114 ads - NASH RAMBLER, American Motors AMC cars, 1917-1981! Romney, KENOSHA

Description

collection of 114 ads
for Nash, Rambler &
American Motors cars
1917 - 1981
This is a very large collection of 114 magazine advertisements published between 1917 and 1981, all featuring automobiles made by the Nash Motors company and its successor corporations. It merged with the Kelvinator company in 1937, and then combined with the Hudson Motor Car Co. in 1954, to form American Motors Company, of AMC. During its period as Nash Motors, it manufactured its cars in
Kenosha, Wisconsin
, before relocating its production facilities to Detroit after 1937.
100 of the ads are full-page ones, almost all measuring between 10x13 and 11x14 inches in size, with only a few slightly smaller than that. 10 of the ads are double-page ones, each on two separate sheets. The remaining 4 ads are each
½
-page in size, all published in 1960-61, and showing AMC's British-made Metropolitan compact car, billed as the “World's smartest smaller car.”
All the ads are different. A small number of the ads show light dampstaining, age browning, or edge wear, but the great majority are in excellent and attractive condition.
The American Motors Corporation went out of business in 1987. This extensive collection thus provides a wonderful overview of the cars built by the Nash/AMC companies through almost its entire history.
Of special interest is that the texts of two of the double-page ads, both dated in 1961, are done in the form of letters written by
George Romney
, American Motors' President, and the father of Mitt Romney, U.S. presidential candidate in 2012. They are signed by George Romney in type, and include a small photo of him.
A wide variety of Nash-made models are shown. The 1917 ad shows a Nash Jeffery Six auto; the Ambassador and Special Six models are introduced in the 1920s; the Lafayette in the 1930s; the Statesman and Airflyte in the 1940s; The Ambassador Country Club and Rambler Cross Country in the 1950s; the Rambler Rebel, American and Marlin in the 1960s; the 1972 shows the AMC Eagle; in 1980 its the AMC Bugle; and in 1981, the AMC Concord. Etc.
The years these pieces came from are:
1917 - 1 ad
1920s - 17 ads
1930s - 10 ads
1940s - 22 ads
1950s - 19 ads
1960s - 42 ads
1972, 1980 & 1981 - 1 each
17 of the ads are shown in the accompanying photos, as a sampling of what is contained in the overall collection.
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