Tailfins exploded onto the scene in model year 1957, and Lincoln fitted them to its line-topping Premiere. This 1957 Lincoln Premiere convertible in Long Beach, California can’t be missed in resplendent pink with a complimentary pink and black interior. The seller details the car’s appearances in movies and magazines. There might even be a smudge on the hood from Kylie Jenner’s backside. A 460 V8, power front disc brakes, and other components from a 1972 Ford Thunderbird improve this Lincoln’s performance and road manners, according to the listing here on eBay. Bidding has eclipsed $19,000 with about five days remaining.
Subtle meant boring in the late ’50s luxury car market, and this imposing face kept with the style of the times. Despite wanting to own a 1957 Premiere, I wish Lincoln had done something different with the grille. Fog lights below the headlights and redundant parking lights add visibility and safety to this high-end ride. Dual spotlights were a common add-on in the ’50s, useful for finding lost dogs and lighting your passenger’s way to their doorstep.
Tip your hat to the restoration shop that integrated the later 460 cid (7.5L) Ford V8 into the Premiere while using the original paint colors and air cleaner housing. While the dual-circuit master cylinder and brake booster confess their ’70s origin, the ’50s color scheme goes a long way toward making this engine bay feel mostly like an Eisenhower-era classic.
Some photos ring more artistic than functional for selling a vehicle, but the pink and black leather looks great, and what looks like the factory power window controls bring luxury to your fingertips. Other niceties include air conditioning and power locks.
Gorgeous fins terminate in cathedral tail lights above full-width chrome trim. The latter adds flash while visually merging the bumper into the body at the level of the waist trim at the sides. Large reverse light openings echo the marker lights from the grille. Nobody will mistake this Premiere for a blue collar ride from behind. Where does the ’57 Lincoln Premiere rank on your list of favorite fin cars?
You lost me at “Kylie Jenner’s backside.” Yuck. No, thanks.
Beautiful car. But I couldn’t live with the pink paint job. Sorry.
I had a pink 57. I was the 2nd owner. It wasn’t a color I liked. I bought it in 1963 for $500.00 and sold it in 1967 for $500.00 with a bad Trans. Accept for the color, it was a great car. Mine was stock with the 368 Y-Block. I had no complaints with the engine. Plenty of power.
I like it. I have heard some comments on this site warning about old Lincolns using hydraulics to operate the power windows and top. Maybe this is a later example? No matter, nineteen large and climbing puts me out of the running, but I sure would like to take this beauty for a ride, despite the pink color.
I owned a 56 Lincoln and it definitely had electric windows. I had to replace several of the motors.
A PREMIER 👍Lincoln displaying the grand OTT excessive chromed, finned, colorful magnificence of The Fabulous 50S. The epitome of elegance and luxury. The 57 was a face (or TAIL) lift of the 56 Lincoln (only American car to win an award for design from an industrial design organization). 56 was indeed beautiful, but 57 IMO was even better 👌, rivaling Chryslers Forward Look. The 58 through 60 Lincolns were even larger. For me the famed 61 redesign was a complete disappointment. Eventually Lincoln returned to OTT excessive American chromed gargantuan Devine Decadence! 🏆. Have had numerous Town Cars, including my current 2007 Signature Limited. The last gasp of traditional American Luxury sedans! Not at all practical at my age, BUT my checking account is calling.
Where can you find a NEW vehicle of any kind for under $20,000? This is truly an amazing Bon Marche!
Sorry, Rick W., have to disagree. In my mind, Ford/Lincoln took the beautiful ’56 and fudged it up, following market trends. Four headlight look and fins. Were all ’57 rear bumpers that long, or is this one missing the spare from the continental kit?
Scotty, Fortunately in the USA 🇺🇸 we are STILL able to have our own opinions 😀! Not sure how much longer! 🤔. The 56 was a beauty. Actually just realized the similarity of this Lincolns FINS to 57 Chrysler. Look closely at rear bumper. There is no room for a Continental kit. Like everything else I love about this Lincoln, that bumper IS huge!
Nobody is buying this Lincoln for under $20,000. The 19,000+ bid hasn’t hit the reserve.
As far as the ’56 to ’57 transformation, I can’t recall the author, but I read an article where it was compared to putting a beehive hairdo on the Mona Lisa, and I can’t think of a more appropriate description.
My absolute favorite year and model Lincoln. Love the pink. I remember my Uncle had a Lime Green 💚 ’57 Premier Hardtop and also a black one when I was boy. Loved those cars !!
Rick I’m also a Lincoln lover but have a had time deciding between the 56 or 57 totally different but as a 11 year old I’m 1956 friend of mine Dad had a new premier 4 Dr with air conditioning and to a 11 year old back then a car with all power everything and ac I was in love so the 56 has a special place in my hart when I got older had own business always drove Lincolns mostly town cars except for one mark V
In u.s. it’s not much but in France at Saint Tropez during the annual Film Fest week it’d cause a sensation every wanna be star would want a picture wearing their BIG HATS 👒.
Kentucky Derby week is big for these cars & big Hat wearing women.
I think even Pam Anderson had a HUGE GIANT HAT.
Does it come with a Hat?
Please see my comment about Zaza! It went to the wrong place 😕!
The people that actually care about this car are unfortunately dead . It might as well be a 1928 Hupmobile
I’m not dead yet. Vintage 1947 Rolls Canardly( Roll down one hill and Can ardly get up the next) LOVES ❤ it’s HUGE! It guzzles gas! It pollutes the air! It scares the birds! Other cars part like the Red Sea to get out of the way! What’s not to love? Unfortunately young people have no concept of automobiles like this, being brainwashed into believing SUVS, crossovers, melted jelly beans and sports cars are the most desirable! 🤮 BUT even some younger people take notice of my TOWN CAR! 😃
Please see my comment about Zaza below! 😃
If it does not come with a touchscreen, people under 30 year old are not interested in a car. ;-)
Canadian Friend,
I’ve noticed most Gen X-ers and Gen Z-ers can’t back a car up without a backup camera.
I’m 70 and would give my eye teeth to own this car! It’s a Lincoln, it’s a ’57, it’s a convertible and it’s pink! What’s not to love?
no there not I’m still here born in 1945 remember these cars well
Zaza, the Toast of St. Tropez, would not only wear a hat, but flip his wig for this beauty! 🎵 It’s big and beautiful 🎶 and somewhat bizarre! 🎵 but it raises the bar! 🎶 IT’S also truly GRAND! 🎵 It may be the biggest in the land! 🎶 At LA Cage Au Faux! 🏰 🏳️🌈 💪
A rockabilly hot rodder should buy this for their babe.
Who would drive it wearing her best poodle skirt.
Props to the person for making the 460 look like the original MEL.
Remember a🎵 Guy Named Dooley 🎶 wears pink shoes 🎵 and a purple hat band! 🎶 Those WERE the days 🎵! 😄 😁 🤣
I remember that song
This car is beautiful.
Anyone in the “Old Car” hobby knows Bob Huff, and that his cars are fantastic.
Whoever buys it will really enjoy this car.
Allen L,
Wrong decade. Poodle skirts are the 50s and early 60s.
This beauty requires a 70s disco era leotard and wrap skirt with high heels and a Farrah Fawcet hairdo. All of which I wore back in 1976.
no keep it with 50s stuff add white buck shoes and guys with da haircut and lots of brielcream may not be spelt rt hair cream and fuzzy dice those where the days
Al, the first thing to go when you get old is your memory. I don’t know why I posted that comment here. I think it was supposed to go to a different post. Maybe the ’76 Cadillac I was looking at. Definitely had a brainfart at that moment.
Please excuse the comment, as I couldn’t find a way to delete or remove it.
Angela, having owned numerous upscale vehicles, I am now a Vintage Rolls Canardly. 😲 I Roll down one hill and Can ardly get up the next. But still driving and trying to THRIVE! Think of ALL we have lived through and ENDURED! 👍 💐
I don’t care I think your description of a lady in this car dressed in disco era would look good just because why shouldn’t she.
Nice Car, they could have used it in Goodfellas or Bronx Tale movies along with some others.
Beeeeutiful deserves to get up to and past the six figure mark, in spite of the num-nuts that comment on something they have no idea about!
My favorite Lincoln of all! At least it has a reasonable trunk unlike the ’61-’67 convertibles. The styling, to my mind, beats Caddy of ’57 and is almost as good as Imperial. A real sympathetic update of the power train etc. The color is not for everyone.
As a 16 year old car nut when this car came out, I feel qualified to say that if you weren’t around in those days you might not understand just how beautiful and exciting this car and others of the era were. Style was king, and too much was just enough. There was no leasing or long term financing so a car like this one shouted to the lower income folks that you had arrived.
This 1947 Vintage Rolls Canardly (Roll down one hill and Can ardly get up the next) fondly recalls those halcyon years of glorious OTT excessive chromed luxury. Ultimate examples for me were 58 Buick and Cadillac Sixty Specials! Still believe Too Much is NOT enough!
had a 1958 caddy sixty special loved that car it originally had air bags but had been covered to springs lower rear quarters all chrome had white leather interior great car
…and September 21st was an annual “holiday”. The day the new cars came out.
yes new models can out in sept I can remember a ford dealer when I was real young keep them covered till official date we used to climb over fence try and look under the covers kids now a day don’t know what real fun is
The chrome /fin era of the fifties design appeals to many people today, unlike the average car of 1928 which was a box with wagon wheels, Jordan, Lincoln,etc.couple exceptions. The upgrades to this Lincoln are sensible and should keep it on the road for many years .
The ‘50s of course had the most outrageous car styling of any other decade— those wild tail fins!— tons of chrome!—what were they thinking?!
But some designs were somehow bizarre and beautiful at the same time. This wasn’t one of them. The front grill
Is downright homely— sorry.
some of the best looking cars ever made where in the 50s bright colors and lots of chrome fender skirts and continental kits loud dual exhaust and the sound of a 4 barrel without the air cleaner on great times
Well, where the fin era is concerned, I have a limited tolerance. To me this looks a bit like an extreme makeover of the ’56 model, which despite its portly look still looked good. But the fins don’t bug me quite so much as the fake scoops at the forward ends of the fins; they serve no purpose at all save to increase wind drag. Given a choice, I’d rather stick with the Mark II, which though not a Lincoln in that year was really *the* best car America made in that decade, both in looks (though I’d have preferred curved side glass, but Exner didn’t belong to Ford) and in construction quality.
As for this car, they don’t give all the details to the power train conversions. What about the transmission? I just know that the first-gen automatic used in that year would not mate straight up to a second-gen OHV engine like the 460. To use that engine, they’d have to have swapped the transmission as well, though I’m guessing such a swap might have been easier than it would be for any of the unitized Lincolns that followed. So, what did they use? Likely a C-6 of sorts, but which variant? If the brake conversion works as it should, then that is a bona-fide upgrade. The only problems with those swaps is that the shop manuals are effectively tossed into the trash, leaving no real reference to perform repairs when needed (and yes, they will be, eventually). It would be nice if the seller or whoever directed those conversions wrote up a new shop manual for this car, or at least an outline of pointers for mechanics to do cross-references.
50’s Era most beautiful automobile? … Continental Mark II for the win!!
so many great cars in the 50s hard to choose but the mark 2 not on my list to plain and boring for the times parents friend in 1956 bought one new 10k plus lot of money back then I was 11 years old car didn’t impress me liked 1956 mercury better with skirts and continental kits
Don’t you think the car sit too high? Especially at the front.
Rick W.,
It is my opinion that we (babyboomers) have lived through the best time life has to offer. In vehicles alone, it doesn’t get any better. The only era I consider better, is the Victorian Era and they didn’t even have cars!
Millineals, Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, I feel really bad for them, but, I guess in their minds, theirs is the best time. Time will tell. History will tell.
I have to agree with you I’m not a babyboomer but close I was born in 1945 boomers start in 1946 but agree 50 s and 60s best time ever to grow up in mostly in the cars and most of us can drive a standard shift 3 on the tree
And we can drive a manual transmission car, arthritis be dammed! Love this Lincoln! Speaking of those generations, cars from the 30s, 40s, 50, 60s, 70s, maybe 80s will be come more affordable for us as they don’t relate to them. Watch the prices of 80s and 90s rice rockets go sky high. Fine by me. Maybe that 57 Desoto in my dreams will finally be obtainable on my budget LOL
Arthur Ritis? Wasn’t he a silent film star who appeared in some Marx brothers films along with Margaret DuMont? And one of my dream cars is a 61 DeSoto! No DUCK ing the Issue, 😉. Keep Dreaming! God bless.