Just found out that AMC dropped the Nash and Hudson names in late 1957, after which these were marketed under the Metropolitan name.
This thing was practically stopping traffic, a lady walked up next to me while I was shooting and said "Wow, nice mini. Yep, look at that M, it's a mini alright." I did give her a humble correction as to what it was. She was so jazzed, "Yeah! My sister had one of these, in pink!".
My now-deceased boyfriend had one. He drove it from Washington DC to Mexico and back which I considered a version of suicide. Had TERRIBLE taste in cars, flipped this for a Corvair in 1964, then an AMC Gremlin in 71 and then a 1977 Eldorado. Of course, they're all rarities now.
2 pearl district shots, back-to-back? feel like i haven't spotted anything interesting there in months!
one of these sold at auction for a ridiculous amount of money in the past five years, hugely inflating the value, and leading to every surviving car getting restored to a ridiculous degree, in the hopes of finding someone else willing to pay that much. i'd love to see one in original, oxidized paint.
cute and tiny in a distinctly un-sporty way. i imagine the engine actually makes a sound like the words "putt-putt-putt."
You can't imagine how much more exciting it was to find this, most difficult car research yet. Every one of these I've seen has been badgeless apart from the M on the grill. Talk about the opposite end of the spectrum, invisible part of the landscape.
Best of OPC. 
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Just found out that AMC dropped the Nash and Hudson names in late 1957, after which these were marketed under the Metropolitan name.
This thing was practically stopping traffic, a lady walked up next to me while I was shooting and said "Wow, nice mini. Yep, look at that M, it's a mini alright." I did give her a humble correction as to what it was. She was so jazzed, "Yeah! My sister had one of these, in pink!".
My now-deceased boyfriend had one. He drove it from Washington DC to Mexico and back which I considered a version of suicide. Had TERRIBLE taste in cars, flipped this for a Corvair in 1964, then an AMC Gremlin in 71 and then a 1977 Eldorado. Of course, they're all rarities now.
2 pearl district shots, back-to-back? feel like i haven't spotted anything interesting there in months!
one of these sold at auction for a ridiculous amount of money in the past five years, hugely inflating the value, and leading to every surviving car getting restored to a ridiculous degree, in the hopes of finding someone else willing to pay that much. i'd love to see one in original, oxidized paint.
cute and tiny in a distinctly un-sporty way. i imagine the engine actually makes a sound like the words "putt-putt-putt."
You can't imagine how much more exciting it was to find this, most difficult car research yet. Every one of these I've seen has been badgeless apart from the M on the grill. Talk about the opposite end of the spectrum, invisible part of the landscape.
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