First is the 1950 Nash Rambler ... ready for introductions as the Big Three joined the compact car fray. Nash Rambler and Henry J beat them by a full decade.

Nash created the Rambler, America's first compact ... corners and use the fewest possible components in the car. For instance, the Henry J did not have a trunk lid, and access to the storage ...

Mason, president of Nash-Kelvinator, and the other one was Henry J. Kaiser, chairman of Kaiser-Frazer Corporation. Nash was the first to jump on the compact car bandwagon with the Rambler in April ...

Jack Tanner's first encounter with a Henry J coupe left a sour taste in his mouth ... To make matters worse, he said, "Dad's car was Plain Jane, a heater and a radio and that's it.