My introduction to the Nash Metropolitan was the Stanard [sic] Cab in this video by Stan Ridgway:
During the summer of '86, my family and I were visiting California, and due to good timing my dad & I caught Stan Ridgway’s show at the Roxy*. Someone (presumably Stan?) parked the Stanard Cab right out front. When we got back to the hotel, I looked out the balcony just in time to see the Stanard Cab go back up Sunset.
*(The opening band was a group called Dream 6; some months later they turned up on MTV but had changed their name to Concrete Blonde)
A few months ago I Googled the Stanard Cab and found that it had been put up for sale (and, apparently, never actually belonged to Stan):
http://www.midwinter.com/beyond/news/stanardcab.html
