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The Nash Wisp

“The design was never used, probably because the company’s finances were stretched at the time…”

d Anderson was annoyed. As the head of Nash Styling, his job was to oversee all automotive styling efforts at the company. However, Nash-Kelvinator Executive Vice President George Romney, under orders from CEO George Mason, had hired Italian designer “Pinin” Farina to design Nash’s most expensive automobile, the Nash-Healey sports car. Not surprisingly, Farina ended up doing

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