[Michael.SF.]

I do not have the stats for the '57, but in '56, the car sold for $10,000, which would be about $75,000 today and about 2,000 were made. It came with a 368 V8, which specifically taken off the production line for hand balancing and other special treatment. BTW, air conditioning was the only factory option. Truly one of the great cars of the 50's.

Also you can probably add to this list of celebrity owners: Elvis ('56), Jayne Mansfield ('57 in pink).

[potlatch]

I hope I will be excused for posting this. Lincoln, yes, but off topic. The thread has seemed to end though.

http://www.driverside.com/value-your-car/lincoln-mark_ii_hardtop_coupe-1957-19151-21000-0

ONLY 444 made in 1957 [with some changes]!
http://www.hemmings.com/users/5560/ride/4390.html

they were $10,000. in 1957
http://flickr.com/photos/70626467@N00/204367725/

At the car’s selling price of $10,000, Ford estimated they lost over a thousand dollars per car. At the time, $10,000 was equivalent to the cost of a new Rolls-Royce or more than two top-of-the-line Cadillacs. Compensated for inflation, this figure would be around $70,000 today.

Ultra-high priced cars today are marketed in the $250,000 price range. In 1956, any car marketed at $10,000 was at a very rare price point; it was this high price that doomed the car. Only the very rich could afford one, and scarcely over 3000 MarkII’s were built. About 1300 were sold in the last quarter of 1955 after the car’s October debut at the Paris Motor Show; another 1300 or so in 1956; and 444 in 1957, some with factory-installed air conditioning.

Famous owners included Elvis Presley as well as Frank Sinatra, the Shah of Iran, and a cross section of the richest men in America. The car was featured in a few scenes in the 1956 movie High Society, with Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, and Grace Kelly.