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1976 Lincoln continental $6,000 Santa Maria, CA not mine


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Interesting. I'm not sure I understand the crude pickup truck looking running boards. Would there have been a purpose for those on a flower car? Or are they some misguided aftermarket add-on? The major conversion itself isn't all that bad.

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On 4/23/2022 at 3:27 PM, JamesR said:

Interesting. I'm not sure I understand the crude pickup truck looking running boards. Would there have been a purpose for those on a flower car? Or are they some misguided aftermarket add-on? The major conversion itself isn't all that bad.

 

To me, the diamond-plate running boards look like

a crude after-market addition.  They shouldn't even

be needed, since the vehicle has the lowness of a car.

 

When this vehicle was new, from what I've seen, it would

have been very expensive--a showpiece of an upscale

funeral home.  After it lost its allure, maybe someone

treated it as a utility vehicle and installed the diamond plates.

 

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Another survivor of that unfortunate fad during the late 1970's-early 1980's of converting two door luxury cars into fancy pick-up trucks.  There were customizing outfits that specialized in this foolishness to profit from bad taste.  Like the one-time joke that it was among the 'wealthy' that thought a Cadillac or Lincoln pick-up was clever or cute at the country club, these miserable messes quickly became unsaleable used cars after the first owner was onto the next fad.  Poor thing.

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