Nash Standard Eight

The Nash Standard Eight was a series of eight-cylinder passenger cars produced by the Nash Motors Company in Kenosha . It replaced the 970 and was manufactured from 1932 to 1933.

The Standard Eight, Model 1070 , introduced on March 1, 1932 , had a 3073 mm wheelbase chassis. He had a side-controlled eight-cylinder in-line engine with 4054 cm³ displacement (bore × stroke (mm) = 76.2 × 111.1), which delivered 85 bhp (62.5 kW) at 3200 / min. The drive and brake components (single-disc dry clutch, 3-speed gearbox with center shift, rear-wheel drive, mechanical brakes on all four wheels) came from the previous year's model. There were various open and closed structures with two to five seats.

In 1933, the Standard Eight, model 1130 , got the chassis and appearance of the Big Six model from the previous year and thus - like the larger Nash models Advanced Eight and Special Eight - descended one class in order to differentiate itself more clearly from the large Ambassador Eight . The wheelbase was only 2946 mm, the small eight-cylinder in-line engine was retained.

In 1934 the small eight-cylinder models, such as the Standard Eight, were discontinued without replacement.

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Beverly R. Kimes (Ed.), Henry A. Clark: The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942. Kraus Publications, 1985, ISBN 0-87341-045-9 .