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With the upcoming 205th birthday of our 16th President, I thought it would be appropriate to explore 1/43 automobiles named in his honor.

 

 

 

 From AmerCon

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1941 Lincoln Continental convertible

From Brooklin

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1938 Lincoln Zephyr sedan

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1937 Lincoln Model K sedan


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1937 Lincoln Model K convertible sedan

From IXO

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1974 Lincoln Town Car coupe

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1984 Lincoln Continental MKVII sedan

 

From American Excellence NEO

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1973 Lincoln Continental MarkIV

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1985 Lincoln Stretch Limousine

 

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1990 Lincoln Town Car sedan

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1977 Lincoln Town Car sedan
1978 Lincoln Continental MarkV
1984 Lincoln Continental MKVII

 

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From Vitisse
2000 Lincoln Stretch Limousine

Discontinued models.

From Brooklin
1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertible
1956 Lincoln Continental MarkII

From Matchbox
1938 Lincoln Zephyr convertible

From Collector’s Classics (Buby)
1948 Lincoln Continental convertible

From Minichamps
1956 Lincoln Continental MarkII

From Franklin Mint
1956 Lincoln Continental MarkII
1961 Lincoln Continental convertible

 


A link to last week’s post
https://ogrforum.com/t...cle-chronicle-jan-31

You can follow these links back to the Original Jan 2013

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Last edited by Richard E
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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

Originally Posted by fisch330:

the tricked up little 6 cyl. putt-putts that are simply Fords but with the Lincoln nameplate so they can charge more for them. 

 

 

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.

Last edited by Lee Willis

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!!)

Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
Originally Posted by fisch330:

the tricked up little 6 cyl. putt-putts that are simply Fords but with the Lincoln nameplate so they can charge more for them. 

 

 

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.

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.

 

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1950 Lincoln Model 0EL-72C Lido Coupe

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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.

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