Editing Nash-Healey (section)

=== 1952 ===
[[File:1953 Nash-Healey Roadster (33939790844).jpg|thumb|1953 Nash-Healey roadster]]
[[File:Nash-Healey roadster black.JPG|thumb|right|Nash-Healey roadster]]

For the 1952 model year, Nash commissioned Italian designer [[Battista Farina]] and his carrozzeria, [[Pininfarina|Pinin Farina]], to revise the original body design. One objective was to make the new sports car resemble the rest of Nash's models more closely. The front received a new grille incorporating inboard headlights. The sides gained distinct fender character lines ending with small [[Car tailfin|tailfins]] in the rear. A curved windshield replaced the previous two-piece flat windshield. The restyled car appeared at that year's [[Chicago Auto Show]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.pnwnash.org/common/closeup.php?frompage=/common/gallery.php&pos=17&PageNo=1&syear=1952&eyear=1952&make=&model=&owner=&year=1952&querytype=&personid=&carid= |publisher=Pacific Northwest Region Nash Car Club of America |title=1952 Nash-Healey |access-date=13 April 2015}}</ref> Reflecting its role as a [[halo car]], the Nash Ambassador and Statesman models adopted a Nash-Healey-inspired grille with inboard headlights for 1955, and advertising featured the new Nash with a Nash-Healey in the background to show the similarity.

Pininfarina in [[Turin]] built the steel bodies with the exception of the aluminum hood, trunk lid, and dashboard.<ref>{{cite magazine| url= https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/1953-nash-healey-le-mans-coupe |first=David |last=LaChance |title=1953 Nash-Healey LeMans Coupe |magazine=Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car |date=October 2007 |access-date=17 July 2022}}</ref> The aluminum panels, plus careful engineering, reduced curb weight.<ref name="52-HowStuff">{{cite web|url= http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1951-1955-nash-healey7.htm |title=1952 Nash-Healey |date=27 October 2007 |website=How Stuff Works |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200126011959/https://auto.howstuffworks.com/1951-1955-nash-healey7.htm |archive-date=26 January 2020 |access-date=17 July 2022}}</ref> The Nash engine was enlarged to {{cvt|252|CID|L|1}}, producing {{cvt|140|hp|kW PS|0}} with American-made twin [[Carter Carburetor]]s .

Shipping costs were considerable and moderated by Kelvinator's trans-Atlantic success in the European marketplace. From [[Kenosha, Wisconsin]], the Nash engines and [[drivetrain]]s went to England for installation in the Healey-fabricated frames. Healey then sent the rolling chassis to Italy, where Pininfarina's craftsmen fashioned the bodywork and assembled the finished product. They were then exported to the U.S., with the car's complicated logistical process resulting in a $5,908 [[Sticker price#United States|sticker price]] in 1953, approaching double the new Chevrolet Corvette's $3,513.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lyons |first=Dan |title=Cars of the Fantastic '50s |publisher=MBI Publishing |year=2005 |pages=43–45 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cZZ21G08u-AC&q=1953+Nash+Healey+sticker+price&pg=PA44 |isbn=978-0-87349-926-2 |access-date=13 April 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>