1957 Metropolitan 1500 Convertible [561]

1957 Metropolitan 1500 [561] in L'homme à la Buick, Movie, 1968

Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin: — Built in: — Made for:

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Author	Message
skywatcher68 ◊ 2009-11-19 21:27	1956 at the earliest, so it's a Metropolitan 1500.
Robi ◊ 2011-02-28 21:01	Made for USA? This is Paris...
dsl ◊ 2011-02-28 21:10	robi wrote Made for USA? This is Paris... ... which is in Texas - I know because I've seen the film.
dsl ◊ 2011-02-28 21:12	PS Would it be Austin rather than Nash, if by any remote chance this film is actually set in France?
chris40 ◊ 2011-02-28 21:40	IIRC they were just called Metropolitan outside the USA.
dsl ◊ 2020-07-19 15:09	All Metropolitan production went to US/CDN until Austin got permission in 1956 to sell the Metropolitan elsewhere in markets which American Motors were absent. UK launch in April 57 during the "Series III" period and sales in other markets seem to have started about the same time. Some uncertainty if Austin name was used in these cases, but cars ever had Austin badges, just "soft" promotion.