1957 Lincoln Continental

MkII Coupe

8 - Cyl.

Automatic

C56N3541

Gasoline

One of 444. Runs good and good compression. Note: this is worth more than $7000 in parts. Hubcaps alone-$1300 for set. NO OIL SMOKE; NO VALVE TAPS; NO KNOCKS/CLATTERS (OTHER THAN WATER PUMP NEEDED). DOES NOT RUN HOT BUT IS LEAKING/SPLATTING SMALL AMOUNT OF WATER FROM WATER PUMP SHAFT. The repaint, floor patching and some non-crucial frame section repair is the biggest expense. If you can settle for less of a paint job, could move onto a driver completion. Time and patience is the main tool. The second year of the Mark II. Less than 3100 total produced? The 1957 engine is more powerful than earlier productions. This is a true 1957; not 55 to late 56. Great project. all there accept one MkII passenger side emblem. The seats are usable but needs a headliner, carpet and leather wrap on inside window moulding frames. The front floors need patching or just the low flat areas re-inforced. Does not need complete floors. Trunk floor is stable and complete; needs rust stop treatment. As can be seen it is 50% stripped and needs paint. Some bondo on quarters with some rust repair needed as shown. Rockers and doors are solid considering its age. Doors close easy and tight with no drop. Hood does not have springs to hold it up; closes/latches tight. All glass is good; windshield has wiper scratches and BB quarter incher. Gas tank doe not have leaks and the previous owner had pressure checked gas line/tank with a no-clog flow. Gas seems to be making its way from tank to pump. Oil shows no signs of milkyness or water. Water shows no signs of milkyness or oil sediments. For those of you mechanically inclined, understand the significance of this. Contact me for questions; More pictures. THERE IS QUITE A SMALL LIBRARY OF MARKII BOOKS THAT COME WITH THIS; EXAMPLE: TECHNICAL DATA BOOK AND MKII RESTORERS GUIDE (BOTH AN INCH THICK). SOME MKII CLUB LEAFLETS, ETC. PROBABLY $150 WORTH OF BOOKS. SOME NEW HISTORY OF THIS PARTICULAR CAR: A LETTER WAS SENT TO DOUG AND PAT OF TALLAHSSEE FROM A JIM D. MAULL (CAN''T TELL FROM SIGNITURE) OF YORK, PA. STATES SOME OF THE FOLLOWING FACTS. CAR WAS THEN 22 YEARS OLD. LINCOLN UNIT 3541 WAS DEEP BLUE (02); A1N6B INTERIOR. OF THE 3012 LINCOLNS MADE, 124 WERE MADE WITH (02); 178 WITH THE 1N6B INTERIOR. NO. 323 DSO (SPECIAL ORDER)-WHAT MADE THIS DSO? PADDED SUNVISORS! LESS THAN 10%. 1956 HAD ZERO PADDED VISORS. UNIT 3541 WAS ONE OF THE TRUE 1957 LINCOLNS, THE REST WERE 1955-56 YEAR. JIM STATES: HE IS DISSAPPOINTED THE MKII VALUE HAS NOT RISEN IN PROPORTION WITH A LOT OF THE SAME ERA CARS...THE SMALL T-BIRD, FOR EXAMPLE. "BUT, MAYBE IN TIME THEY WILL". AGAIN, LETTER IS IN BOX OF BOOKS AND WAS WRITTEN IN 1979. IF YOUR STILL ALIVE JIM, THEY HAVE INCREASED IN VALUE. There is a copy of the original shipping invoice. sales district: Boston; sold to Luis De Noyos, Jan. 3, 1957 by Daniels & West, Inc., 444 Broadway, Newburgh, NY (where incidently I was born). D.S.O. 56C-323 I finally got under car (to change oil and filter) with a better evaluation. The main frame cross supports and front-to-back longitudinal structure is very secure and strong. There is rust in pits/small holes in the driver side rail and bottom section areas in the passenger side rail (rails being just inside rockers and where the exhaust pipes make their way to the rear. That being acknowledged the buy now price has been educed by the cost of repair/restoration of these areas. Estimate is $1000. REPEAT: this car is 90% solid, strong, structurally safe. I will be installing a "temporary" (maybe temp) electric fuel pump, bypassing mechanical (leaving mechanical installed). When this is completed the car will start in a second with turn of the key without touching gas or anything. It does that now, running temperature or cold, but I have been bubble syphoning from a small gas can. The electric pump should be installed soon. So far thirty minutes idling in hot weather has been done, and it will still start FAST at full running temperature. YouTube link of running, engine compartment, carburetor breather assembly and moving in gear. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rilxmvixKNs running engine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNmJCh_aPjY running and moving-reverse forward-restarts. IN THIS VIDEO RUSTY INSIDE DASH TRIM PIECES/MOULDINGS LOOK BAD, BUT THEY CAN BE SANDBLASTED/TREATED AND RE-WRAPPED WITH AVAILABLE SIMILAR COLOR LEATHER. Horn on steering ring does work. THIS CAR SAT FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, SO WHEN I SAY "ACTUALLY MOVING" IT IS QUITE AMAZING IT RUNS AND MOVES AS GOOD AS IT DOES. ALONG WITH THAT, IT DOESN'T HAVE LEAKS, SMOKE, TAPS ETC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUaYwT9uLq8 MORE : COLD START-RUNNING, MOVING ; NEW STARTER SWITCH has been mounted in dash with bottom dash panel also re-installed. Tachometer works. Comes with 850 CCA battery. On May-11-10 at 15:55:04 PDT, seller added the following information: My next listing will be "make an offer" catagory, but will not be under $6000. So, contemplate this listing for next listing decision making. I'm retired, so watching these on-going listings is all I have to do besides the wife, birds, squirrels, survive, fix, pay bills, look forward to socialism (I always wanted to be sociable), etcetera. If the water pump wasn't leaking, this would run all day (that includes the non slipping and non-leaking transmission). Now, I can't say it would run on a trip all day in its present state. If you laid in bed for several years, you'd take some physical therapy to move again. That's what condition this car is; although it has come back rather well. For needing points, coil, wires, plugs, water pump, belts, etcetera, amazingly responsive. They did make them well (blue printed from 1957 factory). On May-12-10 at 04:37:53 PDT, seller added the following information: Water pump cost (no leaks elsewhere, even radiator has no leak): $150 with core exchange; brake master cylinder/booster : $285 w/exchg ( per MkII Enterprizes in Calif ). Gas tank does have a drain plug and tank has no leaks but a section of the gas line to front does leak when tank is pressurized ( I have not removed tank drain plug until I decide to, and get time to feed gas from tank; still flintstone gas can fed to carb ). Diamond ring to your wife/girlfriend or 57 MkII diamond in the rough? Decisions, decisions. On May-12-10 at 04:46:01 PDT, seller added the following information: Someone has asked to buy the hubcaps at $1300. It is being considered. A decision will not be made until this auction ends, so hubcaps ae included as of this listing.. Next auction would be "not less than $6000" purchase price, without hubcaps, if that should come to be.On May-12-10 at 08:52:11 PDT, seller added the following information: "no" second chance offers at auctions "end"On May-13-10 at 06:06:16 PDT, seller added the following information: PARTIAL LIST OF WHAT THIS CAR IS WORTH IN PARTS: Fenders-$600 each Hood-$1000 Hubcaps-$1300 for set of four Engine/trans/w-title (57 engine more HP)-$3000 Grill undamaged-$200 Grill center undamaged at least-$150 Bumpers undamaged cores needing chroming-$400 each Gauge cluster-$300 Then add door mechanisms, small parts, miscellaneous dash, trim (inside and outer), un-ending list, etcetera. Items only found on MkII's. So, the present bidders, can guess what you've purchased if you were buying parts ( about one third the car ). Am I unreasonably puzzeled by such hesitance in bidding to the seller's most likely and stated sell price; "no doubt value"? If a prospective buyer is serious, knows there is no second chance offer under $6000 pending, would it not be a buying positive to bid what it is worth? Seasoned bidders, and knowledgable of a Lincoln MkII value would know according to the "Buy it now" pricing, that any bid shy of this amount will not buy it. Miracles do happen in La La land; not in this lifetime. I want one buyer who would inspire to own a running, moving, almost functional time capsule of known value/history; unique restorable example. The present turtle bidding increments WILL NOT own it. You couldn't buy the same car for this amount sitting in a grass high junk yard without the motor with the present bidding amounts. Sorry, tough love is reality; snooze-you-lose. Eventually the ONE buyer will step up to the plate to own this relic, with its history, box of books/documentation/parts and, if nothing else, make it a driver (or restore). Dealers and parts brokers will not pay what I need to get. I need "Joe Owner" to buy this.