Well, yes, but this is a new addition to my miniature fleet, and I just had to share it. I already have a Seneca Blue one (as most of you saw during Lincoln Week), but recently I just had to get the new release in Copper Poly, with beige interior. I absolutely LOVE this color!
I can’t think of anything more polar opposite to a Camry LE or Corolla than one of these monsters. They may have looked subtle only when compared to a ’59 Cadillac, but man, there’s no mistaking it for anything but an American land yacht, eh? A Prius would be a tasty little hors d’oeuvre for a full-size 1958 Mark III. Mmm, yum!
Toyotas are reliable wheels today for many fine folks, but there’s just something about a Lincoln–any Lincoln, really. And even the new MKZ is starting to grow on me, after checking out a black-cherry over tan one at the dealer. Be well, Lincoln–not all of us want Camrys!
Nothing exceeds like excess!
That front bench seat in tan “leather” looks so nice and inviting for a person to slide in and drive off.
I am a true fan of copper cars. This is a color that has seemed to make a splash about once every decade, and was definitely in around 1958-60. This Lincoln looks really good in it, too.
How would you like to be the die cast mold maker for something that intricate?
Your model has reminded me of a recent thought. The chevron motifs on the front of Lexus vehicles are starting to remind me of the front end of the 1958 Lincoln. The resemblance is most pronounced on the 2013 models, with their very hourglass-looking grilles. Imagine if the chevrons on the ’58 Lincoln’s front bumper had been inboard of the headlights instead of out at the bumper corners. You’d have a 2013 Lexus grille!
My thoughts exactly, for a while I (and other CCCommenters) have been thinking that late 50s auto excess and 2013 excess are looking a lot alike:
Bloat with each new model larger and heavier and less practical than the previous – check.
Pointless pseudo-scientific gadgets – check.
Weird ugly body styling with pressed-in scallops, strange swage lines and bulges – check. Wide mouth, leering grilles, frowning headlights and toothy grille ‘faces’- check.
I just hope we’re at about 1959 in the cycle and we’re due for a similar reversion to 1961’s smaller cleaner and simpler (except at Mopar) car revolution.
Nice color, but that era Lincoln should only come in Frankenstein green. Even the model violates zoning rules in many neighborhoods. 😉
Didn’t the width of the original put it in danger of lane size restrictions? Nothing like a luxury car that requires a pilot car and wide load signs.
Sorry,I don’t like them those pre dented fenders are just wrong.What a shocker after the lovely 56.A lot of people didn’t like them at the time,Edsel outsold them by 4 to 1!A gaudy behemoth the lower priced Ford,Edsel and Mercury range were much better lookers
“And even the new MKZ is starting to grow on me”
Lincoln needs to max out the glitz, imo, because that market is really underserved, especially when it comes to sedans.
And with Fomoco seeming to want a single dealer channel, anyone wanting their luxury in understated form can simply be shown the equivalent Ford Titanium model.
These things were immense, but like a rich man’s living room, and an oil well owner’s toy. The leading tavern owner in the town I live in now owned one (which is still around and looking new). Most of the trunk stuck outside his garage. 🙂
what brand and scale is that model? It looks really well done.
1:18, Sunstar Platinum Collection. They got a great line of fifties land yachts.
Good quality and excellent detailing at a reasonable price.
Thank you, thank you. I have no emotional relationship with any Toyota (have never owned one and can think of only a couple I’ve ever driven) and this week is nearly over – yeah! Nothing like a big old mid-century Lincoln to get rid of the Toyota blues. And what a great color!
I’ve had this promo since 1958 – a little worn around the edges, typical warping for the plastic used at the time, and missing the hood ornament but a survivor.
I’m crazy for Tom’s diecast, it’s a knockout. But your promo is really special, especially since it’s a one-owner car.
Couldn’t have said it better, never connected with any Toyotas, never any interest, even to this day. But these Lincolns, now there’s another story, I just love these big old boats. You beat me to it, Tom’s beautiful die cast model sent me running to my promo collection to pull out my 1959 Continental Mark IV, always one of my favorites. I’ve had this since I was eleven years old, it is an AMT model, sort of a gray-blue with gold upholstery, even. The typical warping is present, but that tiny little Continental star is still there on the hood!
CA Guy and Don, those are some great promotionals! I don’t have any Lincolns but I do have a ’63 T-Bird Sports Roadster, complete with removable tonneau over the back seat. Also have a couple of ’62 Galaxie 500s–a Sunliner and a hardtop.
Thanks, Tom, I still have all my promos that I collected avidly from childhood up into my early college years, 1956-1966 (with the exception of my very first, a ’56 Ford Fairlane four-door hardtop, which sadly went missing several years ago). For years I had them displayed in various places, but they finally came to rest in a file box, where I still occasionally retrieve them to marvel at the automotive wonders of that period. I, too, have a ’63 Thunderbird, not the roadster, though. I would send into the Ford Times each year at model intro and receive a new one, yours for the asking in those days. Fun stuff.
Hey, we must have the same 63 T-Bird – kind of a metallic brown color, got it via Ford Times coupon, still in original mailing box. It has a “swing-away” steering wheel, the wire wheels, and is minus the fender skirts, as if it were a sports roadster. In addition, there is the sports roadster emblem on the front fender, leading me to believe that AMT used the same mold for the sports roadster Tom has.
I have quite a few promos (and built kits) from childhood. The early ones are not all in perfect shape because I played with them but many later ones are perfect and several are in their original boxes. They are deep in closets so I don’t get them out very often – more now because of CC!
CA Guy, late responding, but yep, it’s the same ’63 T-Bird. If it’s true to the original Ford colors, it should be “champagne gold.” I loved that little swing-away steering wheel, and there’s that tiny emblem on the front fender, although the wheels look more like turbine vanes with a center spinner. You’re lucky to still have the original boxes, I tossed all of those when I was madly opening my Christmas and birthday presents in those days. Mine, too, show some wear, I played with them in earlier days, and they have been knocking around in a file box for years, although I have them in bubble wrap now (classic case of closing the barn door after the horse is gone). Anyway, pic below.
Neat! My ’63 Sports Roadster is off-white, and I suspect it was a department store version, as it has a friction motor. Got it an an old opera-house-turned-antique-mall in Savanna, IL in about 1993.
My ’62 Sunliner is much more recent: Picked it up for $10 at an antique store in town earlier this year: Rangoon Red with red and black interior.
And here’s why it was so cheap!
A really nice Sunliner, Tom, sorry about its “owie.” I always loved the Sunliner model name, so convertible-esque, “wind in your hair” sounding! Wasn’t 1964 the last time Ford used that name? When I graduated from high school in 1965 and got my first car (a ’64 Pontiac LeMans), I briefly considered a used ’62 Sunliner that a friend of my mom’s was selling. Kind of wish I had prevailed, but my dad thought it was too old by then.
The 1:1 Lincoln is beautiful thanks to its ugliness. In those days, what would be the next step up ?
A Peterbilt 281 ?
This 1:18 model is quite a handful. The largest model in this scale I ever bought was a 1959 Cadillac Fleetwood 75 Limousine by Precision Miniatures, maroon color.
That car has always been on my “lottery garage” list. What would be a bigger finger in the air to the “modern sensibility ” than to be chaufferred up in a 20 foot long limo with two foot tailfins?