460 Engines in 1979?

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460 Engines in 1979?

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As the title states, are there any Lincolns that have been documented to have a 460 installed at the factory in 1979?


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For model year 1979 the only engine choice for Lincoln was a 400 CID engine.
The 460 engine was dropped from the Ford and Mercury line a few years earlier.

And after 1978 until the end of production in 1998 the 460 engine was only available in trucks

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Re: 460 Engines in 1979?

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Dittos. 460s in '79s is fiction. '78 was the last year a 460 was available for the big Lincolns (I say "big" because by then the Versailles was in the game), and then it was an optional extra, no longer the standard engine as it was in '76. Only the woefully-inefficient 400 was offered for the big Lincolns in '79, and that was as big as they got that year.

That established, at the risk of skewing a bit off-topic (but not entirely), I had seen a few historical references suggesting that a few of the early-1940 Continentals had left the factory with K V-12s, as opposed to the Zephyr V-12s they are most infamous for. However, those references have seemed to me a bit dubious; and I have seen no evidence to either verify or refute that claim. IF it happened (emphasis on "IF"), it must have been due to a backstock of K V-12s that never made it to the intended cars due to the termination of K production in '39.

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