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American carmaker Ford launched the Continental bloodline all the way back in 1939, and with sporadic interruptions it managed to keep it in production until 2020. There is no question though that of the ten generations that went by during all this time, the early ones, up until the 1970s, remain the most enjoyable.
And not enjoyable in the sense Ford intended them, as luxury cars for the wealthy, but as incredible pieces of engineering modified in the strangest and most innovative of ways by custom garages across the nation.
As far as Continentals of the fourth generation go (the ones made from 1961 to 1969) there seems to be a general consensus the only way to keep them relevant today is to chop and bag them into becoming borderline evil-looking cars.
And that's exactly what we have here. A 1965 Lincoln Continental that looks like the ride of some bad guy, put together by an undisclosed crew with little regard to expenses.
The car, now listed for sale by Barrett-Jackson during its auction in New Orleans later this month, comes with the usual menacing visuals of such builds. There's black skin everywhere: on the outside because that's the only way one can make the perfectly straight and very long body panels look truly impressive; and on the inside because, really now, nothing beats black leather.
We're told the build rides on a custom 4-link suspension system backed by Air Lift airbags – and you can see those in action in the attached gallery, with some of the photos showing the car so low to the ground it almost looks like a fixed monument. Oh, and the suspension can be remotely controlled.
Making the connection to the ground are Raceline wheels sized at 20 inches. They get spinning power from a 5.0-liter Coyote engine tied to a 6-speed automatic transmission, and move the car along the road with light shining from Harley-Davidson black LED headlights.
The Continental is a convertible by trade, so when the white top is out of the way the sight of utter interior blackness immediately becomes apparent. Aside from black leather everywhere, we also see Dakota Digital gauges, a push button start, backup camera, and a the controls for a train horn for good measure.
Barrett-Jackson does not say how much the 1965 Lincoln Continental is expected to fetch, as it's going with no reserve. We do know how much money went into it, though, and we're not talking change: over $150,000, and there are receipts to prove it.
As far as Continentals of the fourth generation go (the ones made from 1961 to 1969) there seems to be a general consensus the only way to keep them relevant today is to chop and bag them into becoming borderline evil-looking cars.
And that's exactly what we have here. A 1965 Lincoln Continental that looks like the ride of some bad guy, put together by an undisclosed crew with little regard to expenses.
The car, now listed for sale by Barrett-Jackson during its auction in New Orleans later this month, comes with the usual menacing visuals of such builds. There's black skin everywhere: on the outside because that's the only way one can make the perfectly straight and very long body panels look truly impressive; and on the inside because, really now, nothing beats black leather.
We're told the build rides on a custom 4-link suspension system backed by Air Lift airbags – and you can see those in action in the attached gallery, with some of the photos showing the car so low to the ground it almost looks like a fixed monument. Oh, and the suspension can be remotely controlled.
Making the connection to the ground are Raceline wheels sized at 20 inches. They get spinning power from a 5.0-liter Coyote engine tied to a 6-speed automatic transmission, and move the car along the road with light shining from Harley-Davidson black LED headlights.
The Continental is a convertible by trade, so when the white top is out of the way the sight of utter interior blackness immediately becomes apparent. Aside from black leather everywhere, we also see Dakota Digital gauges, a push button start, backup camera, and a the controls for a train horn for good measure.
Barrett-Jackson does not say how much the 1965 Lincoln Continental is expected to fetch, as it's going with no reserve. We do know how much money went into it, though, and we're not talking change: over $150,000, and there are receipts to prove it.
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