Kind of tempted, to be honest.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
08/17/2016 at 09:06 • Filed to: None

Wrong number of doors and grill, but !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and it’s vintage , man.

DISCUSSION (17)

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/17/2016 at 09:12

2 doors is always the right number of doors

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction
08/17/2016 at 09:17

I meant to be an actual match to the Landau Sedan I have sitting, but point taken.

fintail > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/17/2016 at 09:20

I’d “make an offer” about $20 lower, and see what happens. Having a match for a 1:1 car is fun.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/17/2016 at 09:24

I figured that, was just a bit shit talking.

Finding die cast models of 4 door cars is hard. Same thing for non top-of-the-line cars. I tried to find a 1/18 model of a 1960 Bel Air, but all I can find is Impalas.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > fintail
08/17/2016 at 09:26

Particularly since it’s a dealer promo car, I believe. There appear to have been two of the friction motor ‘59 Lincolns made - the above, and a topless one.

Kinja'd!!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1959-Vinta…

AMT made a later snap-together kit which goes for a lot as well.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction
08/17/2016 at 09:28

Finding any models at all of a ‘59 Lincoln is almost impossibru. The only ‘59 Lincoln models I’m even aware of are the two dealer promos (Continentals) and a later AMT one which hasn’t been made in, oh, forty years. At least they still *make* the ‘60 Impala.

fintail > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/17/2016 at 09:36

Yep. People like the promos. I have had a number of them over the years. This one, with no box, and some faded chrome, should be a bit less than the boxed one you linked to. On the plus side, this one looks nice and straight, as these can really warp.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > fintail
08/17/2016 at 09:48

TBH, I wouldn’t mind having both eventually, just for the heck of it, but there’s only one that’s a hardtop in Peacock Green Metallic at the moment, so that’s where the sights are fixed. Because it didn’t have very good sales numbers and McNamara conducted purges at Lincoln immediately afterward coinciding with the new Engel ‘61, I don’t think anybody but AMT ever bothered getting tooled up for these cars in any way - Dinky’s French division (!) for some reason made a small die cast of the ‘58 Premiere, but for the ‘59 AMT is pretty much it.

fintail > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/17/2016 at 10:09

Go for it. I would put in an offer and see what happens. Probably not a lot of people beating down the door for this, so worst case, you might get a counter offer. I’m not immediately aware of any diecast of 58-60 Lincolns other than the Dinky, either.

JR1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/17/2016 at 10:30

Wrong car but so close to being the right car you need to buy it anyway

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JR1
08/17/2016 at 10:45

I agree. I thought you’d get a kick out of this. Did you see in my other reply to someone that dealer promo Edsel thing for the ‘59 Edsel? This thing is actually *from* ‘59, and apparently there was a convertible version and a hardtop version - Mark IV Continentals only. I may get the convertible as well.

I’ve got a Ford Ranger that was a dealer promo by AMT in the 90s, so they apparently had been Ford’s go-to for years and years at that point.

JR1 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/17/2016 at 12:39

I did see the one about the Edsel. That was cool too. Where did you find this anyway? Those have to be pretty rare now.

Ross Kraz > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/17/2016 at 12:48

1) Thought it was a real car from the thumbnail and disappointed.

2) Read comments and found out you have the real thing and got happy.

3) Cannot get Mr. Regular saying “Here’s my toy car” out of my head

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > JR1
08/17/2016 at 12:54

I just happened to GIS this morning for scale ones and there was a good eBay listing - see the link in the post. I’ve seen these before, but I think a little pricier. Same GIS turned up the little Edsel thing that confirmed these were an official thing.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ross Kraz
08/17/2016 at 13:14

I have a toy car of my Ranchero (two, actually), a tiny toy car of my Rover, but none of my Benz or the Lincoln - yet. This thing is choice - I highly recommend I pick one up if I have the means.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/17/2016 at 15:13

You want diecast models? I can get you diecast, dude. I can get you diecast by 3:00 this afternoon. There are ways, dude.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench
08/17/2016 at 15:21

Kinja'd!!!

“Two days ago I saw a store that would sell that diecast. You want to get the diecast, you talk to me.”