1979 Mark V Collector Series Rare Silver - $18,900 (Sandpoint, ID) not mine

[f.f.jones]

1979 Mark V Collector Series Rare Silver - $18,900 (Sandpoint, ID)

https://spokane.craigslist.org/cto/d/colburn-1979-mark-collector-series-rare/7446023354.html

email  667a0ce01ff43ca491858b11b3739199@sale.craigslist.org

 

1979 Lincoln Mark V Collector Series, Rare Light Silver Moondust Metallic Color, All Orginial

This exceptional 1979 Continental Mark V is a personal luxury car from a bygone era. The 1979 Mark V car was designed to commemorate the final year of full sized Lincoln’s and represent the end of the American luxury sedan era. At 230 inches long, this Mark V is the largest two-door coupe ever sold by Ford Motor Company. Of the 228,262 Mark V’s built from 1977 to 1979, only 75,939 were built in 1979. Of the cars built in 1979, only 6,262 Collector Series cars were built AND of those only 125 were Light Silver Moondust Metallic. This color was not available until midway through production, March 1979.

This beautiful car is all original including the interior. The midnight blue vinyl landau roof is in excellent condition. This car features a sun roof, split bench seat (optional), and CB/8 Track/AM/FM radio. Standard equipment include a trunk lid with the Continental “spare tire” shape, hidden headlights, a gold colored radiator-style grille, front fenders with functional louvers behind the front wheels and gold trimmed hood ornament. There are no opera windows (standard in 1979). Always garaged, not driven in the winter and showing 40844 miles, it is a true find.
A basic Mark V sold for $13,771, whereas a Collector Series car cost $21,452.

A Mark V Collector Series car was featured in the Lincoln Continental Owner’s Club (LCOC) January/February 1996 Continental Comments (Issue #207) and this article was repeated as a LCOC Flashback in February 1, 2022.


Assembled in: Wixom Michigan
Mileage: 40,844
Weight: 4589 pounds
Engine: 400 cid, 6.6 liter engine
VIN 9Y895746452
Located in Northern Idaho

Edited February 16, 2022 by f.f.jones (see edit history)

[m-mman]

Nice car but it brings me back to those late 1970s when every year there was a "commemorative' (artificiality rare) car that you were guaranteed to make money on if you carefully stored it for a few years:

1976 Cadillac last convertible

1978 Corvette Pace car

1979 Lincoln Collector Series

The car hobby (and auctions) were bombarded with people buying and flipping these new collectibles for at least a decade until the hype died down. 

 

Well, it now been 40 years now and none of these have brought much more money than basic inflation and way less than the Dow Jones average. 

 

in California this car (1975 and newer) requires a dynomometer smog test every two years and the smog specs are tighter than when it was new.