Very nice and rare, something you wouldn't see too many of, given that there wouldn't have been too many coupes produced and definitely not very common these days. Opening hood vents are very similar to 32 Chevy. Any other photos?
I have no idea how I missed this thread in March and August of this year. I've had my 32 Nash for about 9-10 years, I just got it out of the storage barn recently as a Hamber from Oregon who also has a 32 Nash, visited here on Sunday to see it. I'm 66, Dave is 67, and his GF has relatives a mile or so from me...lol. She is also a medical specialist in what issue I might be facing, so that is an odd "coincidence" as well. So she gave me a lot of insider info on what I need to watch for. Dave previously had sold me some spare parts of his that I had never been able to find...dirt cheap. It took Dave 20 years to finish his...I hope I can do it in less. There are 4 Hambers that I know of that all have a "second series"1932 Nash, that came out in March of 32., and it's odd to me that each one is the smallest 32 Nash, the 1060 series, despite Nash making seven sizes of cars that year. Nash also made a first series early 32 model which is more boxy looking, using up unsold 31 bodies. Two are coupes here on Hamb, and one sedan, and my convertible sedan. Mine runs and yard drives, I put a 65 Mustang rear end so I could buy the better ratio gears to keep up with traffic as they were 4:78 or 4:73. I then had to convert the front brakes from cable operated, to hydraulics. Both ancient rotted rear tires let go, so I have Ford 16" wheels on it for now It was a long difficult job to replace the wood framing that was all gone, to full steel. The doors are so wide that there are 2 inside door handles so the rear seat passengers can reach a handle.
^^^^ ..... one of my favorite sights here. That car. Found some 1929 Nash roadster quarters locally .... couldn't be many of those around. Missing everything else but oh well ..... guy said it'd be a great "R" word build. Lol. Yeah right.
Thanks Jamie... I have a dilemma with having two prewar open bodied cars here that I wish could be finished right NOW .. I'm not sure which one to try to get going on when I get time...The other one, (34 LaS), looks hopeless to most people, but I know I could save it, or if I ran out of years on earth like the last two owners did, it could be looking like it has hope. .
I went to Hershey show fields for 20 years back when this era of cars were at their peak for restoring, and "I never knew either", as very few were there. I also never knew that in 1932, only two car makers showed a profit that year, out of dozens, and those two were GM and Nash. Nash went all out with the 32 second series to help sales. The had all the different sizes of chassis and engines below: ^^^ The longest wheelbase, biggest Nash, was the Ambassador, on a 142 inch WB, it was called the Kenosha Duesenberg when new, due to size and styling. Made in Kenosha, Wisconsin. That is shown above as the 3 big sedans in the bottom center of this poster. When I was in my later 20s, I saw this exact car below, in an open-sided pole barn out in the boonies in northern Mass, with about 30 to 50 other prewars, many were Nash. This car was on the outside row facing me just as you see below... As I got within a hundred yards, I thought it was a Duesenberg. That one is actually a 1933, and that year Nash was hit even harder by the Depression like all car makers, so only 3 were built as convertible sedans, this is the only survivor( I read somewhere). It was purchased years later by the late Tom Lester of Lester Tire and fully restored. Almost finished, and fully restored pics of it below: .Here below, is a 1932 of the same 133 inch WB. This car was bought in the early 70s in a Nevada/Arizona? Junkyard for $2000, then restored by a 65 year old guy who did the whole job himself. He even made the missing rear bumper with the 32 type slotted face bars, made the missing top iron parts, completely re-wooded it, and chose later aftermarket 15" wheels.(?? don't know why) Back to my tiny 6 cylinder 2 door convertible sedan, (which is body number 38), I only have found 2 others of the same chassis size like mine, one in Argentina, older restoration, and the other was rough, very worn out, and rotted wood, in Panama. The smallest rumble seat convertible coupe (6 cylinder, flathead) on that poster ...apparently none have survived. A couple of the next size, model 1070, have survived, the one below was imported back to the USA from France, owned by a Nash collector. It is the smallest 8 cylinder, (flathead) , the bigger series Nashes had bigger, and then the biggest engines on the Ambassadors, the larger series ones were twin carbs..and OHV .
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