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Member ID: barry2952

Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan

Last updated: Dec 28, 2007

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Barry Wolk’s Lincoln Continental:
“Convertible”

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This is the first of three 1956 Continental Mark II convertibles made for Ford Motor Company.

Please link to See page 5 for the trailer project.

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Car Collector Magazine January 2006 "Feature Car"

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Ego stamps. Go to the aaca.org web site and look at the Zazzle link on the left hand side of the forum.

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Lincoln-Mercury photo shoot

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Instrument pod, by request

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Mark II convertible "refreshing" of 2006

I've put 9,000 miles on this car since the Spring of 2003. It looked its very best at the LCOC national meet and at the Ford Centennial Celebration. Since then we've driven the car to northern Michigan for the Bay Harbor Concours, to Cincinnatti, OH for the Ault Park Concours, to Dayton, OH to the Glenmoor Gathering twice and various road tours for LCOC and Concours events.

It started to show some of the road bruises and owner induced damage. I'm probably the only one who noticed most of the flaws but I know they are there.
Bit's of tape mark all the flaws. The trunklid needed to be removed to gain access to the metal boot mechanism.

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There is a very strange bit of damage that I can't account for. I thought I had two severe rust bubbles starting above the passender side wheel arch. With the convertible hatch open you can see all the way into this area and there's no rust.

If you reach up into the fender well there are corresponding dents in the inner layer of sheetmetal but I can't figure out how they got there.

The steering wheel ha a small crack in it and the paint has gotten gooey so they are refinishing it

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Whoever restored the window mechanism in '93 kinda cheated and threw in a wad of epoxy instead of fixing a couple of broken spot welds. When the glass came loose it shifted and broke the edge of the glass and developed a crack.

Can you believe how organized everything is?

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Spring photo shoot. Final results.

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White room studio. Very disconcerting driving in a room that has no corners.

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Detail shots

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Some of these shots were used in the January '06 issue of Car Collector magazine

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More detail shots:

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About 10 left:

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Last 5:

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This is probably the simplest of the detail shots, but is my favorite.

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Makes and Models April '07

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Reflecting on Continentals

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October 2007 Hemming's Classic Car

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Article I wrote for Legendary Ford magazine

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Same article in the American Car Club of France magazine

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Article from Swedish magazine "Gasoline Magazine"

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Member ID: barry2952

Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan