Dave's 69 Lincoln Continental work in progress (Large Pics)

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Dave's 69 Lincoln Continental work in progress (Large Pics)

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Here are some pics of my Lincoln from when i first got it to present date..
Here it is when i first went to look at it.
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The rear qurter was smashed up pretty bad
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Here it is after i got it home and started working on it
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Got alot of the quarter panel fixed, and changed the door so far
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Put the dash all back together
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A bit of rust on the drivers floor board to be repaird
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Cleaned alot of the engine bay
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Trunk is in relly good condition
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This is the 84 460 i got for free it is now in the car
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And here are my most recent pics
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Some pics of the engine in, Never had time to paint it since i had to return the cherry picker back after the weekend i put it in, so i was in a rush, but i'll paint it up in the car
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You are making great progress!!! Keep it up :grin:

It sure reminds of projects I have done my car. Especially repairing the holes in the floorboards :D

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Man! This looks like a lot of work but you're doing great. Stay with it and keep us posted with lots of pics.

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Looks like you got a Pioneer Supertuner in the deal. Those were good units back in the day.
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yes and the Pioneer Supertuner still works, ill be sure to keep you updated on my progress
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Wow you got a lot of work to do. :shock: It might be easier to do some “customizing” rather then try for all stock.
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Bolted the rear bumper in place tonight to get it off the floor, the bumper is in pretty rough shape but i know where there is a decent one that im going to grab, the frt bumper i got is in decent shape altho i will have to fab up some brackets as someone had cut the originals off the parts car with a torch, and instead of cutting the bolts off, they cut the brackets in half
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wow thats quite the project

are you customizing it or keeping it original? what options does it have? are you adding any, im not sure what was optional back then, but theres probably some cool stuff


do you have any pics of your LTD? I have a strange love for 2-door 80s cars
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well it has a/c witch i think was standerd, cruise, courtesy lights in the arm rest, air shocks,(not sure if it came like that from the factory)
and yes here are a few pics of my ltd and my merc
This is my merc next to my buddies 68 lincoln
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and this is my LTD
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Note: this pic was taken before i painted my merc, as you can see it used to be brown
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well lots of progress has been made this past weekend... so here are some pics and details
Got the engine painted and running, now just need to permently wire in the diraspark box.
she sounds mean with just the open manifolds :grin:
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did a little bit of the frame work
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fixed the rotted frt floor bord. it was more rotted then expected so i cut the drivers frt floor right out and made a new peice. as you can see the smaller sub frame is rotted but i have some channeling that will be perfect to rebuild a new one.
The new floor board i made i also drilled holes and spotwelded to the main subframe like original. After i rebuild the smaller section of the fram i will be spotweling it back on to...
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oh and i accidently baught brown paint instead of black. my bad
So next is on to the rest of the frame work, and after all the metal work is done it will be all mechanical work from there :grin:
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Continental69 wrote:oh and i accidently baught brown paint instead of black. my bad
So next is on to the rest of the frame work, and after all the metal work is done it will be all mechanical work from there :grin:
I don't think anyone will notice under the carpet. ;)

Nice work. Keep us updated with more pics!
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will do, im in the garage everynite after work, and weekends working on her, my goal is to have her atleast certified in the spring, but lots of work to do before i get there, still got to get the tranny freshiond up before she moves under her own power, im hopeing a new filter and rear seal and the tranny will work fingers crossed, (havet tryed it yes as i dont have tranny lines on yet or the drive shaft)
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Nice work! Please keep the picture story going, it's a great motivator!
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