When Nash discontinued the Ajax, it gave owners a free conversion kit — new hubcaps, a new radiator badge, everything needed to turn an Ajax into a Nash Light Six.
Lead trim: Ajax Six 170 cu in L-head I6
Nash Ajax1925–1926
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FactWhen Nash discontinued the Ajax, it gave owners a free conversion kit — new hubcaps, a new radiator badge, everything needed to turn an Ajax into a Nash Light Six.
The Ajax was an automobile brand made by Nash Motors in 1925 and 1926 at the newly acquired Mitchell Motors plant in Racine, Wisconsin (built with machinery moved from the LaFayette plant, a premium version of the early-1920s LaFayette), as a 4-door sedan, 4-door touring and 2-door sedan priced at $865 for the five-passenger touring car and $995 for the four-door sedan. It came with a 170 cu in (2.8 L) L-head Nash straight-six with a seven-main-bearing crankshaft and force-feed lubrication, a three-speed transmission, four-wheel brakes (unusual at its price), steel disc wheels, mohair velvet upholstery and an electric clock, and did "genuine 60 mph"; wheelbase 109 in. Customers did not believe a value-oriented Ajax was a Nash, so after 22,122 Model 21 and Model 51 were sold it was converted into the Nash Light Six in 1926 (production stopped for two days while Nash hubcaps and emblems were trucked in; changeover kits were free), which the page calls "probably the industry's first example of one car becoming another".
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| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajax Six 170 cu in L-head I6 | 1925–1926 | 2.8 L Inline-6 | — | — | — | RWD | — | — |
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