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Here you see the 1/18 scale toy. The photo (and the ones that follow) are from a web-site. Like my grandfather's this one is aqua and white, but unfortunately that run was sold out. The actual Metropolitan was made by Nash in cooperation with the English firm, Austin. The first model was offered in in America and Britain in 1953. The year after, Nash and Hudson merged and formed American Motors. Nash, by the way, was the automotive divison of Nash-Kelvinator, which made refridgerators. Perhaps that's one reason the car looked the way it did. The soft convertible top is removable on the model, and a tarp for the folded down top is provided.
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That is just one of the neatest little cars ever, but released at a time when bigger was better. I could just see some cigar chomping executive complaining. "It needs TAILFINS! That's what people want!!" And he was right at the time.
If they had released this car twenty years later it would have done great.
If they had released this car twenty years later it would have done great.
From what I've read, the Metropolitan was killed by foreign economy cars like the Volkswagen as much as by the lust for giant freeway barges. One correspondent said he believed they suffered a high centre of gravity and were unsafe. That's all I've heard of it.
I don't imagine the front skirts impeded turning since all models had them.
I rather imagine someone does make a model of the Isetta. I'm sure I've seen one in fact, but I don't recall the maker.
I don't imagine the front skirts impeded turning since all models had them.
I rather imagine someone does make a model of the Isetta. I'm sure I've seen one in fact, but I don't recall the maker.
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