Nash 400

The Nash 400 was a six-cylinder car that Nash Motors built at Kenosha, Wisconsin, for the 1936 model year only. It sat between the smaller LaFayette and the larger Ambassador. Introduced on 20 May 1935 as the Model 3640, it had a side-valve six of 3.8 litres rated at 90 horsepower, hydraulic brakes on all four wheels and a three-speed gearbox, and bodies from open to closed seated three to six. It was the first Nash with the intake manifold cast into the engine block and the first with a one-piece, rear-hinged alligator bonnet, and it had a fastback tail without a boot lid. A 400 DeLuxe, Model 3640A, followed in October 1935 with a chromed grille and a centre-hinged bonnet. Both were replaced in 1937 by the Nash LaFayette 400.