Nash car dealership
Image by The Library of Virginia
Title: Nash car dealership
Creator: Adolph B. Rice Studio
Date: March 20, 1954
Identifier: Rice Collection 294F
Format: 1 negative, safety film, 4 x 5 in.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Virginia, Prints and Photographs, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA, 23219, USA, digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R
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39 responses to Nash car dealership Photos
As for the mileage, "your mileage may vary" (YMMV) applied as much back then as now, and were often pretty optimistic. My father dourly commented that fuel mileage estimates for cars of that period must have been determined with the car going down hill and with a tail wind…
About the only thing cars from that period had going for them was distinctive styling. Anybody under 50 can’t understand how a really good quality bias tire of the time was often worn out at 15,000 miles, the poor handling and lousy drum brakes, the tendency of body panels to rust through in 5 years in the "salt belt," the lack of any safety features beyond the non-shatter windshields, etc. Photos of the old cars are great, but the new vehicles are a _LOT_ better than they used to be.
Nash car dealership Photos
Drove one of these, 1959 Nash Metro, on my wedding day (the first one !) and in the movie "This Boys Life" (almost got run over by a stunt driver in a 1950′s fuel hauler ! ) alas, wound-up on the cutting room floor. ( the footage, and the marriage)
I was going to ask, what was the unique selling proposition in the two decimal places for the mileage, but it seems it was a December 1953 test at the NASCAR track at Raleigh (NC) Speedway, notice the endurance claim underneath the mileage claim, so it was a highly specific run. (source)
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Vintage Background People, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called CARS – السيارات – 車 – Autos – coches – автомоб, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
If we had the gasoline they did in those days now we’d get more miles per gallon than we do with today’s crap!
nice shot…
nice
Wow! 41mpg…I want a Nash Metropolitan!
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