The Nash at the beginning reminds me of a similar Nash I saw back in the late 1950's. Some neighbors were avid motor campers, and had a small side business of making a plywood pop-up trailer design, whose name I forget (there were plans available) and selling them. Pretty nice rigs for the 50's. They had various camping friends, and one came by to visit, and they invited us over to see his car. He had one of those old Nashes, which had a reclining bench seat, and had equipped it as a mini-camper. It was an ingenious bit of conversion, including various little cabinets and drawers, and an engine-powered hot water system with a tank in the engine compaetment and a little tap under the dashboard. I don't remember all the details, since I was only about 9 at the time, but I remember that it was fascinating and aroused all sorts of wandering fantasies.
when i was a kid in the 70s we had a boat like that, ours was a 1960 model, called a Yellowjacket Flying Scott, it came from the factory painted yellow. my father bought it in 74ish, stripped all the paint off, and clear coated the mahogany, and used his turquoise & white, 59 Ford Skyliner retractable or his brand new monkey vomit green 74 Caprice 454 convertible. he always had a convertible of some kind, still does, he is 84 and bought a new red Buick Cascada convertible, said his first car, a 40 Ford, purchased in 1952, was a red convertible, and he said he wanted his last car to b a red one too. in 74 he found out that all the sutomakes had stopped making convertibles, and got on the phone and there were only 3 left in the southeast, one was a base model, no options at all, the other one was loaded, but was triple white, and the third one was bright green, and had every possible option, power everything and the 454 engine. so he and a friend drove three hours to get it, while my mom was in the hospital with pneumonia. she was less than pleased, but it was a great car, we loved driving it as teenagers, flipping the air filter lid so we could hear those 4 barrels sing ! though it wasnt as fast as my $500 69 four door 429 Thunderbird.
The Nash at the beginning reminds me of a similar Nash I saw back in the late 1950's. Some neighbors were avid motor campers, and had a small side business of making a plywood pop-up trailer design, whose name I forget (there were plans available) and selling them. Pretty nice rigs for the 50's. They had various camping friends, and one came by to visit, and they invited us over to see his car. He had one of those old Nashes, which had a reclining bench seat, and had equipped it as a mini-camper. It was an ingenious bit of conversion, including various little cabinets and drawers, and an engine-powered hot water system with a tank in the engine compaetment and a little tap under the dashboard. I don't remember all the details, since I was only about 9 at the time, but I remember that it was fascinating and aroused all sorts of wandering fantasies.
ReplyDeletewhen i was a kid in the 70s we had a boat like that, ours was a 1960 model, called a Yellowjacket Flying Scott, it came from the factory painted yellow.
ReplyDeletemy father bought it in 74ish, stripped all the paint off, and clear coated the mahogany, and used his turquoise & white, 59 Ford Skyliner retractable or his brand new monkey vomit green 74 Caprice 454 convertible. he always had a convertible of some kind, still does, he is 84 and bought a new red Buick Cascada convertible, said his first car, a 40 Ford, purchased in 1952, was a red convertible, and he said he wanted his last car to b a red one too. in 74 he found out that all the sutomakes had stopped making convertibles, and got on the phone and there were only 3 left in the southeast, one was a base model, no options at all, the other one was loaded, but was triple white, and the third one was bright green, and had every possible option, power everything and the 454 engine. so he and a friend drove three hours to get it, while my mom was in the hospital with pneumonia. she was less than pleased, but it was a great car, we loved driving it as teenagers, flipping the air filter lid so we could hear those 4 barrels sing !
though it wasnt as fast as my $500 69 four door 429 Thunderbird.