This is one crazy custom, it’s a 1977 Lincoln Town Car Flatbed. What?! Someone must have gotten a set of cutting torches and a welder for their birthday. This funky flatbed is on Craigslist in Morris, Oklahoma with an asking price of $2,250. That’s a heck of a deal, where else can you get a luxury flatbed for $2,250?! And we all know how handy a luxury flatbed would be…
I see a problem right away, the headlights appear to “need fixed”, as folks who cut apart Lincolns and turn them into flatbeds would say. This is really a cool custom, in my opinion. I don’t see any way of tying down a load on the back, other than the side rails, but there must be some way to do that otherwise what’s the point of having a hauling bed that can’t haul anything on without having it fall off?
I think that it would be a blast to own something like this for hauling motorcycles around. Or, not just hauling them “around”, in general, but to motorcycle shows and things like that. Or, even a Subaru 360 or another microcar. Ok, that may be pushing it a bit, but it would probably haul that if they beefed up the rear springs at all. I’m guessing not, though. My dad did a similar thing to our 1956 Pontiac back in the late-60s but he didn’t put a flatbed on it. I wish he would have, it would have made it an actual usable vehicle rather than just an oddball. Some of the craftsmanship here is interesting, whether the next owner finishes things off or not is up to them.
This has to be the most posh flatbed in the history of the world. The front interior, which is the only interior, could use a deep cleaning and those seats seriously need some help and some leather conditioner. The headliner needs a good dose of elbow grease, and maybe some semi-strong chemicals to clean that mildew off of it.
Yes, this is the famous 460 V8, but by the late-70s it was just pumping out a bit over 200 hp. This would have been a 5,200-pound car before the back end was cut off and maybe it’s about the same weight now depending on what the flatbed is made out of. What are your thoughts on this custom Lincoln flatbed? I like it!
I think some heavy drinking was involved with this project. Is it a Bill Blass or Cartier flatbed? I would take it to the next level and find some rear fenders and finish it “Ranchero” style.
Probably bad form to reply to yourself…. A weekend of hard welding…two rear fender skins, Lincoln trunk lid, taillight assembly, any F 150 truck bed (section, chop, etc)…velour pillow donor seats, Maaco paint job. Bada bing bada boom…Shaft would drive it to Home Depot
it looks like an open hearst…
I can only assume that the tail end was wiped out in an accident.
Otherwise, why wouldn’t they make the effort to make a more functional bed?
Funky cool, but useless.
And I usually side with everything.
Put a fifth-wheel hitch on the bed and pull a smaller fifth-wheel camper!
I’m a true car modifier but this just doesn’t hit home with me…. PASS !!!
What’s up with the valves and pipe under the rear cowl behind the passenger seat?
The makings of a future propane conversion maybe?
I had the same thoughts. I’m also wondering if those “spare” tires were/are supposed to be deployable hydraulically and that’s the top of the pump system piping in view.
Thats a Propane tank looks like it might have been converted to duel fuel or straight propane.
Man that is ugly AND not very functional! no thanks!
But it gets 9 miles to the gallon!
“Crazy Custom” is the perfect description for this vehicle.
This just serves to remind me of how much I miss the bygone days of seeing someone’s rediculous project rolling down the road! It seems that adding a catalog purchased aerodynamics kit is as close to “custom” as the average person gets anymore, even high end custom shops don’t do much that impressed me. Hats off to the Barris wannabee’s!
Blunt stick meets eyeballs and now I’m ok.
Looking at the headliner, looks like it has had water leakage creating mold. Pass.
A little too short and not enough wheels.
Other than that it’s good.
This is an interesting project. The sheet metal at the bottom edge of the roof pillars looks like a laceration wating to happen.
Buying that thing would lower your property value 🏣
Somebody call the guys at RoadKill. They just featured its sibling Lincoln on the latest episode.
I think they saw it here, Arthur!
http://barnfinds.com/custom-cut-1978-lincoln-continental-shorty/
Not good for much, other than hauling your Crosby, Isetta or King Midget to the car show.
Warning the following statement is probably Politically Incorrect.
It’s a portable stage for the rock group “Redneck Midgets”.
OMG ! Just spit beer while laughing ! DON’T DO THAT !!
I wasted a whole swallow of beer ! Too funny !!! :) I’m tired of political correctness anyways….
Thanks for breaking the ice. This could be Linda Vaughn’s next Hurst Shifter car OR a “gentlemens club” advertising car with a certain type of pole mounted to the platform.
The only thing I can see t this needs is a set of sidepipes to make it complete… :)
Sidepipes? Nooo……………stacks!
Nooooooooo.
Yeah right! Everyone needs a flatbed like this especially with its 3 gals per mile.
Could be the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen on BF
A Lincoln “John Wilkes Booth” edition. It’s been completely assassinated.
Bobby Ewing from Dallas wants his car back.
Any project that the statement “a case of beer went into the planning” fits is a project that is going to end badly. I suspect that a truckload of beer went into this one.
Spareparts. I dont want to be seen in that thing 😩😫😖
You could drive it with a bag with eye holes cut, and pull it over your head. Of course you will need a hidden driveway like batman so your neibours never see you coming or going. This goes to show you that not all of us have an eye for building customs. Theres got be some useable parts here before you crush it JMHO.
Perhaps you could use its flatbed to haul it away.
This rates up there with mini trucks with the roof cut off, and a tag axle. Hey, wait a minute… that’s what this beast needs, a tag axle!
Hi Kevin, maybe those “spare tires” ARE the tag axle!
Look like the Big LP Tank to me would hold Air so you can Tilt that heavy 1/4″ Diamond Plate up to a 45* angle !!
Maybe said this all ready l got tired on reading some of the differnt ways of using it, but liked of hauling some kind of out of this world VW Trike or ?? Haha thanks guys !!
This looks to me to have been a very poor attempt at a funeral, or flower car.
Perhaps done by a very cheap undertaker.
It’s a parts car, nothing more.
Come on chaps. Show some imagination. It’s just not quite finished yet. An opportunity for you to show your own skills.
I like the way he’s recessed the spare wheels.
It’s hideous, however, I bet it cruises nice. They probably took a ton of weight off it. And the ball hitch seals the deal. :)
Sam is right it needs a bras pole 👸
A bra’s pole? Is your mind where I think it is? Yea, me too.
Drop those spares to the ground and put another rear end in that thing. Use it to pull the goose neck trailer.
I LIKE IT ! I don’t know what I would do with it other than as a conversation piece & were it not way over in OK, I would likely buy it for what it is listed for, but I would not go over 3K. A number of you readers would say that I definitely should not get it as I talk too much as it is!
(of course as a crustly old lawyer I would have to
disagree with any charge of verbosity.)
with any charge of verbosity.)
There are no words………….
It looks to me as a funeral “flower-hauler”! 😇
I can picture WKRP’s Herb Tarlek driving this very proudly.
This car may have belonged to my uncle Jimmy Foster from Okmulgee. I know he had his car remodeled like this. Would love to know if this was his car.