Believe it’s the parking brake cables. Great job as always. First thing I check is the duration of the video. Always excited when it’s longer than average. My favorite UA-camr!!!
Transmission has two more isolated rubber mounts on top of the 4 you see, and cables are parking brake with vacuum release when you shift from park to drive or reverse, awesome video, thank you!!
How in blazes do you produce so much quality content on a Henry Ford like assembly line...??? Incredible except your content is amazingly well done and intelligently conceived. Thank you so much.
I have been a huge fan of that dashboard since 1966 when I was 5 years-old. Also as a 5 year-old I HATED the 2 door. Why buy a 2 door when this was the only American car with suicide doors? Yes, I’ve been way into cars since about the age of 2.
Mom and dad had MATCHING '66 Lincolns in the early Seventies... Dad was a mechanic at the local gas station and within a couple of years, two different customers of the station sold him their cars for really decent prices. Both happened to be that gorgeous dark green metallic and both had the bone white tops and interiors. Mom's was the Coupe and dad's was the 4 door ragtop. They drove those cars until 1979-ish and dad sold both for more than he paid for them. He ended up buying a brand new Chevy Caprice Aero coupe for mom... Red with red interior, and he bought himself a mint Clamshell Chevy wagon. I fondly remember all of those cars!
Can you comment on the similarities between the 61 Lincoln and T Bird styling and similarities with the German Ford Consul series? The headlight shape on both the Lincoln and T Bird seem designed to accept the Euro headlight shape of the Consul. Was Ford angling for DOT to allowed non sealed beam headlights?
Adam, Not for the first time you mentioned 6:44 the 'Coke Bottle' styling themes which were so prevalent in the mid 1960s. Was there ever an earnest attempt at Pepsi Bottle styling? 🤔 After all, Pepsi is the choice of a new generation®😆
Although as far as I’m concerned, the 61 is the best looking of almost all Lincoln’s. That said the side profile of the coupe looks really great! Great video Adam!
Adam, I'm very glad you put those two photos back to back starting 1:10. I never realized how extremely they indented the sheet metal the first year, especially around the front wheels and headlights... The next car is much more 'restrained'. 😉
I owned a 1967 Lincoln with the gangster suicide doors, I always thought the 2 door version was the ugly one. The suicide doors is what makes the car look so cool.
The Dial-A-Cruise is the great Perfect Circle design but I'm not a real fan of how they placed it. Imagine the dial being placed near the HVAC control unit, how more natural it would have been to use there on that slanted surface.
The '66 Continental Coupe' looks far better in front 3/4 view than from any other angle. 1966 wasn't the first time Ford went overboard on the rear overhang. Tom McCahill wrote of the 1956 Lincoln, "It out-fannies anything else coming out of Detroit." Family trait, I guess.
I remember as a kid seeing that dash and thought it had two radios. I also remember seeing TONS of Cadillac Coupe de Villes back then but very few two door Continentals.
I think the '66 -'69 Lincoln coupes were the best proportioned cars of the era. I remember these cars as a little kid, and the beautiful young women coming out of them.
Thank you Adam. I thought the seats and door panels were great looking. I like interior door panels especially the interior door handles. That was influenced and influenced a lot. The Lincoln Continental coupe got really long in the 1970's. Elegance.
Another reason for a crease/feature line is to add rigidity, a as flat piece of sheet metal will buckle fairly easy if pressure is applied as well "oil canning". Granted, these body panels aren't completely flat, but still add some rigidity and probably less damage when the car is bumped on the side.
Im a huge fan of these late 60s Lincoln Continentals. The changes they made theough the decade are generally changes I prefer- especially those bumper-mounted taillights! The interiors are frankly to die for, too. In 1966 I wouldve struggled choosing between this and a Coupe DeVille- they were both best of breed! If i had my choice, i think id probably have taken a Lincoln sedan and a Cadillac coupe or convertible. These cars just have unmatched class, presence, and even a bit of sinister menace when done up as a dark color sedan.
I have one of these. My grandfather was the original owner so I’m the third generation one family owner. You might not have known: these were the first cars to come with an 8 track tape player. It’s to the right of the steering wheel and looks like a radio but the dial is a slot for the tape.
The rubber mounted transmission crossmember combined with the rubber transmission mount creates “double isolation”. Upmarket GM cars used this same concept well into the ‘80s. For example, a Caprice or Impala and a B-Body Pontiac would have rigid mounted transmission crossmembers, while Buick, Olds & Cadillacs had rubber isolators between the crossmember and frame. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the double Cardan U-joints which both Lincoln and Cadillac used to reduce driveline NVH. I’m also surprised you didn’t recognize the parking brake cables.
@@Wiencourager I’m in my 50s & I’ve been an auto mechanic since I was in high school. I think I’ve worked on exactly ONE Imperial. I have no idea what style u-joints any year Imperial used.
Oliver Wendell Douglas had a gold one on a season of Green Acres before they got him into A Mercury Marauder convertible later in the series EB always sat upon the parade boot
It was a Marquis, not a Marauder. Ford was a sponsor of the show and switched him into it because they wanted a current model on the show. The Continental convert was 2 years out of production by then.
In 1970, my stepfather bought my mother a 1964 Continental from an estate sale that had only 1,500 original miles on the odometer. I think he paid $2,000 for it. It was fully optioned including A/C and that dial-type cruise control. I got to borrow it to drive to my high school prom… and the back seat area was the perfect size for Lover’s Lane activities. 😉🤣
I remember the subdivision my folks moved into in 1969. We had a 67 Buick Wildcat, and 67 Mercury Cougar. Next door a 68 Dodge Charger. Across the street, a 67 Thunderbird 4 door landau, next to them, a 66 Continental coupe. Around the corner, a 67 Pontiac Grand Prix convertible, next to them, a 67 Plymouth Barracuda fastback. Good times, not a foreign car to be found
That roofline always will remind me of the 1963 Grand Prix which would be ironic considering that the clean sides of Grand Prix were inspired after the Continental.
I still think the 1961-1963 Continentals look the best, with the 1964 a close second. In the 1970's I briefly owned a 1964 Lincoln sedan and that was one sweet ride (electrical gremlins notwithstanding). It was a bit larger than the earlier models but disappointing in how they reverted back to straight side windows in 64-65, as they also did on the Thunderbird, along with sharper roofline angles. That curved glass did lend a sensuous element to the styling. They must have had complaints since Lincoln returned that feature in 1966. (And T-bird in 1967)
That 66 Conti is one rich looking car. Reminds me a bit of the later 1971 Olds Toronado, of which you spoke about in another video. Amazing how the roof does look like the gen.1 Riviera.
My older brother bought a 1969 Lincoln Continental Coupe as his first car in 1976. It had around 80k miles and it had just been repainted a beautiful metallic root beer brown that I thought was more attractive than the factory dark brown. It was a private party sale for $1,200 - which the seller said was less than he had paid for the repaint. My brother really wanted a suicide door sedan - but the lowest price one he found was $1,800 was out of his price range, and this coupe he bought was in better condition. He changed out the factory wheel covers for some Cadillac Seville wire wheel covers that looked real nice. The only problem with the car was its steady 9 mpg.
I agree with you about the Riviera roof. American personal luxury, midsized, pony cars and some compacts of the sixties are my favorites, but the only big or luxury cars I love are the ‘61-‘64 Pontiacs, 1961 Buicks, 1966 Imperial, and the ‘61-‘69 suicide door Lincolns.
Windshield wipers were driven off the power steering. I would put 2 people in the trunk to get them in the drive in for free. The car didnt sag becuase i put in gabriel hijacker air shocks. The drive in attendant couldnt tell when you pulled up to pay.
I was not ever a fan of the coupe, but 1966 is perhaps my favorite year overall: so horizontal, and the dashboard is utterly Jane Jetson. I believe the underbody cables may trigger the automatic parking brake release mechanism. On my mother's 1964 Continental the vacuum line for the parking brake release would occasionally come loose with a hissing sound and a lack of forward progress until I climbed under the dash and hooked it back up for her.
Great job as always Adam. Traveled in /drove one of these occasionally. Excellent cars with beautiful, restrained interiors. Coming from a Mopar/GM family was unaccustomed to the weight of the front end. You really had to plan your turns. Found the width to be unnerving when passing 18 wheelers on secondary roads. Yes, that 462 was very torquey.
I think the 53 Capri 2 door was so beautiful, and the last year Mark 2 is a close 2nd. In 2012 I went down to Miami 2 look at a 53 Capri, ended up with a 41 Tudor Super Deluxe on trailer. Closest I came to this was a 67 LTD in dark green with the green nylon seats 3 shades lighter. But these Lincolns set shape for the early to maid 70's full size Lincoln-Mercury models. I think cables were parking brake?
66 lincoln 4 door was my first car i owned when i was 16 yrs old. I put new mohawk studded snow tires on it. In snow storms all my friends would load into my car becuase it would not get stuck and i had an 8 track player for plenty of music. My car was rare becuase it never had any ac or cruise control
You chose a great example for this video, Adam. Darker colors really flatter these cars. I love these cars, as my grandparents had a '68 sedan when new. They kept it for about 10 years they liked it so much, which they never did with any other car they had.
This car was SUPREME! I was 5 years old when our neighbor drove one home, newly purchased. It caused a sensation in the neighborhood. I wanted Dad to get one and he just laughed. It was far far out of his pay level. We always had Pontiacs. But I knew the Continental was the most beautiful car I had ever seen in my young life!
The 67's had the lane changer in the signal light stalk, dual master cylinder braking, and changed the air conditioning controls. Considereable improvements on an other wise almost identical car. i liked the roof line on the 69 coupes better, not as angular and more rounded.
I don't see the Riviera but I see similarities to other GM rooflines. I actually see the 66 Falcon Futura coupe in this or vise versa. There were a lot of Futuras in this color with black vinyl roofs.
Your reference to the GM roof - first thing that popped into my mind was “Bonneville.” No reason at all. I don’t even have a mental picture of one. Off to Google.
The '58 was as hideous as the 61 was gorgeous. The '66 coupe, though? Not great. The Imperial coupe of a few years prior was much better looking. The grill on the '66 was . . . boring.
My father had a completely restored Black '62 Lincoln Continental Convertible... Black Leather Interior and White Top. He had two parts cars to keep it up and running. Back in the 70's, the whole family would load up in it and go to the A&W in Clawson or Royal Oak on nice Weekends. Wonderful memories. Thank you again Adam.
One of my fraternity brothers dad had a coupe similar to this one. Dark blue sans vinyl roof. We used it for road trips occasionally. It was gorgeous! This video brought back fond memories. Thanks Adam.
I remember when I was a young tech apprentice in 1978 one of these 1966's with the suicide doors drove up to the shop for an exhaust inspection and it needed a complete from the manifolds on back. Had to be special ordered and was between $500-600. That was a lot of money at the time. It had a double walled front exhaust pipe section that were so heavy you could do arm curls with them. Beautiful classy rides and I wish I could've owned one. I think those are the E brake cables?
rear parking brake cables
Believe it’s the parking brake cables. Great job as always. First thing I check is the duration of the video. Always excited when it’s longer than average. My favorite UA-camr!!!
I think you’re correct because they have disappeared in the photo showing the rear half of the drive shaft.
They are indeed parking brake cables.
Transmission has two more isolated rubber mounts on top of the 4 you see, and cables are parking brake with vacuum release when you shift from park to drive or reverse, awesome video, thank you!!
How in blazes do you produce so much quality content on a Henry Ford like assembly line...??? Incredible except your content is amazingly well done and intelligently conceived. Thank you so much.
It only takes me about 90 mins to make a video like this. Most of the info is already in my head ;)
@@RareClassicCarsYou and I sir, could sit and talk about cars for hours!!!
and even with still images the content is more detailed than an episode of JLG
Agree about the roofline similarity with the first generation Riviera. Also noted the rear bumper and taillight resemblance to the 65 Riviera.
I have been a huge fan of that dashboard since 1966 when I was 5 years-old. Also as a 5 year-old I HATED the 2 door. Why buy a 2 door when this was the only American car with suicide doors? Yes, I’ve been way into cars since about the age of 2.
1966 Lincoln GOOD
1966 Lincoln convertible BETTER
1966 Lincoln four-door convertible BEST
Parking brake cables?
Exactly
Ah
That was my first thought. Glad I scrolled through the comments
Don't like to repeat someone else
One of the few cars that looks best as a four door!
Agreed
One of the few American cars that looks good as a 4 door. Plenty of European cars, and many Japanese cars, look just fine as 4 doors.
And who could resist the suicide doors?
Same!
Totally agree on your statement about the rear room being similar to GM products of the era.
Mom and dad had MATCHING '66 Lincolns in the early Seventies...
Dad was a mechanic at the local gas station and within a couple of years, two different customers of the station sold him their cars for really decent prices.
Both happened to be that gorgeous dark green metallic and both had the bone white tops and interiors.
Mom's was the Coupe and dad's was the 4 door ragtop.
They drove those cars until 1979-ish and dad sold both for more than he paid for them.
He ended up buying a brand new Chevy Caprice Aero coupe for mom... Red with red interior, and he bought himself a mint Clamshell Chevy wagon.
I fondly remember all of those cars!
What's a Caprice "aero coupe?"
The 1977-79 model with the large wraparound rear window. Similar to the Monte Carlo SS models of 1986-87.
Can you comment on the similarities between the 61 Lincoln and T Bird styling and similarities with the German Ford Consul series? The headlight shape on both the Lincoln and T Bird seem designed to accept the Euro headlight shape of the Consul. Was Ford angling for DOT to allowed non sealed beam headlights?
I like how the map light there at the driver's right knee is push operated. Push on the lens and it clicks on. Push again to turn off.
A neighbor bought one in 1966, pale gold with a black vinyl roof and black leather. Such an elegant, understated car.
Adam, Not for the first time you mentioned 6:44 the 'Coke Bottle' styling themes which were so prevalent in the mid 1960s. Was there ever an earnest attempt at Pepsi Bottle styling? 🤔
After all, Pepsi is the choice of a new generation®😆
Great, rare and sometimes forgotten model to be highlighted.
Although as far as I’m concerned, the 61 is the best looking of almost all Lincoln’s. That said the side profile of the coupe looks really great! Great video Adam!
Beautiful lines, reminds me of my late dad's 1968 Oldsmobile Delta 88 4 door, excellent automobile and memories of my youth ❤️.
If you put the 1966 dash and 462 engine in a 1961 sedan, you would have the perfect Lincoln. Or the 1968 460 with C6 trans. (GM AC compressor too).
Adam, I'm very glad you put those two photos back to back starting 1:10. I never realized how extremely they indented the sheet metal the first year, especially around the front wheels and headlights... The next car is much more 'restrained'. 😉
8:44 As a kid, I really liked that "all horizontal lines" dashboard on the '66 Lincoln.
I owned a 1967 Lincoln with the gangster suicide doors, I always thought the 2 door version was the ugly one. The suicide doors is what makes the car look so cool.
1965 and 1966 Mustangs had the “trough” on top of the doors like the Lincoln.
A Mustang will fit in the trunk of a 66 Lincoln
Hi Adam, I think it's time you buy one.
An Edsel outshines a 58 Continental.
0:12 I love (love, love, love) the '61 Continental design. Elegant, understated.
[edit: fix typo]
5:50 It's quite amazing how many design queues hark back to the to the Mark II ... A truly _ground breaking_ design.
IMO, a stunning design, but one Lincoln I've never owned (yet!) 😏😏😏 Nice video Adam; I enjoyed very much.
The Dial-A-Cruise is the great Perfect Circle design but I'm not a real fan of how they placed it. Imagine the dial being placed near the HVAC control unit, how more natural it would have been to use there on that slanted surface.
The '66 Continental Coupe' looks far better in front 3/4 view than from any other angle. 1966 wasn't the first time Ford went overboard on the rear overhang. Tom McCahill wrote of the 1956 Lincoln, "It out-fannies anything else coming out of Detroit." Family trait, I guess.
I remember as a kid seeing that dash and thought it had two radios. I also remember seeing TONS of Cadillac Coupe de Villes back then but very few two door Continentals.
I think the '66 -'69 Lincoln coupes were the best proportioned cars of the era. I remember these cars as a little kid, and the beautiful young women coming out of them.
Thank you Adam. I thought the seats and door panels were great looking. I like interior door panels especially the interior door handles. That was influenced and influenced a lot. The Lincoln Continental coupe got really long in the 1970's. Elegance.
Another reason for a crease/feature line is to add rigidity, a as flat piece of sheet metal will buckle fairly easy if pressure is applied as well "oil canning". Granted, these body panels aren't completely flat, but still add some rigidity and probably less damage when the car is bumped on the side.
Im a huge fan of these late 60s Lincoln Continentals. The changes they made theough the decade are generally changes I prefer- especially those bumper-mounted taillights! The interiors are frankly to die for, too. In 1966 I wouldve struggled choosing between this and a Coupe DeVille- they were both best of breed! If i had my choice, i think id probably have taken a Lincoln sedan and a Cadillac coupe or convertible. These cars just have unmatched class, presence, and even a bit of sinister menace when done up as a dark color sedan.
I have one of these. My grandfather was the original owner so I’m the third generation one family owner. You might not have known: these were the first cars to come with an 8 track tape player. It’s to the right of the steering wheel and looks like a radio but the dial is a slot for the tape.
0:54 I like the '66 "Cord"-looking front end on that car. I also think that's an elegant design.
Those wires below the driveshaft, are most likely for the parking brake.
Very nice. Especially like that interior/instrument panel.
The wires underneath are parking brake cables,
Two wires underneath are probably e-brake.
10:37 "Tastefull Elegance." Exactly.
Bridle cables are for emerg./park brake.
Those cables look like parking brake cables.
Love all your content. Great to see you on TT. 🎉
Those wires are probably hand brake
The rubber mounted transmission crossmember combined with the rubber transmission mount creates “double isolation”. Upmarket GM cars used this same concept well into the ‘80s. For example, a Caprice or Impala and a B-Body Pontiac would have rigid mounted transmission crossmembers, while Buick, Olds & Cadillacs had rubber isolators between the crossmember and frame.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the double Cardan U-joints which both Lincoln and Cadillac used to reduce driveline NVH. I’m also surprised you didn’t recognize the parking brake cables.
Just not used to them being in the middle of the car
Imperial also used double cardan joints, at least on the 67-73s. Not sure about earlier years.
@@Wiencourager I’m in my 50s & I’ve been an auto mechanic since I was in high school. I think I’ve worked on exactly ONE Imperial. I have no idea what style u-joints any year Imperial used.
i like 4 door convertible.
Oliver Wendell Douglas had a gold one on a season of Green Acres before they got him into A Mercury Marauder convertible later in the series EB always sat upon the parade boot
It was a Marquis, not a Marauder. Ford was a sponsor of the show and switched him into it because they wanted a current model on the show. The Continental convert was 2 years out of production by then.
They just don't make them like they used to...
I certainly don't miss the valve adjustments, frequent head gasket replacements and the 3K oil change intervals!
@@Stantonv everything new is over $40,000....
@@Stantonv I like doing my own maintenance
In 1970, my stepfather bought my mother a 1964 Continental from an estate sale that had only 1,500 original miles on the odometer. I think he paid $2,000 for it. It was fully optioned including A/C and that dial-type cruise control. I got to borrow it to drive to my high school prom… and the back seat area was the perfect size for Lover’s Lane activities. 😉🤣
I wouldn't recommend using a black light on the back seat of my 66. What a fabulous car.
The leaf springs were to improve handling. Perhaps the design of the previous coil springs made it hard to control body motion.
58 and 59 Lincolns and Continentals were intended to have air suspension.
@@danielulz1640 Thanks for the clarification.
I remember the subdivision my folks moved into in 1969. We had a 67 Buick Wildcat, and 67 Mercury Cougar. Next door a 68 Dodge Charger. Across the street, a 67 Thunderbird 4 door landau, next to them, a 66 Continental coupe. Around the corner, a 67 Pontiac Grand Prix convertible, next to them, a 67 Plymouth Barracuda fastback. Good times, not a foreign car to be found
It was oringinally conceived as a coupe (new Thunderbird concept) and was expanded upon.
1:09 : I believe the 1958 Continental Mk 3 was designed by Homer Simpson. Check your facts.
That roofline always will remind me of the 1963 Grand Prix which would be ironic considering that the clean sides of Grand Prix were inspired after the Continental.
Love that dashboard/instrument panel. Never seen anything like it. Really nice car...inside and out.
I still think the 1961-1963 Continentals look the best, with the 1964 a close second. In the 1970's I briefly owned a 1964 Lincoln sedan and that was one sweet ride (electrical gremlins notwithstanding). It was a bit larger than the earlier models but disappointing in how they reverted back to straight side windows in 64-65, as they also did on the Thunderbird, along with sharper roofline angles. That curved glass did lend a sensuous element to the styling. They must have had complaints since Lincoln returned that feature in 1966. (And T-bird in 1967)
That 66 Conti is one rich looking car. Reminds me a bit of the later 1971 Olds Toronado, of which you spoke about in another video. Amazing how the roof does look like the gen.1 Riviera.
My older brother bought a 1969 Lincoln Continental Coupe as his first car in 1976. It had around 80k miles and it had just been repainted a beautiful metallic root beer brown that I thought was more attractive than the factory dark brown. It was a private party sale for $1,200 - which the seller said was less than he had paid for the repaint. My brother really wanted a suicide door sedan - but the lowest price one he found was $1,800 was out of his price range, and this coupe he bought was in better condition. He changed out the factory wheel covers for some Cadillac Seville wire wheel covers that looked real nice. The only problem with the car was its steady 9 mpg.
Always wondered if 67 Cadillac coupe was to be the same slim roofline, and they changed it to the more enclosed 'formal' roof.
I agree with you about the Riviera roof. American personal luxury, midsized, pony cars and some compacts of the sixties are my favorites, but the only big or luxury cars I love are the ‘61-‘64 Pontiacs, 1961 Buicks, 1966 Imperial, and the ‘61-‘69 suicide door Lincolns.
Windshield wipers were driven off the power steering. I would put 2 people in the trunk to get them in the drive in for free. The car didnt sag becuase i put in gabriel hijacker air shocks. The drive in attendant couldnt tell when you pulled up to pay.
I love everything Lincoln, thank you for doing this video. As others said, the cables underneath are for the emergency brake.
I was not ever a fan of the coupe, but 1966 is perhaps my favorite year overall: so horizontal, and the dashboard is utterly Jane Jetson. I believe the underbody cables may trigger the automatic parking brake release mechanism. On my mother's 1964 Continental the vacuum line for the parking brake release would occasionally come loose with a hissing sound and a lack of forward progress until I climbed under the dash and hooked it back up for her.
Great job as always Adam. Traveled in /drove one of these occasionally. Excellent cars with beautiful, restrained interiors. Coming from a Mopar/GM family was unaccustomed to the weight of the front end. You really had to plan your turns. Found the width to be unnerving when passing 18 wheelers on secondary roads. Yes, that 462 was very torquey.
I think the 53 Capri 2 door was so beautiful, and the last year Mark 2 is a close 2nd. In 2012 I went down to Miami 2 look at a 53 Capri, ended up with a 41 Tudor Super Deluxe on trailer. Closest I came to this was a 67 LTD in dark green with the green nylon seats 3 shades lighter. But these Lincolns set shape for the early to maid 70's full size Lincoln-Mercury models. I think cables were parking brake?
66 lincoln 4 door was my first car i owned when i was 16 yrs old. I put new mohawk studded snow tires on it. In snow storms all my friends would load into my car becuase it would not get stuck and i had an 8 track player for plenty of music. My car was rare becuase it never had any ac or cruise control
Wow, the Lincoln dashboard makes Cadillac dashboards look like a Mexican souvenir stand.
You chose a great example for this video, Adam. Darker colors really flatter these cars. I love these cars, as my grandparents had a '68 sedan when new. They kept it for about 10 years they liked it so much, which they never did with any other car they had.
This car was SUPREME! I was 5 years old when our neighbor drove one home, newly purchased. It caused a sensation in the neighborhood. I wanted Dad to get one and he just laughed. It was far far out of his pay level. We always had Pontiacs. But I knew the Continental was the most beautiful car I had ever seen in my young life!
12:35 Wait, what? "Windshield washer bag" - never heard of it. Do tell!
Those unibody Lincolns and Tbirds were unbelievably solid and quiet… I had several of the birds. They always amazed me in the construction.
Cool. I have a mint 1966 sedan. 👍
That AC control is like the Pontiac Bonneville from the mid to late 60's. Their controls also looked very similar to the radio.
We Know Yore The American Car Data Base. We take that for granted. But how do you read our minds and know what we want?
The 67's had the lane changer in the signal light stalk, dual master cylinder braking, and changed the air conditioning controls. Considereable improvements on an other wise almost identical car. i liked the roof line on the 69 coupes better, not as angular and more rounded.
I don't see the Riviera but I see similarities to other GM rooflines. I actually see the 66 Falcon Futura coupe in this or vise versa. There were a lot of Futuras in this color with black vinyl roofs.
The 1958 Chrysler Imperial Coupe had a crisp roofline as well
Your reference to the GM roof - first thing that popped into my mind was “Bonneville.” No reason at all. I don’t even have a mental picture of one. Off to Google.
My father had 66 Electra 225 2 door the same color as the one in the thumbnail
Love the lincoln,
66 was a very manly
ride.
10:50 Too bad about that dopey aftermarket air cleaner.
The two wires are the emergency brake cables.
Oh, the 1958 is horrid! No wonder it didn't sell.
Love these old Lincolns. I have had 3 , a 65 66 and a 67
Mobsters had to love that huge trunk ❤
The '58 was as hideous as the 61 was gorgeous. The '66 coupe, though? Not great. The Imperial coupe of a few years prior was much better looking. The grill on the '66 was . . . boring.
Agreed.
Mark III came out in 68
Awesome car !! Thanks!
Such a beauty.
It does
My father had a completely restored Black '62 Lincoln Continental Convertible... Black Leather Interior and White Top. He had two parts cars to keep it up and running. Back in the 70's, the whole family would load up in it and go to the A&W in Clawson or Royal Oak on nice Weekends. Wonderful memories. Thank you again Adam.
Even in my youth, I appreciated the real wood veneer trim on the interior. The car was so luxurious.
One of my fraternity brothers dad had a coupe similar to this one. Dark blue sans vinyl roof. We used it for road trips occasionally. It was gorgeous! This video brought back fond memories. Thanks Adam.
Did you crash the homecoming parade with it by chance?
That chrome air cleaner looks identical to the one on my 66 Fairlane GTA. I wonder if anyone can say if this was stock on this Lincoln?
Aftermarket
Whenever I hear the term "luxury car", the 61 Continental is what my mind's eye sees. I still love them!
1:30 That design may not have sold well, but I do like rich, pretty, late '50s women in those cars.
Clunky and obese. Have never liked this two door. It’s slab side 4 doors for me 👍
Never liked any of the FLM cars of that era, in the 60's and 70's GM had the lead in style for me.
At first I thought your comment was the beginning of a Yo Mamma joke!
I remember when I was a young tech apprentice in 1978 one of these 1966's with the suicide doors drove up to the shop for an exhaust inspection and it needed a complete from the manifolds on back. Had to be special ordered and was between $500-600. That was a lot of money at the time. It had a double walled front exhaust pipe section that were so heavy you could do arm curls with them. Beautiful classy rides and I wish I could've owned one. I think those are the E brake cables?