1979 Lincoln Continental Community Auto

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Ford developed Continentals from the 1940 via 2020 design years (with a number of stops throughout that duration), and the most significant and probably most severe Continentals of all werethe 1977-1979 models That’s what we have actually obtained for today’s Junkyard Gem: a 1979 Continental Town Car with Lotion paint exterior and a lot of Light Gold Jubilee velour within, discovered in a self-service boneyard in Sparks, Nevada.

Many Thanks to the big 5 mph crash bumpers, the general size of the 1977-1979 Continental car extended to an impressive 233 inches. That’s greater than a foot much longer than the 2024 Lincoln Navigator, though the Navigator ranges in at greater than a half-ton much heavier than the ’79 Continental car.

For the 1980 design year, the Continental went onto the Panther platform and dropped 10 inches of wheelbase, greater than 13 inches of size and 500 extra pounds of aesthetic weight. Taking Into Consideration the geopolitical events of 1979 and their effect on fuel prices, this ended up being great timing … yet the downsized ’80 Continental really did not look as enforcing (or as white-powder-dusted) when it brought up to the valet vehicle parking stand at the nightclub.

When your car evaluates 4,649 extra pounds, you desire major power under its hood … which was an uncommon product amongst 1979 cars offered in the USA. This is a 400-cubic-inch (6.6-liter) pushrod V8, basically a rubbed 351 Cleveland, ranked at 159 horse power and 315 pound-feet. That indicates that each of this cars and truck’s steeds needed to drag 29.2 extra pounds, a proportion that’s a fair bit even worse than that of the much-maligned– for-slowness 2024 Mitsubishi Mirage (though the reputable torque made driving these vehicles bearable sufficient in many scenarios).

The inside was everything about comfy seats and room to extend.