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24/05/2020 8:25 am
(PIC) The elegant Continental for 1956. Don't call it a Lincoln!
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24/05/2020 8:52 am
To my eyes, one very odd looking car. Not saying I don't like it, just that it's odd looking.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
24/05/2020 9:23 am
I have always liked the style of this Continental but I got to have a long ride in one a few years ago and I wasn't all that impressed.
24/05/2020 9:25 am
I don't know about odd but it's certainly unique. It was never one of my '50s faves. Then...
...I saw this YT documentary of it's development and I was hooked.
24/05/2020 10:02 am
I like its style too.
24/05/2020 12:24 pm
(PIC) and there is this...
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24/05/2020 1:00 pm
Lloyd and I had similar impulses. I went to eBay and checked out the prices of used '56/'57 Continentals. Oh my!
24/05/2020 2:10 pm
Timeless, Unique, one of a kind.
24/05/2020 2:19 pm
The Continental MKll is a pretty respectable vehicle actually and makes the design excesses of the next few years appear more like performers in a tinseled up extravaganza on ice by comparison.
The continental MKll really is a car for grown-ups - rich ones at that.
Not a position I held at the time tho, I hasten to add, but tastes like refinement sometimes take years to form, yet for some, they never happen at all.
24/05/2020 5:09 pm
That top-down is one of 2 built by Hess & Eisenhardt.
25/05/2020 2:25 am
Always liked it ever since my Revell 1:32 kit. However,,
I much prefer the original to the convertible versions.