolitan in the lines of this "Rambler". Hard to believe that American Motors was to be founded in just three short years with the merger of Nash and Hudson. Before that, Nash tried many ways to compete when car companies were falling by the wayside. Including a short two year alliance with Kelvinator, the refrigerator people. Between the buggy-like Ramblers of 1902 and AMC's establishment in 1954 passed such fondly remembered makes as Jeffery (1914-1917), Nash (1918-1957), Ajax (1925-1926), LaFayette (1934-1939), Hudson (1909-1957), Essex (1919-1932), Terraplane (1933-1938), Metropolitan (1954-1962), Nash-Healey (1951-1954), Hudson-Railton (1933-1938), and Hudson Italia (1954). It is interesting to note that the acquisition of the Jeep, invented by the American Bantam company, was what brought about the sale of the company to the Chrysler corporation.
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