Re: 2018 Concours at St. John's

Posted by Leeedy On 2018/8/26 11:56:14
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Mahoning63 wrote:
The blue '58 Pontiac Parisienne blew me away, just incredible. '59 88 was also a looker. All the car were. What a day!

I didn't get a pic of what I think was the 1960 CERV single seater that Mark Reuss fired up and drove to the Recognition area to be called out for his receiving the 2018 Automotive Enthusiast of the Year. Mark is GM's Executive VP in charge of Product Development and other areas. The car was LOUD!!! So cool.


One other point that is on the level of Packard's postwar wire wheels usually being called "Kelsey-Hayes." There was no such thing as a 1958 "Lincoln Continental." This is a statement made everywhere these days but it is a creation of more recent years. In 1958 there were no "Lincoln" convertibles. And there were no "Lincoln Continental" convertibles. This latter term did not creep into the lexicon until 1960 in preparation for the merging of the two names under one name..."Lincoln Continental" in 1961. Just as there was no such thing as a Clipper convertible in 1955-56. In 1958, there was either Lincoln... or there was Continental Mark III. Never the same car. Lincolns had different roofs, different rear windows, different rear styling, different tail lights, different wheel covers, different insignias, different side trim, different grilles and different interiors.

Today, auction companies, publications and the almighty internet continuously refer to these cars as "Lincoln Continental" but there was no such thing in 1958 or 1959. Sales brochures in 1960 started fudging the terminology. And then for 1961 there were no longer two different cars, but all one thing. Unfortunately this is all that folks seem to remember today. 1958 was either Lincoln OR Continental... but not "Lincoln Continental"... and if the concours signs said "Lincoln Continental" they were simply mistaken.

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