Unique barn-find gasser up for grabs

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Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

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Everyone likes to be a little different with their cars, especially when it comes to classic tin.

Plenty of people also love a barn-find, so this 1954 Nash Metropolitan drag car could be just the ticket! For sale in Ohio the tiny sports car was built into a drag car in the 1960s by one of the associates of Don “Big Daddy” Garlits, the undisputed king of the Golden Era of drag racing.

The Nash was parked up from 1971 until 2005, when it was brought back out for more racing, before being parked up again in 2007. The incomplete car needs a bit of work but you could be assured to be the only drag-spec Nash Metropolitan on spindle-mount wheels at your local cars ‘n’ coffee!

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Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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