Vehicle Owner

Member ID: barry2952

Location: Farmington Hills, MI

Vehicle Info

1956 Lincoln Continental

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed-1mph
  • HP-1
  • Weight-1lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

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Last updated: Jul 13, 2009

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Barry’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.

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

Car Collector Magazine January 2006 "Feature Car"

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

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

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

Lincoln-Mercury photo shoot

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

Instrument pod, by request

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

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.

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

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

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

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?

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

Spring photo shoot. Final results.

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

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

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

Detail shots

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

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

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

More detail shots:

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

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barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

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barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

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barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

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

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

Makes and Models April '07

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

Reflecting on Continentals

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

October 2007 Hemming's Classic Car

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

Article I wrote for Legendary Ford magazine

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

Same article in the American Car Club of France magazine

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

Article from Swedish magazine "Gasoline Magazine"

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

barry2952's 1956 Lincoln Continental

 

 

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Skilz4Life  

Posted by: Skilz4Life

07/13/2009 03:17PM

MINT CONDITION. LOOK @ LINCOLN LIMO CUSTOM.

cheechslincoln  

Posted by: cheechslincoln

02/09/2008 06:18PM

kleen kleen kleen

bora492  

Posted by: bora492

10/11/2007 04:37PM

Amazing!

auto-guy  

Posted by: auto-guy

02/15/2007 04:56PM

Barry these are great pictures and I finally got my pictures posted on the forum! -continentalguy

gmanbuffny  

Posted by: gmanbuffny

01/31/2007 06:40PM

wow,I almost fell out of my chair when I saw your car,its somebody turned back the clock on the lincoln,thats just priceless,belomgs in a musesum so people can pay to come see that.If I had that I would want them to berry me in it for the next life,no wait a minute elvis would try to steal it.Does a red carpet come wit that? Very nice- that some pebble beach material there. I know I been all over. Dont forget to wax it.gman

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Member ID: barry2952

Location: Farmington Hills, MI