Happy Tuesday. Have some tailfins 

"JR1" (type35bugatti) 11/03/2015 at 09:12 • Filed to: Lincoln

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Chariotoflove > JR1 11/03/2015 at 09:20

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Nice tail! Like the color, too.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JR1 11/03/2015 at 09:20

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‘58, I believe.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > JR1 11/03/2015 at 09:25

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Keep OPPO Classy

JR1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/03/2015 at 09:28

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Correct

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JR1 11/03/2015 at 09:29

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If you count these as starting where the ridge humps up on the back door, they’re 8ft long. If you count them as being the length of the whole ridge on the top of the body, they start at the headlights, so are >20ft.

JR1 > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 11/03/2015 at 09:29

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Very classy

JR1 > Chariotoflove 11/03/2015 at 09:30

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It's a beautiful color!

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > JR1 11/03/2015 at 09:31

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Bro, check your facebook messages

JR1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/03/2015 at 10:46

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I think there is a pretty clear distinction where the tailfin starts. I'd say it is more 8ft then 20

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JR1 11/03/2015 at 10:53

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Among the longest fins ever, regardless. Not tallest, but there’s a lot of fin there. The ones on the ‘60 Polara are probably about 6’6”, in comparison, but root almost as far up:

It’s really ambiguous with the ‘59 Caddy, because it’s hard to say if the fin is the bottom edge of the greenhouse or dead-ends there. Matter of opinion:

JR1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/03/2015 at 11:01

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Either way it is a styling element I very much miss on new cars

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/03/2015 at 12:51

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Did you get a haul method locked down to retrieve the new addition?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 11/03/2015 at 13:02

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Yes. It turns out that after replacing the brake lines on the twin-axle trailer completely, replacing both wheel cylinders with the wrong ones, requiring me to machine brass adapter fittings, repacking all wheel bearings, and buying new tires, the trailer was ready to go...ish. At 2:00 on Saturday. Drove up seven and a half hours, having a warm bearing scare on the way, then took nearly four hours loading. BITCH HEAVY. Then the Cummins duallie had a power control brainfart and decided that low batteries don’t get to be charged, yo, and ran the batteries down about an hour and a half homeward. So we stopped in WV at a 24h Wal-Mart, got help recharging the batteries until dawn, got back on the road, and getting into the flatlands of NC had a brake issue on the trailer. Fixed (by which I mean removed something, leaving no surge brakes), and drove the remaining 3.5 hours. Finally dropped the trailer (with car still on) at about 2:30 Sunday.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/03/2015 at 13:18

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Quite the fantastic voyage, then. Yeesh.

Relevant:

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 11/03/2015 at 13:37

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If I get it running confidently enough to run to Cali with it, it’s pretty much the definition of a Route 66 device. A couple of really weird design features really pop out when you see it in person, like the fact that the user controls are on a pod close enough for any size driver to use (think like a big truck cab), but the dash itself is so much further off that the front seat passenger would have to have orangutan arms to even reach it without leaning forward. The front seat passenger could sit in the footwell and put their legs up on the seat, pretty comfortably. Yeah. Also, the trunk is so stupidly long that I hit my head on the gas tank 2-3 times after tightening the chain on the rear axle, because it was hanging so far off the trailer. Also also, there is like a 2’ deep air box/etc., because the engine belongs “somewhere over there”. The lower door top edges actually lean toward the car - the trough that outlines the tail fin starts all the way at the front of the car, so the doors actually Z-bend *down* toward the window glass.

The suspension is double A-arm in front, with a swaybar, and the rear suspension is bar-linked trailing As to which the live axle is bolted on rubber bushes, with a Watt’s link. Kind of an odd setup, but it means everything is on coils, which means air is easy-peasy. The front is way stiffer than the back as well. Also, the departure angle is an utter joke, but you knew that. There will be places in town I Shall Not Drive.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/03/2015 at 15:05

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It’s a hell of a study in 50’s American design excess. Few cars were that ostentatious. What a great cruiser it’ll make though, especially on bags. I presume the suspension is similar to the big-body Fords of the era? I know the Galaxies are coil sprung in back, but they run a Panhard bar instead of the Watts (that is weird) if I’m not mistaken.

I’d imagine this thing will drag ass on just about anything, that’s got to be challenging.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 11/03/2015 at 15:08

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I misspoke, it’s just a Panhard bar.