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22/08/2011 4:21 pm
PICS (1:1) Another Lincoln Cosmo especially for Brian, Tom Gibson, John Engelman, Bob Jackman.......
and everyone else who love these cars....
It's an original, unrestored '49 Club Coup? that I forgot I had in my files and one of only 7,685 built that year. Showing 52,499 miles on the odometer when I saw it on eBay Motors on 1/20/09, it was located in Lexington, Kentucky at the time. Eventual selling price was $7,600....
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Interior was just starting to get a little bit ratty, but it hadn't been messed with, either....
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Even tho' I have since found out that the Hydramatic option didn't become available until late in the model year, I dig that it had a three-on-the-tree + O.D....
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22/08/2011 5:12 pm
Gene, wow! That's a spectacular car, and, once again, I can't recall having seen this club coupe roofline on a Cosmopolitan.
I love that this one is an unrestored original!
Don't you love that rectangular clock mounted front-and-center in the instrument panel?
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22/08/2011 5:53 pm
PIC (1:1) Yeah, Brian, that's a very unconventional placement for the clock. I suppose the guy......
on the go who owned one of these in 1949 had to know exactly what time it was! I like the overall design of the dash and, of course, the huge steering wheel, but the heater controls (shown here) have me scratching my head. While the square buttons are clearly marked, all the switches on that chrome panel right below them leave me wondering exactly what's what.
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Pretty sure the big chrome knob in the middle is the cigar lighter, tho'. Wouldn't be smokin' any CIGARETTES when you cruised around in this thing! 
P.S. Just noticed that the turn signal indicator arrows are in the clock face. So not only did the up and coming Lincoln owner know which way he was going, he know EXACTLY when he got there! :))
22/08/2011 10:14 pm
Gene, what an astonishing car - the condition is remarkable.
23/08/2011 6:25 am
Gene, thanks for the wonderful pictures. I don't ever recall seeing a Cosmopolitan coupe in person. My dad bought a new 49
Mercury from a dealer who handled both Lincolns and Mercurys
and as car crazy as I was at 9 years of age, I would have
remembered.
Topic starter
23/08/2011 7:05 am
That's one of the reasons I saved it, Bob. It's the only one I've ever seen anywhere.
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23/08/2011 7:06 am
I thought so, too. Paul. They're only original once.
23/08/2011 7:35 am
Thanks Gene, here's another y'all might like...(Pic)
The '49 dash is arguably the coolest of the '49-'51s, but the bees knees for me is the '50 Cosmo Capri,
with its dual "eyebrows."
Larger, from a recent ebay ad. I've never seen one in person, only in pictures.
I think we can trace the big Lincolns' crisp greenhouse back to the '39-'40 Mercury Coupes,
and to the '40-'48 Continentals, too.
1940 Mercury Coupe
TG
Topic starter
23/08/2011 7:53 am
Yup, you're right, Tom. The rear "eyebrow" breaks up that huge flank and makes the whole car.......
look much lighter. One of only 509 ever built makes it the rarest of the '50 Cosmos, even beating the convertible by 27 units. The '40 model's DNA is quite evident.
23/08/2011 3:16 pm
And we can't overlook the 9 Henney-built Cosmo Limos for the Truman White House. (Pics)
1950 Cosmo Limo
And at least one that appeared in several early-'50's movies, including "The Girl Can't Help It".
I think one has a cameo in an early scene of, "A Letter to Three Wives," too, on TCM this Saturday.
TG
23/08/2011 3:41 pm
'49 Lincoln Cosmo
Great interior shots. As often as I have seen dash pics of this car,I have never been able to pick out the labels on the "pipe organ" switches, neat. I don't know why but I've always had a soft spot for these sad eyed '49s.
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23/08/2011 4:50 pm
PIC (1:1) So THAT'S what this is.......
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Had this pic in my files for ages without knowing anything about it. Thanx, Tom!
23/08/2011 7:00 pm
And those are the WH gates, Gene. Any chance of getting a high-res copy of that image?
They've changed a bit over the years (beefier wrought iron), but how cool!
Not my photo.
It looks like one of the WH fleet, but sources vary on how many were for them (nine, plus the BubbleTop, all Henney-built but armored by Hess & Eisenhardt), and the number built for FoMoCo use (nine or ten, Henney, no H&E). Here's a link to 4 images of one of the WH cars, post-Truman, from the Truman Library.
TG
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24/08/2011 2:40 am
No, I'm sorry, Tom. That's the only version of it that I have and it's been so long that I don't....
recall where I found it.
24/08/2011 3:00 am
No prob, Gene, thanks anyway!