1972 Lincoln Continental

U/K

7.5L 460Cu. In. V8 GAS Naturally Aspirated

Automatic

22Y89A854673

Clear

Gasoline

Own a piece of of 70's Fabuousness!!! 1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV, pale yellow with cream leather interior. Only 65k miles! This Lincoln is in good condition and a steal at $5288!! Lincoln might be running away from these cars now, but the Mark IV was a real success story at the time. The company had brought out its predecessor, the Mark III, in 1968, in response to the Cadillac Eldorado. The Mark’s Rolls-Royce grille and fake-spare-tire hump stood in stark contrast to Bill Mitchell’s creased and classy Caddy. By the early 1970s, however, the Eldorado had taken a turn, following Lincoln down the boulevard of baroque. Lincoln, meanwhile, turned up the wattage with the Mark IV for 1972, and sales jumped by nearly 80 percent over the previous year. The Mark IV sailed past the Eldorado and outsold it every year after.The 1974 brochure humbly states: “The Continental Mark IV is one of the most desirable and most wanted personal American luxury cars of this decade.” It is indeed very much a car of its decade. The 1970s Continental Marks are arguably the zenith of the personal-luxury era, in all its long-hood, short-deck, vinyl-top, opera-window glory, in the same way that a ’59 Cadillac epitomizes the finned ’50s. As Deak says, “It’s the pinnacle of mid-’70s fabulousness.”