Nash Metropolitan 

"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish) 04/29/2016 at 20:15 • Filed to: Mash netropolitan

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My grandma had one of these.

Also Ford. My grandma did not have one of those.

C62030 > gmctavish needs more space 04/29/2016 at 20:19

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Dat’s a vurry Nash car ya got there.

gmctavish needs more space > C62030 04/29/2016 at 20:20

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Yesh

tromoly > gmctavish needs more space 04/29/2016 at 20:57

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Thanks to UHF, I know what that car is!

TheRealBicycleBuck > gmctavish needs more space 04/29/2016 at 21:08

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A girl at my high school had one. We discovered that with enough guys, we could pick it up and carry it wherever we wanted. We put it on a grassy area between a couple of the school buildings. It was so small, she just backed it around to the sidewalk and drove away.

Aaron M - MasoFiST > gmctavish needs more space 04/29/2016 at 21:35

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My dad learned how to drive in a Nash Metropolitan. May explain why he never drove a car larger than a VW Beetle until 20 years after getting his license.

facw > gmctavish needs more space 04/29/2016 at 21:36

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http://jalopnik.com/the-1950s-version-of-an-economy-car-is-kind-of-terribl-1538440298

gmctavish needs more space > tromoly 04/29/2016 at 22:45

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That colour combo is amazing

gmctavish needs more space > TheRealBicycleBuck 04/29/2016 at 22:47

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That is awesome. Reminds me of a story my friends dad would tell about how they found out their mk1 Rabbit would fit in the front door of the school, broke in late at night and left it in the foyer for everyone to find the next morning

gmctavish needs more space > facw 04/29/2016 at 22:49

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That was a good article. The one I found looks to be identical except for being a convertible

ranwhenparked > gmctavish needs more space 04/29/2016 at 23:18

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One of my dad’s high school friends had one of those. When he went away to Vietnam, he put it up on blocks in his parents’ yard and left it. Several years later, when the OPEC embargo hit, he took it down and had it running in a few hours, apparently, he would get outlandish offers for it in almost every parking lot. An honest 30mpg was a big deal in the early ‘70s, Beetles couldn’t even do that.

gmctavish needs more space > ranwhenparked 04/29/2016 at 23:25

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Oh wow, yeah my dad had a Beetle and he’s said a lot of things about it, but none of them were about the fuel economy being good. I guess there hardly would’v been anything getting that kind of mileage until Japanese cars really started showing up

ranwhenparked > gmctavish needs more space 04/29/2016 at 23:29

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25mpg was about typical for a ‘70s model. The later Mexican ones with modern ECUs and EFI supposedly got in the upper 30s.