This is an opportunity to buy two cars at once, to try to make one great car. For sale is a pair of 1956 Continental Mark IIs, which are in rough shape, but ready to be for parts and restoration. The starting bid is $5,000 and the cars are located in Follansbee, West Virginia with clean titles. Mileage is only available for one car, the black one, at 14,644. You can view more here on eBay.
The engine on the black car is claimed to 368 cubic inch V8 that will turn over but has not run. After sitting in a barn for 30 years, the third owner never bought it that way. It is said to have factory air condition. While there is more body on the black car, its frame is said to be rusted, which is the need for the yellow one. That car is from Virginia and has a better frame.
Inside the black car, the interior is far more there than I thought. It seems to be all there, even though some of the engine parts are laying in it. The cars both have all their glass. Other spare parts can be found in the trunk of the black car. A few other included items are an extra right front fender, emblems, and hubcaps.
Since the yellow car is designated more for parts, the listing does not have any information on the engine or transmission that is pictured. The listing seems to indicate that the owner never knew information on it. They did state that it was bought in the scalped down condition it is in.
These two cars are part of an estate and are going to be sold together. The listing says they will not be parting them out either. The black one is a beautiful coupe and to the right buyer, could provide a great project for a great reward.
Tough call.
You can get one of these beauties in solid condition…for easily half of what you’d sink into restoration on this one. This is a project for the passionate…with deep pockets.
As with alot of desirable `50s cars, your best bet is to buy the best condition you can for your money. The better the car is, the less you have to put into it. Decent Mark II’s can be found for $25K-$30K that you can actually drive and enjoy while you work on it. These two are “bones”. Either one would take WELLover $110K to restore. Caveat Emptor, my friends…
Cool looking body style. This is for the individual who enjoys a challenge.
Seems the one without the fenders and grill would give a metal fabricator ideas.
Mike I think you made a good point customs are cool.
Detroit Land Yacht and WIll Fox are right. If you are passionate about these cars, one deserves to be saved and you will be rewarded by owning and driving luxury and history at the same time. I would make a move but I am too old and too far away. Transportation costs and time are working against me. An enthusiast should jump on this, with deep pockets.
Hands down, one of the most beautiful cars ever created, rivaling the French, Italian and British coachbuilt cars of the era…way ahead of its time.
The only reason I would buy these two would be to balance the load going to the scrap yard!
A very fine, essentially hand built car, but the more you study the angles the more awkward it looks. Visualized as a Continental updated with styling cues from the 1953 Mercury, it’s not as beautiful as either, in my opinion. That’s not to say I would kick one out of bed, especially with the stance on the black one.
KARL- I like your no nonsense, unemotional, and perfectly correct observation of 2 cars that are worth what ever the junk yard will pay for scrap metal.
I’m lost for words. How do so many people let one of the rarest, once one of the most expensive cars in the world get to this condition?
It’s a mystery for sure Greg, maybe the people who started project died off family left behind no interest or spare money.
I totally agree!! I personally see no real reason to let these, or any other car suffer so much damage, rot, etc. It’s almost a sin.
Lodestar after I said it I darned near sent an I am sorry for being to direct!
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I have nothing more to say.
What they weight is what they are worth!
too bad, one of the 3 or 4 nicest (along w/F. Vega, ’62 Lincoln, “88”) of the era.
Red and white leather back seat looks mint inside the car….almost too good to be true to the condition of the front of the cabin and exterior. These were once grand autos…I wonder where in southern Virginia the parts car came from. Lots of tough winters there. Saw many vintage hulks languishing in fields when I went to college there.