Nash LaFayette

The Nash LaFayette was a lower-priced American car sold by Nash Motors under the revived LaFayette name. Nash reintroduced the name in 1934 for a line of smaller, less expensive models marketed as LaFayette Built By Nash, with styling by Alexis de Sakhnoffsky. A middle series called the Nash 400 followed in 1935, and for the 1937 model year the LaFayette and the 400 were combined into the Nash LaFayette 400, which was no longer treated as a separate make. It had a wheelbase five inches longer than its low-priced rivals, an inline six with seven main bearings and a one-piece all-steel body, a forerunner of the unitized construction Nash brought to mass production in 1941, and it came as a four-door sedan, a two-door Victoria sedan, a coupe or a cabriolet. From 1938 it was simply the Nash LaFayette, the cheapest Nash through 1940, and the 1941 Nash 600 replaced it.