Posted on 12/26/2021 9:09:23 AM PST by Signalman
Jay recently bought this brilliantly engineered, original and unrestored Lincoln Continental convertible from a woman who lived three miles away from him! Lincoln savant John Cashman walks us through the unique and complex systems that make up this perfect California cruiser!
What does this have to do with Whitewater?
Lets go leno.
My favorite vehicle of all time!
On my wish list. 👍
Too rich for me, but not as bad as I thought.
https://www.conceptcarz.com/valuation/16921/lincoln-continental.aspx
It kinda bugs me that you see actors and celebrities driving convertibles and riding motorcycles without using eye protection. It’s like the way they mishandle firearms.
Nice ride, though.
From 1981-1985, I worked on USAF B-52G Automatic Flight Controls. The aircraft were late 50’s models. This Continental sounds like it was designed by the same engineering team!
The autopilot was a long series of relays and interlocks, feedback loops, and sensors.
Thanks!
Great video — really enjoyed it for a “Sunday drive!”
I wonder what the annual cost is to keep his collection clean, operational and in restored condition?
LOL!
Imagine the buyers of these aircraft carrier size cars on seeing the Lincolns of today.
Total mystification.
Great Car!!!
The Navy needed a target to test sonar on submersible AUVs.
They hooked up a large station wagon to the cat on a carrier and launched it.
Love Lincolns. Well, before they stopped the Town Car.
Happened across Leno’s look at the ‘58 Continental the other day. Ugly - but not. Almost bought one at Hershey as a teen in the car corral. I think if they left off the big scallop fender in front it would’ve been a great look.
‘60s meanwhile are legendary. I prefer the originals in the early ‘60s, though. But the Mark III later - wow, gorgeous. Got to drive one a bit helping an old man who frequented the car shop move it to his apartment.
You’re kidding, right?
Convertibles and no goggles or helmets or seatbelts only hurts the people involved. Guns can hurt others.
And yes, they are nice rides.
Many of us have experienced it. We’re not all dead!
I grew up with late ‘70s TCs. Gorgeous cars, powerful (except ‘79 - but still a great car).
They are 20 ft. long (one is still rotting in home driveway). I cried when they announced smallifying them for the ‘80s. (I was a kid.)
Years ago my brother was going through a rough patch and needed cheap transportation. A buddy of his said, “Hey, I have a car that’s just sitting. If you can make it run you can have it.”
It turned out to be a ‘66 Lincoln towncar resting (rusting?!) quietly in the woods. It took two days to free it from its would-be grave. When you go to work on it you quickly discover that everything about it is massive - except the hood! So accessing the various mechanical systems was a nightmare. But we got her running and I found a cheap set of tires to replace the oldy-moldy rotten ones that were on it.
It took hours of scrubbing to get down to the paint, but she looked pretty good when we got there. The interior was a different story - it suffered through the damp Pacific Northwest climate and needed severe attention. Fortunately I found a similar car with clean leather interior parts at an auto auction and I did a complete interior swap.
All told we had a running classic for under $500 that my brother drove for three years.
The only thing I never got quite the grip on was the elaborate vacuum servo system that controlled the climate control system.
You want goggles required for convertibles
You are aware of a thing called windshields ?
*asking for a friend named Rhett
“A reflection on a way of life”
You could shoot a porn movie on the back seat alone....
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