'69 Lincoln Continental

[Chuck Most]

Yes, this is an original AMT annual kit. And yes, I 'ruined' it by building it. I regret nothing... I think it looks way better like this than it did as a bunch of styrene lumps in a box!

It is mostly box stock, aside from the '25 T kit Lincoln valve covers, '65 Lincoln custom exhaust manifolds, the '66 Buick air cleaner, and the Hurst mags from a '66 Mercury kit. I also lowered it by drilling the axle holes higher in the chassis. Wonder if the tooling for this one still exists, in some form? (There are many identical parts with this and the '66 promo I have, but not a lot of similarity with the oft-reissued '65 kit...)

Edited September 13, 2010 by Chuck Most

[Jeff Sauber]

That looks slick!! nice job....

[Foxer]

You're my hero, Chuck! Came out looking really nice.. the paint belongs on it.

[Monte's Motors]

I agree. They look MUCH better put together with a great paint job.

Keep building those type of kits. I know I sure will, when I get the chance.

A pile of plastic in a box, is not a car til it's built.

Edited September 9, 2010 by Monte's Motors

[Crazy Ed]

Excellent Job there Chuck.

Ed

[70mach1]

Excellent Job there Chuck.

Ed

You did what you're supposed to do Great job!

[The Modeling Hermit]

Ahhh; the smell of old plastic, and to be able to also build it, what a wonderful feeling. There is just something satisfying about building an old kit. You get to have the fun of building, the parts left over to keep the smell of the old plastic in the box, and the box to view. I've been diving into some of my stash, and building some of them. There's something fun about building something that I paid five or ten dollars for many years ago, and now I'm building a model values at well over a hundred dollars. That's a very clean build, with a nice mixture of old school and new school.

[LAone]

nice, i want one.

collectors, is there such a thing?? i thought we just had so many cause we can't build them all in one life time

looks great i like the color and stance.

[Chuck Most]

I can dig it Chuck. '69 is the only one I'm missing of that bodystyle.

BTW, those wheels aren't Hurst, there Kelsey-Hays 20 spoke cast wheels. A buddy of mine had them on his '72 Vette convertable.

Steve... '61, '62, '63, '64, '67, and '68 are the only ones I'm missing from that body style! (Unless you don't count promos... then I'm short a '66, too! )

Not sure why I've been refering to them as Hurst spokes- maybe because I'd originally considered running Hurst mags on it? Or maybe I'm just a moron.

I do have to say, it was weird building this kit, the whole time thinking "Wow- this kit is 13 years older than I am, and it's just been sitting around for 41 years, not being built!" I have to say it's quite a strange feeling!

[Kris Morgan]

Nice to see an ols vintage kit get built. After all, that is what models are for. You did an exelent job.

[Zoom Zoom]

Nice

I also have one mint in the box that I intend to build. A second has the box and had a little light assembly, was missing hood and one of the headlight units, I was able to get a resin hood from a caster who is no longer in business, and I cast the second headlight piece myself. The headlights themselves on the '69 kits seem small.

I also have a mint unbuilt '66...I intend to built it as a convertible

[Lownslow]

sucks that i gave mine away but it went to a good cause ill find another one one of these days

[charlie8575]

Nice work, Chuck. That appears to be the Testors Emerald Green on it, yes?

There's a very nice beige '69 running around here. I might seach out one of those and build a model of it myself.

Charlie Larkin

[cobra98]

Nice job!! paint color looks great

[BHarrison]

Nice job and great pics! Looks like you drove out to a construction site to "handle some business ". I can almost hear Sinatra coming out of my speakers!

[David G.]

Buy it... Build it... Enjoy it! A great looking job on a great looking car!

[Scalper]

cool really like this one.

[sak]

My only gripe with this car is that it is not jet black. But even still I think it looks miraculous. Well done.

[Eric Stone]

Yeah, what they all said...

Looks good!

[MILD]

Mate- you have absolutely done the kit justice with a very clean build. It looks amazing and it's great to see a kit put together as was intended!

[Chuck Most]

Oh, yes, that's Emerald Envy, or whatever thay call it. I'd originally toyed with black/ red interior, but I thought it would look too much like something Tony Soprano's dad would have driven!

I dug out my old '66 promo last night... seems that the promo shares quite a few parts with the '69 kit, yet virtually nothing with any of the '65 kits I have. The dash appears to be exactly the same as in the '69 kit as do the stock wheel covers, and the chassis, aside from the lack of screw holes and the thin wire axles instead of the promo's fat, knurled metal rods, appear to be identical. Leads me to wonder if the '69 kit tooling still exists, since it seems totally different from the '65's...? I sure hope so!

Edited September 10, 2010 by Chuck Most

[Fuel Coupe]

love the Lincoln Chuck

[Hattley]

Man that's sharp!!!

[charlie8575]

I dug out my old '66 promo last night... seems that the promo shares quite a few parts with the '69 kit, yet virtually nothing with any of the '65 kits I have.

That's because in 1966, Lincolns went through a subtle, but very thorough, revision. I believe all the body panels are different, with the possible of the roof.

There were minor revisions made from 1967-69.

Charlie Larkin

[ZIL 111V]

Beautiful piece great ext/int color combo + love the "AMT annual 1969" box(art) & Kustom parts. IMO the '69 was the best looking of the '66-'69 generation.

...Always wondered what was the faith of the AMT 1969 Continental mold....Where is it??? totally vanished for nearly 40 years!

ERTL did bring back the '65 in the 70's,80's,90's...but the '69 never came back....gone for good?