Photo: jlord8/Instagram
Just a few decades ago, good times were rolling for big sedans in America. Take the mighty 1990s for example, when the Blue Oval was very happy to sell the large Ford Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis or the Lincoln Town Car.
We did not select this trio by chance. Instead, Jim – the virtual artist behind the jlord8 account on social media – has decided to help us remember the boxy designs of the era, with a twist. It wouldn’t be a pixel master’s creation if something wasn’t altered, of course.
This time around, he decided to play with the decade-long-gone, but not forgotten Lincoln Town Car. This premium Blue Oval series was born as a model line of full-size luxury sedans back in 1981, but the nameplate had been used even earlier, as a flagship version of the Lincoln Continental.
It lived a long and fruitful life throughout three generations and precisely 30 model years. And although it’s been sent to car Valhalla's greener automotive pastures back in 2011, its styling remains one of the most iconic of the 1990s. That would be thanks to its second incarnation, which lived from 1990 to 1997. And it’s also the focus for Jim’s latest creation.
After playing with station wagons for a while, it seems the CGI expert went into a coupe-drawing period, as he recently messed up with a Pontiac Grand Am GXP, a Nissan Sentra SE-R and an Oldsmobile Achieva. Now he probably remembered the streamlined Mark VIII coupe, but decided the boxy lines of the Town Car are much better.
So, the four-door sedan subtly lost a couple of doors and went for a bit of sporty flair. Not of the overdone variety, though. As such, besides the conversion to the two-door body style and the different wheels, there’s not much else going on. Frankly, we would have loved to see it bagged, sporting a contemporary 5.0-liter Coyote V8 under the hood and packing some Shelby-inspired aero DNA!
This time around, he decided to play with the decade-long-gone, but not forgotten Lincoln Town Car. This premium Blue Oval series was born as a model line of full-size luxury sedans back in 1981, but the nameplate had been used even earlier, as a flagship version of the Lincoln Continental.
It lived a long and fruitful life throughout three generations and precisely 30 model years. And although it’s been sent to car Valhalla's greener automotive pastures back in 2011, its styling remains one of the most iconic of the 1990s. That would be thanks to its second incarnation, which lived from 1990 to 1997. And it’s also the focus for Jim’s latest creation.
After playing with station wagons for a while, it seems the CGI expert went into a coupe-drawing period, as he recently messed up with a Pontiac Grand Am GXP, a Nissan Sentra SE-R and an Oldsmobile Achieva. Now he probably remembered the streamlined Mark VIII coupe, but decided the boxy lines of the Town Car are much better.
So, the four-door sedan subtly lost a couple of doors and went for a bit of sporty flair. Not of the overdone variety, though. As such, besides the conversion to the two-door body style and the different wheels, there’s not much else going on. Frankly, we would have loved to see it bagged, sporting a contemporary 5.0-liter Coyote V8 under the hood and packing some Shelby-inspired aero DNA!
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