Lincoln(?) converted into wrecker

[SIRAACA_Editor]

Looks like a Lincoln town car.  Taken around 1940, along West End Avenue in Manhattan.  Pretty cool how they kept the rear doors intact and slid the boom into the rear passenger area.  

[Brass is Best]

Sure looks like a Lincoln. I can see the Greyhound mascot on the radiator cap.

[58L-Y8]

1927-'28 Lincoln L Cabriolet by Brunn. one of the Series 159 semi-custom catalogued styles. 

[SIRAACA_Editor]

On 2/16/2021 at 8:49 PM, 58L-Y8 said:

1927-'28 Lincoln L Cabriolet by Brunn. one of the Series 159 semi-custom catalogued styles. 

Thanks for the ID.  A Cabriolet explains why they kept the rear doors intact, as the rear of the roofline was already "cut out".

[58L-Y8]

11 minutes ago, SIRAACA_Editor said:

Thanks for the ID.  A Cabriolet explains why they kept the rear doors intact, as the rear of the roofline was already "cut out".

The Brunn Cabriolet was available both as collapsible (landaulet) and non-collapsible form.  Priced a $6,800 new, certainly was a sad end for such an expensive, elegant coach-built car twelve years later.  But, then, no doubt NYC region junkyards were full of cast-off town cars by the advent of WWII.