Nash Metropolitan Archives

September 13, 2017September 13, 2017

Goodwood Revival 2017

As always Lord March hosted another magnificent, albeit wet and windy, Revival. This year we were back with our fearsome Nash Metropolitan and Mike Haigh’s vociferous Ford Falcon. We had legends John Cleland and Tiff Needell sharing the driving duties respectively. Qualifying was rather wet but we lucked out with dry weather for our races on Saturday and Sunday. Both cars ran perfectly and performed well against a very quick grid. Shaun Rainford had a 20 lap battle with Alistair Dyson’s Ford Zephyr and Nick Maton’s MG Magnette bringing the Nash home in 15th from 20th on the grid. Mike put in a blinding drive on Sunday dragging the Falcon from 18th up to 8th! The Falcon finished the weekend in 12th on aggregate with the Metropolitan in 14th. All in all another splendid weekend at Goodwood. Roll on Members Meeting.

September 1, 2017September 1, 2017

Proof found of Metropolitan Racer!

Photographs of an open top Nash Metropolitan racing at Brands Hatch have been un-earthed. Registration VGW 748. If anyone has any knowledge of this or remembers seeing it in period we would love to hear from you.

August 22, 2014August 22, 2014

Nash Metropolitan on the rolling road

Running in and setting up the new all steel race engine on the rolling road. Now don’t break this one Cleland.

June 30, 2014August 1, 2014

Metropolitan all steel race engine fitted

We have fitted our new all steel race 1860cc engine in the Metropolitan and we are ready to fire it up. No expense has been spared when building this engine with billet steel crank, rods and flywheel. With the split Weber 45’s it will be setup and run-in on the rolling road prior to a handful of races this summer. Watch out for this turquoise beast in your rear view mirror. It will be approaching quickly.

June 23, 2014August 1, 2014

Nash Metropolitan gets a new race engine

Over the past couple of months we have been working on an all new engine for our Metropolitan. We have spared nothing this time around. A billet steel crankshaft from Arrow, a set of billet steel con rods and a billet steel flywheel have all been meticulously balanced to within 0.5grams. Omega forged aluminium pistons and camshaft that will see us through to 8000rpm. We are aiming to get the car out on track in July. We’ve changed the rear springs since the cars last outing so will be anticipating some improved handling as well as the extra grunt.