1941 Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Great factory photo !! They went in with EVERYTHING on 'em. Judging from the door handle, must be 1940. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abelincoln Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Dig the white coats! Must have been easier without fenders on the car.Abe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldstyle Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Great pic! It almost looks like the hood is on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1941 Posted April 28, 2014 Author Share Posted April 28, 2014 The hood IS on!! The chain is supported from an arm that comes from the camera side of the car. Pretty neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jim Zephyr Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Lincoln-Zephyr H100000 (One Hundred Thousand) was reserved for that Continental Cabriolet, pretty neat that they would document it. I wonder if this one survives? Transmission was on too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1941 Posted April 28, 2014 Author Share Posted April 28, 2014 I wondered if the trans was attached during this installation. Cadillac did the same thing in the '40s, andtheir hydramatic was a mile long! Quite the feat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Murphy Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Dave Cole in an article he wrote for LCOC's maazine Continental Comments winter edition #95 reports that Lincoln Zephyr #100000 was reported junked out, no longer exists by member Larry Petit of Van Nuys, California. Now recycled and enjoying a new life as possibly part of a newer Lincoln... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken/Alabama Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I'm interested in fabricating a pair of hooks like that for lifting the V12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40ZephSedan Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Great photo - never saw before, thanks for sharing! Wonder if all 40 engines were installed with the same lift equipment or not. If I remember correct David telling us at Charlotte a few years back, that they basically pulled 3-4 cars off the Zephyr assembly line each day from the 100 cars made and turned them into Continentals, custom hand-made at a side operation. Welded on hood extensions, extended fenders, lowered, polished the heads, .... (thus 3 times the price). The 12" wide + or - insulation strip on the underside of many early 40 Cont. longer hoods was to cover up the weld joint. Then in 41 they had actual special long stamped hoods and fenders...... in stock for the Continentals and didn't have to modify the standard parts on the fly as much, was a more steam-lined custom operation. So they may have fitted the custom Continental engines a little different off to the side, vs the high volume cars down the main production line. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jim Zephyr Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Hi John, yes I remember now the article mentioning scrap out. It was fun to imagine it still out there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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