Bath to the Future
The owner of this wonderful car, Sven Larsen, pauses and thinks about my question. What would have been the British or European equivalent to this now long-gone American marque? With the bold use of aerodynamics, the technical innovation and the somewhat left-field image, we settle on Saab – though it’s hardly a perfect parallel. Just as there seemed to be one family in the street who always had a Saab or a Citroën in front of the house, there was once a family in many American streets who chose Nash.
“I grew up in Canada in the Fifties and Sixties and they were never common,” says Sven. “My father had a ’58 Edsel and various Fords and Meteors, the Canadian equivalent to Mercury. But I got a fondness for these Nashes from somewhere.” Sven has an interesting theory about the source of this enthusiasm. There was a TV series called The Adventures of Superman that ran between 1952 and ’58, starring George Reeves in the title
