A concrete cave in Marysville, California houses this cache of once-stately Lincolns, a dozen in all from between 1925 and 1938, an era when Lincoln owners didn’t have to ask how much the car cost. For your chance to emancipate these classics, cast a bid here on eBay where bidding has eclipsed $30,000, or simply click Buy It Now and $120,000 will seal the deal. That’s 24,000 five-dollar bills, in case you were wondering.
Each of these luxury vehicles could tell stories to delight any enthusiast, as might the background of their collector, but learning such history will evidently cost more than $120,000. The description relays all the passion of someone looking to convert some discarded possessions into a case of Old Milwaukee by typing “Bunch of crap from my basement, $12.00.”
The rust suggests many of these cars sat outside before finding themselves in this Golden State bunker. All are reported to retain (at least) their engines, transmissions, and front steering components. In addition to the obvious bird droppings, rest assured other animals discovered these cars and made use of them.
The sale includes 1925 and 1928 seven-passenger Murray-bodied sedans, a 1929 Judkin-bodied two-passenger coupe, a host of five and seven-passenger Lincoln-bodied sedans, and one Willoughby-bodied 1938 seven-passenger limousine thrown in for good measure.
Lincoln provided thousands of V12 “Liberty” engines to the First World War effort, and every Lincoln made between 1932 and 1948 boasted V12 power (thanks to wikipedia for some details). It would be interesting to find buyers for enough of the cars or parts here to justify the sale, buy the whole lot, and call the rest gravy. However, if you consider $120,000 a significant sum, think twice before electing yourself Mayor of Lincoln Land with one mouse click. What would you ask for this Lot of Lincolns?
I can’t buy the Linclon so I’ll stick to the post instead. All of these cars are really far gone. And I believe that they’re not worth near the asking price. I also think the seller is being lazy trying to sell them as a package deal. I guess that’s a way of getting more money for the less desirable ones. I’d take the one where there isn’t much left of the body ( most of its missing ) it restore frame, drive line and all other mechanics as well as everything from the dash forward. Custom coach builders built the first bodies so I see no reason not to build my own custom bod. Id be building a roadster body most likly a boat tail. With a removable hard top and roll up side windows. As for the rust I believe the storage location it the reason I’ll bet the below ground bunker is very humid and acidic bird crap can be helping the situation.
I would like to know more about that 50’s four door convertible in the background of that one photo.
As others have posted, likely a Frazer convertible, worth more than many of these Lincolns.
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2015/05/12/frazer-of-distinction-the-rarely-seen-1951-manhattan-convertible/
Thats a 51 Frazer convert
Most custom body builders used aluminum so the rust may not be ass bad as it seems. All K model Lincoln’s are stately and special. Seems like their not as popular as they once rear,shame. Have to see these in person before making an offer!
If your an interested buyer, be aware Marysville has flooded more then once. These might be worse then the photos would indicate. Ask the seller if this location was subject to flooding in the past.
In the one photo there is a 1951 Kaiser / Frazer convertible. Wonder if it also for sale.
The 4-door convertible is a ’49 or ’50 Frazier Manhattan. Sorry Mark, but I
see the car missing its body as a
dual cowl pheaton. And before anyone
comes after me with pitchforks, I’ll say
that some of them would make awesome
street rods. Just update the driveline to
a 460 V-8, auto tranny, and a modern
resr axle amd restore the rest to factory
specs. Throw in a few Tommy guns for
flavor, and you’d have a winner! Oh sure,
I respect the classics, but some of these
are too far gone to restore and should be
repurposed so that we all could emjoy
them. Just my 2 cents.
Now that I here that there flood victims there condition makes more sense. They have become such heaps of junk I think anything that you want to do is fair game.clearly they weren’t dried out properly after each flooding and no one thought to move them to higher ground so they wouldn’t be flooded repeatedly. It could be worse they could have just been discarded after the first flooding. What’s the point of collecting these fine true classics if your just going to let them go to $h!t.
1950, 1955, 1986, 1997 were all years when the Marysville area flooded. There really isn’t much high ground. Three rivers, surrounded by levees.
Now that you mention it , you can see water lines on the cinder blocks and the cars. If the rusting has gone on for 68 years, I would say thems nice yard planters. Cause the engines, trans, diffs, that are so touted would be a milky mess of rust
If bidding hit 30k,we have a new owner.
What is the accepted collective name for a group of Lincolns?
“A Log of Lincolns”?
Timmy,
Bid is at 36K.
Rot of Rincons
“Far too gone”, for anything?!
You haven’t seen what some people can do given the chance, far too gone would be if just the top 5 inches were left.
Projects and opportunities!
But I agree, far too much $$$ asking.
What a terrible shame it is to have let these cars deteriorate to their current state. Restoration costs would run, literally into the millions for these cars. With all of the mega-rich baby boomers starting to die off, it’s doubtful anyone with deep enough pockets to finance this venture would live long enough to see it completed.
Scrap iron.
Seller has no feedback and even with the one bid, “Reserve Not Met” – I think there’s a pretty good chance the bidder is the seller’s wife/partner/neighbor/friend etc etc etc.
That’s a lotta money for a lotta rust!!! 😂
No one mentioned the Cali Fires of late…..at 50 G’s………
Why would anyone mention fires on the other end of the state, hundreds of miles away?
I had a great aunt who lived in Paradise, Ca. Never had the chance to visit her. But, she came to see us in Cheyenne, Wy. twice in two years. I also don’t like that this dictionary doesn’t know the abbreviation for Wyoming.