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1955 Lincoln Capri Four-Door Sedan [73B]

1955 Lincoln Capri [73B] in Lisbon, Movie, 1956 IMDB

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: US

1955 Lincoln Capri Four-Door Sedan [73B]

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Sunbar UK

2007-01-29 17:13

At the rear on the right.

fintail CA

2007-01-29 17:27

1955 Lincoln, I think it would be a Capri

58Roadmaster US

2007-01-30 08:56

I will second that on the lincoln. The car is a 1954 Chrysler. I will wager that the placement of the Chrysler emblem at the center of the hood with no "V" ornamentation is unique to models sold in Europe. I found this pic of a car in Dublin.
http://www.seriouswheels.com/images/a_1953_Chrysler_Four_Door.jpg

The grille is not the same of course, but note the location of the Chrysler script.

Junkman UK

2007-01-30 11:14

It is indeed a 1955 Lincoln Capri. The car in the foreground is certaily more interesting. It is not a 1954 Chrysler. It is an early Fifties Crown Imperial Limousine with, as 58Roadmaster has already pointed out, some odd features:

The grille is different from any US Version.
The headlamp bezels are different too, but I have seen these on another Crown Imperial Limo of this period that ran in Europe. They might be 'Export' Items, mandated by a legislation that requires the turn signals and parking lamps to be seperate units in many European countries, whereas in the US a two-filament bulb in one housing will do, since orange (or amber) parking light is allowed there. In Europe, the turn signal must be orange and the parking light white.
The 'Chrysler' script is indeed a carryover from 1949-50. Again, it might have been applied to 'Export' versions for Europe, since the cars were marketed prominently as Chryslers there, wheras in the US the move to incrementally seperate the 'Chrysler' name from Chrysler Imperials was already underway, resulting in 'Imperial' officially becoming a seperate make from model year 1955 onwards.

Sunbar UK

2007-01-30 12:19

The car in the foreground is here, listed currently as a Chrysler Windsor De Luxe 8 Passenger Limousine.

/vehicle_83187-Chrysler-Windsor-De-Luxe-1954.html

I guess that from 58Roadmaster's and junkman's comments and the 'Windsor' name it is probably made in Canada for Europe?

Richard of C CA

2007-03-01 01:55

The Chrysler Windsor was the six cylinder model of Chrysler in 1954. That is why there is no V8 badge on the hood. The Imperial would have shared the body with the Windsor in the long wheelbase cars. The Imperial did have a different grill from the Chrysler in the fifties.

Richard of C CA

2007-03-01 01:59

My uncle had one of these long wheelbase Chrysler Windsors and drove it for over ten years. The old flat head six had to work hard. The hemi V8 would have been a better choice.

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