Also see ‘1958-60 Lincoln: Failing to beat GM at its own game’
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1957 Lincoln Premiere 2-door hardtop
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1959 Studebaker: Was it really design theft?
(EXPANDED FROM 4/2/2017) Richard M. Langworth has authored more auto histories than just about anyone. Yet he was strikingly humble when beginning to discuss the controversial topic of who was responsible for the 1947 Studebaker’s styling. “I am […]
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Knudsen’s favored 1972 Mark IV design borrowed from the Eldorado
Dean’s Garage recently posted a fascinating story about the battle over the 1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV’s styling. Jim and Cheryl Ferrell (2022) describe how a design proposal championed by Ford President Semon “Bunkie” Knudsen […]
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Car and Driver: Rambler was a ‘dreary’ protest car
“This nation’s car market has always supported a handful of what seem to be ‘protest cars.’ There were a lot more of them before World War II, but the post-war era has had it share: […]
Looks like my grandfathers car. He had a medallion on the wind wing that said Official US Government…taxpayer…He lived in Portland but bought the car in Burlingame Ca while on vacation in 1962. I think it had 20,000 miles and he paid $2200. He kept it until 1966 when bought a new Lincoln.
Gus, that sounds plausible. I took these photos at the LeMay Collections at Marymount. That’s located in the Tacoma, Washington area. I don’t know whether the Lincoln was part of their collection.