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Nash's Le Mans. To its Nash-Healey sports-car line, Nash Motors added a coupé, the Le Mans. Designed by Pinin Farina, it is low-slung (55 in. high) and racy, has a six-cylinder 140 h.p. engine (up from last year's 125 h.p.). Price...
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...
To show the importance of the new sports-car trend, G.M. unwrapped three other futuristic sports cars, also made of fiber glass. Cadillac's three-passenger Le Mans is only 51 in. high to the top of its windshield, 5.3 in. lower than standard jobs, and 24.8 in. shorter...
The sentimental favorites were the Italians, who finished one-two in Ferraris last year. They had sent a strong team, including World Champion Driver Alberto Ascari and Giovanni Bracco, winner of this year's famed Mille Miglia. But the betting favorites were the Germans and their hotshot Mercé...
The final day was a Mercédès parade. Veteran Kling drove his lightweight (under 2,000 Ibs.) aluminum-bodied racer at a 160-m.p.h. clip over stretches of the final lap. Kling's overall average: 102 m.p.h., shattering the 1951 Ferrari record of 88.09 m.p.h. Hermann...