Showing posts with label Nash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nash. Show all posts
Monday, June 03, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024
Monday, February 12, 2024
Thursday, February 01, 2024
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Friday, June 16, 2023
Monday, February 27, 2023
they were giving away new cars to Miss America way back in 1950
She a freshman at Phoenix College when she was crowned Miss America on September 11, 1949. In December of 1949, Jacque married her high school sweetheart, Douglas Cook, and thus violated her contract with Miss America.
Although the pageant allowed her to keep her crown, it instituted a "no marriage, no pregnancy" rule the following year. This rule remained in effect until 1999.
Mercer's national tour as Miss America included endorsements and promotions for Catalina swimwear and Lane cedar chests.
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Sunday, July 24, 2022
Saturday, June 25, 2022
the Hemmings and Hagerty Great Race is going on between RI and ND this year, and has just went through gravel roads in Wisconsin, way out in farm country between Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota
I haven't seen a Peerless in forever!
https://www.greatrace.com/news/great-race-2022-day-7.html
Monday, May 30, 2022
WSKN had an Isetta in the 1958 armory expo, an odd choice, but, it fits in the booth!
and I'm sure it's the same Isetta in this 1960 photo between the tractor and the Nash
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
seen on tonight's walk in the neighborhood
This is the first Nash Metro I've come across while walking this year.
I think that's a Mustang under the car cover, it's been right there, since about 2010
Monday, July 12, 2021
Saturday, June 19, 2021
55 Nash Ambassador Country Club, It has Pinin Farina styling, a Packard drivetrain, a two-tone paint scheme... and its own accessory sleeping bags for the trademark Nash folding bed
Compare it to the Super Statesman 4 door
https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1955-NASH-STATESMAN-SUPER-4-DOOR-SEDAN-152273
Sunday, November 29, 2020
If I were a rich car collector that wanted a variety of cars to drive when the feeling struck, Id have a couple dozen cars, one of them would be one of these
but with at least 200 horsepower so it could merge into traffic. I heard these are really underpowered
https://dragoneclassic.com/currentofferings/1954-nash-nki-custom-convertible/
FWIW, I'd have this list of cars in that imaginary collection:
Messerschmitt Tiger, Isetta 300, 69 Corvette 427 tri power 4 speed, Hurst Super Stock Dart, 69 George Hurst Olds prototype, '32 roadster, land speed racing Bellytanker, '68 429 Boss Mustang, 65 R code GT 350, '65 427 side oiler Cobra, Golden Sabre GTO, that Penske Sunoco Camaro, the McQueen Baja Boot, and Thomas Crown Affair Meyers Manx, the Smokey Yunick Hurst Floor Shift Special, a hemi GTX, a Buick GNX, a 60s mini, a great old Morgan
well, that's a good start to a list
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Bill France could probably afford any car he wanted to drive in the Carrera Panamericana... choosing a Nash must have been due to a good reason (thanks Steve)
Bill France had cut a deal with Nash to make them the Official Pace Car of NASCAR. Nash even entered NASCAR races in at least 1950 - 1952, and even won a 150 lap race at Charlotte Speedway in 1950.
After the 1950 Carrera Panamericana (which allowed only strictly stock vehicles and included more than one Nash), the No. 37 car entered a few NASCAR heats.
After the 1950 Carrera Panamericana (which allowed only strictly stock vehicles and included more than one Nash), the No. 37 car entered a few NASCAR heats.
During the Carrera Panamericana, one Nash was running 1st when it blew a tire 10 miles short of the finish line. They changed the tire and took 3rd place.
Sunday, October 04, 2020
Paul Hubbard, traveling signpainter, drove cross country 67 times. Just a ship that passed in the night, on to places he'd never been, to sell paintings where he could, and he wintered in Florida. A wonderful life plan! (Thanks Steve!)
At every town he hit, he tried to get media attention with his fast-painting act and frequently succeeded. (No doubt very much a predecessor of Bob Ross style painting)
In Montreal he told a local reporter that a hobo is a working migrant, a tramp is a non-working migrant and a bum is neither, he's just a sponge.
Hubbard was born in Bowie, Texas in 1892, served as a private in WWI (but not that long if indeed he came through Montreal in 1917) and never married.
Newspapers loved reporting on Hubbard and National Geographic reportedly did an article on him sometime in 1937 or 1938.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/floridamemory/9608607666
That little boy in the picture of Paul Hubbard and his beautifully painted car is Martin Abrahams. I am presently 70 and lives in Houston Texas. Hubbard gave him lessons in painting and wonderful stories about life. He made three gigantic murals in his dad's house
Update Oct 17th, Karen C found TWO Hubbard paintings at a garage sale!
Thanks Karen!!
Update May 2022, Sarah was cleaning out her grandpa's place and found this Hubbard:
thank you Sarah for sharing!
Update Dec 10th 2022, Richard found this 1954 painting, that his wife's parents bought it on their honey moon in 1954, and it's been in storage for 30 years
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