The suicide doors of perception to Curbside Classic’s Lincoln week-long love/hate fest open here:
Part 1: A Brief History of Lincoln up to 1961
Part 2: 1965 Lincoln Continental
Part 3: 1968 Lincoln Continental
Part 4: 1970 Lincoln Continental Coupe
Part 7: 1973 Continental Mark IV
Posted in Curbside Classics, Editorials
Tagged as american luxury cars, Cadillac, continental, edsel ford, Ford, henry leland, Lincoln, lincoln continental, lincoln history, Mark I, Mark II, Mark III, Mark IV, Versailles, zephyr
Tagged as american luxury cars, Cadillac, continental, edsel ford, Ford, henry leland, Lincoln, lincoln continental, lincoln history, Mark I, Mark II, Mark III, Mark IV, Versailles, zephyr
Recent Comments
snakebit - Waltercat, The M-B manual four-on-the-tree was fairly common on 220S’s. I used to chauffeur my aunt around during the summer...
wmba - It may well be illegal. I remember everyone getting in a huff back in 1965 about the PRNDL lever meaning the end of Chrysler’s...
LeeK - Excellent point.
fozone - I just wonder how many people buy these who actually need them? (ie, they use the 7-seat capacity rarely if ever.) It seems irrational with this sort of...
wmba - What I get from this review is roughly what I got from C/D about it. To paraphrase: There are many CUVs out there. This is one of them.
azmtbkr81 - Me too. Thankfully my GF likes hatchbacks and thinks CUVs are obnoxious. She’s a keeper.
WRohrl - @HDC – When exactly did Audi “retreat from the US market”? You can’t answer that as it did not occur. Many of your posts seem to have at least...
LeeK - A couple of corrections. IBM saw the market as 50,000 annually, not 5,000. IBM didn’t give the operating system to Microsoft because of the...
Onus - I agree. I much prefer sedans for that reason. The only plus hatches get are better head room for rear passengers with todays horrible styling...
rudiger - Toilet seat was gone by 1962. What’s more, that may be a Canadian ‘Chrysler’ Valiant. The American Plymouth...