We have enjoyed many of these ‘owner’ galleries in recent months; a window into drivers and passengers of the past and their cherished rides. In my search for such images online, it’s no surprise that most belong to products from the Big 3. But with given time, even the independents appear in good numbers. So, today it’s time for Nash and Rambler products.
The gallery covers from the ‘bathtubs’ of the ’50s to the cleaner products of the ’60s. Previous comments have noted how cars tend to resemble their owners. And true to form, Nash-Rambler products were unique, and these drivers/passengers only seem to belong with their cars.
Interesting photos. I believe that photo #1 and photo #4 are of the same car.
Love the photo of the gentleman with the 1961 Ambassador. That was a rare car when new.
You had me wondering there. I checked the front fender lengths and #4 is an Ambassador, #1 is the shrter Statesman. Must have been a popular colour scheme.
I also just noticed that the car in photo #4 has a hood ornament, while the car in photo #1 does not.
That’s an offbeat color combination.
A friend in WI. owns a restored pink `61 Ambassador 4dr. hardtop! So far, his is the only hardtop sedan of that model I’ve seen!
Photo #2: It’s just a regular guy, standing next to his Spaceship
Thanks for the photos!
The gal posing next to the red station wagon looks like the model for a ladies’ room sign.
The photographer must have known what they were doing. The car, the dress, the hair. Perfect.
Ramblers are so damn cute.
Chubby cartoon cars in 1950 to cute big-compact cars by 1960. AMC designed cute cars throughout the 1970s. Few would call a Chevy Vega cute – but Gremlins are nothing but cute. Naturally the company that would give us a 1949 Nash would end up creating the cute Pacer, right?
My favorite AMC is the 1960 Classic. It still has the headlights perched high on the front fenders like a 1950s design, but also has a clean horizontal grill and bumper of the new decade. Nice size. Frightenly simple mechanicals inside.
Nice color photos! Always enjoy these posts, Rich.
The group in the first photo looks like they’re tired of waiting for Lois Lane to finish talking to Superman. 😉
Saw a similar 57 wagon at Hemmings Bennington vt. Cruise in show last year… Was patined but so cool… Love the little American also, a friend had a very nice convertible a couple years ago… Such cute cars
That first picture has got to be somewhere in Florida!
The guy with the Ambassador in the desert (Death Valley?) resembles Dean Martin. But Deano wouldn’t have been caught dead in a Rambler!
Dorkiest design feature: Those skirted front wheels of the postwar Nashes — narrow-tracking at its finest!
That’s funny because I thought that the guy in the last picture looks like Jack Benny. He might have gone in on a Rambler but not a top of the line Ambassador.
I wonder how # 7 got away with that vanity license plate. Somehow, he just doesn’t seem the type,
Recognize two or three pics from previous posts. All are fun pieces of “throwback” though.
The rear deck of the Ambassador in the last photo looks very much like a mid-60’s Chrysler. Never noticed it before.
The last photo of the gentleman standing with his 61 Rambler Ambassador 2 door hardtop is so awesome. I never knew a 2 door hardtop was made.
That’s a 1962 Ambassador two-door sedan. In the last year for that body, AMC introduced a two-door sedan in the Classic and Ambassador lines.
The two-door sedan was continued for 1963 with the debut of the all-new Classics and Ambassadors…a two-door hardtop was then added to those lines for 1964.
Isn’t it a four-door? I think a see a rear door handle in the pic.
It is a four door.
Didn’t the ’62 Ambassador go back to the short wheelbase, but still have a 327? I bet he knew he had a factory hot rod and wanted the kids to think he had a grandpa car…
Yes; ’62 was a bit of an odd year at Rambler. The Classic was not available with the 250 CID V8; only the six. And the Amby shared the 108″ wb body with the Classic, and had the 327 V8 as standard. 250 hp std; 270 hp optional.
This is a top of the line 400 model.
The real hot rod Rambler would be the ’63 Amby, which was even lighter than the ’62.
Did a doubletake on pic #5. That’s my greataunt Betty in her ’60 in front of the apartments she lived in. The only difference is that her ’60 was blue over white instead of gray.
The ’62 Ambassador 400 is air conditioned. I can see the flip up vent on top of the dash is open.
Don’t forget Lois Lane and her various Nash Ramblers !
Meantime, Clark Kent scooted around in a Nash-Healey …. when not traveling by air ….
Nice ;
The Lois Lane Nash’s were ‘Custom Convertible’, really a HUGE sun roof .
Most of the owners look staid and conservative .
I have friends who are die hard Nash nutters, their Nash’s are always properly tuned and don’t seem slow like the Ramblers I remember in the late50’s & early 60’s .
I wonder if I’da kept one had I ever bought one .
They stuck with the flat head engine far too long .
When my Sweet told me to get her a station wagon I found a nice 1959 Cross Country Westerner edition with three speed and over drive, factory air luggage rack and three tone paint .
She turned it down flat =8-( .
-Nate
Was the HUGE sunroof to accommodate Superman dripping in 🙂
And, the Queen of Country,
🎶 Emmylou Harris 🎵 and the Nash Ramblers
Nice!
Older men wore enormous trousers back in the Fifties.
I wish I had a scan of the photo of us in 1995 hauling logs with a friend’s 1953 Ambassador daily driver. He also had a 48 fastback sedan that was his show car complete with a swamp cooler in the front passenger window and official Nash bedding for the reclining seats.