This Thursday, we're looking back at a Lincoln Now article that also looks back, all the way to 1922 in fact. That was the year the Ford family bought Lincoln, and Henry put his son Edsel in charge. Edsel developed the stylish Continental, which, in 1968, would likely have been sold with a pamphlet that read as follows:
“A few years back, among a pile of yellowing old records in the Ford Motor Company’s archives, a researcher came upon a large old fashioned scrapbook in which he found an unusual collection. On the first page was an illustrated catalog for a 1911 foreign car, called the Continental Peumatik. Flipping the pages the researcher found many pictures and advertisements. The significant thing about the book was that marginal notes in the handwriting of Edsel Ford were interspersed among the pictures. This was the beginning of the idea from which the Lincoln Continental was to come many years later.”
Learn more about the iconic Continental by reading the full text above. Then come out to Performance Ford Lincoln at 906 Route 10 West in Randolph and take a new Lincoln for a spin.