Q: Greg, I enjoy your all your car nostalgia columns, especially those you write about from the 1950 and 1960 decade. I am your age, 74, and remember you’ve written
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George Mason, president of Nash and architect of the merger became chairman of AMC. Unfortunately he died a few months after the union and was replaced by his visionary executive vice-president, George Romney. Romney, like Mason, firmly believed in smaller more economical cars. And although Nash had just launched the tiny two passenger Austin-engined Metropolitan in March 1954, it was too small for families. Romney recognized Rambler as AMC’s best asset. The Nash Rambler had been introduced in 1950 with a 2,540 mm (100 in.) wheelbase, considerably shorter than other American cars except the tiny Crosley, which was too small to be practical. The Rambler had the 2.8. litre (172.6 cu in.) side-valve six from the Nash Ambassador 600, and the full unit construction Nash had pioneered in American cars in 1941.