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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...
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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...
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OK, first thing you need to know about this story is the Alameda way to pronounce the street name. It's not "Ver-SYE," it's "Ver-SAILS" (Alameda went through a big patriotic street-renaming frenzy after World War I, yet apparently didn't ask returning AEF vets how to pronounce French place names). Got it? So, what we have here is an East End house that caught on fire. Dull local news story, sure... but what's that in the driveway? Why, it's a Malaise Lincoln (or maybe it's a Mercury; the photo isn't clear enough) that shows all the signs of having been frantically moved out of the garage as the flames licked around it, while the rest of the house's contents went up in smoke. Priorities, people! This is why Alameda has so many old cars still on the street! [Alameda Sun]
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