"JR1" (type35bugatti)
03/20/2015 at 17:30 • Filed to: Lincoln Continental
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"JR1" (type35bugatti)
03/20/2015 at 17:30 • Filed to: Lincoln Continental | 6
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Enjoy the weekend. And while you are at it enjoy this Continental
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> JR1
03/20/2015 at 17:32 |
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inB4 anyone who wishes to bitch about Lincoln
RallyWrench
> JR1
03/20/2015 at 17:36 |
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Nice. I'm well familiar with those, because I did a mechanical refurb on one many years ago. It had a '52 Merc Flathead installed in period, but we did the engine, I went through the trans & overdrive, rewired it, rebuilt the window & top hydraulics, and all kinds of other stuff. Huge thing, but a neat car.
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JR1
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
03/20/2015 at 17:36 |
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I give it 5 minutes and I will have at least one
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> JR1
03/20/2015 at 17:37 |
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I kind of like the one-year-only slant "chin" on the '42 better, but I'm aware it looks sillier. Have I ever mentioned that I've seen a post-war one of this gen (probably '48) actually out driving? In fact, it might have been this one:
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3192840/1…
I saw it going the other direction near the Georgia Tech campus years ago and did a double-take so hard I could have pulled my neck.
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JR1
> RallyWrench
03/20/2015 at 17:39 |
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Shame you had to install a Merc engine the V12 made it pretty unique. I can't imagine how annoying it would be to fix the hydraulics on this big old beast.
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JR1
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:42 |
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Really? Quite a rare car to see out in the wild. I would have squealed like a little girl.
As for the 42 chin I prefer the hood ornament and badge on that Continental to the post war model.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> JR1
03/20/2015 at 17:44 |
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Funereal black, and it had a *presence*, man. The pictures somehow downplay just how big they look in person.
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JR1
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 17:46 |
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I have yet to see a first generation Continental. I can't wait until I do.
The thing about a car show is classics always look so much less impressive in a show than they do when you see them in modern traffic. Old cars just always seem to have more presence. I think it is the chrome.
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RallyWrench
> JR1
03/20/2015 at 17:48 |
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Very annoying indeed. But I got it all working. The car had been in a flood decades before & stored afterward, so I had to clean what seemed like hundreds of pounds of sand out of it too. I found the hydraulic relay box under the hood full of sand as well, but completely disassembled & cleaned it and it worked great. Same for the hydraulic valve block on the left side of the dash.
The V12 had given up with a broken crank in the early 50's, a well known issue apparently as they only have 3 main bearings (as I recall), so the Merc engine was installed then, and not very cleanly. I had to do a bunch of stuff to get it to fit better.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> JR1
03/20/2015 at 17:53 |
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A lot of it, I think, is the sharp lines. No, really. Any car post ~1980 has a really good chance of being aerodynamicized to the point of just being a lump, no matter how much somebody tries to shape it within that. This in turn means it blurs into the background more, and that details on the car blend into one another. Take something like this, though, with sharp edges *everywhere*, and it factually and quite literally stands out more. Its edges are sharper against the background, the contrasts on its features and edges are loud and dramatic with shadows everywhere... it quite literally stands out on those merits to the point that a *camera algorithm* would dispassionately tell you it was in better focus. Add deep colors and chrome, and you're going to even greater heights. It's almost like every other car isn't visually as *real* as the old car, which is why it has such an impact.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> JR1
03/20/2015 at 17:59 |
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The "sharpness" paradox is also why they don't stand out so much at a car show. The whole car show "is in better focus".
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JR1
> RallyWrench
03/20/2015 at 18:58 |
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Well the main point is you brought a beautiful piece of history back from the grave and made a wonderful memory while you were doing it.
If it was flooded was it all rusted out?
I didn't know that V12 had reliability problems. It doesn't surprise me though. If I remember correctly the V8 had a huge amount of issues when it was introduced back in 32.
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JR1
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/20/2015 at 19:04 |
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You make a good point. Today every car suffers from being a evolution of the past generation. Even the revolutions. Half the S-Classes from above look essentially the same. The first set of Mercedes have character to the design.
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RallyWrench
> JR1
03/20/2015 at 19:24 |
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It's a vivid memory still, and it's been many years. As far as rust, it was a fresh water flood, and the steel is so, so thick that it just laughed it off. Minor surface rust on the undercarriage at most. The chrome was even still good. With the 3 on the tree, and after the interior was done, it was great fun to cruise around town.
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JR1
> RallyWrench
03/20/2015 at 20:01 |
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do you still have it or did you sell it?
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RallyWrench
> JR1
03/20/2015 at 20:31 |
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It was a customer's car, and he's since passed away so I don't know if the family still has it or not. Weirdly, one of my guys' dads had a '48 for many years, in Concours condition but since sold, which I used as a reference at the time. That one was a beauty, with the V12 running well, black over red.
Frank Grimes
> JR1
03/22/2015 at 11:41 |
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Youtube has some good movie clips featuring an early Continental. Search for "Sonny Corleone Gets Whacked". They sure ventilated that Lincoln!
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JR1
> Frank Grimes
03/22/2015 at 13:47 |
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Yes! Such a great movie even if just to watch all the interesting cars the Corleone family drives. That Continental looked like swiss cheese by the time they were finished.