<![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> Awesome car, God, please make gas prices go down so that driving these cars won't make u s delcare bankruptcy!!!

Gino Camaro

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> I would be worried if this was parked in front of my child's school.

Jimboz

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> Incomparable! I love that the license number contains "DNF". I'm not sure this thing could finish a trip around the block.

rotorglow

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> Not the prettiest iteration, but what a car. Lincoln ought to get their act together and build some sort of Phantom-rivalling beast in the vein of the '60s Continental.

Euromobile

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> Oh yea, 2 more things:

1) awesome job of docking that carrier.
2) I'd rock the original steel wheels, or maybe go an inch bigger (in the most stock looking wheels I could find) to hide the most massive set of 4-wheel discs possible. I have this weird thing about wanting to stop without the bending of sheet metal...

FЯeeMan

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> I've never been much on 60-70's era Detroit Iron, but, Good Golly Miss Molly - That is an awesome car!!!!!

I'd upgrade the rubber, brakes & motorvation, but leave that exterior alone! I'd probably give the interior a good thrice-over, too - the possibility of leftover Morrison DNA in there is, uh, ummm, not appetizing.

FЯeeMan

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> If that isn't "battleship gray" I don't know what is. This car is such class it makes the landau top look good. The side markers are in astonishingly good condition.

brandegee

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> Best DOTS yet. There's a guy near me who has a shop with dozens of these things, and later model Lincolns, too. Most are just rotting away, waiting purchase to be restored or someone in need of parts. I hear he sells parts to people all over the world. I lust after one each and every time I drive by.

cyclopticgaze

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> In my fantasy garage there still resides a Continental with a modern V8 diesel swap with a big turbo upgrade. Think of the sound... and the torques! I guess unfulfilled dreams are cheaper.

TheAstronot

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> As usual, another amazing find.

My cousin's neighbor had a 61 Continental convertible, which I believe he bought new, and kept all-original (the chrome was shiny, and the paint was glossy!). It didn't get driven much, but it was a fine sight to behold.

Suicide doors really made these cars stand out from the aircraft-carrier-as-car standards of the 60s.

Paul Y. -- Now With More Sodium!

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> I had a cherry '66 when I was 20. These cars were a disaster electrically. Circuit breakers for the lighting system would heat up after about 20 minutes and cause the lights to flash on and off. Mine had two dead window motors and a leaky power steering pump, which was in the 462's engine block, water pump style. These things conspired to keep me close to home, so the Lincoln had to go.

johnnie

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> I always thought that a perfect engine / trans swap for one of these would be a 32V 5.4 liter V8 from a totalled Lincoln Navigator (plenty of ditzy cell phone-blabbing trophy wives sending them to junkyards). Great combo of classic looks and modern running gear.

west-coaster

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> Does everyone remember the one Oliver and Lisa Douglas had on Green Acres? It was a convertible, of course. Oliver ended up trading it in on a Grand Marquis convertible in '70, 'cause Lincoln blew it when they stopped making them.

Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue!!!

TinaChow

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> Awesome. My fave DOTS car yet. I heart old Lincolns. Escpecially Continentals, and especially suicide doors.

This one just look plain bad ass.

danio3834

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> I think i'm a little lightheaded....i don't care how diffcult it is to park in the city, i want one!!

Papercutninja

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> Oh baby. In my less reasonable years, I nearly bought one of these (well, a '63) that was in just horrible shape. But it was the same car in which JFK was shot (except, you know, not the convertible...). For some reason that made it cool to me.

Under the hood was a decrepit plastic pouch tacked to the wheel well that contained antifreeze with a tube comping out of it. Worse, it was clearly a stock part.

Question: I notice the new RR convertible has suicide doors on the production vehicle, not just the concept. If a RR can have them, why not a Ford? Did RR make them safe somehow?

Bumblebee

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> 60's continentals have always been my favorite. My uncle had a black '64 (just like the one in the Matrix) when I was 6 or 7, and I have wanted one since. My favorite DOTS yet.

JSmith53

]]> <![CDATA[1969 Lincoln Continental]]> Tits on glass.

Meat Farley

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