Today's #MotorMonday image features the cover of a brochure advertising the 1941 line of Nash automobiles ...

Catalog cover. Black and white image of two fishermen. Text reads "Man ... It's the Greatest Thing that ever Happened for Sportsmen!"

Today's #MotorMonday image features the cover of a brochure advertising the 1941 line of Nash automobiles, all of which featured a convertible "sleeper" rear seat marketed specifically to consumers with an interest in hunting, fishing, and camping.

This item is part of Hagley Library's collection of Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession 20100108.ZTV). For over sixty years, Zachary Taylor Vinson (1933-2009), a senior lawyer with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1993-1995 president of the Society of Automotive Historians, and 1995-2009 editor of Automotive History Review amassed a large and comprehensive collection of printed material documenting on the history transportation, particularly automobiles.

Our Digital Archive offers a small selection of materials from the Vinson collection documenting the history of the automobile and transportation. Click here to view them online.