I will start this thread off with the car I have now had for a few years, and the style I had been looking to buy for a long time. A 1971 Lincoln Continental Coupe. Very rare vehicle, with less than 9,000 Coupes made in 1971, and only about 2,300 with the factory "vinyl top delete" option like this one. I had never even seen another car like this in the flesh, until I stumbled upon it for sale one day. $600 in cash and a Remington 870 Police 12-gauge shotgun to the previous owner and it was mine. I have always that that I was very lucky to steal my dream car from that guy.
It is very much a work-in-progress, but I still love the project. The motor is a 460 bored .030 over, with ported heads, hardened valve seats, Keith Black pistons, a double-roller timing chain, aluminum roller-rockers, Weiand Stealth aluminum intake manifold, Edelbrock Performer 600cfm carb, custom cam, Pertronix II electronic ignition, new battery, radiator, KYB shocks, water pump, oil pump, master cylinder, power brake booster, and new brakes. The tranny is a C-6, rebuilt to heavy-duty specs, with a new torque converter installed.
I had the Coupe lowered about 2" in the front, and an 1-1/2" in the back. I got new dual exhaust with short glasspack mufflers put on, so she rumbles quite loudly. When I idle thru an underground parking garage I always et off other peoples car alarms.
Please ignore the atrocious wheel covers in the pic, they are long gone. For now I have the stock wheels painted flat black epoxy, with no silly covers. The body is amazingly straight for a 35-year-old car, and what cancer it does have is not severe.
Unfortunately, the interior looks like Germany right after World War II, and will need a lot of work to ever be presentable. The 6-way white leather power seat is long dead, the original carpet is shredded, the armrests are broken, and the headliner must go away. The dash is in very good condition though, and that is nice. The black exterior paint is the old original stuff from 1971, and it has seen better days.
Future plans include any needed bodywork to make it arrow straight and smooth, and getting rid of all the chrome on the Lincoln. I am not a chrome fan, so it will all be blacked out eventually. The Linc will be painted either a satin black with blackened chrome, or a metallic gray with blackened chrome. I'm leaning towards the gray, just because the contrast with the black chrome would really stand out. Thanks for reading this.
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