1954 Nash Metropolitan
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You will grab everyone's attention driving down the road in this beauty. This green and white beauty has a 1,498 cc 4-cylinder engine with 'three-on-the-tree' transmission.
While most U. S. automobile makers were following a 'bigger-is-better' philosophy, Nash Motor Company executives were examining the market to offer American buyers an economical transportation alternative. The Metropolitan was designed in the U. S. and it was patterned from a concept car, the NXI (Nash Experimental International), that was built by Detroit-based independent designer William J. Flajole for Nash-Kelvinator. It was designed as the second 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 the Volkswagen Beetle's. This Nash is also equipped with a convertible top on it to let the parts of a beautiful...