The Lincoln Continental wasn’t the first car that lost out to the higher profit margin SUV trend that’s been happening for a couple of decades now, if not more. This 1967 Lincoln Continental Coupe can be found posted here on craigslist in beautiful Vancouver, Washington and the seller is asking what seems like a very reasonable $3,500. Here is the original listing.
The Continental went away after the 2020 model year at least in part to Lincoln wanting to sell more SUVs. Bummer. I still have nightmares about selling my 1966 Lincoln Continental Coupe about three years ago. Other than not buying Amazon or Apple stock in 1999, that may have been the biggest mistake of my life and is certainly the biggest mental mistake if not my biggest financial mistake. As in, who cares how valuable something is if you love it. I loved that gigantic car, which was the main problem: I had to pay for a storage unit to have it parked anywhere but in our driveway, it was too big for our garage at the time.
You can see that this example isn’t exactly in trailer queen condition. But really, since 2020, most of us have fallen into disrepair. Part of me loves the faded paint (*cringing* – “patina”) on this car, but should a luxurious Lincoln Continental really have patina? I vote no, how about you? Lincoln reintroduced the Continental Coupe for the 1966 model year and they are very cool cars and very heavy and thirsty, but again… (aren’t we all) (you know my schtick by now, sorry). I don’t see any glaring issues with this particular car, at least exterior-wise.
The seller does say that it’s not ready to be driven home despite having a lot of work thrown at it and/or lavished on it over the recent past. I’m assuming that this car had a vinyl top at one time which has been removed, but overall, the body appears to be in reasonable condition. The seller says that it’s been sitting for a long time and they have put a lot of money into it but it could use more work, which is usually the case. Hagerty is at $13,100 for a #4 fair condition car and $25,100 for a #3 good condition car. This one is very doable.
A few weeks ago, a reader gave me hell for comparing one of my vehicles to one for sale that I was showing you here on Barn Finds. I thought it would be fun to see the differences but they thought it was bragging or me just being a ____ or who knows what. Here goes anyway – here’s a photo showing the interior of my car, which I paid $5,100 for, minus about $900 in shipping, eons ago when the world was more normal than it was now – at least as far as prices went (2017). The seller doesn’t give us much in the way of interior photos, just two, and it looks fairly rough inside (compared to mine), much rougher than the outside looks to me.
They show a big and somewhat scary-looking trunk, but the really big thing is at the other end: a compartment housing a 340-hp 462 cubic-inch V8 with 485 lb-ft of torque. This car has “new dual exhaust from the engine to the tailpipes, new water pump, radiator, removed and cleaned the fuel tank, new brakes”, but they also say, “the engine has some lifter noise and it shouldn’t be driven” which is a bummer because these are unbelievable cars to drive when they’re in nice condition. I hope someone can buy this one and bring it back to its former glory.
So in early 1974, you couldn’t give these away. So of course, I brought one. $500 for a 67, triple white. Gas was only available 3 days a week, and the only thing it would run on was Sunoco 260. I could never afford to actually drive it, so it sat on the street in SF, where we sat and smoked and played the radio.
I just happen to know about Scottys Lincoln, his situation resonates through the classic car hobby, how do store or fix the darn thing. He loved that car, even though it stranded him( fuel delivery issue, I believe) and was a tough decision to sell. A small car is one thing, but a car or truck of this size, limits ownership, might want to keep that in mind. Scottys car hit a nerve with me, like many of his BF posts, I took my drivers test on my old mans ’68 4 door Lincoln. I passed 1st time, I think the examiner was impressed. 400 times up and down the driveway surely helped. This car? ( love the 4 gas filters) Sigh, ol’ Hank would spin in his grave if the best car he made looked like this. Gonna cost you, as restorations of this kind are almost futile, we just don’t use or need cars like this, plus when we all drove these types of cars, it fit right in, today, not so much. As far as anyone ripping on ANY authors post, well, they can cram it with walnuts, I enjoy all the authors posts here. It shows he’s actually human, as I see it, anyway. You want a sweet ride, and some cash to fix this, you shan’t be disappointed. Gas shouldn’t be an issue,,,yeah, right.
I know everyone has a reason for selling their cars but it would have been extremely painful to sell a car like Scotty’s! Looks like it was awesome. Love these big boats. 👍
Hi Howard!! Always a pleasure to read your comments. But especially on Father’s Day sitting on the deck with my daughter. It’s like getting a tenner from my Pop when I headed out on a date. As usual I agree wholeheartedly.
Not familiar with the term “cram it with walnuts “. Would that be whole walnuts or shelled ones?
I’m not being negative on this car, but a Continental with suicide doors has far more appeal to me. Maybe I’m crazy.
I jump on this one…. If it wasn’t about as far away as it could be, I’m South of Miami. But I do All right with My 91 Coup DeVille.
I’ve aways liked this design and big fat cars. Certainly out of step with today’s nonsense on the road, which are actually computers, not cars. I have no room for it otherwise I’d buy it. Take my time with it, make it the beauty it was, and really enjoy understated wretched excess, which is what it is.
I knew a man that has a 4door with the 460 motor.He says it gets 8mpg around town and 10to12 on the highway.It would not be practicle as a daily driver unless you were a millionaire.I llike the 2 door body style since most of these cars were 4 doors.
These cars were beautiful when they came out in ‘61 (still are) after the wretched excesses of the late 50s. However the build quality left a lot to be desired. The 60s were not good years for American cars.
I’m just the opposite of 12PACK, fell in love with the coupe. Here’s what this baby would have looked like new, minus the vinyl top and ’66 version of grill.
https://www.autopaper.com/1966-lincoln-continental-sedan-convertible-sales-brochure-oversized-original.php
I’ve got the brochure tucked away somewhere, close as I’ll come to owning one. Good luck to whomever gets to sort out the miles of vacuum lines!
No one comments on how older cars from the sixties and seventies ran on leaded gas. you were lucky to get 100,000 miles out of an engine. when removing the valve covers, they could have lead caked over the valves. Flushing the engine can free up the hydraulic lifters that can clog with lead.