This is my 1967 Lincoln Continental Coupe mild custom in progress. I have had the car since I was 14, bought it in August of 1999. Lets hope I can get it on the road before the end of the summer '08!..yeah right. I want to take it across the USA on Route 66...just a crazy goal before I die.

My latest news is that I found my dream performance part...a tri power intake complete with Holly 2300 carbs!  This is a factory 1958 Mercury Super Marauder intake with early Ford 2300 carbs on it.  Found it online in a MEL forum and scooped it up after selling that 460 I have posted below, a seat (yet to actually have sold to the guy, some heads I sold earlier, some side work x100!, and really did not dip into my savings at all on this one!  The story behind the Super Marauder intake in short is that is was American's first car to have an advertised 400hp rating!  Optioned only on the Lincoln 430 motor available in any Mercury, Lincoln, or Edsel in 1958 but only about 800 of them made it onto cars and the parts rack and they only made these for about a month I am told!  Pretty neat and extremely rare.  Complete with original carbs and air cleaner, this thing would be worth more money than you would be willing to spend on a the set up!   Anyways, here it is and it will be on my 462 once its rebuilt and let the hor rodding begin!  This is my second performance part I have bought so far of about a dozen or so mostly custom made! First part was my roller cam I bought back in February! 

I will post some of my own photos once it shows up here hopefully by the first week in October!

Picking up a 4 door parts car for it July 12th and stripping whats good on it. Got a hood, truck, trunk jam is perfect, some quarter panel pieces good, engine and trans, and 1 door! I will post pics after I pick it up!!!

Found a guy who makes and sells MEL 462 performance parts! Here is a 1958 Mercury Super Marauder intake on my spare 462 motor I pulled out of the car shown above.  Sweeeet!

Just bought a cam for the 462. Custom made by the guy mentioned above. Its a mild cam, but I will post come specifics when I get a chance and pics when it gets here. Lots more stuff to buy before the build up, but in the mean time...body work.

Some pics of her when I got her running and the interior, but keep scrolling...

RESTORATION PICS!!! Finally -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We will start off with all the rust and get into what I have done to date...though it was at least 4-5 years ago.

This is where the trunk latch is snd the gasket rail is rotted

Here is the left corner above the rear bumper with a nice hole in it and then to the right is the left side lip next to the hinge; even that rotted!

Left is a good shot of the rail with the weather stripping removed and right is a shot of the right side

A closer look and then the rear window rust, but its only surface so far! Glad there was no vinyl roof.

Here is the wreckage of the passenger rear quarter. I remember the previous owner saying upon taking it off the flatbed, it backed into a steel beam

Moving up the passenger side here is the front of the rear wheel well opening and its rotted too! Who woulda thought?

A side shot of that area and then to the right is a shot of the back of the right rear wheel well opening leading to that wreckage. I have fixed this problem on the driver's side so it looks bad, but not really hard to fix

Here is the damage along the passenger side and take a closer look at the left picture as it shows the fin/wing bent on towards the grille. That should be fun to pull out. Lots of dents on the best piece of metal on the lower half of the car.

The same front fender (but is it really a fender since its all one piece the whole way around?) which is in much better shape than any other lower 4 inches of the car. Where the rust is on the lowest part of the left pic, it is getting replaced anyway with a rolled piece of metal since I am leaving the molding off.

This is the same dented front fender but see how the lip is good. Left a little of the molding behind but it was bent from whatever happened to that fender in the first place.

Now down the driver's side. Here is where I left off. I cut back the fender and found it rotted on the inner structure. Have not yet fixed that hold but rust profed it for the time being. I really need a wheel well opening and lower fender, but that will never happen! Pull out the old metal stretcher/shrinker and hand form the dang thing. The right picture is an overall of what I have done. Used galvanized steel since it was thick and does not rust where I did not weld!

Here is a new lip I made with the stretcher/shrinker and also had to make the inner fender too, it was as well rotted away. The right pic is the results after it looked like the passenger side above. Riveting most of it was the idea since welding could have lite the car up! No way to cool it off if a flame broke loose on the inner structure.

This is a shot of the driver's side, but notice the patch panel if you can in the surface rust. It runs from the lower left to the upper right of the brown area! This is the reason for all that filler. Thats a lot of filler by the way. They even formed the wheel well flare with the filler making it 22" of filler. No wonder all the paint cracked aside from it being lacquer. The rest of the car did not crack like that.

This is right under the driver's floor in the left image and the back seat of the driver's side in the right image. The floor was so rotted I had to replace it and make the floor myself. Normally this is where the ribbed floor boards are but I just put a flat piece in of thick gauge galvanized metal. I have photos of that in my desk, but that was before digital cameras in my house! I took all of these pics here just recently so thats why the process of whats fixed is not up yet. Coming soon.

The new rocker panel that is rolled deleting the original molding. I did this due to so much rust from them before, I do not ever want that to happen again plus its a hot rod. I just spot welded to the bottom door jam and covered the original rocker after rust proofing it with the brown rustoleom then spot welded it. I am thinking of pulling the 2 patch panels I made off and starting over possibly with a fancy crease almost similar to the floor board ribs, but I want that to be at the bottom of the rocker panel into the bottom rear quarter and stopping before the wheel well opening. Sounds hard to do.

This is the new floor boards I made after I put the interior back in. This is the hole in the carpet where the hole was and the right photo is me pulling back the carpet to show the welds, but the carpet deteriorated so thats why it looks dirty. I painted the entire interior floors with the rust paint, then primer in white and also seam sealed all the metal seams. Pics coming soon once I scan them.

The mighty MEL 462! I am thinking of placing in it a rat rod completely as it is with the exception of getting it overhauled like gaskets and valve seals since she smokes, etc. And finally the front suspension in black primer. I spent a few weekends cleaning that up when I was in high school. I took the carb off which was an Edelbrock 750 with electric choke and put it on my '84 small block 400. Had to, couldn't afford a carb back when I was in college last year so I stole it! But that Lincoln started up each and every time I tried after I did a little work. Electronic ignition, Pertronix 45,000 Volt coil, electric fuel pump and new lines, the 750 carb, and new plugs and wires and distributor and it always runs!

Here is the C6 all rebuilt, painted and all and even a new torque converter. I did not put a shift kit in it since the kid who rebuilt it told me he could adjust the valves (I think) and that would make it shift harder...can't remember what he told me, that was a few years back. The tranny stopped shifting into gear one summer when I started it up so I took it out and it was all gunked up deep inside even though I put a rebuild kit with filter that same summer. Only problem with it once it was built was that the person who put it together must have over tightened the governor cover (the circle part in the right picture right under (or above rather) the pan. I am not sure what it covers but I heard its a governor something or other. Might cover the valves inside..not sure. Anyways, its cracked and it gushed tanny fluid all over the ground when I drove it.
I am no mechanic, but I try real hard. I became one when I bought that GMC with the 400 small block!...spent a lot of time under the hood fixing what someone else screwed up since I bought it used...very used! Check that story out if you want on my page for that truck.

New universal joints and painted it up shiny black since thats all I had laying around!