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08-04-2004 12:47 AM #1
Parking my Lincoln here for awhile, nice to meet ya!
I have lurked here on and off, and I figured I might as well sign up and say "Hello"! My name is Michael and my wife and I live in Sheridan, Oregon. While I have had a love affair with old cars for years, I am now down to just one cruiser. My baby is a 1971 Lincoln Continental Coupe. When I was looking for a project car I was hoping to find a good Chrysler Imperial from the early 70's, but what I REALLY wanted was a 70's Lincoln Coupe. They seem to be very hard to find in this neck of the woods(Oregon).
A friend turned me onto this car, but got confused and thought it was a Lincoln Mark III. I wasn't to interested in a Mark III, but he finally convinced me to go check it out. Imagine my excitement when I saw that it was a '71 Coupe, with the super rare "vinyl top" factory-delete option! I wound up getting the car for $600 + a combat shotgun. She has a white leather interior, power doors and windows and a 460 motor.
Since getting the car, I have had the motor rebuilt and I am getting the tranny done next. We bored the block to 0.60 over, kept the original '71 heads and ported and polished them. The motor has a custom cam and Keith Black pistons, new rockers, new rods, new water pump, double-roller timing set, Weiand "Stealth" aluminum intake manifold and an Edelbrock 800cfm carb. This all dumps into a 2-1/2" dual exhaust with Flowmaster mufflers out back. The Linc is very close to running again, but we are encountering some exhaust header issues.
Possible future mods could include a 3-to-4 inch roof chop(I really want this badly!), a new paint job(black of course), shaved door handles, airbags and powder-coating all the bright work gloss black. I will probably pick up a set of solid aluminum rims eventually as well. Well, that's about it about me and my car. I am very happy to be here and I am sure I will have lots of car questions for smarter folks than myself. Below is a pic of my baby...Last edited by 71LincolnCoupe; 08-06-2004 at 05:20 AM.
Please look below for more about my car...
http://www.cardomain.com/member_pages/view_page.pl?page_id=278481
Well I've sure gotten old too so don't worry about it! I've had two bypass surgeries, new knees, fought prostate, cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine,...
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