22 Facts About Nash Ambassador

Nash Ambassador is a luxury automobile that was produced by Nash Motors from 1927 until 1957.

Nash Motors' first use of the name Ambassador was during the 1927 model year when a specially trimmed four-door, five-passenger club sedan version of the "Nash Advanced Six" was developed.

In mid-1932, Nash established the "Ambassador Eight" as a stand-alone model range, offered in a number of body styles, including coupes and victorias.

Sales of all automobiles were dismal during the Great Depression in the United States, yet Nash Ambassador prospered and was the only company other than General Motors to make a profit in 1932.

However, the 1935 Nash Ambassador Eight was now built on a shorter 125-inch wheelbase, and used the smaller, former Advanced Eight engine.

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The 1936 Ambassador Six added Nash's largest in-line six as well, in a 121-inch wheelbase model, formerly known as the Advanced Six.

In 1937 Nash acquired the Kelvinator Corporation as part of a deal that allowed Charlie Nash's handpicked successor, George W Mason, to become President of the new Nash-Kelvinator Corporation.

From 1936 onward, the senior Nash Ambassador models used identical bodies, relying on a longer wheelbase as well as the hood and front fenders to provide visual cues to differentiate the more expensive Eights from the less expensive Six models.

The Nash Ambassador 600, built on a 112-inch wheelbase, became the first popular domestic automobile to be built using the single-welded "unibody" type of monocoque construction that Nash called "Unitized", rather than body-on-frame.

From 1941 through 1948, Nash Ambassador models placed this unibody structure on top of a conventional frame, thus creating a solid and sturdy automobile.

In 1946 Nash introduced a wood-paneled version of the Ambassador called the "Suburban".

Production was limited, with Nash Ambassador selling exactly 1,000 examples between 1946 and 1948.

The 1950 Nash Ambassador became the first non-General Motors automobiles to be equipped with GM's Hydramatic automatic transmissions .

Nash Ambassador received a complete restyle for 1952 and celebrated the company's 50th anniversary as the predecessor firm, the Thomas B Jeffery Company, marketed its first cars in 1902.

Golden Anniversary Nash Airflyte featured styling that was publicly credited to Pinin Farina, yet the design was actually a combination of the Italian coachbuilder with ideas from Edmund E Anderson, the lead designer at Nash.

The large "envelope-bodied" sedans followed the pattern of Nash Ambassador's enclosed wheels along with now larger die cast "toothy" grille bars.

Nash Ambassador received minor changes, such as small chrome spacers on the cowl air scoop.

In 1954 the Nash Ambassador was the first American automobile to have a front-end, fully integrated heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning system.

Nash Ambassador's unit was inexpensive, compact, fit under the hood, and could either circulate fresh or recycled air.

Nash Ambassador models fielded for 1956 were heavily re-styled in the rear with big "lollipop" taillights and the cars were offered in a variety of two-and three-tone color schemes.

Mexican driver S Santoyo was classified 36th in his 1949 Nash, while another 1949 Ambassador driven by Manuel Luz Meneses and Jose O'Farrill Larranoga finished 39th.

For 1950, Nash Ambassador recruited and signed dynamic stars Curtis Turner and Johnny Mantz.