Photos courtesy of Canadian Cat Green
The slow-selling Lincoln Continental Mark VI has already been discussed at length here, here and here, coming under fire for its ungainly proportions. Quite simply, Lincoln tried to use as many design cues as possible from its stately, decadently outsized Mark V on a much smaller platform. The end result was a car that, to many, looked too tall, narrow and with overhangs much too long. But color choice has a habit of either enhancing a car’s attractiveness or further exposing its flaws. In my opinion, this Mark VI – in what appears to be Dark Pine Metallic – looks very appealing indeed.
What a gorgeous color. It’s sad that dark green isn’t a more popular color, as rich shades like this are stunning. Sure, this color might have been even more appealing on a Big Gulp Mark V but if you were ordering a Mark VI from a Lincoln showroom, was there a more flattering color you could have chosen? I don’t think so.
ONE redeeming feature: The lowering front vent windows. That’s always a plus for this car, tho’ I’d never want one.
Power vent windows.
They did not direct the air into the car like the old swing out vent windows.
Yeah, my dad’s 1977 Lincoln had those power vent windows – pretty useless unless you needed to flick your cigarette butt out!
This is one car that to me looks MUCH better as a 4dr. The shorter wheelbase 2dr models look too truncated and LTD’ish. Which of course they are. The shorter wheelbase makes the roofline look too bizarre for me.
This 2dr is for sale right now at home. I just look at it and go “yuck”. 4dr is much better looking.
Oops..heres pic
Those headlights, though…
Mini Super Fly Headlights. Yeeeeech
it was a bit strange, putting parking lights on the doors hiding the real headlights. I think these big round parking lights are yet another styling cue plucked from luxury cars of the 1930’s.
Ahh, the optional “Touring Lights”. Answering the question “How can you turn a caricature of a luxury car into even more of a caricature?”
I know..hard to believe those are factory! The owner wants $1500 obo with a AOD that wont shift out of low. I could see someone paying $1000 and putting a cheap transmission in it for $600 and having a nice but ugly ride.
The actual headlights were even worse. You see them when the covers flipped open and they always looked like there were trim bezels that should have been there but they never were. Inexcusable on a Lincoln.
I’ve often wondered if bezel trim was planned, but the “bean counters” nixed it. They do have an unfinished look when open.
That always drove me nuts on the 77 Thunderbird as well, and at least on these lincolns you had two sealed beams to cover the innards, the openings are just as big on the Tbird and there’s only one little round light in there.
My ’77 MkV has the same thing…. the hidden headlights behind the doors look rough and unfinished because there is no trim bezel…. so this cheapness was not unique to the Mk VI.
My 79 Continental is the same way…looks worse on it than on my 76 Grand Marquis.
The first-gen Dodge Charger did hidden headlamps right. Headlamp doors which pick up the texture of the grille flip open 180 degrees to reveal the headlamps along nestled in the same grille texture as it has when closed, only with round holes for the headlamps. You’d never know the car had hidden headlamps when the headlamps were on. I’m not sure if modern-style daytime running lamps would have diminished the effect or enhanced it.
Yep, This series is on my list of “Cars that look better with 4 doors than 2.” ?
I’ll second that on the 4-doors looking better than the 2-doors of this car. But still, a Mark sedan kind of threw everything off even further. Still a cool low-production car though.
Sorry, but I have not softened one whit on these. I thought they were an abomination in 1980, when I wrote the CC piece that you linked to, and today. And as much as I like dark green cars, that doesn’t help.
Nice find, though.
Do you like the similar, better known, much longer-lived Town Car version any better? Of the two, I thought the Mark VI sedan had a more Lincolnesque grille front clip, more like the pre-downsized late-’70s sedans, and likewise with the oval opera window vs. the vertical slot on the TC that already had too many vertical lines in the greenhouse. Only in back was the Continental/Town Car much more attractive to my eyes. I recall the Mk VI inteiors also got nicer trim being it was the higher-priced model.
I’d rock one of these in the 4 door version, navy blue, red pinstripe and navy interior. Aluminum wheels, no wires. I’d even take the Touring Lights…
Did any of these have padded vinyl on the pseudo-spare-tire hump or am I imagining things?
I used to think these were an abomination, and I still feel that way about the 2-dr models but lately I am warming to the 4-dr sedans. Looking at the rear end with it’s iconic Lincoln spare tire bulge, I think it actually works on this car only because the rear fenders have an angled edge to them instead of being box-square like the Town Cars. Looks better to my eye.
I agree these cars look far better in darker colours – greens, navy blues and the darkest reds. They sure did bomb in the marketplace!
But compared to today’s bulbous abominations and fish-grilles, these cars appear so clean and stately.
Rather have this Lincoln, than the FWD lookalike, unnoticeable, Lincoln blobs of today.
At least when THIS Lincoln was made, everyone KNEW Lincoln was a premium luxury brand…
Now, no one gives a rat’s ass.
Surprised, they didn’t go the way of the dodo, already.
The green does make it better and for the right price I’d think about it. I bet all you’d hear out of people was “nice Town Car.” :-/
I wonder what color the interior is?
For some reason I’m imagining dark green velour.
I agree with others, 4 doors helps the tall greenhouse proportions, but I have a very hard time accepting a rebadged Continental sedan a Mark series Lincoln. What were they thinking?
I miss mid to dark greens, and unlike my other luddite rants no one can possibly provide a substantive defense for it’s glaring absence from option sheets these days. Dark red and dark blue are common, what the hell makes those so special?
XR7Matt, I agree. In 2013 Toyota offered the Tacoma in “Spruce Metallic”, a green so dark some people thought it was black (until the sun came out). A great color for any vehicle, but definitely different for a truck.
I looked at the 2017 Tacoma color options today and – you guessed it – no green, dark or otherwise.
Green metallic Cadillac and Lincoln are always available, but they get scarce as year goes by. Among a hundred Escalade these days, there are few in dark green shade. Similar to Fleetwood in the ’90s, they exist in a very small amount
I personally love dark green cars, and while I do wish they still were offered more commonly by more automakers (remember when most offered multiple shades of green?), it’s all a matter of what sells.
As someone who sells cars and does so for one of the few manufacturers that still offers a decent mix of “colors”, including Volcanic Orange, Chili Red, Blazing Red, Electric Blue, Digital Blue, Starlight Blue, Cosmic Blue, Pure Burgundy, Lapisluxury Blue, Jungle Green, and the ever important British Racing Green, by and large, the majority of buyers want and end up buying the whites/blacks/silvers/greys. It’s just a matter of consumer preferences.
Furthermore, especially with luxury cars, green just isn’t “in”. BMW still offers several shades of blue and red, but unless it’s an M car, no one buys or special orders a car in it.
Isn’t it a bit specious to say it doesn’t sell when it’s not been on an option sheet in a decade for most mainstream cars? Of course it doesn’t sell, it doesn’t exist! At some point trendy and in is being dragged along by self fulfilling prophesy.
As much as I didn’t want a gray/silver/black car, when we test drove a Moonwalk Gray model with white top and mirrors, my wife was immediately taken with the color combo. I have to admit for a gray, it’s pretty unique and striking.
Ooohh…Moonwalk Grey sounds like a beautiful color…i know I fell in love with the various “Dove Grey” versions on the 70’s LTD’s, Granada’s, and full size Lincolns. I had a Dove Grey ( inside and out) 78 LTD Landau from 01-06. Loved that color.
Guy, it really is and it’s an apt name to me- it’s a light gray with a tinge of blue and reminds me of that 50s-60s industrial gray you’d find on a lab bench or a piece of test equipment.
At least we don’t have the ubiquitous 90s “Fifty Shades of Teal” anymore. Yeesh. That was rough (pun intended).
> I have a very hard time accepting a rebadged Continental sedan a Mark series Lincoln. What were they thinking?
The same thing they were thinking in 1958-60, whatever that was
What a beautiful car. These are great cars, reliable and smooth. I do not get the hate. It was the best luxury car of the day.
It’s not hate Warren…most of us just don’t like the style of the 2dr as much…and some don’t like the 4dr either….and yes, those so called Touring Light’s look like some pimpmobile affliction…
One could get those pimpmobile headlight trim kits to make a normal quad light set up look big and round, similar to this Mk VI.
Here’s an example: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b0/ea/0f/b0ea0f64e2606a70113016b74ed97a40.jpg
Ugh…can’t unsee that…gross!
I love the four door models, and this green one is especially fetching. The 4 doors are Peak Brougham!
I have driven and walked by that car numerous times; I’ve never seen it move. It’s a few blocks from the best butcher shop in Vancouver. To my eye they’re probably the best-looking Panthers overall, though I’m not sold on the fripperous and unreliable hidden headlamps. Smooth, yes, these cars were smooth—it’s easy to be smooth when a car is so heinously underpowered. Reliability was a total crapshoot: if you happened to get a good one, it would serve you reasonably well despite a fairly long list of rather massive underspecification and cheap/nasty build techniques. If you didn’t happen to get a good one, you were well and truly (and repeatedly) hosed. My folks were unlucky with their ’80, our across-the-street neighbour was lucky with his ’83, my grandparents were unlucky with their ’86, etc.
Mine has been very reliable. Have had 4 Ford n Lincoln cars with flip up lights and they always have worked. The power is decent with dual exhaust. Not a rocket, but acceptable. The cig gets better mileage and slightly better power than my 88 had
When Donald Petersen became president of Ford in 1980, days of cars like the Mark VI were numbered. Cleaner styling, better fits, tighter steering and handling, and eradication of squeaks and rattles were the mantra of Petersen’s Ford Motor Company. The 1983 Thunderbird, 1984 Mark VII, and 1996 Taurus were examples of the Petersen influence.
Having said all that, the Mark VI was the result of Ford not having enough resources to develop a unique Mark. Regulatory requirements had sapped engineering resources. So, the Mark VI was not much more than a tarted-up derivative of the Lincoln Continental/Town Car… with fender gills, the stereotypical trunk hump, hidden headlamps, and oval opera windows. Because it shared doors with the Continental/Town Car, its proportions suffered.
I’ll say one thing, at least those gaudy Super Fly headlamps take your attention away from the flawed proportions. To anyone who owns/buys a Mark VI, I also recommend you install wheel spacers to widen the track and better fill the wheel openings.
Well not only regulations, sales across the board were down. People forget Ford lost 3 times as much money between 80 and 82 than Chrysler. That will also sap your budget!
Absolutely true although I will say at least with the meager resources they had all the panther Lincoln’s had an overdrive transmission and EFI (except for the ultra rare 351 W versions) before GM. They also steadily improved the cars and didn’t allow them to stagnate (quality wise, styling wise they were quite stagnant by ’89.)
The darker colors do look better on these cars, I always thought they looked pretty bad in white or tan. This one would look better with turbines instead of those awful Ford wire caps.
On the TV show Dallas Donna Culver-Krebbs drove one of these for awhile before switching to a bustleback Seville later in the series
Also worth noting Ford’s profitability per unit had been on the decline since 1975. I’ve never been able to find an explanation for why that was, though. Ford had staggering losses for 1980-1982, losses that were amongst the largest recorded by any American corporation in history to that point.
“Also worth noting Ford’s profitability per unit had been on the decline since 1975. I’ve never been able to find an explanation for why that was, though.”
Simple answer: Their cars were ugly and GM still built rather nice-looking cars.
It’s not quite that simple Zackman. Read this letter from 1976. They were not able to add all the increased costs of doing business to the price of the cars. At least according to them.
Zackman essentially nailed it. GM’s investment in downsizing all of its car lines in the 1977-1980 period was the biggest industrial investment program since WW2. And their downsized cars were every well received; the market responded enthusiastically. The cars were smaller, more efficient, and looked better, and yet the interior space was as good or better than before.
Ford’s (and Chrysler’s) cars instantly started looking like the obsolete dinosaurs that they were.Lumbering, gas-sucking, barges with terrible space utilization and the feeblest engines in the industry (Ford’s engines at the time consistently had the lowest output per displacement).
HFII doubted that the massive investment in downsized cars was going to be worth it, and Lido was happy to keep cranking out what he knew Americans loved: big barges with lots of opera windows and ginger bread. In the process, they almost bankrupted Ford. It took kicking Lido out and handing the reins to Peterson to right the Ford ship, but it was a very narrow scrape for the Ford family. HFII realized it was time to hand the reins to genuine professionals, which he was not. Nothing like a near-death experience to ditch what wasn’t working anymore.
I wrote about Petersen’s turnaround at Ford here: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/fords-deja-vu-moment-how-donald-petersen-saved-ford-in-the-eighties/
I think Ford under Philip Caldwell in that same 1977-1980 time frame deserves more credit then you’re giving it. They did introduce the solid and successful Fox (1978) and Panther (1979) platforms which served into the ’90s and ’00s respectively. The Fairmont was a credible competitor to both the new downsized Malibu and the older Nova and sold well. The ’79 Mustang rekindled the muscular pony car; the downsized LTD from the same year wasn’t as good as the Caprice IMO but still adequately kept pace with it. They turned a facelifted Torino Elite (a six year old design) into the smash-hit ’77-’79 Thunderbird on the cheap. The forward-engine Econoline vans introduced in ’75 continuously outsold Chevy and Dodge vans and like the Panther became a cash cow that lasted into the 2010s with only occasional updates. Over at Lincoln, the ’77-’79 Mark V was a hit. Lee was right: Americans did love opera windows and ginger bread in the late ’70s, and GM was even more invested in Broughams than Ford was – nearly every compact or larger GM car sprouted available loose-cushion velour interiors by the end of the decade. In the ’80s the Europeans and Japanese would set automotive fashion trends, but in the late ’70s the Olds Cutlass Supreme was at the top of the sales charts for a reason.
The sore spots at Ford tended to be where they didn’t have a new car to sell. The LTD II and Fox Granada didn’t fool many people into thinking they were new cars. Lincoln held onto their huge cars til the bitter end, the lame Versailles showed they were clueless about the luxury sedan market was headed – nothing in Lincoln showrooms acknowledged that BMW, Jaguar, and Mercedes-Benz existed. And what were Pintos still doing in new-car showrooms in 1980? The downsized T-Birds, Cougars, and Marks that arrived that year all flopped. It would be easy to blame that on trying to translate those cars’ predecessor’s gingerbread-heavy styling onto the new shorter, stubbier bodies rather than adopting a new look, but GM managed to maintain the essence of a Cutlass, an Eldorado, and several others when they were severely downsized in the late ’70s (they would fail miserably when they downsized them again in the ’80s, but that’s another story). The sorry state of Ford quality control circa 1980 can’t be ignored either. The bottom line was that Ford was still hanging on by a thread by 1981, but much of that was the poor economy and aftereffects of the ’79 fuel shortage rather than poor management and bad cars.
You’re quite right. I simplified it too much. Things were starting to change already.
But note that the Panthers got off to a rather poor start, due in my opinion to the fact that they were not stylistically as effective and attractive as the GM competition, which by then was solidly established. That also hurt Ford at the time.
I know you don’t regard the Panther as highly as the GM B/C and neither do I (as I noted) – stylistically, the thick and ungainly B-pillar bothers me most. I always found full-size Ford styling to lag behind Chevy from ’55 to ’90 with few exceptions (1960 being one, maybe early-mid ’70s). The slow start in 1979 wasn’t helped by Ford still selling the larger LTD II as a cheaper alternative, having to compete for attention with the also-new-for-’79 Chrysler R bodies, and the oil crisis that year. But the Panther cars themselves had to shoulder some of the blame – they just weren’t as attractive as the GM cars, plus the Ford and Mercury were too much alike whereas Chevy, Pontiac, Olds, and Buick all had some unique sheetmetal, different dashboards and steering wheels, and different engines. GM had four distinct cars competing against Ford’s two very similar ones.
I rode in a friend’s ’79 LTD (a rare single-headlight version) when it was new and recall thinking how dull and unadventurous it felt, and how it didn’t seem to have any advantages over the two year old Caprice and just seemed like a slightly inferior copy. I was actually more impressed by my uncle’s ’79 New Yorker which at least felt roomier and airier than the GM cars due to the frameless glass, thin pillars, low cowl, and wide footwells from the unibody construction. I couldn’t find anything about the Ford that improved on the GM B.
According to the Wikipedia article on the Mark VI (and henceforth unknown to myself), Iacocca wanted the Mark VI to be built on the Fox platform, and include an upscale wagon and 2-seater variants as well as the traditional coupe and new sedan. After Iacocca was fired, the Mark was moved to the Panther platform with a body shared with the Town Car to cut costs, and the wagon and 2-seater dropped. This made the Mark considerably larger than the Eldorado and too similar to the Town Car.
I can’t find a breakdown of coupe vs. sedan sales for the Mark VI. Clearly the Town Car far outsold the Town Coupe and the latter was dropped after a couple of years, but the mix may have been the opposite for the Mark VI which traditionally was exclusively a coupe. In any case, Lincoln axed the redundant Mark VI sedan and concentrated coupe sales on the new for 1984 Mark VII.
In retrospect, Lincoln really should have stuck it out with a sedan – a Mark VII LSC 4-door was exactly what Lincoln needed to stem the tide of German and Japanese sports sedans that overtook Lincoln and Cadillac’s strangehold of the American luxury sedan market (it even offered an actual BMW diesel engine briefly). With the same V8 RWD powertrain and platform as the Mustang GT, it would have been a compelling, less expensive and more traditionally luxurious alternative to the 5 series, E Class, and Audi 5000. Instead, they gave us the Merkur Scorpio.
In 1983, these are the production figures for Lincoln, according to the Standard Catalog of Ford.
Continental:
4dr: 16,831 ( they weren’t available as 2dr’s)
Town Car:
4dr: 53,381 ( also only built as 4dr’s)
Mark VI:
2dr: 12,743
4dr: 18,113
I had an opertunity back on Saturday 11/26/05 to buy a 83 the same as this one for $950 with 137,000 miles. It was super clean. But, if I brought home one more car, i’d have to live in it, said the wife. Can’t believe she thinks 18 is too much….hell I had 32 when we met! It even had the factory CB and Quad 8 player, lacy spoke wheels, trip computer, and just about everything else you could get on one.
What an odd “little” car. I’m trying to make sense of it to help ease a bit of OCD angst. What seems to help is to think of a 1990 Cadillac Brougham with its front and rear fascia ever so slightly “right-sized” and then bolted onto a 1990 Chevrolet Caprice Classic Brougham LS.
Ahh, that’s better.
I still think it’s a neat car though and would not hesitate receiving a nice one if it was given to me.
Oh wait a minute, it’s a BC license plate with a phone number. If it is a current pic and local (which I get the sense it is), I could most likely go ahead and check it out myself.
I retract that big car, smaller car comparison. Now I understand better what this car was about. Lincoln sold three versions of this car in 1980 alone. Only the 2 door coupes were on the smaller wheelbase as inferred by my prior comparison of big car small car. According to Wikipedia the 4 door Mark VI was the same as the Town Car in its wheelbase and overall length. I thought it rode on the smaller 114″ wheelbase and was shorter. Thank you Wikipedia.
Anyway, maybe Wikipedia’s wrong. But for now this is what it is for me, and now I can sleep soundly once more.
Wikipedia is correct. The Mark VI sedan has the same body as the Town Car but with different front and rear clips, fancier trim inside and out, and differently shaped opera windows. Does anyone know how they handled the last item? I doubt there were two different roofs; is this one of those cars that needed to have a vinyl roof to cover seams so they could weld on either of two C-pillar designs? Or did they punch out solid metal in whichever shape was required?
Same c pillar. Under the vynal top my 88 had pattern for Mark vi opera window.
It’s on Victoria Street at this place.
Yeah, two door Lincolns don’t appeal to me either.
Wow what a monstrocity
Well, I agree with the comments that the Mark VI sedans and coupes did not a hold a candle to the classic Mark V, even if they do still sometimes come in appealing color shades. I do enjoy seeing the sedan as it’s somewhat unusual and kind of an outlier. I actually wish that during this period, Cadillac had seen fit to differentiate the Fleetwood Brougham and Sedan DeVille a bit more in this way.
That said, I think Lincoln would have been ahead to sell this sedan as the Continental/Town Car, and sell the Mark VI as a coupe on the 117 wheelbase. While still not up to the standard of their predecessors, there would have been more continuity between the Continental sedan and what became the VI Sedan, and the coupe might have been a little better looking, too.
While I like the ’80-’84 Continental/Town cars more than the ’85-’89s, they could have done without the coupe and I think the VI sedan would have made a better Town Car. Then bring in the Fox Continental in ’82.
Well this where I differ from most folks. I hate the Mark V’s. Those flush bumper sides, although they are a little better than on the 85 up cars, ruin em for me. I find the Mark III and Mark IV much better looking cars. And in their haste to lighten it, they took too much sound insulation away. I mean it’s not noisy in the sense of say my 73 Maverick, but in the period road tests it was no quieter than the much cheaper Thunderbird. In a 79 test the new fwd Buick Rivera registered 63db and the Mark V was 69db. In fact the Riviera was 1db quieter than the Eldorado tested at the same time. I just don’t like Mark V’s.
I can attest to the Riviera being a very quiet car – my Mom’s ’79 was ultra-quiet. It rode and handled like a dream, too.
I have to agree, Guy, that the Mark IV was a nicer looking car than the Mark V. The VI tried too hard to be something it wasn’t, and failed as a result. The Town Car was a much better downsize, IMO. The outgoing ’79’s were simply huge, and the American public was ready for a trimmer Lincoln. I still think a 1980-82 Town Coupe is a beautiful car, especially in the right color. My Dad had a good friend of his that had a 1980 Coupe in dark green with green leather interior. He drove that car for what seemed like an eternity, right up until he died. When he passed I asked his kids what they were going to do with his car – “junk it” was the response. To them it was just a big old piece of crap! Never knew what the final outcome of that conversation was….lol.
Lastly, my Dad had a 1982 Country Squire that was ironically often called the “Lincoln wagon” as it shared so many parts with them. Dad loved that car. And for a wagon made in 1982, the build quality was superb. There were absolutely no rattles in that car, and everything was screwed together with care. It rode extremely well and was often complimented on how smooth and quiet it was when people rode in it. His had the Interior Luxury Group with the plush interior upgrade and extra sound deadening, and it really did make a huge difference. The interior had a much more “Lincolnesque” feel to it than the base interior. I had ridden in another 1982 Country Squire with the base interior in a car pool back in high school. The interior looked awfully cheap, and it seemed to not be nearly as quiet or ride as well as my Dad’s. Back then those upgrades could make or break a car IMO.
Oh yes. The various interior upgrade packages always made the insides more inviting. Only thing I didn’t like was in the 70’s at least, they were always vinyl seats. Ford didn’t offer cloth seats in wagons for many years.
True. My Dad’s didn’t have the leather upgrade which was quite rare back then, especially in the Country Squire. His interior had what was called by Ford “SuperSoft” vinyl, which it actually was. It was very often mistaken for leather, and was extremely comfortable. In comparison to the base interior in vinyl it was like night and day. Even the door panels looked like they came right out of a Lincoln – the door pull straps and extra thick carpeting gave that wagon such a luxurious look and feel. I often looked in other CS wagons and very rarely saw them with the Interior Luxury Group.
This is the page right out of the 1982 brochure. Dad’s CS was the same exterior color – Medium Fawn Glow. He had the wire wheel covers which were stolen twice, so I ended up finding a set of the Luxury Wheel Covers to replace them. I know that Ford’s wire wheel covers aren’t liked very much here on CC, but overall they looked nice and were utterly silent in comparison to the GM wire covers of the day.
That was the interior we had in ours, except we had the SuperSoft vinyl. It really was a very high quality interior all around.
Oh yeah, I can rock that exterior/interior color combo. Beautiful. Oh man it looks plush! I well remember those seats. The ones in my 86 Crown Vic were identical except in blue.
They were extremely comfortable – not too cushy and not too firm.
This shot doesn’t show em to best advantage, but the seats in my 86 Crown Vic were basically the same in blue cloth. You are right, they were supremely confortable.
It’s a shame green and even blue aren’t that common on cars now. Chrysler offered a dark green on the 300 last year, but I don’t see it listed for 2017. VW also has a very bright bottle green offered on the Jetta, good for them!
Dark green seems to wash in and out. Ford had a beautiful dark green available on the Taurus SHO; Chevy has had dark green SS sedans; I believe Cadillac has also offered dark greens lately.
I imagine it’s easier to resell a white, silver or black car though, part of the reason why they are popular.
Oh and the C7 Corvette’s Lime Rock Metallic, since discontinued, was gorgeous. That + saddle leather interior = breathtaking!
Even better is the 2 tone dark and light green.
The 4 door sedan Mk VI looks a lot better than the 2dr Mk VI, which looked like a 1950’s cartoon caricature of the 1977-79 Mk V.
I even prefer THIS car to the pimpmobile land barge of the 1976-79 Continental sedan.
I think the Mk VI, with external headlights on the hideaway panels(stupid)…Was trying to channel the Stutz Bearcat. 😛