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Sorry, couldn't resist! :D Despite some marketing, badging, etc. that may not explicitly identify post-1957 Continental Marks or Continentals as Lincolns, they "must" be classified as such because: 1. Ford's own VIN decoder (1980s+) classifies them as Lincolns. 2. Documentation from the Fo...

Until then I will call my car what everything I have referring to it calls it. Continental Mark IV. While you are certainly free to call your own car whatever you like, I am curious as to why you wouldn't be calling it a Lincoln-Mercury Continental Mark IV given your "theory" regarding di...

If marketing is irrelevant for defining what a car is named, then what is relevant? If rmbb had been more responsive (or responsive at all) to people's questions here, perhaps there could have been more of a discussion/debate or at least we'd know what he/she was trying to accomplish with the posti...

Excerpts from Cars of Lincoln-Mercury (1987) http://www.geting.se/viewimage/image/268645-1968_Mark_III_Official_name_was_Continental_Mark_III.jpg http://www.geting.se/viewimage/image/268646-1968_Technically_not_a_Lincoln.jpg http://www.geting.se/viewimage/image/268647-1986_all_officially_named_Linc...

Contifan - thanks for the tip. Found that link a while ago, and the car needs more work than I'm willing to do after paying $9500. The search continues... Good luck with your search. I assume you are against the idea of taking a white (or other non-preferred color) Conti and having it repainted to ...

I've been looking for a 64 sedan for several months now. Maybe it's coincidence and maybe they just made a lot of them, but it seems like every decent example I can find is white. Now there's nothing wrong with white cars and I know a lot of people love white, but it's just not for me. I'll take br...

Not a Mark III but I was just browsing eBay and happened to came across a 1973 Mark IV where the seller posted the car's titles from Pennsylvania and Florida, the original bill of sale, and a letter from the Ford Customer Relationship Center. The PA titles (original and re-issued) both listed the ma...

The existence of the division is not relevant to whether the make of later Marks were actually Lincolns or Continentals. The real question is what defined the make of an automobile? What on the title of a '69 Mark III? What make is listed? I still believe they are Lincolns, but it begs to question ...

From 1981 cars are designated a 17-character VIN-number. The third character is the Make Identification. Lincoln=N. Mercury=E. Continental=R. All Lincoln automobiles are marked N, all Continentals are marked R. Hence are all Mark automobiles (Mark VI 81-83, Mark VII 84-85) from 1981-1985 marked R. ...

A "celebrity owned" 1941 Lincoln Continental is scheduled for auction at January's RM Auctions event ("Automobiles of Arizona") in Phoenix. Estimated selling price is $150,000 to $200,000. http://archive.liveauctioneers.com/archive4/rmauctions/15574/0151_2_lg.jpg The 1941 Contine...

Perhaps it was something as simple as wanting to market the "all new" late 1960s Continental Mark III in the same fashion or somehow as a reflection of the 1958 model of the same name (when Continental was in fact still its own division) and it just stuck (i.e. leaving off "Lincoln&qu...

So if Ford considered the Mark series to be Lincolns, can anyone explain why they went through the effort of purposely omitting the Lincoln name from the cars, brochures, owners manuals, advertising, etc.? It can't be an oversight or accident. Perhaps Ford felt "Lincoln Continental" was f...

That just makes my argument even stronger. If Mercury ceased being its own division in the 1940's, then it should be the Lincoln Mercury Marquis. But it isn't. It is just the Mercury Marquis. It ceased being its own division, not ceased being its own brand. The brand continued as part of the newly ...

If Mercury was supposedly not a seperate division then why aren't they called Lincoln Mercury Marquis or Cougar? This seems to be an argument in the wrong direction if you are going to claim Continental wasn't a division. A company can have a division that produces/sells products under different br...

I had no idea there was so much controversy on whether or not Lincoln Contintentals are officially Lincolns.... but considering pretty much everyone calls these cars (except the legit Continentals that really did have their own marque) Lincolns, does it really even matter? It doesn't matter much bu...