RAMBLER REVOLUTIONARY.(Escape Roads)

Byline: JOHN F. KATZ It was 1958, a recession year in the shadow of Sputnik, when John Keats published The Insolent Chariots for a public wearying of fins, flash and fast. It was also the first year in which the newly minted American Motors earned a profit-$26 million, in fact, from the production of 162,182 iconoclastically practical cars.

American Motors Corp. was born on May 1, 1954, with the merger of Nash and Hudson. Neither company's full-size lineup was selling particularly well. The most promising product between them was the small but charming Nash Rambler, which by '54 ...

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