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1956 Continental Mark II [60A]

1956 Continental Mark II [60A] in Alone in the Dark, Movie, 1982

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1956 Continental Mark II [60A]

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Lateef ◊ 2011-11-27 19:00	1956-57 Lincoln Continental Mark II What now, there are none on the database? -- Last edit: 2011-11-27 19:01:58
Jale ◊ 2011-11-27 19:02	They are just as Continental (without Lincoln) - /vehicles.php?make=Continental&model=Mark+II&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=on -- Last edit: 2011-11-27 19:02:54
Lateef ◊ 2011-11-27 19:05	there was some discussion that all Continentals should be listed without Lincoln, I thought the idea was turned down?
Jale ◊ 2011-11-27 19:08	If I remember correct, indeed that idea (but for the newer models) was turned down. Mark II was listed as Continental much earlier...
Commander 57 ◊ 2011-11-27 19:14	Yes. Absolutely no doubt about that one. There was a fully separate Continental division of Ford Motor Co and the cars looked nothing like the Lincoln line.
somename ◊ 2011-11-27 20:32	Specifically a 56; 57s have guards built into the bumper: http://www.macksmotormemories.com/57LINC_MarkII.htm
Commander 57 ◊ 2011-11-27 22:17	Don't believe that is a universal difference, Somename. I have see both years pictured with and without those overriders. It may have been an option.
somename ◊ 2011-11-27 22:50	^Impossible, the Mark II's only options were seat belts and air conditioning.
Commander 57 ◊ 2011-11-27 23:21	Can you cite an authoritative source for your model year difference? I have read a number of articles on '56/'57 Continentals over many years (dare I say decades?) and not one of them has stated that front bumper overriders differentiated the 2 years. Do a Google search under "1956 Continental Mark II" and you will see MANY photos of '56's with overriders.
somename ◊ 2011-11-28 03:43	^I'm looking for a non-dead tree source. When you do a image search you also find a lot of 57 Mark IIs with the air inlets mounted in the rear quarter panels for the A/C, but 57s used a different duct system that made it the only production car ever to have a front air intake for a trunk mounted A/C system. The problem is that there never was an "official" model year. This extended to the VINs that all began with C56. C5661001-C56K3413; June 55-Sep. 56 and those considered 1957 models C56K3414-C56T3989; Oct. 56-May 57. So basically whenever the car was first titled, (sometimes after they sat around the dealer's lots for months) what ever was put down became the model year. -- Last edit: 2011-11-28 04:02:22
Commander 57 ◊ 2011-11-28 04:01	But then where does the bumper overriders differentiating the '56's and '57's come from?
somename ◊ 2011-11-29 02:58	Here you go Commander_57: A scan of page 300 from the Cars of Lincoln-Mercury by George H. Dammann & James K. Wagner -- Last edit: 2011-11-29 03:07:12
Commander 57 ◊ 2011-11-29 04:23	Well, he states it anyway. Surprising, though, that I see so MANY cars identified as '56's that have those bumper guards. Could that many people be incorrectly restoring their cars? Perhaps it was a running change?
jettalover ◊ 2011-11-29 05:20	"Incorrectly restoring and modifying" cars unfortunatly happens and can never can be stopped.
Commander 57 ◊ 2011-11-29 13:24	I'm just talking statistics here. Seems like too many '56's with the guards for them ALL to be modified. From historic photos, I'm inclined to believe that when introduced, the '56 models did not have the guards. The issue is whether or not they were added before the end of the '56 run.

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