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Me & My Automotive: East Bay man gave son household’s ’76 Lincoln Continental

Editorial Board Published October 13, 2024
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The Lincoln Continental was developed largely as a result of Edsel Ford wished a novel private automotive.

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In 1938, Edsel Ford, vacationed in Europe and was impressed with a number of the European styling, together with vehicles with a rear-mounted spare tire. He commissioned Eugene “Bob” Gregorie to construct a convertible. Gregorie began with the blueprints of the fashionable and in style Lincoln-Zephyr and is alleged to have accomplished the preliminary sketch for the automotive in about an hour.

Working boards have been eliminated, and the automotive was about 7 inches decrease than the usual Lincoln. Edsel Ford wished it in time for his March 1939 trip in Florida so he might present it to his rich buddies to see in the event that they favored the styling. They did.

Not a lot chrome was used, largely simply within the grille. It had a 267-cubic-inch V12 engine, and the automotive used transverse leaf springs within the entrance and rear like all the opposite Ford merchandise of the day. Amazingly, Gregorie completed the automotive on time, and it was despatched to Florida.

Edsel despatched a telegram again to Michigan that he might promote a thousand of them. As a result of the design was a results of the European vehicles Edsel had seen whereas abroad, it was determined the brand new Lincoln automotive needs to be named Continental.

Manufacturing began nearly instantly with many of the autos made as Cabriolet convertibles and just some coupes. They have been primarily hand-built autos — two dozen 1939 fashions and 400 constructed as 1940 fashions, however all have been bought as 1940 fashions.

Recognizable options of the Continental have been the lengthy hood and the quick rear deck with a spare tire mounted behind the trunk. The beginning of the primary technology of Continental started. It ran within the 1940-42 and 1946-48 mannequin years, and now 10 generations of Continental have been made.

This situation’s featured automobile is from the fifth technology: a 1976 Lincoln Continental Mark IV owned by David Barlow, of Danville, who advised me this attention-grabbing story.

“In 1976, my father was driving down Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco and saw in the then-Lincoln Mercury dealership showroom the most beautiful yellow Lincoln he had ever seen. He parked his car, went inside and bought it off the showroom floor. It was the pride and joy of his life and the pride and joy of the family.”

After his father’s loss of life, Barlow’s mom handed the automotive on to him, and he drove it as a household automotive for about 15 years however didn’t stick with it.

“In 1995, we parked the automotive in a dust lot in Clayton which had the most affordable storage cost,” Barlow stated. “Throughout that point, the customized high got here off, and mice invaded the automotive, chewed up the leather-based inside and the engine wires and made a house within the air filter.

“In 2005, I made a decision to revive the automotive to honor my late father. I had no thought what I used to be doing however did have a son dwelling in Denver who occurred to know a meticulous automotive restorer. We shipped to automotive to Denver for what we thought could be a year-long mission and price about $15,000. The mission took 5 years and $70,000.”

The automotive has been restored to precisely because it was when bought new in 1976 and runs prefer it’s new as properly. Barlow smiles and waves when he will get thumbs-up indicators whereas driving the automotive domestically. On Sept. 27, this stunning Lincoln was shipped off to their son, making him the third-generation household proprietor. And that’s the pleased a part of this story.

And now for the unhappy a part of the story. David and Jan Barlow have lived in Danville for 48 years, and each are 79 years outdated. David has been recognized with bladder most cancers, and Jan has leukemia. Their massive want now’s that they are going to be capable to have fun their eightieth birthdays collectively and with out ache. That’s my want as properly.

Have an attention-grabbing automobile? E mail Dave at [email protected]. To learn extra of his columns or see extra images of this and different points’ autos, go to mercurynews.com/creator/david-krumboltz.

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