<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#400040" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Baskerville Old Face" LANG="0">In a message dated 08/30/2008 9:18:05 PM Central Daylight Time, mlcooknj@msn.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Just to clarify a bit:<BR>
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The Nash (or Hudson) Metropolitan was built by Austin at the Longbridge plant and had a BMC 4-cyl, 1500, I believe. It was also marketed in the UK and Europe.<BR>
Trouble is, it wasn't a sports car or an economy sedan so it was trying to create a new market niche and never penetrated.<BR>
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I don't know much about the potential Standard Triumph and Nash project but it could have had a lot of similarities to British Leyland. Nash was in financial trouble all through the '50s and joining up with Hudson and Packard didn't help. By 1964, American Motors was taking a whole new direction with Rambler as it's only product name. Nash, Hudson and Packard were all gone. Think what a drain AMC might have been on Standard-Triumph's finances even before ST sale went to hell in 1961.<BR>
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Mike...<BR>
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Yeah. With such a limp effort, it's no wonder there was no penetration.<BR>
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Bill (Damdinger)<BR>
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