1965 Continental sport coupe/roadster conversion

[mr moto]

 

 

This is AMT's 1965 Lincoln kit shortened about 5/8" (16 scale inches). I think of it as a sort of styling exercise or maybe you could call it a phantom or a concept car.

The roof is the removable hard top from the '57 T-Bird kit that has been lengthened and widened to fit, held in place with magnets. Interior is made from the rear half of an AMT '66 T-Bird interior with the Lincoln dash retained

. Parts box steering wheel - it's probably from some Chrysler Corp product judging by the shape of it.  Wheels are from the kit. They're similar to Pontiac 8-bolts but with knock-offs. The knock-offs in the kit looked very delicate so I never even tried to get them off the sprue and just pulled some from a parts box. The grill is a resin copy of the one from the original AMT 1956 Mark II promo with some custom headlights added. Paint is 1964 Lincoln "silver green" from MCW. Thanks for looking!

[Paul Payne]

Sweet! Love the proportions you achieved and the interior is really nice! Great job!

[Bainford]

Cool style. Nice custom work. Lots of slicing and dicing, and it all looks great. 

[espo]

Great looking body work and interior. Like the T-Bird? wraparound rear seat. 

[karbuildr]

Great looking custom, execution is flawless, very well done.

[Yeah Nah]

Now that's pretty darn cool! Almost got a European vibe to it.

[Kah puts]

Absolutely jaw dropping build, everything looks right ?

[mr moto]

Many, many thanks to everybody. Your great comments are much appreciated. I wish it was really as flawless as everyone seems to think but I'm happy that the flaws are hard to spot!

[Jay Whittaker]

WOW that is some knock-out custom work!! Everything blended together with obvious loving care. Perfect color choice IMO. 

 

Beautiful!

[michelle]

Amazing work looks sharp 

[Sledsel]

I must say that is cool!!!

[XYHARRY]

Excellent work on this beautiful custom, really well done there Manuel. 

Cheers, 

David. ??

[redscampi]

Great design exercise! It's obvious quite a bit of thought went into this custom. Colors are spot on too.

[ncbuckeye67]

That is a work of art! You've built an amazing custom, that looks like something you would see on one of those TV shows.

[John B.]

Excellent conversion - very nice!

[slusher]

Super nice!

[ChrisR]

Great concept!

[ewetwo]

Really sharp looking. I love the creativity in this forum. I wish I could think more outside the box.

[Koellefornia Kid]

A great idea nicely executed! 

[mr moto]

I feel I have to take time once again to thank all the appreciative commenters on this forum. The quality standard of builds (not to mention the builders themselves!) on this forum is very high and I thought this little build of mine would fly right under the radar. Thank you to everyone who has looked!!

[PappyD340]

Extremely nice custom Lincoln!