And a very fine Lincoln it is indeed. Perhaps not everyone’s cup of Yorkshire Gold, but it is mine. Must be a PNW thing; I like everything Ralf K. digs up in his part of the woods in Washington.
This Town Car has become a multi-purpose hauler, sporting a bike rack, a roof rack, and a very serious tow hitch. And is that a HF antenna, for communication in remote dead-cell areas? If I was going to drive one of these, make it this one.
“Son, you’re gonna drive me to drinkin’ if you don’t stop driving that hot rod Lincoln.”
My thought too
Interesting that the owner still bothered to have an almost correct fender skirt installed.
The junkyard fender skirt probably is the only thing that keeps the 1/4 panel from flapping in the breeze driving down the road.
It’s a pisser! Love it! When entering cities, you were required to have a harbor master pilot it into town.
It needs curb feelers.
Seems like they couldn’t quite get the panel beating right on the back wing there.
It is cool that what was once the smoothest, quietest car in the land eventually became the hardest-to-kill beater of them all. If the world went all Mad Max on us tomorrow and I had to have a single car to rely on, I might very well choose one of these. Relatively simple and tough as nails.
Bill Prince is right – I wonder about the guy who owned this car but couldn’t bear to see it without a fender skirt.
Looks like a 1/4 wave CB antenna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpyQwy6uuK4
The guys fly into town, buy a 1978 Lincoln Continental that’s been shortened from a four-door to a two-door (and formerly driven by an Elvis impersonator), and hit the snowy roads—with the expected Roadkill breakdowns, waffle wars, and off-road thrashing along the way.
Vintage RWD American cars are engineered like trucks, live axle, full frame, torquey V8, and a built-in capacity for hauling. This old Ford chassis is probably the ulitmate expression of a truck pretending to be a car.
Its refreshing to see someone has bypassed the pretence of the sedan body and goes straight for the heavy duty work. Still, other than the crumpled panel, it looks to be quite straight and complete.
That’s why many of them slowly meet their demise at demolition derbies…
Needs a “spare” tire on the hood and at least one “gerry can” mounted on one of the bumpers.
If this was here, “down south”, it would also have to have camouflage paint up the sides nearly to the door handles.
Looks like the “Uncle Buck Edition”.
OK, so that was a Marquis.
Looks like the leftovers from the filming of The Doom Generation.
Almost reminds me of The Homer car from the Simpsons.
It does provide what is a perfect example of a “skirted” fender. A skirt is not a wheel well. Or wheel opening. Otherwise this would be a skirted skirted fender.
You know, with a bit of work, I bet a slide-in camper would fit in that trunk. Just take out the fascia between the lights and figure out where to put the spare.
“Honey, hold my beer while I get the skilsaw plugged in”
Last used at the funeral of Kim Jong Il.
Little Un’s daddy.
STOP!
DON”T POP THAT CORK!!!
Yorkshire Gold, he ain’t the last man standing.
Interesting trunk lock on that blue Town Car…
Holy crap! That’s a ’79 Collectors Series! What a shame!
Interesting how the tasteful road wheel at the front of this Lincoln maintains some elegance to its appearance. While the dog dish hub cap, and black wall tire in the rear, lends a ‘big old sled’ look to the car.
+1
Pretty sure that stylish Road Wheel is from a 70’s/80’s GM truck or van, which, I believe, shares the same 5″x5″ bolt pattern. In a pinch you can sometimes use Brand X wheels on a Brand Y car, as long as the bolt pattern, hub opening and offset are compatible. Wish we could see the other side; Which wheel is the oddball? The GM Road Wheel or the steely with the baby moon? Which would you prefer to see it shod with?
The fender skirt looks to be correct, it’s just a different color and it’s trim is intact (unlike the rest of the car).
I usually like my Town Cars stock and well-preserved, but I can dig this car just as it is.
I would have guessed the road wheel was off of a period Chrysler. Seems like Fords and Chryslers shared the same 4.5″ bolt pattern and GM products had the larger 4.75″ size.
What,, no trumpet horns or for that matter, no bull horns screwed into the hood?
I’m with JP. If I remember the disaster that was Waterworld didn’t they drive around the Exxon Valdez ( seriously????) in an old Lincoln?
You’re right, that was an old Lincoln. Pretty sure it was a ’61. No paint left, solid rust. No tires left either, it was riding on the bare rims, IIRC. Must’ve handled like a dream on the steel of the deck lol. Probably why it ended up crashed. That movie is too old to be CGI, isn’t it? Wasnt worth wrecking what was probably a solid Lincoln (Big-budget Hollywood very rarely works with junk, they start with solid iron and make it look like junk).
The epitome of Lincoln style and luxury! What a golden beauty! Especially beautiful are the rear wheels with the classy dog-dish hubcaps and the functional roof rack. This would make HF2 very proud!
This heap brings back 1960’s farm car memories…..
-Nate
‘Cannon’-the later years…
“Cannon: The Lean Years”
“I don’t own the clothes I’m wearing,
But I’m beyond the point of caring
And I got just one more silver dollar
But I’m not gonna let them catch me
No-
I’m not gonna let the catch The Midnight Rider…”