<![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> My first car was a 1973 Mark IV, a hand-me-down from my mother. It had larger front bumper to conform to newly founded federal regulations which weren't in effect Wes Dahlberg first penned the design. It was chocolate brown - a color that is currently making a comeback - with tan leather waffle designed seats and a matching vinyl roof. It was a fabulous car and I regret having sold it... Thanks for the trip down memory lane

Enyce

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> My first car was a 1973 Mark IV, identifiable by the more prominent front bumper. It was phenomenal. Brown with a tan leather interior (think barcelona chair design). It could fit six friends in the backseat. Good times! I hated having to sell it

Enyce

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> @wookie909: Your story makes me sad.

carlivar

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> @Froggmann: Of all cars affected by the crash bumper mandate of 1973-74, the Mark was probably messed up the most, aesthetically speaking. The '72 model shows how the turn-under of the bumpers was key to the design and imparted some sleekness to a huge car. The crash bumpers destroyed the sleekness and just left it looking huge and clumsy.

MadHungarian

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> @Froggmann: oh my god I had a 72 Lincoln connie in that very color with a green top, damn that thing was a boat.

Judd Sandage

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> I liked the 429 police interceptor engine better that year, otherwise velly niice.

DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> Sweet find! The 72 small bumper cars were a one year only phenomenon, and the best looking of the breed, IMO.

Here are a couple of pics of mine...

[www.lincolnsonline.com]

doctorv8

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> In 1970s TV dramas, leading men drove cars like these.

mobilene

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> is it sleeping with its eyes opened?

Pastrafer

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> @SundaySunday: He got a custom Continental... he got an Eldorado, too.

FuzzyPlushroom

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> Big-block, check. Convertible, check. No front bumper, for better weight distribution - check!

And those look like those might be red leather seats, to top it off. LOVE.

FuzzyPlushroom

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> Since everyone keeps talking aobut he roofline on these things I figure I might as well illustrate:

Sorry no pic of the front, Camera ran out of batteries when I returned to the car.

Froggmann

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> @Brian B:

Thanks. I wil add some more photos sometimes.
The giulia stood outside the local kindergarden.
Ohh, it looks like the nsu suddenly moved to page 2. well, well.

Elderly Douche

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> This car ... top down ... funk playing ... cigar blazin' ... driving down 95 to the Keys.

THAT, my friends, would be LIVIN'!

DonSchenck

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> @warpig: Nice! I especially like the Gulia Super. I used to have a '67 and I LOVED that car.

Brian B

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> My Grandpa had one of these. Silver with a silver vinyl top and blood red leather interior. It was pristine. It was his baby. When I was 17, Grandpa needed to borrow my truck and so I got to drive this tank for a week. I hated it. I called it the Pimpmobile. I learned to use the hood ornament as a guide while driving down narrow residential streets. Did I mention that he had Village People cassettes in the car (and this was in 1994)? It got 6 mpg. When he finally came back to get his car, he shot me a dirty look and said, "So, you're finally getting rid of the Pimpmobile, eh?" He sold the car soon afterward.

wookie909

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Trying a bit of that old tread-jaking thing: Anyone remenber the ro80 i mention a few days back? Well, I though some of you might be interested in a pics or two of it. Unfortunately my camera tend to delete a photo now and then, but I have uploaded those who did not suffer that fate.

While it isn't a Dots, do keep in mind that it's daily-driven and parks under open sky.

And I'm still hoping that someday, somehow it wil be an dots.

[www.flickr.com]

Elderly Douche

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> My grandmother had one of these since new, it was brown with a malaise cream leather interior. Power everything, I used to play with the power seat joy stick for hours. Everyone was always impressed with her ability to park this thing. Unlike most barges from this era all the junk was in the front, so parallel parking was a breeze, just don't try to look out the back window. This was the first car I drove with my mother, the throttle tip in was ludicrous, tap the gas = 30 mph, idle 15mph. It was always garaged and looked great until she got rid of it in 83 for an 84 humpback Seville. Reason for sale, frame rails rotted out. It was sold to a local gas jockey. Thanks for the memories, this for you grandma, Happy Mother's day.

Iturnrightandleft

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> With the wine soaked Mini above this, it must be "French Connection" day on Jalopnik.

Mjolnir427

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> Where's Popeye Doyle when you need him?

Mjolnir427

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> @drk1313: Purty.

DannyBN

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> Picture of my Custom Mark IV - I really think this model's lines are sublime...
[elcaminocentral.com]

drk1313

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> As @DannyBN: pointed out this is definitely a custom. Unfortunately, the top appears to have been done on the cheap, without the structure and padding needed to match the line of the original roof, which gave this car such a sweet and balanced profile. I like the fact that this car is being used and has at least a whiff of "work in progress" about it. I particularly like the one "downtown" whitewall on the left front tire, while the rest appear to be more in line with the width of the era. My brother-in-law had one of these and, as someone else pointed out, this design looked remarkably light on its feet for such a big car.

Eldorado

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> I was looking for Cannon, Frank Cannon, played by the corpulent william Conrad.

cargogh

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> @DannyBN: That is NOT a hideous thing. It's beautiful. And if one follows you home and you don't want it, I'll come get it.

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> @west-coaster: That was a Mark III iirc.

tenbeers

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> @SundaySunday: And an Eldorado, too.

Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> Wasn't one of these used (with a chopped top and lots of customizing) in the cheap-o horror film 'The Car' starring James Brolin?

west-coaster

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> These boats were queens of the highways!

smokeydog001

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> Oops. I forgot this hideous thing was a "Mark".

DannyBN

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> @DannyBN: The original Lincoln Continental (it wasn't called the Mark I, but its successor was called the Mark II) was a convertible. The Mark III was also available as a factory convertible. There are a couple of well-known Mark II conversions also:

[auto.howstuffworks.com]

But those aren't factory jobs.

I don't think any other Mark's were factory convertibles, but I could be wrong on that...

ShastaMcNasty

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> I'm digging those white walls.

WheatKing

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> This car makes me want to drench myself in Jovan musk and mildly sexually harass the ladies at my workplace.

LT1

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> If I'm headed the luxobarge route, I'd prefer the Mark V. It's ridiculously even larger, even more crisp, and I can spend my time deciding among the various designer special editions--Bill Blass, Givenchy, Cardin, etc.

CharlzR

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> for a really really big car, I always thought the Mark IV was quite graceful looking. A middle school teacher of mine drove one, and I remember thinking that she made a lot of money to have one and I should seriously consider a career in education since it was obviously so lucrative.
Little did I know she was a real estate agent on the side...

abgwin

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> For some reason, I can never look at these cars without Jim Croce's Bad, Bad Leroy Brown popping into my head.

SundaySunday

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> I never liked the Mark IV looks - too fat and bloated. However, once I saw a really nice white '68-'71 Continental Mark III convertible conversion - now *that* was seriously nice.

tonyola

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> There is a Mark IV in my neigborhood I have been meaning to take pictures of. It is in better condition then this one.

Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> I customized a '72 Mark - removed the vinyl roof, torque thrust rims, slightly lowered - it looked like a giant Hot Wheels car. Everyone wondered what it was whenever I took it out. Removing the roof on this car lost one of the Mark's signature items - the oval 'opera window'. I wish I knew enough to post a picture of mine!

drk1313

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> That is not in great shape for a Mark IV. It really looks like the bodywork has suffered from not being reinforced from the addition of the convertible top.

cgarison

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> It's probably from watching too much Futurama, but I'm picturing the owner of this car having a noticable underbite to match the missing bumper (much like how the Planet Express ship had the same jawline as the humanoid characters).

Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> 4,800 pounds? Isn't that like a new Civic?

I'm not one to lust after luxo-barges, but that is one sharp looking vehicle. I really dig the mismatched whitewalls, too.

smalleyxb122

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> Wow. That would be an awesome car to restore. Great lines.

deckard97

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> Definitely a custom. The Mark series was never offered with a convertible style.

DannyBN

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> can we take up a charity drive and raise money to buy this person a front bumper?

Mazda Eric has his own radio show

]]> <![CDATA[1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV]]> drooooooooooollllll....

Mazda Eric has his own radio show

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