CC reader Stainsey Stainselstein sent me a link to this Lincoln Town Wagon. So what would a Lincoln wagon have been called? Town Sedan? And if it had Di-Noc? Town Squire? Country Car?
From the ad: 2000 LINCOLN TOWN CAR 9 PASSENGER CONVERSION. ONE OF A KIND 59,000 ORIGINAL MILE CAR. RUNS GREAT AND AIR BLOWS COLD.
It even has ChickenLips (those chrome fender thingies).
But why, oh why, is there no booty-shot angle of this? I went to the Hemmings site and they don’t have one either. The rear is the whole reason it’s interesting, who tries to sell a car like this without showing the one unique feature?.
Are those the taillights off an F150 Flareside? The small chunk we can see kind of looks like it to me.
Google is my friend. Found it!
Whoever did the conversion did a good job of making the ’91-96 GM wagon tailgate look like it belongs on a Ford product.
Ayep!
F150 Stepside/Flareside tail lights.
I’d really like to see the rear end design of the car!
Many shots at the auction site. Takes some clicks to get there.
OK, I’ll make it easy.
http://ftlauderdaleauction.com/site/open/inventory.php?ID=60375
Thank you very much!
Lincoln Town Carro.
Perhaps “Station Sedan”.
(An old Packard model name)
The back end of from a mid 90’s Chevrolet Caprice. So it’s mixing brands. They must have done some interesting metal work.
The license plate surround is from the TownCar though I think. Yeah, that is an ambitious project that seems to have turned out pretty well, all things considered. This would seem to have been an easier project if the prior (more square) generation had been used. All the curves on this generation…
Actually, I think only the tailgate, and possibly only the glass part at that, is from a Caprice. The two side windows in the rear I believe are from a Taurus. In any case, the vent windows that the Caprice have are not present on this car.
What to call it? C’mon Ford people, think back. What was a Ford station wagon without the DiNoc applique and fake wood sides? Country Sedan. Or a Mercury wagon? Villager, Commuter, probably not Colony Park without the fake wood sides.
That’s fairly close to the MKT, which Lincoln considers its livery vehicle of choice.
Here’s the inside of the rear end. If the link (http://www.ftlauderdaleauction.com/site/open/inventory.php?ID=60375&PHOTO=6) works it shows quite a few more photos of it inside and out. I love vehicular mashups and this is an interesting concoction. Kudos to whoever built it!
Why not the MKW…..or the MKSW?
Those are pretty good, actually.
Do you work for Ford’s marketing department? Would you like to?
I want to see the third row seat!
This is a pretty clean conversion – looks more like it left the factory as a wagon than a late-’90s Taurus or Sable.
Oh, and I reckon they’d have named it the Lincoln Cosmopolitan as a nod to Lincoln’s past, but mostly because it is, after all, a cocktail made from a variety of ingredients. 😉
That seems like the worst generation of Town Car to attempt a wagon conversion on. The curvy lines are just all wrong. Maybe a slightly older one?
That third gen Taurus side window is the least matched to this generation of Town Car but might actually work with the featured model.
Mr.Saunders, I totally agree The pic you posted, IMHO, Looks waaaaay better than the featured car. Looks very much like it could have easily been an off the line production car, and not a 0ne-off On the featured car,that heavy ground effect from the rear doors back looks very odd. To my eyes, the whole car just looks strange.
On a flip side, there’s Mercedes-Benz 560SEL T-Modell, which I think is well done and looks better than the Town Car Frankenstein-Wagon.
https://www.autoblog.nl/archive/2010/01/29/nog-een-unieke-duitse-station-mercedes-560-sel-kombi
Of course, it can be yours for the princely sum of €62,000!
https://tinyurl.com/560SEL-T-Modell
It needs about a foot more rear overhang to bring things into proportion and make room for a full-size third row (or the Euro/metric equivalent of a 4’x8′).
Kudos to the conversion specialist for doing it but some of the bits are questionable, to me at least. I thought it was a Taurus back at first before seeing the GM part. The entire rear seat/cargo area looks custom made, and it sits three people.
The tail lights look to be from one of the “sporty” F-150 variants?
I was thinking Dodge Durango (with no research) but you may be right? Anyone?
I think they are the F150 Flareside and the first F150 Supercrew tail lights. (Pre-2004)
I thought a Lincoln Town Car wagon is called “hearse”.
I can see the appeal of a civilian Lincoln wagon, as hearses seem to bother a lot of people. I’ve considered buying one, not for anything macabre, but simply for wagon duties, (minus the third-row seat). My wife has vetoed the idea, as she does not want anything to do with a hearse. She’s never vetoed any other car project of mine, so I took the hint – no hearse,
I once saw an advertisement in the newspaper
“For sale – 1935 Rolls-Royce hearse , original body”
Oh dear …….
This car has the same issue that any sedan-based wagon has, whether factory built or independantly converted. What to do about the rear door window shape, and what shape to make the new third side window. The Volvo 140/240 series cars probably do the best job of visually mimimizing the slight downward curve of the windowframe.
While the build quality appears to be first rate, the rear door cut/C pillar/window treatment is just relentlessly awkward. My eye is immediately drawn to it, and like a train wreck, I can’t look away.
Since part of it is Buick Estate wagon how about Lincoln Urban Estate, or with a reference to the fomoco past Lincoln Bermuda Estate
Looks a lot like a Roadmaster wagon from the ’90s. I love wagons but not this bloated abomination.
Here is an aero Ford Crown Vic (1992-1997) wagon conversion using a Taurus and the original trunk
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2011/02/09/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1997-ford-crown-victoria-station-wagon/
This one kind of bugs me- couldn’t they just channel a couple extra inches on the Taurus roof and door opening sides and avoided that fender bulge?
(Glad you posted it though, still super interesting)
Maybe this would have worked on an 81-82 Town Car. This thing just looks bad. A turkey for turkey day!
It does seem like a ton of effort for not much payoff.
Get a long wheelbase Navigator 2wd and lower it. It would probably be cheaper way of achieving the same effect.
Someone above mentioned about Lincoln”wagons” normally being hearses and it made me think of a possible reason for this.
Growing up, most funeral homes had a plain jane station wagon for discreetly picking up the bodies from wherever and bringing them back to the home. Around here they were lovingly called “the meat wagon”. Nowadays minivans seem to have taken that job over.
Perhaps a funeral home with an all Lincoln fleet didn’t want to stray from the brand?
It wouldn’t have had three rows of seats – the rear set up for being able to slide things in and out easily is totally different. There also would be curtains and the seller would be likely to note it’s provance just because their are a fair number of car collectors who specialize in “professional cars.”
“The Volvo 140/240 series cars probably do the best job of visually minimizing the slight downward curve of the window frame.” Just as the previous Volvo wagon did the worst job of ditto, calling attention, to anyone looking, that they used the sedan rear door unaltered. Ick. I seem to remember Rambler wagons which artfully blended the sedan door into the wagon’s shape . . .
Which previous Volvo wagon are you talking about? It can’t be the Amazon (122), because that car used wagon-specific rear doors with rectilinear upper windowframes.
You can see this on the 240, even a 1993.
Yes, but Stephen Ritchings appears to be mentioning some Volvo wagon prior to the 140/240, and I can’t imagine which he might have in mind. All Volvo wagons before the 140/240 had wagon-specific rear doors.
I don’t care what anybody says, I like one-offs like this. Seriously. So long as you don’t mind having conversations with everybody who is going to ask about it. With Jim’s picture of the rear, I also recognized the GM-derived rear window.
Great hotel transfer vehicle perhaps?. Plenty of luggage capacity and an ice breaker for the driver when every other guest says “Never been in one of these before. Say what is it?”