1950 Nash Ambassador Custom - Jay Leno's Garage

I would rather watch ten videos of old cars like these. Rather than one video of the any million dollar super car. Great job Jay!

My grandpa, who passed just a few years ago at 104, God rest his soul, owned a '51 Nash A.C. and drove the old "boat;" (that's what we, his grandkids, used to call her, "Grandpa's old boat") until she began to really fall apart. After she got to the point where some of the old girl really needed to be rebuilt, he stuck her in his garage and promised grandma year after year after year; "I'll get it done next year dag nab it!", (Gramps had a foul mouth lol) He never did get her rebuilt; as far as I know, it's still sitting in his garage somewhere in Cherry Valley, Illinois. Maybe God gave him a new Nash in Heaven?

Such a beautiful car. I got to tell my Nash story. In 1985, on my 30th birthday I went with my future ex wife to the Marin Jazz Festival on Mt. Tamalpias. I was hanging around the side of the stage when this beautiful sparkle green Nash pulls up. I was transfixed on this thing of beauty! The car parks and out steps Stan Getz and a couple of his musicians. I am just admiring the car and standing at a distance. Stan says hey kid, you like the car, come on over and check it out. He lets me sit in the front and check it out. I was petting it and asking questions. I think Stan knew I had no idea who he was. I had no idea it was Stan until he started his set. My most memorable birthday ever.

I have always wanted one of these, but no matter how hard I've looked, I've never seen one for sale near me. They are by far one of my favorite automobiles of the 1950s, mostly because of their very unique and what I think is beautiful styling.

Jay, I bought a 53 Nash Ambassador when I was in college around 1955.  I loved it! Still do.  I would love to have another. I got my first girlfriend in the summer of 1958 and we married the last of December.  We have just completed 57 years of wonderful married life and it sure would be great to go to a Drive-in Movie in my old Nash.  I finally traded it for a new Studebaker Lark, I went from a wonderful car to a piece of junk. It is wonderful to reminisce of days gone by.  I enjoy seeing your garage and your collection.  I am now 80 and will probably never make it to California again. Keep putting your collection on youtube.    THANKS! 

I was born in '49, and to me in the early '50s all cars looked like this ... in cartoons, in movies, and on the roads everywhere. They were comforting ... yeah, comforting.

I love those interiors. So spacious, like a living room with recliners and sofas. That’s what I want from contemporary cars of today.

I worked in a shop, downtown SF, CA when it was fun. I got to work on one. Rich deep burgundy, with awesome new seats. I did the work. I got to test drive it and open her up on the road. A fine tuned rolling masterpiece. I drove to "Original Joe's" in the original location back in the day. Yup, got to share the rides with a few cats from that spot "owner". Trip down memory lane. Thanks for the vid Jay.

Jay is the coolest guy ever I love how he keeps it real like the missing horn ring if he didn’t say that I would have never known. But he did and that’s what I like about him he’s honest

My Dad bought a new 1953 V8 Ford for a trip from Texas to northern California. Ate gas like a thirsty camel after a trip through the desert. Before we got to California he nicknamed the Ford "Rough Rider" because it was such a hard ride. On the trip back to Texas we stopped at a diner in LA. Across the street there was a used car lot and they had a 1952 Nash Ambassador sitting up front. Dad went over to look at it and traded the Ford straight across for the Nash. Nick named it the "Smooth Rider", great gas mileage and he fell in love with the way it looked. He always bought a Nash when he had to buy a new car .He never bought another Ford.

My parents had this Nasg Ambassador in 1953 only in robin's egg blue. I always called it the Easter Egg. We used it camping sometimes and slept on the folded-down seats many times, once in the Everglades when it was too late to drive to a motel. On long night trips, I would make a bed using a blanket in the rear seat, right side floor - just large enought for my 4 year old body. I would listen to the hum of the road a few inches below me as the Nash sped along the just-built New Jersey Turnpike on the way to my grandmother's house in Washington, D.C. . It was a tank of a car and exactly as Jay describes it, but it had a fine elegance on the road.

My Dad loved his Nashes. We had a '53 , a '55 that had 'Body by Pinninfarina' plate on the door thresholds (like GM had Body by Fisher), and their last model year, a '57 with quad headlights, & V8. Unfortunately I was too young to take advantage of the flat folding seats. Thanks for the time trip!

Jay's got that fine sentiment for the automobile that really does touch you )) Love his videos, plenty of nostalgic nice feeling about the cars, people, their stories and all the rest

That is a BEAUTIFUL car! I love the styling and all the room inside.

Showing the commercial is a major + for the viewer, as well as any Life or Saturday Evening Post adverts(for color). I enjoy the history side of the ad campaigns. GREAT!!!

I am an old 89 yrs and still able to appreciate the beautiful American automobile's of my youth. I remember well the Nash, the Pacakards, Hudson'sand irrmember many that were brought back to life when WW 2 caused shortage of road worthy vehicles. Tell Mr. Leno I will work on the Garage with no pay just to be around the wonderful collection. God Bless us all And many happy drives.

My mother told me these had a reputation and were nicknamed the seducing sedan.

Thank you Jay, for highlighting the Nash. My father had a Nash 600 ( I believe),and my grandfather had a Nash Ambassador. My Grandfather died in 1953, and my father inherited my Grandfather's Nash Ambassador. I was only 5 years old in September of 1953, so I don't remember a lot about the car.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. My grandparents had this exact same Nash. Same color, same trim, same automatic transmission. My brother and I rode in that back seat cavern many times. They drove it for years and then traded it in on a ‘57 Nash Rambler.

I think I'll run down to my local Nash dealer and check out all the new models today! Thanks Jay for your appreciation of the "family" car - the cars America drove.