In 1950, the 12 months my life started, the Nash Rambler Airflyte was additionally born into our consumption tradition.
When postwar auto manufacturing was simply starting its start-up, practically the entire auto firms retooled from struggle to peace by merely reintroducing their pre-war vehicles with minimal updating. Some realized, nonetheless, that life within the postwar period was going to be considerably totally different.
Earlier than the Warfare, designers have been involved with aerodynamics, streamlining, and the results of wind resistance. Automobiles of the long run would bear in mind air drag after they have been being designed, utilizing some great benefits of aerodynamics. Wartime advances in airplane design had an enormous affect on the work of postwar vehicle designers. It appeared like the proper time to determine a brand new automotive frontier. Nash Motors wasn’t going to be left behind—in gross sales or expertise—and thus the Rambler Airflyte arrived.
Some weren’t happy with its minimalist particulars. Others have been ecstatic. This brochure exhibits the car to be quintessentially trendy in its traces—and the place it counts below the hood, as effectively.
