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Home-grown Hot Rods. Nash pioneered with its Nash-Healey, assembled it abroad with a British chassis, an Italian body (by Pinin Farina), and Nash engine and transmission, etc. The car was good enough to take third in the 24-hour Le Mans race in France last year, perhaps the world's toughest. Millionaire Briggs Cunningham built a car with a souped-up Chrysler engine that took fourth in the same race. Some small manufacturers, notably Britain's Allard Motor Co., built cars with Cadillac and Chrysler engines and many standard American parts and saw them lick...
Nash plans no major changes in its big lines, but Designer Pinin Farina has restyled the sporty Rambler along the lines of Nash's heavy cars...
...fumbled around with their styling and interiors; technical improvements were either minor or non-existent. Kaiser for example changed hood ornaments and tacked a chrome-plated tire case on the rear. Studebaker dropped its needle-nose, and Nash swapped its bathtub body for one designd by Italy's Pinin Farina that couldn't help being an improvement...
Nash's new look came from a new designer, Italy's Pinin Farina, who has made his name as a high-priced custom builder of auto bodies for Indian rajas, Persian shahs, etc. All such cars, no matter whether the chassis are Rolls-Royces, Alfa-Romeos, Fiats, etc., are usually known as "Farinas." Pudgy, nervous Designer Farina, who has 650 workers in his Turin plant, always looks as if he had just crawled out from under a car (as he usually has). Unlike most auto designers, who work with clay mockups, Farina works with sheet aluminum, which...
Besides the new Nash sedans, Farina has also sleeked up the racing-type Nash-Healey sport roadster which Nash brought out last year. This year Nash will make 200 to sell at slightly more than last year...