the -58 lincoln continental, the beauty or the beast??

[JAFFA]

this is by far MY favourite car, its beautiful, no argues, if you ask ME.

but many, probably most people have the opposite oppinion, so i thought

id add a poll about it

[Zoom Zoom]

I think they're pretty ugly, but still neat cars and they're not gag-worthy ugly. A whole lot of '58's seemed to suffer the uglies vs. '57 and '59. I like a lot of Lincolns, but the '58-'60 version is probably my least favorite. The gorgeous '61 Continental was quite a breath of fresh air 8)

Sure wish that someone would make a few missing Lincolns, such as the Mk. III, Mk. IV and Mk. V. Resin would be fine with me

I would assume you have the Modelhaus '58 Lincoln?

[Billy Kingsley]

I like it....BUT, the 58 Edsel is one of my all time favorite cars, so take that as y'all may, LOL.

[PatRedmond]

Beast of the highest [lowest ??] order.

[Rob Hall]

It's a big beast, beautiful in that wonderfully wierd sort of way many late '50s cars are..

The '61-69 Continental is probably my favorite Lincoln design..

I'd love to see some later Lincolns kitted--the Mark III, Mark IV, Mark V, and the '80s and '90s Town Cars like the ones my late father drove..

[Jairus]

1958 and '59 saw the most over-styled cars that ever turned a wheel. Even the Rambler had fins then! This car taken by it self and viewed from our comfortable year of 2006, looks a little like a bad Barris Custom job from the late 60's, but if you insert it into that crazy era of excesses it blends in just fine.

When viewed in context, the styling alone is pretty restrained, containing front and rear designs which incorporate similar elements all tied together by a character line running front to rear very nicely. This cannot be said of all the cars of this era when designers threw every styling element then known to man in an effort to out-glamorize the competition. I would say that this car rates pretty highly for the time period.

Respectfully submitted,

Jairus

[MrObsessive]

UUUUUGGGHHH!! Even when I was a little kid in the '60's I thought they were ugly cars!

Compared to the year before ('57), and what was to come later (the gorgeous '61), the designers must have been on an LSD trip when they designed that one!

But as others have said.......if you were to get into a time machine and land on Anytown St. circa 1961, the car would not have been that gawd awful compared to today.

[MonoPed]

I'd love to see a '56 Mk II kit...one of my favorite Lincolns, pther than the 93-96 Mk VIII...

[MonoPed]

I'd love to see a '56 Mk II kit...one of my favorite Lincolns, pther than the 93-96 Mk VIII...

[Guest zebm1]

Arrrrgh!! A prime example of what we used to call a Lead Sled :roll: .....now ifn yu want a keeper Lincoln, here's mine in Dubonet Red.....

Hey Monoped, Revell kitted a Mark II waaay back.

and here it is.....

it's a '56 Connie Ped.

[James W]

The Lincoln is beautiful in it's own way. But here is a question for you. If you put a bunch of late fifties cars in front of a bunch of non car people and then asked if they could pick the one that was a flop because of it's styling, would they pick out the Edsel?

[MonoPed]

Now THAT'S what I'm talkin about!! Clean, simple and elegant, especially in the context of the mid - late 50's.

Is that old Revell kit 1:25? If it is, then I guess I just found a new "grail"... :shock:

[jbwelda]

compared to say a monte carlo its got style and class. ive always loved those canted headlights and didnt the four door models have suicides in the rear so the doors opened up opposite each other? coolness increase.

course it doesnt hold a candle to like a mid 70s chevy donk style

(is there a throwing-up smiley somewhere?)

[JAFFA]

someone asked if i built the Modelhaus '58 Lincoln, and nope i did not,

i would but theres too many things on the bench right now!!

someone else brought up the edsel, wich is yet another favourite, that

-58 edsel pacer was one beautiful piece o machinery, actually most of my

favourites are -58's, the edsel 58, continental 58, and impala 58 and 60,

a good year for me i suppose...

someoneelse asked about the suicide doors, yop the continental had

suicide 4doors as stock, this was because that way they could make

fourdoor convertibles.

[MrObsessive]

I think the '61's had the suicide doors-----not the '58-'60 style.

Interestingly, the four door still had a pillar..........not a true hardtop like the suicide doored '57-'58 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham

[jbwelda]

oh yeah you can see from the middle photo that the rear doors this year were not suicide style.

but i still love this design. im with you on the 58s, a 58 impala has always been one of my favorite lead sled platforms with all that gingerbread trim and those triple taillights etc.

ive got to break my mold one of these days and build a 58 impala the way i remember them: purple candy paint, scallopped scoops, dummy spotlights, chopped top and caddy bullet taillights.

[Deano]

I've always used the 58-59 Lincoln as a counter to the folks who said the Edsel was ugly. Comparatively, the Edsel IS a "Thing of Great Beauty.""

[Andy Wyatt]

There were a lot of great looking cars in the '50's...and that definitely AIN'T one one of them. I've heard of getting hit with the ugly stick, but that car fell out of the top of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. I'd rather be seen in it than an Aztec or Scion XB though...

[Jairus]

There were a lot of great looking cars in the '50's...and that definitely AIN'T one one of them. I've heard of getting hit with the ugly stick, but that car fell out of the top of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. I'd rather be seen in it than an Aztec or Scion XB though...

[Zoom Zoom]

There were a lot of great looking cars in the '50's...and that definitely AIN'T one one of them. I've heard of getting hit with the ugly stick, but that car fell out of the top of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. I'd rather be seen in it than an Aztec or Scion XB though...

Even though a '58 Lincoln is far from my favorite '50's car, it would be awfully cool to own a Scion xB for a daily driver and have a '58 Lincoln for weekend cruise nights 8)

Anyone ever seen a '58 Lincoln done as a custom?

[Guest zebm1]

Wasn't tha TV Batmobile a late 50s Lincoln Futura? I'd say that mobile was Kustomized! :twisted: