After yesterday’s Cadillac station wagon conversions, it’s time to swing the pendulum from America’s largest wagons to what would have been its smallest, at least in its time (the Crosley was smaller). Canadiancatgreen posted this at the Cohort, and noted that the camping trailer is a folding one. Good to know; I don’t see the Metro as being all that ideal as a towing machine. But it looks pretty cute as a wagon, and that’s not a bad job. The only thing missing is the distinctive drop in the roof behind the front seats, like all good Nash and Rambler wagons had.
Cute,why didn’t they think to do it at the time.Metropolitans were quite popular with Teddy Boys and Rockers when I was a kid if a Zodiac,Cresta or American car was too big,expensive or thirsty for you.
As good as the folks at (what would become?) AMC were, it’s amazing they never came up with this….or maybe they saw the “Met” as an alternative to an MG or Triumph?
Beauty!
So cute I expect to see the Seven Dwarfs pile in.
Love! To echo Howard, why didn’t AMC go this direction. They certainly could have done it cheaply, and this would have made the Met a practical alternative for a whole lot of people due to its ability to carry some cargo. A perfect small delivery vehicle.
Or maybe it’s just my inner station-wagon-geek talking.
Inner station wagon geeks never go away and neither do other fixations that are/were useful. Just the other day I was looking for my buggy whip…..
Maybe AMC thought it would take away sales from this wagon:
I’ve seen pcitures of an AMC prototype of a Metropolitan station wagon in various pubications over the years. It seems like it would ahve been a great idea, but I guess hey were concentrating their limited resources on the 108″ Rambler, and the the American. A lost opportunity?
Yes a lost opportunity but it is not like AMC had the market cornered on lost wagon opportunities.
One of my favorite Pontiac Firebirds is a prototype that did not even make it into production was the Pontiac Firebird Kammback (called Pontiac Firebird Type K wagon)
Two were built in 1977 and one was destroyed and the other updated to a 1979 front end and put in the GM Museum.
I think the thing might have increased sales for the ‘Bird as now you could have a Firebird with enough room for a trip.
I have seen sketches of Henry J wagon proposals that Kaiser considered.
In the early 90s, GM offered a wagon version of the Geo Storm sport coupe. I have seen exactly one of these in the metal, in the late 90s.
Oddly enough with the exception of one Storm that was dark blue and one Storm that was purple, most of the Storms I have seen are that color green. It must have been a popular color.
@Leon, that Firebird wagon makes me think of a doberman mating with a Chihuahua, with the Chihuahua’s role being played by a Nissan Pulsar NX Sportback… (shudder)
That’s funny. I had forgotten all about that ad. … the ads are about the only reason to watch the Superbowl.
Cute, between the cream and white color scheme and the shape of the trailer, I expected it to fold out into a frozen custard stand.
Really well done, cute with a capital ‘C’. I could see this in Portland selling designer Tacos.
As it turns out , Nash _did_ indeed study the Wagon concept and built two of them , I know where one is and have been trying to buy it for decades , they’re not interested in my getting hands on it as I’ll run it hard as I think it should be done .
The roof isn’t the same as other Nash/Rambler Wagons then because the Mighty Metropolitan was a completely different chassis .
In the end , Metro sales were beginning to slack off , I think the Wagon was *just* the ticket for the Middle Class Woman’s shopping car it was designed and marketed to be but they weren’t making much $ off the few Mets being sold and could ill afford to wa$te precious development Dollars .
More’s the pity as quite a few Custom Met Wagons have been made and they’re all very popular .
-Nate
Here’s another little-known Met prototype…
On a Cobra replica chassis?