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MERCMAN
10-10-2014, 04:56 AM
https://autos.yahoo.com/news/rare-trio-ford-family-owned-lincolns-going-display-123018582.html
71cyclone
10-10-2014, 05:45 AM
Yes Sir these are some of the Best ONE off Lincoln Mark 2's on the Planet .my Avitar is a Mark II trunk Lid . My other driver is a 1969 MARK III:burnout:
tylerdurden2816
10-10-2014, 07:34 AM
That's pretty awesome, I wish they'd take those on tour by my house!
fastblackmerc
10-10-2014, 08:28 AM
The cars were just featured on My Classic Car last Saturday. Talked about each car and how they were personalized at the factory for each Ford family member. I believe it was episode 14.

http://www.myclassiccar.com/video/
L.Mark
10-10-2014, 12:25 PM
In person these cars are inspiring. Understated yet VERY elegant. And the little touches like hiding the gas filler behing the hinged driver's side tailight...Mmmmmm love em...almost as much as the Mark III's...
71cyclone
10-10-2014, 08:42 PM
Nice show / the green one had the Pre 'Marauder " package 430 cu in MEL [mercury edsel lincoln] this eng was around 340 -350 hp... The 368 had under 300 hp in the black car, and the Blue 460 [385 eng family] had roughly 365 hp .. this family had all bases covered ,and you know they were super tuned .
L.Mark
10-10-2014, 09:17 PM
If I remember right the first Mark III engines were B&B and had and unoffcial HP rating of @ 425...
71cyclone
10-11-2014, 09:04 AM
If I remember right the first Mark III engines were B&B and had and unoffcial HP rating of @ 425...
Yess Sir, it had the same exhaust valves as the Pre CJ heads [385 block]
L.Mark
10-11-2014, 01:21 PM
Mmmmmm, missing my 71 Mark III even more now...:(
L.Mark
10-11-2014, 01:28 PM
A little bit more history here for those interested...
There were two Mark III, Mark IV and Mark V models...the 58 Mark III, 59 Mark IV, and the 60 Mark V... Lincoln at the time thought they were wasting a good name and dropped the Mark just in time for the '61 Continental. Ford virtually ignores these now...the 58 is by far the best looking,IMO...and these were and still may be the longest production convertibles and I believe unibody cars...
jimlam56
10-11-2014, 07:31 PM
There's 2 or three of these Mark IIs in the museum at NPD in Ocala Florida.