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• 1966 Lincoln Continental [Down On The Street]

  Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. We're going to look at our fifth Alameda Lincoln today; of the first five, the suicide-door primered '69 was the crowd favorite in the Favorite DOTS Lincoln poll . Today's car is another suicide-door model, and the oldest of the bunch as well. This car has had a mild donk treatment, but it's just the wheels- no suspension destruction, bubbly purple window tint, or rhinestone emblems indicating wheel diameter. If you like the way it looks with these wheels, great… and if you don't, it could be switched back to factory wheels and hubcaps in a matter of minutes. For '66, the four-door sedan Continental listed at $5,750, which was 169 bucks more than the Cadillac DeVille four-door hardtop and just $17 more than the Imperial four-door. The Lincoln came with a 340-horse 462 engine, the Cadillac had a 340-horse 429, and the Imperial... Posted Sep 24 2008, 02:00 AM by Jalopnik Filed under: Alameda, Down On The Street, Lincoln, 1966, 1960s, Continental, Donk, 1966 Lincoln Continental

• 1970 Lincoln Continental Mark III, Plus Bonus Lincoln Poll [Down On The Street]

  Great big Detroit luxury machines, with two huge doors that swing out about 10 feet to the side when opened and a crude pushrod V8 with way more than 400 cubes under the hood. Aside from the low-single-digit gas mileage, what's not to love? The Lincolns of the 60s and 70s never quite sold like their Cadillac competition, but they had hoods like aircraft carrier decks and grilles carved from gigantic slabs of pure chrome. They were outrageous and beautiful, in a way the staid Caddy could never really pull off, and I wish I could find more of them parked on Alameda's streets. Sadly, this is just the fourth vintage Lincoln I've found for this series. That's enough cars for us to have a poll, though! I found this car parked on the same block as the '67 Vista Cruiser and just around the corner from the Volvo P1800 . This might actually be a '71; the external appearance of the '70 and '71 Mark IIIs is pretty much identical. Both came with the 365-horse 460 engine... Posted Jul 10 2008, 02:00 AM by Jalopnik Filed under: Alameda, Down On The Street, Lincoln, 1970s, 1970, Continental, 1970 Lincoln Continental, Mark III, Lincoln Continental Mark III

• 1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV [Down On The Street]

  We've only seen a couple of Lincolns in this series (a '69 and a '77 ), and with ten Cadillacs so far, it's time to look at another of Ford's big luxo-machines. I found this '72 parked on the same block as the '70 Volvo 164 and the '87 BMW L6 . I shot this car and the '70 Ford LTD on the same rainy day. Rain might be bad for the camera, but it makes old cars look more serious . This one is missing the front bumper, but otherwise looks pretty solid. The weird thing is the presence of what appears to be a real convertible top; as far as I know, you couldn't get a '72 Lincoln convertible from the factory. Must be a custom job. The Mark IV came standard with a big grunt-happy 460 engine, and at 4,800 pounds it needed all that torque. galleryPost('DOTS72MarkIV', 10, '1972 Lincoln Continental Down On The Street'); Posted May 09 2008, 02:00 AM by Jalopnik Filed under: 1972, Alameda, Down On The Street, 1970s, Continental, Lincoln Continental, 1972 Lincoln Continental, 1972 Lincoln, Mark IV