Back Down On The Alameda Street: 1962 Lincoln Continental
Back in my Jalopnik days, I started the whole interesting-street-parked-car-photos thing with the original Down On The Street series. At that time, all the cars I shot were located in my old hometown on Alameda, California, and I got up to 600 or so before moving to Denver last summer. Now I’m back in Alameda, in preparation for my role working the 185-car Sears Pointless 24 Hours of LeMons race, and it wasn’t long before I spotted this fine machine parked near downtown.
It’s a very straight, mildly customized ’62 Continental, suicide doors and all, and it clearly gets regular street use.
Though a bit too slab-sided to look very graceful, the lines of this era of Continental have aged well.
The San Francisco Bay Area has been a car-club hotbed since, well, the dawn of the automobile. I’m not familiar with the Antioch Dragoons; the club could be 9 years old, or 90.
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"the lines of this era of Continental have aged well." The lines maybe, but there is a lot of early '60s awkward garishness in the front and rear treatments. Not up to the level of Chrysler shaved-dog's-ass ugliness, but this one is lurking around the corner.
Sorry, but there was nothing really beautiful about this car; it looks so ungainly.