1969 Lincoln Continental
Buying a 1969 Lincoln Continental at auction isn’t something to do on a whim, although Ed and Neil Gazzard did and now don’t regret it a bit…
Ed Gazzard and his brother, Neil, now happily share this1969 Lincoln Continental, but originally they hadn’t really planned on buying it. “I’d been looking for a Cadillac from 1969 or ’70,” remembers Ed, “but when I saw this Lincoln advertised I just thought ‘that’s brilliant’. It was at a Brightwells’ auction in Hereford and scheduled to sell with no reserve one Wednesday lunchtime. I told Neil that we’d kick ourselves if we didn’t bid and then it sold for next to nothing, so I travelled up. It’d looked better in the photos. I didn’t even know if it ran properly and the catalogue description said it needed recommissioning. I didn’t fancy tackling it alone, so Neil and I decided to share the car.”
“We fell for it because of those suicide doors, to be honest,” admits Neil. “We won it on our last bid – we wouldn’t have gone any higher for it.” It wasn’t a total leap of faith since Neil had previously owned some American cars. “I had a 1978 Monte Carlo that I paid £400 for and then an ex-United States Air Force Dodge D200 truck – that was a monster, nothing in the way of brakes, but good for pulling trees down…” Ed had owned a 1990 Cadillac Brougham: “It had the 5.7-litre LT1 engine, with 190bhp. It was very usable and did motorway speeds easily. It was sold because the Champagne colour started to turn pink…”
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Classic American.
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