1952 Nash Ambassador Airflyte Junkyard Find

[@komalBrar-m7w]

True barn find!, very solid body, must of been protected from the elements!

[@monsterstereos1836]

Man, the stuff you find in Texas! It's like visiting a museum.

[@richroj]

thats a beauty Benny, too bad it couldn't be saved 👍 that was great looking at all of the old stuff in the car

[@MarkMam-d1x]

You find cool cars. Like your videos

[@unclemarksdiyauto]

Unique styling for the time! Thanks for the video.

[@kbeg132]

My Father had a Nash and B&D circular saw just like the ones in the video. The saw is most likely from the late 60's or early 70's. Heavy and powerful saw that you could lock the safety out on. Nice solid car that should be saved. Glad you did the video..

[@gregorymotta6628]

Benny you’re on fire 🔥 with the classics. Can’t believe how solid this ole Nash is. That’s some real Texas toast patina. But just surface rust.

[@googleusergp]

Whoa Nelley, 1952 and it's over for you. I'm going to say 1970s on that B&D saw, but they would tell you if you sent in the model number and probably send you a copy of the manual if you asked. Some of the patents come back to the 1970s, so it's at least that old. Yup, likely made in USA in Towson, MD where they were once based. I just recently got a Sears Craftsman "315" model prefix saw from someone, and exact duplicate of one someone gave me. This one off of CL was free (as was the other) one and I dated it to 1978. It still had the original case and manual as well as the original sales receipt from Monday October 30, 1978. Since my uncle's neighbor worked for Sears from 1953 to 1993, I'm betting he might have even sold it. The person I got it from said it belonged to his dad. You've come across Oxedine before in previous videos. I believe it was a small chain of them in the south. I believe Driveshaft King may be at that location shown on the receipt. The original engine would be a 253 CID straight six engine. We got the VIN, we win: A for Nash Ambassador and the rest is the production sequence with the likely production being at Kenosha, WI which eventually became part of AMC and then Chrysler and closed in 1988 as an assembly plant but continued onward as an engine assembly plant for a number of years after that. No, this has a dual range GM sourced Hydramatic automatic transmission as you found the badge that said "Hydramatic". Nash-Kelvinator was eventually split off with Kelvinator going to White Consolidated Industries and what's left of it is part of Electrolux now. We got the tag, we can brag: 5275 for 1952 (52) Nash Ambassador Super four door sedan (75), 39-38 for Academy Blue (39) and Tuxedo Blue (38) exterior paint, 102 is possibly Black interior trim. Whoa Nelley, the Nash got turned into trash. 1952 and it's through. That's it, time to quit. Ambassador four door sedan is ready for the trash can. Straight six hit the bricks. Going to be flat and that's that. Lots of junk in the trunk. Saw by B&D and it's for me. Soon to be flat and leave the chat. Going to get squished and the independent maker faithful, many here, and only for rarity's sake, the Google Man are going to be pissed.

[@garymckee63]

Never wanted an AMC or Rambler because my uncle, who had the junkyard, cursed them from no end working on them. Besides the Jeep Renegade and truck, l had l got the 69 Ambassador SST with the 343 is when l started appreciating AMC products and always wanted a Javelin but never obtained one.

[@googleusergp]

@@garymckee63 "All Makes Combined" and "Almost A Car". I know two twin brothers that restored a 1968 AMX and they have a 1971 Javelin 401.

[@garymckee63]

Never knew you had an 84 Delta 88. 307?

[@googleusergp]

@@garymckee63 Yes, Royale Brougham coupe with a 307 V8. I've had it since 1996, my uncle got it new as a company car. It's been "retired" for many years at my other property.

[@garymckee63]

Nice 👍

[@rogercamp6071]

Scott at Cold War Motors has one like that in his stash of cool old cars.

[@tedpuckett4181]

Hi Benny, That spinner in the trunk went with the hubcap on the front. Also that one piece in the trunk was the upper part of the taillight. I believe it was the left taillight that had the gas fill and that was the piece that would be lifted up. In 1955 my parents bought a 1952 Nash Statesman, neat car. Sad it went to the yard.

[@santinocappellaro7468]

🏁 thank you Benny on the cool video on the Nash that was very interesting! That definitely was in good shape for its age, definitely good parts still left that are hard to find, for a Nash!🇺🇲🏁🏁🏁😎🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

[@anthonycoach4551]

I've got that same saw them things run forever had ours for at least 20 years or more..there a good saw..

[@morgansword]

I never liked them when new, reminded me of a bathtub. Some of the police forces had them and they did corner well.

[@OsbornTramain]

I own a 57, they are great cars, use to be used as Police Cars........the nick name is a "bathtub" Nash.....because if you turned it upside down, the body of the car looks like a bath tub.....or turn a bath tub up down........that's so solid too, it's unit body so they rust pretty bad up north. The part you didn't know was the top of the tail lamp which one side also housed the gas filler hole.

[@DustyCountryGarage]

Great movie

[@nathonics]

Needs to be bought and fixed up! Not too far gone and not a great deal of work!

[@SnickersG-fu2pw]

Oh wow! I never seen one. It looks like it has front fender skirts? 😮

[@SnickersG-fu2pw]

8:48 That Oxendine Automotive finally closed a few years back. It was there on Beckley forever in Dallas, Tx

[@edwinbonnelljr1587]

Wow that's cool as hell yeah man that sounds great to me too here

[@pl5624]

Great styled front end.you can see where Chevrolet got the 55 Chevy from.

[@dancline2143]

I have never understood how the front wheels turned on these

[@pl5624]

I like it...way better car than the prior nash generation.

[@gladememmott3001]

What's the story of the logo being almost like Cadillac????

[@jasongilbert2267]

We have one here it belongs to my nephew‘s best friend he would kill for that grill somebody painted his lol

[@WalterJohnson-w5q]

That car needed to be saved. At least take out of the yard and stored and worked on a little at a time.

[@gabrielhenderson6959]

I want to buy it Benny I'm in texas! Can you please tell me which location this is at

[@GabrielGiron-g5o]

Nice grill 🇺🇲

[@kennethsouthard6042]

The Google man is going to have to enter his archive vault for this one

[@googleusergp]

I figured most of it out.

[@kennethsouthard6042]

@googleusergp It's not like I ever doubted you.

[@googleusergp]

​@@kennethsouthard6042Information is a little more hard to come by on these, but not impossible to find.

[@googleusergp]

@@kennethsouthard6042 LOL, thanks for the vote of confidence. Information is a bit scarce on these but not impossible to find.

[@tyebirchsr1058]

Nice 52 Hash I mean nash jokeNash would make a great project like how the front fenders cover the front wheels

[@ernielaw]

Those Hudsons with the Nash bodies were called Hash.

[@davidmckinney6577]

Thats a neat looking little car I wouldn't mind to have it.

[@mikestashko8602]

I like your body swap idea for this car. There’s no law saying you can’t put a unibody car on a chassis.

[@althunder4269]

There are so many people everywhere now. Can't even go to the wrecking yard without a crowd.

[@kbeg132]

Wish the seats were still in it because they folded down into a flat bed.

[@jdslyman1720]

Where did they get Packard? The emblem with "Nash" on it is still on the grille of this beauty. I wonder if that inline 6 is the same engine that was used for decades, all the way into the 1990s on most Jeeps? If so, they have been known to be nearly bulletproof, kind of like GM's 3800 V6.

[@googleusergp]

Most junk yards don't have the older makes in their system so they'll print the inventory tag for the closest thing just to get it in the system.

[@antonioboswell891]

I remember that movie

[@ernielaw]

Thats a nice Chrysler 300 parked behind that Nash. I own one just like it.

[@jonathangodbout6645]

Can you save that license plate? Or is it against the law to purchase it?

[@googleusergp]

They are sold on Ebay all the time. In some states, it is legal to reuse them and have them put back into the system and reassigned to a car. I've done it on my three classics. The '80 Trans Am has the original plate on it from 1980, the 1979 Trans Am has plates from my brother in law's car from the 1980s and my '84 Delta 88 has my grandfather's 1979 Caprice plates on it.

[@terrencegiordan9812]

You can use them I have a 1957 Florida plate registered to my 57 chevy I just put the stickers on it every two years.

[@googleusergp]

@@terrencegiordan9812 Yup, I just register it online with that same plate number and they send the registration to me in the mail. When I turned the cars over to me in my name, I had to have the executor of my parents' estate (my uncle, my mother's brother) sign over the car AND the license plates as "assets" and the state transferred the vintage plates into my name. Apparently according to the person at DMV that I spoke to, it's quite common.

[@crossarmkid42]

That would have made a cool straight axle gasser.

[@michaelcoffey7362]

Neat 😀

[@DanKirchner5150]

weather eye hvac controls = amc always had this

[@googleusergp]

Well, Nash-Kelvinator eventually became AMC so that would make sense on that.

[@roycervantes1341]

Yeee Yeee 😊

[@xpelon209x]

💯💯💯💯👍✌

[@chicagoblackmale]

I guess all men hid their pay stubs in the glove compartment back in the 70's. I know my father did! Reason I know because my mother would send us kids out there to look for it! Lol!

[@oldyellow8120]

What a shame that Nash wound up in the yard! So many good body panels and spare parts all likely to just get crushed - wasted for a few scrap bucks. So stupid.

[@ronaldlebowitz7409]

Big bada boom!

[@ronaldmiller2740]

WHAT IS THIS?? OOHH ITS A LITTLE CLOWN CAR,, THE CIRCUS IS OVER..

[@lewismartin9980]

1954 Nash Ambassador

[@chuckfugate4518]

Actually this is a 1952 Nash Ambassador with a 1954 grill & or front clip / doghouse. This Farina body style was introduced in 1952 - 54 & followed the 1949 - 51 true Airflyte "Bathtub" streamlined body styling. The 1952 Farina design incorporated a slot for fresh air intake for the Weather Eye heating ventilation system at the rear of the hood; just below the windshield; which this body has. In 1953, 54 & the following restyled 1955 - 1957 models all had the fresh air intake slot, but the slot was divided evenly by 13 chrome trim dividers, which put a little extra bling on the front of these cars. The 1952 models did not have these chrome dividers in the fresh air intake slot, this car does NOT have those chrome dividers, which makes it a 1952. 1952 & 1953 models had a multi vertical bar grill that was convex with a chrome surround that is a 1 piece casting. The 1954 models have a 2 piece grill & surround as seen on this car. this grill has a separate outer chrome grill surround with the grill itself having shorter vertical bars that are concave with another smaller surround cast in 1 piece. The actual grill look like it's floating in the outer/larger separate grill surround as seen in this video. Also the Nash Serial # R-689689 as seen under the hood of this Ambassador is a 1952 serial number indicating that this Ambassador was built in the Kenosha, Wisconsin plant. The 1953 models starting Serial # R-692101, & for 1954 the starting Serial # R-722501. The 252.6 cid inline 6 cylinder overhead valve engine had 7 main bearings & has a water pump mounted on the side of the engine block & was driven by a short drive shaft / coupler off the rear of the generator via the main fan belt. The water pump can be seen directly behind the generator, down low along the drivers side of this engine in this video at 14:49. The water pump was in this location as the thinking was a central cooler coolant distribution point, versus the front mount water pumps of other car mfgers. This 252.6 cid 7 main bearing engine was discontinued & no longer produced after 1956 for automobile use. This engine was Never a factory original equipment in a Jeep. NASH & HUDSON merged in 1954 becoming American Motors or AMC. AMC did not purchased Jeep until 1969.

[@antonioboswell891]

He was a taxi cab driver his car was made like that car

[@buckster2575]

It's a lot of stuff I'd grab off that car.

[@Burninhellscrootoob]

After i lost everything in my divorce, id take it as is, just to have something 😢

[@jsciarri]

Well you should have smartened up and left her years ago old man.

[@FindItFixIt]

Buy it from them for a thousand

[@robertlyman9789]

Another rat rod project!

[@reginaldwilson2532]

Ugly car Gm was taking all the American car companies to the cup when it came to sty in the 50s lol

[@googleusergp]

Well, in fairness they had the biggest budget of all of them so they could spend a lot of money on styling and such. The smaller companies didn't have that kind of budget and couldn't make changes every year or two.

[@damienmorrison7226]

designed by pininfarina unibody construction ..now a very rare car

[@damienmorrison7226]

could someone buy the whole car from the yard its a bit too good to be there