From the profile, damn, it looks a lot like a VW Type 2, doesn’t it? And the various body styles it was offered in mirror VW’s offerings as well. Look:
Of course, the key difference here, despite having an extremely similar van, pickup and double-cab pickup is that the Taunus Transit had its engine, a water-cooled inline 4 (this is not one of the V4 Taunuses), between the front seats instead of tucked out back like VW’s flat-four.
Also, the face has a grille, so this part at least is obviously different. Still, amazing convergent evolution at work here!
When fuel is 30 cents a gallon and no one cares, things can be loose.
And post-war (WW2) Nashes don’t look like nuttin but Nashes!
In fact it’s hard to imagine a/the world where those were ever conventionally pretty.
I love them for their alienness.
They vehemently disagreed with me.
Because if you look at them, they look a lot alike….. no not exactly but not this “different cars in no way whatsoever at all looked like other cars ever back in the 50s thru the 70s!” line folks like to trod out.
All cars of an era tend to follow the same style, if they don’t you get the Edsel or something. To me a 55 Ford and 57 Chevy look as much different than some Nissan CUV and a Toyota does.
They each have their corporate styling cues that are unique, but overall follow the flavor of the day.
https://xkcd.com/2314
