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"JR1" (type35bugatti) 08/26/2015 at 09:27 • Filed to: Lincoln, Lincoln Premiere

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Here is a beautiful 1957 Lincoln Premiere

$kaycog > JR1 08/26/2015 at 09:31

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So much class!

Gary Yogurt > JR1 08/26/2015 at 09:41

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Ciro’s closed that year. It was the shit .

greenagain > JR1 08/26/2015 at 09:45

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1983, I came soooooo close to paying $ 8,000 (Canadian $) for a pink/white coupe just like that.

I chickened out.

kanadanmajava1 > JR1 08/26/2015 at 10:45

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My friend has one. It’s pretty awesome car. His car has the optional air conditioning unit which is mounted in the trunk (as most early a/c units in 50’s were). The cool air is routed through the roof to the front of the car. The hat shelf has transparent plastic ducts as the pillars are too thin to be used to route the air. I didn’t have a picture of my friend’s car but here’s similar that has similar ducts.

JR1 > Gary Yogurt 08/26/2015 at 11:08

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I know nothing of LA. From the wiki article it seemed kinda prominent at one time.

JR1 > greenagain 08/26/2015 at 11:08

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You chicken! What were you thinking?!

JR1 > kanadanmajava1 08/26/2015 at 11:12

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These cars are maybe the best designed Lincolns of the 50’s. Your friend has a very beautiful car. Not my first pick for a color but stunning nevertheless.

kanadanmajava1 > JR1 08/26/2015 at 11:35

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My friend’s car is black with white roof and it looks very nice. 1956 models looks pretty nice too.

A fun history fact is that Packard tried to buy body tooling for 56/57 Lincolns to have something decent to offer as they couldn’t afford to build completely new car. They even built some prototypes using Lincoln bodies. I think that photos of these haven’t survived.

JR1 > kanadanmajava1 08/26/2015 at 11:42

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That looks remarkably like an Edsel.

kanadanmajava1 > JR1 08/26/2015 at 11:57

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Quite a lot indeed. Edsel designer Roy Brown said that the horse collar grille design was influenced by 30’s LaSalle’s.

JR1 > kanadanmajava1 08/26/2015 at 12:17

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Not the first car I would be taking my inspirations from if I was looking at cars from the 30s.