Showing posts with label Nash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nash. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 January 2011

first car show of the year, the Vista Frosty burger run

pretty cool 3rd tailight Above a deluxe, below a super deluxe Made from spare parts from the back yard when the city started getting on the owners case to clear out the neglected cars

Monday, 3 January 2011

1950's Nash, still getting used so often it's in for repair

How about this neat little gadget to indicate to the driver where the right front corner is?

Wednesday, 29 December 2010

New car tranporters, of Bugs, T Birds, 1950 and 54 Nashs

Take a close look at the cab on the semi, unusual double front window where the firewall was because that cab was put on top of the cab foundation that used to be too short evidently photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=931

Saturday, 11 December 2010

a try for a safer car has had some strange prototypes, here is Sir Vival, a custom trying for safety innovation

W C Jerome, a Worcester Massachusetts inventor who was determined to build the world's safest car. In the early nineteen fifties he modified a '47 Hudson for the back half, and a 48 Nash for the front. Primarily concerned with head-on collisions, Jones split his car in two, hoping the front section would absorb collisions, leaving the passenger cabin untouched.For maximum visibility the driver