In 1951 my father bought a Nash statesman. We lived in a town in north east New Mexico whose elevation is about 7000 feet. It was not unusual for temperatures at night to drop down to 10 or 15°. He loved that old car, that was of course brand new in 1951. It gave him great gas mileage and started in the winter with no garage. Nash is apparently had a reputation for doing what yours just did. Just hearing that old starter motor brought back memories for a seven year old boy. I have often thought I would like to have an old statesman again. With overdrive it was more than capable of cruising at 65 to 70 mph. Thanks for your channel. I am the old guy that wrote up on that Sidecar rig a year or two ago to say hello. You do a great job.
Almost all US cars were 6 volt until 1957 The self starter was introduced in some cars in 1912. Tens of millions or hundreds of millions of cars lived out their entire lives with six volt electrical systems. The cars started well enough even in the mythical Frostbite Falls Minnesota.
Hey there ! Glad to see the old Nash starting & running !!! As someone commented they were built in Kenosha Wisconsin & there on Lake Michigan they know what extremely cold weather & snow is about. But given her age & the cold it could have been iffy !!! Now about her age ? you called it a 1952 Nash Rambler, & it may be titled a 1952, BUT it's really a 1953 Nash Rambler body & is indeed a 1953, as the 1950 to 1952 Nash Rambler models are a totally different body style. In 1954 Nash introduced the 4dr sedan & 4 dr Cross Country wagon in the same body style as the 1953 models, but on the slightly longer 108" wheelbase. I own a 1954 Nash Rambler 4dr sedan with the skirted wheels all around & same interior / dash as the 53, but with the 196.5 cid flathead six under the hood, versus the 184 cid that came in the 2 dr models. People often ask how do you change the tires with the skirted front fenders ??? The answer : Very carefully !!! I'm a subscriber & certainly enjoy watching. Love those DKW's & all the other micro cars, vans, & that camera shy, squirrel hunting dog of yours. Keep up the good work & the Cause !!! It's certainly entertaining, a great job !!!!!
Welcome to Wisconsin. 28 degrees is a warm winter day in Wisconsin. Your car was made in Kenosha, Wisconsin so it should start in typical Wisconsin weather. Nash engineers would have been ridiculed by there neighbors if a Nash couldn’t start in winter.
Same snow up here on the Island. Took me a while to dig our cars out. They only plowed one lane on the street, so I hope my wife can get her car out for work tomorrow.
thats NOTHING when I lived the interior of Alaska with a 1964 6 volt bug where I lived it was below 0 most all winter thats 6 months worth and the old bug never failed to start even down to -50
Back in the days when the nash wasn't a spoiled oldtimer but a daily driver the condition for this must have been worse. Worse batteries, worse oil, worse fuel and people needed to show up at work.
11inches is a record? Where I'm from I think the record is somewhere past 3 feet. That's an every day snow storm here. Send it this way will ya I miss the snow.
Amazing,,, sunny in freezing Nebraska i80 closed at Cheyenne. It's 2 pm.. O I love being away from home.. the homeless home owner / the American dream / United Slaves of America... Yay
So if you don't mind the asking, just how many times in your life do you remember snows like that overnight?? Other than the dissatisfied look of sitting in it, Stella seems pretty content with it all(GOOD girl!).
@@jamesthompson8008 Our normal ANNUAL snowfall amount is 4 inches. Some years none at all. This is the first snowfall of the season. 20 above is considered darn cold. Also about the annual low temperature. The record cold in recent decades is 7 degrees.
