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Henry Ford II’s price war with Chevrolet decimated a weakened field of independent automakers. TheDetroitBureau.com looks at the roots of the founding of American Motors Corp.

Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” is something of a historical epic in song form. But what do all those historical references mean?

George Mason, president of Nash and architect of the merger became chairman of AMC. Unfortunately he died a few months after the union and was replaced by his visionary executive vice-president, George Romney. Romney, like Mason, firmly believed in smaller more economical cars. And although Nash had just launched the tiny two passenger Austin-engined Metropolitan in March 1954, it was too small for families. Romney recognized Rambler as AMC’s best asset. The Nash Rambler had been introduce...