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The spokeswoman featured in this commercial had men buying cars for her entire life. From the really cool Nash Metropolitan her Dad purchased for her to the significantly less cool Malaise era GM clamshell station wagon provided by her husband, the car making decisions had been made for her by someone else. More »
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Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! After yesterday's QOTD, it just makes sense to go shopping for project cars with cool names! More »
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Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! I haven't been able to do as many PCH posts as I'd like, so let's have a 4-fer-1 today! More »
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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Goingincirclez took some arty shots of sad-looking discarded cars found on Kentucky roadsides. More »
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Generally, describing a car as an appliance is pejorative, indicating it is dull as dishwater. Today Nice Price or Crack Pipe brings you a car that's totally not boring, but does look an awful lot like a refrigerator. More »
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Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time around, the '69 AMC SC/Rambler grabbed a photo-finish 51-49 win over the '70 Chrysler 300 Hurst in the Choose Your Eternity poll. We're going to stick with good ol' American machinery today, but instead of picking one of two vintage musclecars, your choices will be 2-for-1 1957 package deals. These cars have been waiting for you for 51 years... waiting for a chance to ruin your life make you happier than you've ever been!
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As is traditional for the Woodward Dream Cruise, the best cruising is already happening, days early. Now is when all the good stuff comes out of barns and garages for a run through the cool evening air, avoiding the choking crowds and coolant-boiling traffic of the Saturday cruise. Last night we stumbled onto this rare gem of a vintage station wagon at 13 Mile road and Woodward Ave — a Nash Rambler Cross Country Custom. What makes these ulta-rare is they were basically the last gasp for Hudson, which existed in name only after the marque merged with Nash in '54 to form AMC. More »
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The Pebble Beach Concours is always a spectacle of the well-heeled celebrating the well-known in the fancy-pants car show circuit. To go along with the car show wine is the cheese, also known as the Monterey Auctions, put on every year by the house of RM Auctions. There are always hit lists of the most desirable and historical cars crossing the blocks for huge sums of money; to wit, Edmunds Inside Line just did their "10 Best Cars at the 2008 Monterey Auctions" piece today. But we tire of such endeavors. That's why we dug around and found out what's at the bottom of the list. Below the fold: The ten crappiest cars at the 2008 Monterey Auctions. More »
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We're mighty pleased with the vast quantities of DOTS Bonus shots from our readers these days, and some readers are going the extra mile and shooting multiple cars found street-parked in their towns. We saw Warpig's Oslo-O-Rama last week, and now it's NiceNurseRatched's turn. NiceNurseRatched lives in Tampa and she's photographed a bunch of Florida-style cool machinery, ranging from a Nash Ambassador to a Mercedes-Benz 600. Make the jump for the full 146 50-shot gallery. More »
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With perfect Michigan weather yesterday, there was no excuse for us not to make the drive over to Ypsilanti for the annual Orphan Car Show. Yes, it's a show dedicated to the fantastic classic cars left out in the cold by their dead brands. This year, the show's featured marques were Plymouth and DeSoto, but there were plenty of other cars there too, including this pair of sleek Nash classics. More »
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After the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, we needed a little recoup time, but yesterday we were back on the beat at the 2008 Detroit Autorama. We're just going to lay the smack down right away, the winner of the 2008 Detroit Autorama Ridler Award was a car we saw last year in the building stages - a Ferrari-engined Nash Rambler dubbed "Ferrambo". The bright red lightning rod of holy-shit-that's-crazy stood out pretty strong amidst this years Great 8 as the hands down, batshit craziest entry and we love the Autorama judges for giving it the nod.
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Unlike most super-obsessive car purists, Nash Metropolitan fanciers tend to have a sense of humor... which is a good thing, because otherwise there'd be a pitchfork-and-torch-wielding mob pursuing the builder of this somewhat customized machine. As far as we're concerned, there's only one thing wrong with this 1960 Nash Metropolitan: Needs more engine! Other than that, it's got everything, from the "baby's room" pink-and-blue interior to the gold-and-chrome engine compartment. But you'll need to move fast if you want this little Oregonian beauty, because the auction ends tonight! Tipster SeanKHotay thought this Nash might be a PCH candidate... Projecto Con Hashish, that is. [eBay Motors] More »
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=294604&view=rss&microfeed=true Apparently, Walt Disney had a deal with American Motors back in '55, allowing them to use a crypto-Mickey Mouse character in their ads. While this Nash ad isn't quite as twisted as the Disembodied Mickey Head Mitsubishi ad, it's still a bit strange to see a family of animated mice shilling for the Pacer's ancestor. More »
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While the term "laundau" dates back to 18th-century open carriages with foldable weather-protection, most gearheads of a certain age tend to associate it with mid-'70s Chevy Monte Carlos and Chrysler Cordobas. In fact, the proper term for these overwrought personal luxury vehicles would probably be faux-laundaulet, as the landau was properly a development of the vis a vis arrangement, whereas the landaulet eliminated element of seats which faced one another. It's basically Nash's fault that we've come to associate "landau" with "chintzy vinyl." Oh, the former AMC, you have so much to answer for. Jason Vines, answer for the former AMC. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Reader Ben cares enough only to send the very best, and he has, having dropped a goddamn train on us in the form of this Nash converted to pickup duty. Combining elements of bombas, wacko Barris custom jobs and early-'80s-style '60s Camaros, this beastie is somewhat obscene, but in the best way possible. The owner obviously doesn't give a fuck what you think. More »
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We figure if Radio Birdman's "New Race" is good enough for Toyota to use in Corolla commercials on Spanish-language TV, it's good enough for a meager Jalopnik headline. We've been thinking about the poor, proud Hupmobile a lot lately for some reason, so we thought that we'd offer a little love here on the august pages of Tha Jalop. What? It's September already? Rats. Wake us when it ends. (Sorry, Billie.) For those of you born in the last 25 years, the Hupmobile stands alongside REO, Locomobile, Nash, LaSalle and Buick as an automotive brand you're only peripherally aware of, if at all. It's time to get educated. Click on for some science, brothers and sisters. More »
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Rooting for the USPS lately is somewhat like being a Buffalo Bills fan in the early 1990s. With private carriers like FedEx encroaching on their turf and stealing market share, the Postal Service seems to be keep kicking 'em wide of the goalposts. But FedEx doesn't have classic car stamps. This new issuance of 37-centers, entitled "America on the Move: '50s Sporty Cars," features the Studebaker Starliner, the Nash Healey, the T-Bird, the Kaiser Darrin and Corvette, rendered by illustrator and former Packard designer Art Linkletter, er, Fitzpatrick. More »
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