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• Tom Kilbride   Waco, TX -- 2000-12-15

  I think it's a Metropolitan, a British auto that was like a scaled down Nash Rambler. Late 1950's or early 1960's, my guess.

• Mr. X   Kalamazoo, MI -- 2002-04-02

  It is a Nash Metropolitan

• Vitaly   Moscow, Russia -- 2002-04-12

  This car looks like Nash Metropolitan..It's a pretty rare car, I guess. It's funny for me to find it in Minneapolis. It's a British car, as far as I know. Correct me if I'm wrong.

• Kevin Yellick   Mpls, MN -- 2002-08-21

  The car is a Trabant from USSR/East Germany

• ale   italy-como -- 2002-09-05

  nash=merda
  ma che cazzo te ne fai di quella merda!

• phil   mpls -- 2002-09-19

  It's a '60 Nash Metropolitan. Although the Trabant is similiar, it's definitely a Metropolitan.

• karen   mpls -- 2002-09-30

  my dad has 2, it's a met.

• jerry   usa -- 2002-09-30

  visit http://www.mninter.net/~jrc/web1.html

• Maria   Rhode Island -- 2002-11-12

  It is a Nash Metropolitan. From the 60's from the chrome pattern. Looks like it is restorable.

• Gerald A. Henry   Winnipeg CANADA -- 2002-11-24

  This is a (Nash) Metropolitan.(1954-1962) See www.nashmet.com/Met_History.htm for details.

• rambo   Saint Paul, MN -- 2003-01-31

  It's a '54 Nash-Kelvinator Metropolitan. It's the first year it was imported to the US of A. It is relatively rare, but they were sold all over the country. Every Nash dealer sold them, there just weren't a lot sold. Nash was not a popular make of car. It's good to see one in repairable condition in the frozen tundra of Minnesnowtuh.............

• Aaron Peterson   Minnetonka, MN -- 2003-07-14

  Cool car. I wonder if it's still there? (I'll have to remember look next time I'm downtown.)

• Kevin Yellick   Mpls -- 2005-03-05

  I stand corrected. The car is a Nash-Kelvinator Metropolitan. Here is what it looked like when it was new!
  http://media3.motorcities.com/00C8A031707389A.jpg

• Betty   Kingman, AZ -- 2005-03-06

  It's a metropolitan, I still have my 56 that I have had since I was 16. I just love it.

• Jan Ormseth   Norway -- 2005-07-14

  It's definitely a Metropolitan. It was sold as Austin in Europe and Nash or Hudson in the US. It looks identical to my son's -57, which I bought back to the family some 17 years ago, after my uncle sold my grandfather's baby after he died 10 years before.

• Anonymous   -- 2006-04-29

  This car runs but needs some TLC !
  inquire within,might be for sale.

• David Brammer   New Ash Green, Kent, UK -- 2006-11-18

  All above are correct, BUT the car was designed and built in Britain by the Austin company which was a brand of British Motor Corporation, most recently called Austin-Rover. Based on the mechanical components of the very mundane Austin A40 and Morris Oxford of the mid-1950's. One Metrpolitan was (publicity stunt!) presented as a wedding gift to Princess Margaret on her marriage to Tony Armstrong-Jones (from memory). History does not recall if ever they drove it. Like all British cars of the time they rusted easily, and had little to commend them.