Nash Ambassador had by far the best 6 cylinder engine made in the US. Overhead valve, 7 main bearings, full pressure lubrication even to the wrist pins. The Stateman engine was tough also and had the same except it was a flathead.
Yeah ,well the 308 c.i.Hudson Hornet flatty dominated Nascar from 51-54. I'd say Hudson had the best 6 .....you have to specify what a particular entity was great at.Fair enough?By the way the flathead Nashes were not the same .Pull out an old Motors Manual and you will see what is Factual! All this said the Nash would get Grandpa and Grandma to Church on Sunday safely and on time.But the cheaper statesman (series 40) only used 4 mains not 7.The slant 6 mopars are legendary but have only 4 mains. But they are the same diameter mains as the 426 hemi. You need to lay out out all the facts to make your point.
Herschel Buchanan was Sales Mgr for the local Dodge dealer in Shreveport, LA, where I grew up. When I was 17, I bought my first car from him in 1969, a '66 Dodger Charger. When we went for a test drive, he told me "get on it"!
My Dad had a Nash when I was 3 or 4. Even then I thought what an ugly thing. I wanted to ride in my Uncle Paul’s 53 Cadillac. Then one day my Dad came home in a 53 Ford. Right away I liked riding with Dad again.
My old man owned a 50 Ambassador with Hydra Matic for eleven years. The engine and transmission was just about bulletproof, though the car itself eventually rusted to the point it wasn't safe to drive anymore.
That's almost too good for an early '50s 6-cylinder in a car that size! The Hudson could do it, but that 6 had 308 cubic inches, and 160hp with the twin-H power, about what most OHV V8s were putting out in those days.
Glad you liked it! This film is mega rare. Mine is the only print of this film I've ever encountered. And you can see that it's still chopped up as it is. (In fact, it's missing some footage of Floyd Clymer, who was a well-known auto historian from the 1940s-60s. He ran a lot of motorcycles and cars up Pikes Peak. I wish that footage was still there.)
Just a heads up, I had to have 16 films removed from the Facebook AMC Sweden page, your friend Leif Eriksson has had a field day again downloading my stuff and your stuff......this film of yours is uploaded there in the video album. I'm sure there's other stuff theres of yours.
Thanks, Frank. This is why I stopped selling DVDs. That content was from a DVD. Too easy to rip a DVD and do what you want with that content. I also don't post much content on CZcams, because I don't want to have to police it all the time looking for pirates. That's why I put obnoxious titles over the movies. If someone's gonna rip 'em off, I want everyone to know where the thief got them from.
When I set up my ramp and head for the skies, I can't think of another car I'd rather die of cardiac arrest in. With its front seats that fold down into a bed, the Statesman and its big brother, the Ambassador, are ready-made coffins when it comes to endurance testing. (Confession: I really do like the bathtub Nashes.)
An advertisement at the beginning would be less intrusive and actually beneficial in terms of income for the uploader. Nobody is going to go to a site that intrudes its logo upon a video
Here's a little perspective. The film cost $417 to buy. It cost another $77 to digitize. I have a friend here on CZcams who uploads tons of classic car films and spends a ton of time policing CZcams for knuckleheads who rip off his content, upload it to their own channel and make AdSense money off of it. Is that fair to him? I decided that if you steal my film print, everyone is gonna know where it came from. Try to see the glass that's two-thirds full, friend, by watching the upper two-thirds of the screen.
Gone Autos you tell them mate. I haven't got a clue how to upload anything, but I enjoy watching things that people like you spend your time sorting out for people like me. from England united kingdom.
Gone Autos you tell them mate. I haven't got a clue how to upload anything, but I enjoy watching things that people like you spend your time sorting out for people like me. from England united kingdom.
These films don't magically appear, they come from someplace, someone has to do the work, finding the film, paying for the film, restoring the film, improving the color.....is it wrong to take credit for it so that others don't simply copy and share? The whole point of youtube is to present film and the presenters get advertising revenue to offset the costs involved. If this film wasn't uploaded, then the water mark wouldn't be an issue....so take your choice, see an old film you never saw before with a water mark, or never see anything.
Ramblers built during the 1950s might have been tough. However, AMC went to building flimsy pieces of shit in the 1960s. As a teenager, I had a 1967 2 door Rambler, which was in cream yellow...Not a bad looking car. Other guys my age I knew who had Chevys, Fords, Plymouths, Dodges, Oldsmobiles, etc. would do show off driving: spinning wheels, doing doughnuts, hard acceleration, downshifting to slow down, racing and speeding, and despite their rough driving, their cars held up okay. I did only a fraction of the show off driving they did...Tried to spin the wheels a few times, but because my Rambler had only a 232 cubic inch inline 6, it would only chirp the wheels. I did do a few accelerations which was quick for a 6 cylinder, and downshifted a few times, and that's all it took to tear up the transmission. When the transmission was being rebuilt, the mechanic showed me the stripped gears...The gears were no thicker than a slice of bread...I kid you not...No thicker than a slice of bread...And the shaft the gears were on was barely the size of a broomstick, which incidentally was snapped in two. When I told someone at work how thin those gears were, he asked me, "Are you sure you weren't looking at the scyncronizers?" Those weren't the scyncronizers...I know what scyncronizers look like. I remember the mechanic lecturing me that a Rambler can't hold up to hard driving. He even advised me not to drive it over 45 mph. And to shift from 1st to 2nd at 12 mph, and shift into 3rd at 17 mph. No wonder AMC went out of business, and Chrysler later bought out their Jeep division
@@Viewer19 I had the opportunity to actually see the transmission gears in that car. They were made no thicker than a slice of bread. That in itself says enough. Years later, my cousin was doing manual transmission work on Chevy Camaro he owned. The gears in it were somewhere about an inch and a half thick...a lot thicker than the thickness of a slice of bread. And in later years, I had vehicles I hot rodded and dogged the hell out of way more than I ever did that Rambler, and never had a transmission tear up, and that included towing heavy trailers. Those vehicles were: 1976 Malibu station wagon 1977 Dodge pickup 1974 Ford van I bought a 1978 Pontiac Lemans that already had an automatic transmission that would not go into 3rd gear. I got a Turbo 350 short shaft from a junkyard and replaced that Metric 200...By then I already knew how to repair a car. That Turbo 350 held up well under the trailer towing and driving demands I put on the car. I knew good and well what I was talking about.
I drove one of those transmissions 200,000 miles with never a failure. I also had an overdrive and my mid sixties Rambler American did 30 mpg on the highway. It also did 100 mph in overdrive. It had superior synchronization to my friends' Chevys and really you size the transmission to the engine. The Chevy 3 speed was designed to handle everything from the tiny Chevy six to a big V-8. That Rambler 3 speed was designed just after WWII and used only on their sixes. Now, where AMC did have a problem was when they used their Bendix 3 speed automatic on their new 300 hp 343 and even bigger 390 engines. That automatic just could not handle the power and the clutches were stripped. I owned a 67 Ambassador with the big 343 (bought used like new in 1970 for only $500.00!) and it was truly a hot car for its time. Hit the accelerator and you could barely keep the car lined up for the spinning. But make a habit of driving that way and you got to buy a transmission overhaul. It was far weaker than the Chrysler 700 or the GM turbo 400.
I dispute this. First off, Ramblers are a very well built car, however they were made for the the economy minded people who used these cars for great gasoline Savings which they were, and trouble free engine poblems, which with the straight six cylinder engines they had in them were very reliable engines. These cars, Ramblers, weren't ment to be fancy or fast, they were ment for point A to point B transportation purposes, and with decent moderate care of them, they would last you a good long time, life time ownership. My family has a 1963 Chevy Impala, and a 1962 Rambler Classic. All of us kids learned how to drive a manual transmission on that Rambler except my oldest sister who only knew how to drive a automatic drive transmission. That Ranbler, would start up in the coldest winter, never failed out family, had overdrive in it, climbed hills like a cat, out performed that Chevy in every way possible. The chevy never ran right. All it did was stall all the time, even when your driving it down the road it would stall, and you had to try and start it back up again. Sitting at a red light, it did nothing but, stall. That Chevy was nothing but a piece of junk, while the Rambler ran circles around it so many times, it was pathetic. The Rambler out ran the Chevy, last much longer than the Chevy, was a very good, very reliable car and was the best thing we ever had was the Rambler.
Poor thing was Nash was introduced and recognized as economy-family touring car, got this stupid name from stupid people ""Bathing Tub"".. i think Nash were the most beautiful cars of that era!! a min before i was watching Hudson video but i said nahh Nash is more gorgeous!
"Many cars, representing almost all the american and european car production companies..." pretty sure no one gave a crap about the japanese back then, lol...
Will Geary That was precisely the point. My grand father once told me that their generation thought products from Japan were crap. Maybe they were back then, and no one expected them to increase quality in such a dramatic way as they did. Cheers!
Over 700 miles at an average speed of 95
miles per hour _!_ That's _FLYING !_
Loved my Nash Rambler used to take to Mexico to go surfing, the Rambler would go anywhere and always got me home. And I could smoke the VW vans.
I used to have a 49 Nash statesman. Loved it, great car.
Nash Ambassador had by far the best 6 cylinder engine made in the US. Overhead valve, 7 main bearings, full pressure lubrication even to the wrist pins. The Stateman engine was tough also and had the same except it was a flathead.
Yeah ,well the 308 c.i.Hudson Hornet flatty dominated Nascar from 51-54. I'd say Hudson had the best 6 .....you have to specify what a particular entity was great at.Fair enough?By the way the flathead Nashes were not the same .Pull out an old Motors Manual and you will see what is Factual! All this said the Nash would get Grandpa and Grandma to Church on Sunday safely and on time.But the cheaper statesman (series 40) only used 4 mains not 7.The slant 6 mopars are legendary but have only 4 mains. But they are the same diameter mains as the 426 hemi. You need to lay out out all the facts to make your point.
The Nash was an economy car in it's day.
Had the honor of meeting Lucky Lott at his place in Tampa mid 80's
Herschel Buchanan was Sales Mgr for the local Dodge dealer in Shreveport, LA, where I grew up. When I was 17, I bought my first car from him in 1969, a '66 Dodger Charger. When we went for a test drive, he told me "get on it"!
Now, what does this mean...? Lol!
Authentic Americans were memorable characters.
My Dad had a Nash when I was 3 or 4. Even then I thought what an ugly thing. I wanted to ride in my Uncle Paul’s 53 Cadillac. Then one day my Dad came home in a 53 Ford. Right away I liked riding with Dad again.
My old man owned a 50 Ambassador with Hydra Matic for eleven years. The engine and transmission was just about bulletproof, though the car itself eventually rusted to the point it wasn't safe to drive anymore.
That Lucky Lee fella was tough on the trunnions
He was a regular trunnion terrorizor 😆
Superior car...Nash!!! 😎
LOL 1:58 "700 miles at an average speed over 95-mph" yeah right! Think about that for a minute!!
They were _FLYING !_
That's almost too good for an early '50s 6-cylinder in a car that size! The Hudson could do it, but that 6 had 308 cubic inches, and 160hp with the twin-H power, about what most OHV V8s were putting out in those days.
@@billdescoteaux
No kidding. I'd like to see the build sheet on that engine.
Amazing video, Greetings from India
Driving or BEING STUCK OWNING a Nash was CLOSE to a NIGHTMARE! The paint (especially "Robin's-egg blue") was NICE! The cars were CRAP, though!
14,000 ft in 21 minutes and five foot jumps these big bastards are some tough hombre's ///// Good Stuff thanks poster
Glad you liked it! This film is mega rare. Mine is the only print of this film I've ever encountered. And you can see that it's still chopped up as it is. (In fact, it's missing some footage of Floyd Clymer, who was a well-known auto historian from the 1940s-60s. He ran a lot of motorcycles and cars up Pikes Peak. I wish that footage was still there.)
+Gone Autos Hi was the car that rolled a 1941 Nash 600 or an Ambassador Eight? The 600 was unitized but the Eight wasn't.
Cheers
Nic
Just a heads up, I had to have 16 films removed from the Facebook AMC Sweden page, your friend Leif Eriksson has had a field day again downloading my stuff and your stuff......this film of yours is uploaded there in the video album. I'm sure there's other stuff theres of yours.
Thanks, Frank. This is why I stopped selling DVDs. That content was from a DVD. Too easy to rip a DVD and do what you want with that content. I also don't post much content on CZcams, because I don't want to have to police it all the time looking for pirates. That's why I put obnoxious titles over the movies. If someone's gonna rip 'em off, I want everyone to know where the thief got them from.
Wow, that's gotta be frustrating after all the
effort you put into these gems.
ill think ill head to the dealership tomorrow to look at a statesman
When I set up my ramp and head for the skies, I can't think of another car I'd rather die of cardiac arrest in. With its front seats that fold down into a bed, the Statesman and its big brother, the Ambassador, are ready-made coffins when it comes to endurance testing. (Confession: I really do like the bathtub Nashes.)
me too, theyre great. i wish i could just go pick one up
Gone Autos
..I wonder if these guys used seat belts ?
@@GoneAutos I owned a 1949 upside down bathtub. Smooth rider, great sleeper, and good gas saver.
@@mschiffel1
No, just helmets. They knew better.
They put their ugly logo on this vid - as if they owned it!
+allencrider That's the price you pay for getting it for free.
An advertisement at the beginning would be less intrusive and actually beneficial in terms of income for the uploader. Nobody is going to go to a site that intrudes its logo upon a video
Thanks for screwing up this classic footage with the giant watermarks.
Here's a little perspective. The film cost $417 to buy. It cost another $77 to digitize. I have a friend here on CZcams who uploads tons of classic car films and spends a ton of time policing CZcams for knuckleheads who rip off his content, upload it to their own channel and make AdSense money off of it. Is that fair to him? I decided that if you steal my film print, everyone is gonna know where it came from. Try to see the glass that's two-thirds full, friend, by watching the upper two-thirds of the screen.
Gone Autos you tell them mate. I haven't got a clue how to upload anything, but I enjoy watching things that people like you spend your time sorting out for people like me. from England united kingdom.
Gone Autos you tell them mate. I haven't got a clue how to upload anything, but I enjoy watching things that people like you spend your time sorting out for people like me. from England united kingdom.
These films don't magically appear, they come from someplace, someone has to do the work, finding the film, paying for the film, restoring the film, improving the color.....is it wrong to take credit for it so that others don't simply copy and share? The whole point of youtube is to present film and the presenters get advertising revenue to offset the costs involved. If this film wasn't uploaded, then the water mark wouldn't be an issue....so take your choice, see an old film you never saw before with a water mark, or never see anything.
Personally, I like the defilement. In fact, I enjoy looking at the film tattoo, and prefer to focus my attention on it rather than the film itself.
I always wanted a Kelvinator Kar.
KELVINATOR WAS A REFRIGERATOR
@@chuckschafer6728
Yes, and they made a car too
The first and only automobile modeled after a potato.
I wonder why all these narrators from the fifties talk in that nasal and affected tone, they all sound the same, lol...
never thought of it, but is actually true, probably the optical sound has something to do with it
They wanted to sound like Edward R. Morrow?
The rollover car was not a 49-51 nash
It was a 30s car. Looked like a Chrysler product.
@@michaelbenardo5695 1940-41 NASH
Ramblers built during the 1950s might have been tough. However, AMC went to building flimsy pieces of shit in the 1960s.
As a teenager, I had a 1967 2 door Rambler, which was in cream yellow...Not a bad looking car.
Other guys my age I knew who had Chevys, Fords, Plymouths, Dodges, Oldsmobiles, etc. would do show off driving: spinning wheels, doing doughnuts, hard acceleration, downshifting to slow down, racing and speeding, and despite their rough driving, their cars held up okay.
I did only a fraction of the show off driving they did...Tried to spin the wheels a few times, but because my Rambler had only a 232 cubic inch inline 6, it would only chirp the wheels. I did do a few accelerations which was quick for a 6 cylinder, and downshifted a few times, and that's all it took to tear up the transmission.
When the transmission was being rebuilt, the mechanic showed me the stripped gears...The gears were no thicker than a slice of bread...I kid you not...No thicker than a slice of bread...And the shaft the gears were on was barely the size of a broomstick, which incidentally was snapped in two.
When I told someone at work how thin those gears were, he asked me, "Are you sure you weren't looking at the scyncronizers?"
Those weren't the scyncronizers...I know what scyncronizers look like.
I remember the mechanic lecturing me that a Rambler can't hold up to hard driving. He even advised me not to drive it over 45 mph. And to shift from 1st to 2nd at 12 mph, and shift into 3rd at 17 mph.
No wonder AMC went out of business, and Chrysler later bought out their Jeep division
This is a load of crap you just never learned how to use a manual transmission. You had the car but did you buy it new?
@@Viewer19 I had the opportunity to actually see the transmission gears in that car. They were made no thicker than a slice of bread. That in itself says enough.
Years later, my cousin was doing manual transmission work on Chevy Camaro he owned. The gears in it were somewhere about an inch and a half thick...a lot thicker than the thickness of a slice of bread.
And in later years, I had vehicles I hot rodded and dogged the hell out of way more than I ever did that Rambler, and never had a transmission tear up, and that included towing heavy trailers.
Those vehicles were:
1976 Malibu station wagon
1977 Dodge pickup
1974 Ford van
I bought a 1978 Pontiac Lemans that already had an automatic transmission that would not go into 3rd gear. I got a Turbo 350 short shaft from a junkyard and replaced that Metric 200...By then I already knew how to repair a car. That Turbo 350 held up well under the trailer towing and driving demands I put on the car.
I knew good and well what I was talking about.
I drove one of those transmissions 200,000 miles with never a failure. I also had an overdrive and my mid sixties Rambler American did 30 mpg on the highway. It also did 100 mph in overdrive. It had superior synchronization to my friends' Chevys and really you size the transmission to the engine. The Chevy 3 speed was designed to handle everything from the tiny Chevy six to a big V-8. That Rambler 3 speed was designed just after WWII and used only on their sixes. Now, where AMC did have a problem was when they used their Bendix 3 speed automatic on their new 300 hp 343 and even bigger 390 engines. That automatic just could not handle the power and the clutches were stripped. I owned a 67 Ambassador with the big 343 (bought used like new in 1970 for only $500.00!) and it was truly a hot car for its time. Hit the accelerator and you could barely keep the car lined up for the spinning. But make a habit of driving that way and you got to buy a transmission overhaul. It was far weaker than the Chrysler 700 or the GM turbo 400.
I dispute this. First off, Ramblers are a very well built car, however they were made for the the economy minded people who used these cars for great gasoline Savings which they were, and trouble free engine poblems, which with the straight six cylinder engines they had in them were very reliable engines. These cars, Ramblers, weren't ment to be fancy or fast, they were ment for point A to point B transportation purposes, and with decent moderate care of them, they would last you a good long time, life time ownership. My family has a 1963 Chevy Impala, and a 1962 Rambler Classic. All of us kids learned how to drive a manual transmission on that Rambler except my oldest sister who only knew how to drive a automatic drive transmission. That Ranbler, would start up in the coldest winter, never failed out family, had overdrive in it, climbed hills like a cat, out performed that Chevy in every way possible. The chevy never ran right. All it did was stall all the time, even when your driving it down the road it would stall, and you had to try and start it back up again. Sitting at a red light, it did nothing but, stall. That Chevy was nothing but a piece of junk, while the Rambler ran circles around it so many times, it was pathetic. The Rambler out ran the Chevy, last much longer than the Chevy, was a very good, very reliable car and was the best thing we ever had was the Rambler.
Poor thing was Nash was introduced and recognized as economy-family touring car, got this stupid name from stupid people ""Bathing Tub"".. i think Nash were the most beautiful cars of that era!! a min before i was watching Hudson video but i said nahh Nash is more gorgeous!
"Many cars, representing almost all the american and european car production companies..." pretty sure no one gave a crap about the japanese back then, lol...
that's because at that time Japan had a very weak car industry, it wasn't really until the late 50's that they really started to pick up steam.
Will Geary That was precisely the point. My grand father once told me that their generation thought products from Japan were crap. Maybe they were back then, and no one expected them to increase quality in such a dramatic way as they did. Cheers!
Sweet ride but uglier than a Prius.
Said your dad about your mom.