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1934 Nash Ambassador 1290 During the Great Depression, each year of Nash's styling was distinctive. For 1934, Nash hired the premier art deco designer, Count Alexis DeSakhnoffsky, to create a design called "Speed Stream Styling". This model is the "Ambassador-8" and was Nash's entry to compete with Cadillac and Packard. The car was sometimes referred to as "The Kenosha Duesenberg" (Kenosha, Illinois was the site of the Nash factory). It has a straight-8 overhead valve engine, worm-gear drive differential, and other features seen only on very expensive cars of that day. There are only seven Ambassador-8 Nash cars surviving, and this car was shown at Pebble Beach in 2002, receiving second place in its class. Owner: TerryJarvis, Woodmville, WA. At the 2012 Kirkland Concours d'Elegance, LeMayCarMuseum, Tacoma, Washington.