This Ambassador’s wagon looked like a classic wood-bodied wagon, but the wood was just cladding over an all-steel roof and doors underneath.
Lead trim: Ambassador Six 234.8 cu in OHV I6 (112 hp)
Nash Ambassador1946–1948
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FactThis Ambassador’s wagon looked like a classic wood-bodied wagon, but the wood was just cladding over an all-steel roof and doors underneath.
Nash-Kelvinator restarted car production on 27 October 1945; from the 1946 model year the Ambassador Six was the top-tier Nash, carrying over the full-size body-on-frame design on a 121 in wheelbase powered by a 234.8 cu in (3.8 L) overhead-valve I6 of 112 hp, while the 600 no longer carried the Ambassador name. Postwar Ambassadors placed the unibody structure on a conventional frame ("Slipstream" 4-door sedans, the Suburban and the 2-door Brougham: 35,900 built in 1946 and 39,700 in 1947). The engine features aluminium-alloy pistons and other advanced elements.
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| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambassador Six 234.8 cu in OHV I6 (112 hp) | 1946–1948 | 3.8 L Inline-6 | 112 hp | — | — | — | — | — |
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In 1954 the Nash Ambassador became the first American car with a fully integrated front-end heat-and-air system — a compact, hood-mounted unit priced at $345 while Oldsmobile's trunk-mounted setup ran $550.
Nash's streamlined 1949 Ambassador folded its seats flat into something that could actually sleep three adults — a built-in bed, decades before anyone called it "van life."
This Ambassador’s wagon looked like a classic wood-bodied wagon, but the wood was just cladding over an all-steel roof and doors underneath.
The 1941-42 Ambassador 600 was the first popular American car built with single-welded "unibody" monocoque construction - what Nash branded "Unitized" - instead of a separate body-on-frame.
While the Great Depression wrecked the auto industry, Nash — maker of the Ambassador Eight — stayed in the black through 1932, the only American carmaker besides General Motors to manage it.
In 1927 a Swedish prince personally traveled to Nash's Kenosha, Wisconsin factory, where Scandinavian factory workers themselves delivered his custom Ambassador Six sedan.
Rivals
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