1961 Lincoln Continental 4 door hardtop (orig. photo)

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Re: 1961 Lincoln Continental 4 door hardtop (orig. photo)

Post by Gerald F. Chase »

One place this car did appear is in product literature: the 1962 deluxe brochure. Check out the page with a model sitting on beige empire cloth seats. You will notice there is no pillar.
Mark and others: Study this photo from the 62 'large' showroom brochure. The angle of the photograph is deliberately lined up so that her head and her hat block any possible view of a pillar (even if one was there), likely to give the illusion of the car being a four-door hardtop (and not a pillared hardtop).
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Re: 1961 Lincoln Continental 4 door hardtop (orig. photo)

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Perhaps the missing prototypes were used up in testing and scrapped. I have seen b&w pictures of a hardtop on the turntable before, but not this one . In the 62 brochure the next page has a picture of a sedan from a similar angle, the pillar is behind the middle seam of the roof liner. With that as a landmark, the pillar should be behind the shoulder of the girl in the hardtop. The car appears to have 62 seats & non a/c ashtray. The wood grain steering wheel probably would not be used with stainless door trim. My guess is engineering was still trying to add this to the lineup and refit a leftover 61 prototype.
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Re: 1961 Lincoln Continental 4 door hardtop (orig. photo)

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There are exceptions, however the general rule for Ford and GM was to crush prototypes when the use the prototype was finished. And a prototype or pre-production was different than a test chassis. It was typical for the company to have a production model taken from the assembly line to use as a test platform. The test platform could be used for many things as far as testing assemblies for improvements by some engineering group. (Engines, transmissions, HVAC systems or ??) When the model year was over the test platform would be re-assembled to a working vehicle and sold at auction as a used unit that had never been in service.


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