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My 60 American wagon project with turbocharged rotary engine..
My 59 American sedan.

 

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Here's my old daily driver from a few years ago.
Plus one I saw last week-end.
A Nash at Paso a few years ago.

 

bttt

 

my father in laws nash wagon

 

My father in laws Nash

 

Motoboy's 64 Wagon. It can be bought for $9k right now too! Way nice car!

 

Here's my 65 American. I'm in the middle of a disc brake swap now. I'm hopefully going to drive it to Bonneville this year.

 

Here's mine, no not really but thought it might be worthwhile showing it! LOL




and the finished product, with a 500 caddy and a allison GM truck auto, 4 link rear end, with Watt's bar.




Not really! But thought it might be fun to put on HAMB.

 

Nice car, very nice owner! More pics please!

 

Army Armstrong's Super Gas Nash

 

Here's a HOODLUM Nash

 

Vern Tardell’s Salt ’n’ Pepper ’49 Nash
... in 1995, it set the XF/BFCC class record with a 147.210-mph average.

 

i love the green one. I see it EVERYWHERE. he must drive it a ot.

 

That's a Rambler, so it can't be a '49. Still, good choice for a salt car - I think Nash Airflytes had the lowest coefficient of drag for any production car in the early 1950s.

A '56 Ambassador just closed on eBay with no bids whatsoever and no reserve, and only a few minutes from my in-laws. I kept thinking how cool it would be lowered with my 440 and Torqueflite.

-Dave

 

Here was the one I had in 2001. Bagged, 17" Americans, Disc brakes....

 

This is not mine, but I like it.

 

Yeah ... You're right ... I was being lazy and just did a cut & paste of the caption that was under the picture I "borrowed" from the HOT ROD Magazine website (http://www.hotrod.com/eventcoverage/speed_week_bonneville_salt_flats/index.html).

 

O'Yea. I'm working on a '64 Classic Wagon. Car came out of Florida and was bought on E Pay.

Was listed as rust free. Got my cousin to check it out as he lives in Florida. Turns out the interior is shot along with some rust and all weatherseals bad. Expected but not advertised as is the case with a lot of E Pay listings.

Wanted a wagon real bad so I still took it. Didn't pick it up until a couple of months later.

After getting it home I was going through the glove box and looking at reciepts for work on the wagon. Pretty well maintained mechanically I thought until I got to the reciept that indicated water in the crankcase. Now you know I was looking for the reciept that indicated replaced head gasket or head repair. You got that right. Thats were the maintaince ended. Sure enough there was water in the case. Cousin musta overlooked that when I asked him about the oil and tranny fluid.

Well to shorten this up its moving along and after stripping the paint I find with the exception of two rust scabs at the rear bottom corner of both front doors, it has a perfect body and floorpans.

O'Yea 287 with auto and factory air. Bagged front and rear and I kept the factory driveline.

PICTURES WILL FOLLOW SOON

 

At the 2008 MSRA Super Secret Fun Run (hot rod drags).

 

Here I a couple pics of my 59 any ideas for her.

 

here is my 68 american and my brothers 63 660

 

This one was on eBay a while back.

 

I have a 1959 nash rambler 2 door wagon tube frame,air ride,Boyd coddingtion wheels. Would post pics but can't get them on here. Does anybody know where i can get a book that sells parts for for this. I need headlight houesings and headlight rings, dash parts and window rubber????

 

Just internet or swapmeets for headlight stuff and dash parts..universal rubber.
There is no parts book
Blaser in Illinois has some stuff but no headlight rings. He was supposed to repo them soon. I believe you can use a Ford headlight ring just cant recall what year? Nash Healys use the same headlight ring so finding good ones at a decent price is tough. I will let you know about the Ford rings..a buddy of mine built probably a dozen or more of the American wagons and he told me once about the Ford rings so I will find out.

 

Better not ignore anything powered by an AMC 401...they WILL get your bucks! 390, 360, and 304s run strong too, but the 401 got my cash when I bet on my buddy's GTO.

 

Says it is a Hot Rod right on the license plate. Car now has new onwer that destroyed it with a real fire flame job and big inch chrome wheels.

 

Here is one I am building for my wife.It is a 468 bbc th350 narrowed 9 inch

 

Here's my '66 American I built several years ago. AMC 360,T-10, 9" Ford rear

 

I have one of these (69') with almost the same wheels/tires for my next project.
Building a 64' Gasser now.