"user314" (user314)
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"user314" (user314)
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Why?
Seriously, who asked for this?
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Cocaine’s a hell of a drug
SILCCO, the Southern & International Lincoln Custom Center, Inc. planned to make 25 of these based on the 1979 Lincoln Continental, but their plans didn’t turn out, and only a single prototype was made. Originally priced at $78,000 ($277,000 in current bucks), the cost ballooned to $140,000 (An eye-watering half-million dollars).
Sovande
> user314
08/08/2020 at 18:21 |
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I like it.
Phyrxes once again has a wagon!
> user314
08/08/2020 at 18:27 |
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Interesting, in a Jeeves pull the road sofa around front I wish to go somewhere sense of the term.
fintail
> user314
08/08/2020 at 18:33 |
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To put it in perspective, that 80K original desired cost is roughly what a new Rolls-Royce cost at the time (there was no gussied up 7er model then either), or the cost of 2 MB 6.9s, or a nice Seattle area house that would be 7 figures today. The 140K is lunacy.
SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> Sovande
08/08/2020 at 18:34 |
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The only comparable modern car is the Limited Edition Parker Ranch Canyonero.
Roadkilled
> user314
08/08/2020 at 18:37 |
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AM/FM radio and tape player? Now that’s luxury!
TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
> user314
08/08/2020 at 18:39 |
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Oh that is sweet looking.
You need your eyes checked
ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy
> Roadkilled
08/08/2020 at 18:41 |
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That’s before you even get to the individual reading lights!
wafflesnfalafel
> user314
08/08/2020 at 18:41 |
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Sovande
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
08/08/2020 at 18:49 |
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I don't believe the Canyonero had teak?
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SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> Sovande
08/08/2020 at 18:54 |
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No, but it was lined completely with Corinthian (s)teak.
Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
> user314
08/08/2020 at 19:00 |
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A t least they didn’t call it a B ugatti, like this L incoln of the same era.
WilliamsSW
> fintail
08/08/2020 at 19:05 |
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And what would a Continental stretch limo have cost? Maybe $30-40k? Because that’s all this is, plus an ugly ass raised roof and some bullshit marketing speak.
Though I could totally see DT in the back of this thing...
ClassicDatsunDebate
> wafflesnfalafel
08/08/2020 at 19:09 |
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You know what they call this car in France? The Big Royal
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fintail
> WilliamsSW
08/08/2020 at 19:13 |
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And a normal Continental was maybe 20K?
I was thinking the same thing regarding the passenger. Speak of the devil (literally, some may say), it even has a raised roof:
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Sovande
> fintail
08/08/2020 at 19:22 |
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So say the poors.
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Sovande
> WilliamsSW
08/08/2020 at 19:23 |
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Get some hookers and blow and you could see some DP in the back of that thing.
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user314
> TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
08/08/2020 at 19:24 |
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WilliamsSW
> Sovande
08/08/2020 at 19:26 |
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lol was thinking the same thing. Give me one in cocaine white with matching leather, carpet and vinyl roof, and I’ll play Tony Montana for a while.
No shocker this company was based in Miami...
ranwhenparked
> user314
08/08/2020 at 19:27 |
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That does seem like a lot of money for something that isn't appreciably better than a slightly stretched LWB Continental, or, really, even just a stock Continental. I guess the raised roof has some advantages, but it isn't like the car was lacking in comfort to start with.
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ranwhenparked
> fintail
08/08/2020 at 19:30 |
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This was the era when stretch limos really became a thing. Rolls-Royce considered them a vulgar American affectation, but did eventually start offering a factory stretch, in an effort to keep aftermarket shops from hacking up their cars.
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fintail
> Sovande
08/08/2020 at 19:31 |
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I dunno, its resounding failure says the top few weren’t convinced.
Actually, this does relate to the poors - something like this is what the proles think a tycoon wants. Reality says otherwise. Had it been priced at 50K or so, it might have sold to the entertainment industry/smaller time moneybags set (as it was 1979 - the blow flowed freely). Old money, real money, doesn’t want something like this.
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fintail
> ranwhenparked
08/08/2020 at 19:33 |
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I think all of the big 3 had a factory limo for awhile, too - something maybe most suited to the tastes of this continent. Not for 140K though, that really makes me laugh.
MB even had stretches, but always E-class based, and more of a diplomat or luxury hotel shuttle ideal rather than ostentatious guillotine-worthy posing.
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ranwhenparked
> fintail
08/08/2020 at 19:37 |
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Not full fledged stretches, though, more extended wheelbase. This thing seems like a hybrid between a traditional limousine, a stretch limo, and a conversion van.
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Sovande
> fintail
08/08/2020 at 19:37 |
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Old money is bullshit. New money is where it’s at.
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fintail
> ranwhenparked
08/08/2020 at 19:41 |
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I know I have seen Shadow and Spur/Spirit stretches, but not sure who made them.
Of course, real money just bought a Phantom (when it was a much more exclusive thing).
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fintail
> Sovande
08/08/2020 at 19:43 |
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Old money can usually buy new money hand over fist. If I had to bank on house flipper type in a shouty new Bentley but leveraged up to his ears, or inheritance elite type in something like an S coupe, well.
I don’t think anyone but funeral homes buys limos an ymore.
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ranwhenparked
> fintail
08/08/2020 at 19:44 |
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I think they started doing it in-house sometime in the early ‘80s, but output was never enough to satisfy US demand, so there are a lot more aftermarket conversions than factory. I don't think the Phantoms were US legal anymore by then, and, of course, we ever got the DS420.
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ranwhenparked
> fintail
08/08/2020 at 20:23 |
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Growing up in an affluent area of the Philadelphia suburbs, it would seem that old money prefers immaculately maintained 20 or 30 year old Mercedes sedans that they bought new and have had serviced qu arterly at the original dealer ever since.
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fintail
> ranwhenparked
08/08/2020 at 20:33 |
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It’s the same in Seattle, I think.
Guy in a Cullinan may be doing well in that special way that makes him a target during the next riots, living in a 3MM mcmansion with a 2.99MM mortgage attached to it, while the old lady in the 560SEC lives in a 5MM house she bought for 50K in 1970, and has an investment portfolio that could be its own hedge fund.
IIRC, the MB product with the wealthiest clientele isn’t a V12 S-Class or AMG G-wagen, but a 6cyl E wagon.
John Norris (AngryDrifter)
> user314
08/08/2020 at 20:41 |
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It would be fun to pull up to the EV meet in that.
Edit:
Wow.
I just put it together. I
t was 40 years ahead of its time.
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ranwhenparked
> fintail
08/08/2020 at 20:50 |
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Yep, old money may be rich enough to do whatever the hell they want, but “impressing strangers with how rich they are” doesn’t usually rate high on their priorities list.
Brian McKay
> Roadkilled
08/08/2020 at 21:15 |
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Jump seats are the "epitomy of luxury. ”
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Sovande
> fintail
08/08/2020 at 21:34 |
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*usually
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Sovande
> fintail
08/08/2020 at 21:44 |
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Bezos. Zuckerberg. That new money.
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fintail
> Sovande
08/08/2020 at 22:21 |
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Good points, but huge exceptions to a rule too.
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Sovande
> fintail
08/09/2020 at 00:01 |
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Old money is the exception too.
Kar Wai Wong
> user314
08/09/2020 at 04:29 |
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Love the raised roof for extra headroom.