My first car was a 1940 2 door sedan my Dad found at a Rambler dealership back in 1958. I remember him telling me to get my bank book (I was 16) with the money I had to save up for a car. (car, insurance, and license). When we pulled into the Nash Rambler dealership I almost cried!! No one in our high school drove a Rambler!!! Dad did all the paperwork for the car. We got it for $200 and I hadn't even seen it yet! Salesman told me to go see it in the wash booth in the back. What a unique surprise!!! Didn't look like anything I had ever seen before!
Now I am looking for pictures of this model. But all I know is that it was a 1940 2 door sedan with a 6 cylinder not much bigger than a commercial restaurant toaster. It was "army brown", nice roomy back seat, trunk, and the vent windows locked closed on the vertical window metal trim.
I drove that car for two years and then Dad said I had to sell it so I could get "more reliable transportation" to go back and forth to school 168 miles away. I inquired once about the car and was told that the guy that bought it drove it back "east".
Now I am looking for pictures of this model. But all I know is that it was a 1940 2 door sedan with a 6 cylinder not much bigger than a commercial restaurant toaster. It was "army brown", nice roomy back seat, trunk, and the vent windows locked closed on the vertical window metal trim.
I drove that car for two years and then Dad said I had to sell it so I could get "more reliable transportation" to go back and forth to school 168 miles away. I inquired once about the car and was told that the guy that bought it drove it back "east".
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