My 1948 two-tone Canterbury Gray Nash Super 600 Brougham was purchased new by a Mr. Ferri. The car is a unitized body with coil springs on all four wheels. It has a L-head 172.6-cid, 82-hp, six-cylinder engine. It is known as a Super 600 because the car has a 30-gallon fuel tank and the vehicle can travel up to 20 miles per gallon — thus the car can travel 600 miles on one full tank of gas.
Mr. Ferri lived across the street from where my grandfather worked. Every day Mr. Ferri would come out of his house and look skyward. If it looked like rain, he would walk to work (approximately a half mile). One day he drove the car to work and it began to rain on the ride home. As he was hurrying to get the Nash in the garage, he started backing the car onto the driveway when another car came down the street and crashed into the left front of the car. The accident caused damage to the under carriage, fender, bumper and grille. The damage to the car was enough for the insurance company to ‘total’ the car. Mr. Ferri parked the Nash in his front yard with a “for sale” sign on it.
My grandfather saw the car then talked to Mr. Ferri and proceeded to purchase the car for $50 in 1950. My grandfather had a 1946 Nash Super 600 (two-tone green) that was on its last few miles so he took what parts he needed from the 1946 and replaced the damaged parts on the 1948. He drove the car everywhere, even though the two-tone gray had a green front fender. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. The car made several trips to the hunting camp where the temperatures were so cold that the other Fords and Chevys would not start, but my grandfather turned the key, pushed the clutch to the floor and the old Nash started every time. I’ve been told that many deer came home on the front fenders of the Nash.
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.....probably not very often, but I would still drive it. :shifty: