The Mark II is easily one of the most stunningly beautiful American cars of all time. Every time I see one in person I’m blown away by the lines. Pictures don’t do it Justice.
Great video with your usual outstanding selection of high quality photos. From beginning to end, the Mark series had two things in common… 4 tires and a trunk-centered spare tire or hump. 😉 Thanks and Happy New Year! 🎊
Great series. I had the 1977 and 1978 Mark V was the most comfortable automobiles I’ve ever owned. I started to collect die cast cars but have had a lot of problems finding especially the 1978 Mark. I now have somewhere over 100 mostly 1:43 and 1:24. Not much into the Hot Wheels like so many are and I try to get mostly die Cast of American Cars older than 1980.
Very good! In tact excellent. You covered it all. I smiled watching the video. The only Mark I did not like was Mark VII(7). I hate that car. I was so glad when Mark VIII(8) arrived and I really liked that one. I liked that you talked about the different changes and the MK's of the 2000's. You know the MKT(Lincoln version of the Ford F150) ran in Mexico for a few years after they stopped selling it in the United States. There was the Navigator based Lincoln Blackwood too. I really enjoyed the video for the footage, the pictures and information. I liked the photo with the Cadillac Eldorado. The sad part is the Mark VII was too much like the Mercury Cougar and Ford Thunderbird. Thank you so much.
The Continental has always been a favorite of mine, albeit a guilty pleasure at times. I recall one automotive critic calling the Mark VI "thunderingly gauche," a sentiment I completely agreed with. Wonderful retrospective! Happy New Year!
This is a very good review of the Mark series. I've owned several different Marks & enjoyed each one!! I was sad when they went away. Now I drive a 18 Continental. 👍👍🙂
I’ve owned a 5,7 and 8LSC. My son totaled the LSC, and I was crushed (pun intended). It was in the exact color you featured(Toreador Red Pearl metallic). Somehow , I always remembered that paint’s name. Lol! I have always drooled at that concept car never to be😢. In the late 2000s the Lincoln dealer from whom I had bought the 3 cars over those previous 20 years called one day and asked when I would buy again, to which I politely replied : when you build another Mark. Awesome vid. Thanks for the memories. 😊
Dad,several friends&future friends worked at the Wixom,MI plant from opening until the late '80's. Dad would've retired in '87 tho spent another year&half there,while divorcing his third wife. He did 31 1/2 years , retired at the age of 49
@@thehopelesscarguy Thank you. It's probably not an interesting category to some, cars that were innovative in some way, like the Tucker, AMC Pacer and Eagle 4x4 wagon, Oldsmobile front wheel drive Toronado and the last car Oldsmobile introduced, I think called Aurora, and Dodge Charger wagon, for a just a few examples. It's interesting what the car makers were trying to do at different times VS market forces and competition. TODAY, maybe because of my age, being raised to ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY, I'm not a fan of too much autonomy in cars. Made safer I'm all for!! Any way technology can make driving safer is great. But I worry when too much technology takes RESPONSIBILITY away from the driver. And I feel getting a driver's license needs to be more educational to new drivers, including Physics, and with today's insane amount of road rage, "emotional driving" and how to avoid conflict, which should be common sense but seems to be rocket science to some once behind the wheel. I'm not suggesting anything different for your videos, I like your videos. Just ranting a little as an old CDL driver.
@@floydthompson8668 I understand. My concern about regulated safety features is that there is often a trade off. Protective A pillars that block visibility, Air bags that become deadly if you are not of a certain size. Driving nannies people become dependent on and don't know what to do when they stop working.
I'm an optimist. People grumble mightily that a Chevy looks like a Ford looks like a Mercedes--all of which are white grey, black or for people who liked to crayon outside the lines, a soft metallic moss color. But if Connie came floating in--not like VWs technicolor bombastic aired bouncy-ball look-- No, Connie would be stepping out of a very posh hotel, but not like the rest. She would sport killer shades exactly because they annoy some people. But when she looks over the tops of them, her eyes match the color of the car that is pulling up for her-- Yes, yes, Ford's already busy shifting production one way or another, seemingly weekly, but these guys need to know that Connie looks like a kitten but can take down three guys and not and not muss her outfit. Not many folks can do that in post sharp silk Italian pumps, and a tux that tells a man not to mess with her. Women who have no confidence in themselves would be caught wearing something as daring. Do you know People?! Let's get 'em in a room and not let them out until we have solid ideas, a budget, how to steal the Good Parts from Ford's bin, and make the Continental come back. Kick sand in Cady's awful sales plan, do something sexy, quietly lux with the local stuff: wood trim, good leather, proper dyes, get Nike off their butts to make interior fabrics, etc, etc... Where are these people? I'm all worked up now...lol See what you can do, eh? I'm going out to love on my Ford with all the bells. You know, for a while there you could cheech up a Focus Wagon with all the good stuff Ford had put into the English & European market. It looked like a Mercury, though it when it came to literally the nuts and bolts of it, a '05 Ford Focus wagon drives, handles, and sounds like a '87 Ford F150. Gawd, I love her! I named her Betty Grable one day when she was feeling insecure. You develop a bond after a couple decades, ya know.😂😂🤠🚀
A vehicle emissions air pump, is never a "smog pump" they pump air into the exhaust system to help burn spent unburned fuel. They never pump exhaust gases. Please reply. Dave...
@@thehopelesscarguy Very good! Many people think the air pump pumps smog. GM calls it a "air pump". Ford calls it a "thermactor pump". Chrysler calls it a "aspirator pump". Dave...
The Mark II is easily one of the most stunningly beautiful American cars of all time. Every time I see one in person I’m blown away by the lines. Pictures don’t do it Justice.
It had a presence all of its own.
Great video with your usual outstanding selection of high quality photos. From beginning to end, the Mark series had two things in common… 4 tires and a trunk-centered spare tire or hump. 😉 Thanks and Happy New Year! 🎊
Thanks to that spare tire hump, these Continentals were possibly the first cars I could recognize as a kid.
Happy New Year.
Great series. I had the 1977 and 1978 Mark V was the most comfortable automobiles I’ve ever owned. I started to collect die cast cars but have had a lot of problems finding especially the 1978 Mark. I now have somewhere over 100 mostly 1:43 and 1:24. Not much into the Hot Wheels like so many are and I try to get mostly die Cast of American Cars older than 1980.
Very good! In tact excellent. You covered it all. I smiled watching the video. The only Mark I did not like was Mark VII(7). I hate that car. I was so glad when Mark VIII(8) arrived and I really liked that one. I liked that you talked about the different changes and the MK's of the 2000's. You know the MKT(Lincoln version of the Ford F150) ran in Mexico for a few years after they stopped selling it in the United States. There was the Navigator based Lincoln Blackwood too. I really enjoyed the video for the footage, the pictures and information. I liked the photo with the Cadillac Eldorado. The sad part is the Mark VII was too much like the Mercury Cougar and Ford Thunderbird. Thank you so much.
Thank you, as always. Although not a Mark, the Blackwood was perhaps more like one than the similar MK LT with its over the top attempt to be unique.
The Continental has always been a favorite of mine, albeit a guilty pleasure at times. I recall one automotive critic calling the Mark VI "thunderingly gauche," a sentiment I completely agreed with. Wonderful retrospective! Happy New Year!
Yeah, I would say that fits.
Happy New Year.
This is a very good review of the Mark series. I've owned several different Marks & enjoyed each one!! I was sad when they went away. Now I drive a 18 Continental. 👍👍🙂
Thanks. Sounds like you are a real Lincoln fan.
@@thehopelesscarguy I am. My dad drove Lincolns & I've owned six Lincolns so far!! I just subscribed to your channel!! 🎉🎈🥳
@@christopherkraft1327 Awesome, thanks.
Awesome videon😎👍
1956-57 Continentals are true classic and my favorite dream car
Thanks for watching.
I’ve owned a 5,7 and 8LSC. My son totaled the LSC, and I was crushed (pun intended). It was in the exact color you featured(Toreador Red Pearl metallic). Somehow , I always remembered that paint’s name. Lol!
I have always drooled at that concept car never to be😢. In the late 2000s the Lincoln dealer from whom I had bought the 3 cars over those previous 20 years called one day and asked when I would buy again, to which I politely replied : when you build another Mark.
Awesome vid. Thanks for the memories. 😊
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed.
Good history lesson HCG! I had a couple new Mk Viis and later a Mk Viii. In my opinion the Mk Viis were a lot more fun to drive. Thank you.
That is interesting, I would have though the opposite.
Thank you, for the excellent presentation. I wish you and your family a safe new year.
Thank you. I wish the same for you and yours.
More great work man.. Thanks!
Thank you.
Always loved the Lincoln Continental's Had a 69 model great car had a lot of power behind it with that 460 V8 and a four-barrel carburetor.
I bet it did.
Dad,several friends&future friends worked at the
Wixom,MI plant from opening until the late '80's.
Dad would've retired in '87 tho spent another
year&half there,while divorcing his third wife.
He did 31 1/2 years , retired at the age of 49
I see.
Excellent video
Thanks.
Belated Happy New Year!!
Happy new year!!
Do you have a video on the TARUS and SHO?
That, I don't.
@@thehopelesscarguy Thank you. It's probably not an interesting category to some, cars that were innovative in some way, like the Tucker, AMC Pacer and Eagle 4x4 wagon, Oldsmobile front wheel drive Toronado and the last car Oldsmobile introduced, I think called Aurora, and Dodge Charger wagon, for a just a few examples. It's interesting what the car makers were trying to do at different times VS market forces and competition. TODAY, maybe because of my age, being raised to ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY, I'm not a fan of too much autonomy in cars. Made safer I'm all for!! Any way technology can make driving safer is great. But I worry when too much technology takes RESPONSIBILITY away from the driver. And I feel getting a driver's license needs to be more educational to new drivers, including Physics, and with today's insane amount of road rage, "emotional driving" and how to avoid conflict, which should be common sense but seems to be rocket science to some once behind the wheel. I'm not suggesting anything different for your videos, I like your videos. Just ranting a little as an old CDL driver.
@@floydthompson8668 I understand. My concern about regulated safety features is that there is often a trade off. Protective A pillars that block visibility, Air bags that become deadly if you are not of a certain size. Driving nannies people become dependent on and don't know what to do when they stop working.
@@thehopelesscarguy I absolutely agree!!
Do you have a video on the THUNDERBIRD?
Just posted it yesterday.
@@thehopelesscarguy Thank you!
I'm an optimist. People grumble mightily that a Chevy looks like a Ford looks like a Mercedes--all of which are white grey, black or for people who liked to crayon outside the lines, a soft metallic moss color.
But if Connie came floating in--not like VWs technicolor bombastic aired bouncy-ball look--
No, Connie would be stepping out of a very posh hotel, but not like the rest. She would sport killer shades exactly because they annoy some people. But when she looks over the tops of them, her eyes match the color of the car that is pulling up for her--
Yes, yes, Ford's already busy shifting production one way or another, seemingly weekly, but these guys need to know that Connie looks like a kitten but can take down three guys and not and not muss her outfit. Not many folks can do that in post sharp silk Italian pumps, and a tux that tells a man not to mess with her. Women who have no confidence in themselves would be caught wearing something as daring.
Do you know People?! Let's get 'em in a room and not let them out until we have solid ideas, a budget, how to steal the Good Parts from Ford's bin, and make the Continental come back. Kick sand in Cady's awful sales plan, do something sexy, quietly lux with the local stuff: wood trim, good leather, proper dyes, get Nike off their butts to make interior fabrics, etc, etc...
Where are these people? I'm all worked up now...lol
See what you can do, eh? I'm going out to love on my Ford with all the bells. You know, for a while there you could cheech up a Focus Wagon with all the good stuff Ford had put into the English & European market. It looked like a Mercury, though it when it came to literally the nuts and bolts of it, a '05 Ford Focus wagon drives, handles, and sounds like a '87 Ford F150.
Gawd, I love her! I named her Betty Grable one day when she was feeling insecure. You develop a bond after a couple decades, ya know.😂😂🤠🚀
You certainly do.
A vehicle emissions air pump, is never a "smog pump" they pump air into the exhaust system to help burn spent unburned fuel. They never pump exhaust gases. Please reply. Dave...
I've never heard anyone suggest a smog pump pumped smog.
@@thehopelesscarguy Very good! Many people think the air pump pumps smog. GM calls it a "air pump". Ford calls it a "thermactor pump". Chrysler calls it a "aspirator pump". Dave...
375hp in the mid fifties? Wow...
For very big money