1958 Lincoln Limo??

[Anton Olafsson]

More of his collection.



And his Mark III after rebuild.






Regards

Anton

[Barry Wolk]

The Hess & Eisenhardt run of limousines were not stretches at all. They simply removed the rear package shelf and pushed the rear seating rearward. The partitions were attached to the seat, not the car, so the rear seat arrangement was the only physical modification other than the padded roof.

[Anton Olafsson]

The Hess & Eisenhardt run of limousines were not stretches at all. They simply removed the rear package shelf and pushed the rear seating rearward. The partitions were attached to the seat, not the car, so the rear seat arrangement was the only physical modification other than the padded roof.

Did they make 58 limo?

here they only talk of 59-60.
http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/h/hess_ei ... nhardt.htm

[Milsteads Garage]

http://www.thelincolnforum.net/phpbb3/v ... =6&t=44501

This is a link to a 60 Limousine that has a correct divider and shows more of what they were supposed to look like. I have a pretty rare book called "the cars of Lincoln-Mercury" and it does not mention any word of a factory authorized Limousine in 1958 especially in a Capri or Premiere platform. In 59-60 they were based off a 54A pillared continental sedan and called 23A formal limousines. What this person has here with this 58 is an example of a Premiere or Capri that has been converted by a firm that is not affiliated with Ford. I have no idea where this person got his production figures either.

[TonyC]

Well, I know that no limousines or Town Cars of that group had extended wheelbases. They couldn't possibly do that back then; this was the first time since the first Zephyrs that they used unit-body construction, and they were already having headaches with it. Being that, normally, advantages of unit-body construction diminish as the size of the car increases, they were having a hard-enough time trying to control the vibrations without even trying to extend the already-long wheelbase. In fact, they couldn't even do it in the early '60s until Lehmann-Peterson pulled it off with their own prototype (I'm sure that changes in the construction based on lessons learned with the '58 series helped). The only thing they did was add a partition for the limos, and it's true that no limos were even offered until '59 and '60. Did they make prototypes in '58? Probably so; after all they needed something to start with before going to production. But finding any record of those prototypes will be next to impossible by now...unless a long-since-retired exec happens to have copies in a box in his attic.

Skewing off topic for a mite, I have to say that the repair to that T-boned '65 is amazing! I remember a long time ago seeing a '69 on E-Bay with the same damage, and I didn't know how or even whether that could be fixed. Now I know it can be...something to ponder should Frankenstein ever suffer that (God forbid).

---Tony