I went to Minnesota and Missouri on my recent vacation.
We visited with family in both places. One of the folks my son and I spent time with was my Uncle Mike.
Uncle Mike turned a spry 75 while we were there. This guy used to wash cars in the 50s at a car wash called Mike's, somewhere on Gratiot Avenue in Detroit. He's been a car guy all his life, the proud owner of everything sporty coming out of there; Toronadoes, Corvettes and the like. He invented (and probably still holds the patents on) the rolling automatic overhead brushes in many American car wash joints. He's a smart dude.
A very long time ago, his departed father, my Grandfather Joe (whom I never met) left him a 1942 Lincoln Continental.
It was among the last of the "wasteful, tasteful" Lincolns, in my view, with a 12-cylinder engine. Unless I miss my guess, the war effort probably killed the program that brough that tank into the world. Of all the cars he could have hung onto over the years, he chose to hold onto the Lincoln.
Since we're all car-people here, I thought I'd post a few photos.
He has decided to do something with it this year; he'll either start a resto-mod, or sell the car. Maybe some of you guys remember seeing critters like this when they roamed the earth? I especially like the third brake light, right behind the spare tire cover.
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