O Scale Motor Chronicle Feb. 7

Richard, how about a bus for a change. The lights were added by Jack Pearce.

Richard, I have only one Lincoln on the layout.  It is the Continental Mk II by Minichamps, in my case silver - maybe the only color they made it in?

I like to move cars around from time to time to vary the scene, but right now its out at the brewery.

Richard...I always enjoy this thread.  Thanks so much for starting it.  Beautiful models and pictures...

Alan

The Minichamps '41 Continental is a beautiful model...well worth the $40, they usually go for on eBay. They were only made in one color...dark silver with maroon interior.

I have only one Lincoln on my layout and it's the 1939 or 1940 zephyr convert.  Too bad, too, because I drive a Lincoln Town Car for my regular driver.  2004 with 185,000 miles on it and we're planning again on taking a 5,000 mile trip west this summer.  It's too bad that Ford discontinued the real Lincoln, making instead, the tricked up little 6 cyl. putt-putts that are simply Fords but with the Lincoln nameplate so they can charge more for them. 

I'd seriously like to have a couple of more Lincolns around the layout, but they have to be from 1950 or earlier.

Paul Fischer

Actually they were really good cars and they didn't cost much more than the Ford fitted out with the same equipment.  I bought an MKZ years ago rather than the Ford because I could get the air-cooled seats only on the Lincoln (don't laugh, on a long trip in summer your shirt back doesn't get wet).  My youngest boy is service manager at the local Ford dealership and when the car got to 100K miles I asked him when these cars were likely to start given problems.  He told me: "they never do."  I eventually traded it on a another car but it was a really satisfactory car for many years with good mileage, a lot of pep actulaly, and a lot of comfort.  I've tried to find a 1:43 model of it but to no avail.

fisch330:  My cousin's widower would agree with you.  He would not buy the melted

ice cream cone Lincoln after the Town Car...he traded TC's often for low mileage used ones from one dealer, and switched to Buick.  Did not Rextoy catalogue but not produce a K model, which Brooklin now offers?

WHAT I GOT ON HERE FOR, WAS THAT: for self punishment and to growl at the screen

over the prices, I go through the Brooklin list on eBay.  While I don't splash in the postwar auto pond, a lot of you are into the transition years, late '40's to late '50's?and there were a lot of vehicles of that period, that had opening bids of $20.00 in the "newly listed" category.  Not 98 cents, but not bad for a Brooklin.  (luckily for me

there was a 1937, and not 1938, Packard on there that was purported to be a one off, priced at $610.00!!)

Lee:
I have a Lincoln MKS and underneath it is just a fancy Taurus. If I purchased a Taurus with all the same bells & whistles it would have cost me the same. I especially like heated and cooled seats. It’s the most comfortable car I’ve ever owned. That includes an Imperial and a couple of Oldsmobiles.

As for a model, I don’t ever expect to see one but I would like see a model of a 1949 to 1951 Model EL. They were based on a stretched Mercury platform.

1950 Lincoln Model 0EL-72C Lido Coupe

Starting with Dec 27 I did a 3 part series on buses.

Here is a link to the last post

https://ogrforum.com/t...-vehicle-news-jan-17

You can follow the links at the end of the post back to the first

I would love to have a model of that 1950 Lincoln.  I recall someone my grandfather knew had one but I don't recall much about it.  Wonderful, early 50s look to them. Brooklin makes a '49 Cosmopolitan convertible that diecast direct has now but its not nearly as lovely as the EL.

Conquest made a handbuilt model of the 1950 Lincoln Cosmopolitan 4-door sedan. No diecasts were made spanning 1949-55.

We owned one of these in black/black/black. A very nice car...wish I could buy a new one (same with my 1980 Fleetwood Brougham).

Not too long ago I stopped at an antique mall that has one dealer in it who does trains, and parked out in front was an SUV with a loaded car trailer that had a

circa 1928 beautifully restored Lincoln coupe loaded on it.  This car has the Leland

designed 60 degree V-8, that was popular with gangsters during Prohibition.  Do not

see many early Lincoln coupes.  I had a history teacher (soap opera about her not

appropriate for this forum) who once gave me a lift home  from high school in a

Lincoln coupe, post WW-II, V-12 Zephyr rubber band crankshaft engine that was

often replaced, even with a Ford V-8, in the Continentals.  Cars like hers were not commonly seen then, either.  Dunno if the post WW-ii's were still called "Zephyrs".

I just did a search through ALL the 1/43rd Matchbox on the bay.  There is a lot, and

a lot I had not heard of.  Some of it is good, some of it is NOT good, as far as being

a model.  Naturally, duh, I did not find what I was looking for...over 30 pages of

just Matchbox 1/43rd.  Lots of Tuckers, and they built, what, 26 Tuckers?  Lots of

European classics including both Hispano-Suiza and Isotta-Fraschini, maybe only

seen in Hollywood in their era.

One of my favorite Lincolns....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Futura

Early '70's Continental Coupes are cool