The seller says this 1958 Lincoln Premier 4-Door Landau (hardtop) is in almost new condition, and I believe it. There aren’t a lot of photos, and a lot of them are at Batman angles for some reason, but what we can see looks impressive. They have it posted here on craigslist in North Phoenix, Arizona, and they’re asking $21,500. Here is the original listing, and thanks to T.J. for the tip!
Believe it or not, this gigantic 19-foot-long car, this car that weighs over two-and-a-half tons, is a unibody design. As in, it doesn’t have a traditional body-on-frame construction. In 1958, the big Premier was built on a similar platform as the higher-level Continental Mark III/IV/V sedans and coupes. This car is absolutely mind-blowing, appearance-wise, and I hope it’s as solid and rust-free as it appears to be.
Designers shook up the palette and threw almost anything and everything at this space-age behemoth. I love the detail, although the exhaust sticking out under the corners of the rear bumper really seems like an oversight. It could have, should have, been designed into cutouts within the rear bumper. Am I right? Otherwise, this car screams “space race” to me, and the second-gen Premiers were made from 1958, 1959, and 1960.
The exterior of this gorgeous car looks perfect to me. I don’t see a single flaw anywhere, and the seller says it has 79,000 miles and is in “almost new condition” and has full power accessories, although it appears to have manual vent windows. THE HUMANITY! One thing Lincoln advertising touted would be the “small but important luxuries”, like five ashtrays with individual lighters. Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em! The Scotch Leather and Cable Weave fabric seats look perfect, both front and rear. I wish we had photos of the trunk compartment and the underside.
This is as close as we get to an engine photo, unfortunately, but it’s better than nothing, I guess. This should be Ford’s 430-cu.in. OHV V8, which was factory-rated at 375 horsepower and 490 lb-ft of torque when new. It’s backed by a Turbo-Drive automatic sending power to the rear wheels, and the seller doesn’t say how it runs, but they say, in general, that there are no disappointments with this car. Any thoughts on this spectacular space-age Premier?
Boy Scotty, I am pretty sure I saw Perry Mason wheeling a black one of these in last nights episode. This is some ride ! Like five ashtrays with individual lighters. Sign me up. I will look again tonight, maybe it will show up again.
Imagine a madman carpool with five businessman smoking all with individual ashtrays and a lighter. Now that’s true luxury. But anyway, its on Craiglist so it will probaby stall out once you hand over your cash. No mention of factory air, hate to get a sunstoke in this beast. Manual vent handles were normal. Made you aware better of opening and closing to prevent theft. Good call on the rear exhaust, but bumper is not designed to allow pipe entry. This car in the day screamed success.. wealth and a total disregard of being conservative.. decadence is the definitive word here. jv smashpalace
Wow, someone will end up with a nice car. Price seems very good for the condition. Amazing they are still out there in this shape.
58, 59, and 60 Lincolns look the same, but the 58 is the one to get, it’s the most powerful.p
Hi Mike! Long time no see! And yeah,
Raymond Burr did indeed drive one on
Perry Mason. Angel Cadillac Queen
Diva mentioned something about that
recently. And there is one thing I find
disappointing about these cars is the
propensity to vapor lock on hot days.
Had a ’59 hardtop like this one that
vapor locked on me right in the middle of a date. The young lady I was dating got so pissed off that she
never dated me again. She dated a football player whose parents bought him a spanking new Mach 1 (’70 I think) with a 429 CJ in it. And since we know how torquey these beasts were, it didn’t surprise me one bit when the motor mounts worked themselves loose allowing the engine and tranny to fall out of the car right in front of the school! Karma? Dunno, but I sold the Lincoln to a guy
who turned it into a pimp mobile. Were I to buy this car, I’d run out right
away and get one of those anti vapor lock kits by Ronco! Keeps your Ford
running trouble free! Just install the
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I remember using that product!
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I remember Perry driving a 58 Cadillac. I believe Paul Drake (Dennis Hopper, son of Hedda Hopper) drove a Lincoln. More useless trivia 😑 But Oh what fun driving through the BARN.
Ironically, an ad for Lincoln Corsair popped up while watching. What a difference, and not in a good way. The 58 was a Premiere example of LINCOLN, what a Luxury CAR should be. The Corsair, IMO has less appeal than a Corvair. As previously stated, my current Town Car Signature Limited is the last gasp of traditional American Luxury sedans. Unfortunately Lincolns 58-60 attempt to-out Cadillac Cadillac fell far short of that goal in the sales department. As for this Lincoln, as usual I must declare 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?
“Other cars part like the Red Sea to get out of the way!”
I can attest to that statement from personal experience with my 58 Premiere.
Drove it to Boston to visit my sister in the early 70’s. All the rotaries were clogged with all the Nissans and Toyotas, and you could see them slam on their brakes when my “white whale” entered a rotary.
Of course, my sister had pre-warned me that the “proper” way to use a rotary in Boston was to simply assume you had the right-of-way (even if you didn’t), and just proceed.
Must have scared the bejeebers out of some of them to see a vehicle that was almost literally twice as long as theirs coming at them with the attitude of a shark closing in for the kill.
I really enjoyed myself driving around during that visit. :)
IMHO: This Lincoln must have been designed on a bad day in the design studio.
I don’t recall gray being a standard Lincoln color and I’m always leery of gray cars because gray hides a lot of stuff. It’s true that the 58 was the most powerful of the three years of these cars production but the 60 was the one for the least amount of problems. In 59 they lowered the HP to try and get better mileage but I don’t think that worked very well. 60 was lowered HP again and they still got 8 mph going up hill both ways in two feet of snow on the way to school and home. The big thing in 58 was the coil spring suspension in the rear. It gave the best ride ever but the flat bottom of the car tended to make the car float and drift over 80 mph and wasn’t very safe at high speed. The 59 and 60 floated too but with the new leaf spring suspension (rear only) for those two years the ride was better controlled and safer. Of course you should never drive one of these cars at high speed because the brakes fell way short of a quick stop after 45mph or so. At 70 they faded out bad and the car kept right on going. That was scary to say the least. And then there is the vapor lock problem that never was fixed that I know of. One thing that did appear helpful was insulation wrapped around the fuel pump and the gas line to the carb with another piece under the intake manifold on the valley pan. Asbestos was the best to use but hard to come by now. These are the problems I had with my 58 convertible and my 60 four door Landau. Vapor lock was a problem as long as they used the 430 and the 460 and I have not ever heard of any way to eliminate it. Those two engines were the best ones I ever owned except for the v-lock. These cars are the greatest for a fun ride but I think that 21k is a lot for a four door and I don’t see any air conditioning in there either. I wouldn’t like to have to drive that car in the summer.
The ultimate 4 wheeled tank.
I certainly wouldn’t describe this car as gorgeous. I would use other words not best used here. But ‘58 was a terrible year for everyone except Studebaker.
Compare this to the ‘57 Continental from a day or two ago. No, wait- you can’t!
Thank God it doesn’t have that dreadful flow thru rear window. I never had any animosity towards the flow thru but it was the reverse angle that got me. Very unattractive on such a large car. Never understood way the angle had to be reversed. Wasn’t until ’67/’68 that they reversed the reverse but then it only lowered a couple inches. So what was the point?
Anyway, except for the color this is a gorgeous car and in MY personal opinion, gave Cadillac a run for its money in 1958.
Ford danced to its own drummer during the fin craze years and always had minimal fins.
But this car would look really good in my driveway.
Hey Good Lookin! What ya got cookin? East coast? Or back to Vegas? Your comment reminds me of an OLD cw song 🎵 I was lookin back to see 🎵 If you was lookin back at me 🎶 . Well here’s lookin at ya! 👀 👋 BTW, check out those DAGMARS! 😲
Oh yeah! The reverse slant was supposed to be for keeping rain out, but more likely for styling and also to slide down behind rear seat, allowing more trunk space. I’m surprised Uncle Vito didn’t tell you about that! 😅 🤣
@Rick W
Still east coast. For the next year at least.
I understand the reasoning behind the reverse slant, but to me it’s ugly. Now a days with sensors everywhere, they could put a rain sensor somewhere on the car to put the window up automatically when it starts to rain.
And answer your question of what’s cooking? It should be obvious. Makin’ bacon. 😁
To all my land yacht guys and gals, hope ya’ll had a wonderful Easter and welcome to Spring……. sunshine, warmer weather, car shows. 😉
Sep maybe our down under friends, going into fall & winter. 🌬❄️
@ DIVA QUEEN.. hmmm! Making Bacon? Well I N V U ! Just be careful. Don’t want you to get the 👏 Here? Another new day. Same old 💩. Maybe I’m the 💩. Did you catch the 69 Eldorado with Chateau Mauve Firemist interior? Still Rolling down hill and finding it harder to get up the next! Trying to Keep Calm and Carry On facing a world of uncertainty. Would you believe in a different post when I sent LOL someone responded it meant Laughing Out Loud? Well sending BOTH to you.
I forgot some FoMoCo had the hood hinged backwards. I especially like when cars/trucks came with vertical headlights. Even more rare when some had angled headlights.
@Rick W
I did catch the ’69 Eldo.
Was not impressed. 1) didn’t care for the color. 2) hated the interior
3) had a black ’70 for all of 4 hours. (you know the story) and 4) really prefer the ’71s & up.
We have had some fabulous land yachts on here lately, from all the luxo barge makes. Some reasonably priced, others not so much. But that’s the vintage car game. A car is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
5,000 pounds is nothing to sneeze at but isn’t any worse than modern day large SUVs or a lot of EVs with a heavy battery pack.
The interior dashboard steering wheel photo made me think of adding a snow globe to the steering wheel hub/horn button for some added glitz.
I like both breezeway and the traditional rear window with a nod to the traditional rear window as it makes the car appear lower.
An interesting/scary video to watch is a Chrysler produced video comparing ride/handling characteristics of an Imperial, Cadillac and Lincoln…I think the comparison year was 1958 or 1959.
@Sam61
It does make the car look sleeker doesn’t it?
Can you post a YouTube address on that Chrysler video you mentioned?
Hi Rick! Saw the song you posted to Angel and I had to smile. One of the best Hank Williams impersonators I ever saw was none other than Faron Young. Got to see and hear him do that on my first tour in 1970. And if you closed your eyes, you saw
Hank standing there singing to you. I was 15 going on 16 then and it was something I never forgot– that and the time that some dumbass promoter booked them to play at the same venue. I wasn’t there, but some of my friends were. I was told that they took the stage to sing a duet, you could cut the tension with a knife as they tried to make nice while sharing the same stage. And by them, I mean the feud between Faron Young and Webb Pierce. They just couldn’t stand one another. And it usually wound up a pier 6 brawl when they were in the same building. And their can you top this attitude bullcrap was downright childish. Webb Pierce bought a ’63 Pontiac Bonniville
ragtop that was fitted with different kinds of guns all over the body of the car. And upon hearing that, Faron Young goes out and buys himself a guitar shaped swimming pool! Hey Norm, how are you doing on the ’57 Premiere ragtop you bought here a
few months ago? Fine I hope. Would like to see the end result
sometime. And don’t forget the anti vapor lock kit!