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Is it a Lincoln Continental (around early 1970s perhaps)?

 

 

Correct! It's a Lincoln Continental, made by the Ford Motor Company, in either late 70s or early 70s. This one was driving around the streets of Amsterdam, but was in far from showroom condition ;) your turn!

 

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BTW: All the Lincolns in that era (early 1950s into the 2000s) were Continentals, though since then they have added other models, such as the huge Lincoln Navigator SUV. But even the very common Lincoln Town Car was a Continental, and until recently, all the versions of "Mark" were Continentals, too.

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Since you guys seem pretty good at this, I've put in an older one.

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It is an electric car (as I guessed with the Columbia Phaeton) but there were so many small makers of electric cars at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, most of whom only assembled a few cars out of proprietary parts (typically either a Siemens, Edison or Brush motor), that I could not begin to guess which of the many it is.

 

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I would guess therefore that it might be a Baker-Brass car. This was an interesting car, in that some models used an Edison Nickel-Iron battery (like the later milk floats) rather than the usual lead-acid. The Nickel-Iron battery although not having quite as high a peak current ability as lead-acid, was much longer lasting.

 

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Here is your next one. This was on the Scottish Malts Rally last year and was second overall. How it passed the noise test beats me. We came up behind it a couple of times (we were in a different larger engine class) and it was very raucous. Sorry about the pixelated picture but the only photo I could find of it, it was in the background.

 

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Here is your next one. This was on the Scottish Malts Rally last year and was second overall.

 

 

With a clue like that I have to google :) but the car that came second in 2014 was a Lotus Elan, and that isn't a saloon car..... Is it maybe the Alfa Romeo Giuliani Super that raced in 2012?

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With a clue like that I have to google :) but the car that came second in 2014 was a Lotus Elan, and that isn't a saloon car..... Is it maybe the Alfa Romeo Giuliani Super that raced in 2012?

 

Sorry I should have added "in class".

 

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I´d say this is a Volvo P 1800 ES. Something above 8.000 cars made. A beauty and I missed my chance for getting a good one for a good price (early 1990s).

 

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As you say a Volvo P1800 ES. For some reason these did not sell well in the UK and were a rare sight. People seemed to prefer either the horribly unreliable Reliant Scimitar GTE or the much cheaper but very inferior MGB GT (usually in poo brown with stripey orange upholstery.) We had to have ground sheets down, so we did not drip oil onto the Queen's forecourt at Balmoral.

 

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Wilson, those were pretty expensive in Europe and build quality of the first Jensen assembled coupes was poor (1961-63). The later "S" models made in Sweden were much better. A lot of cars went to the US, also the later ES shooting brake version. Volvo stopped production when they could no longer export to the US because of the strange safety regulations ("height of the head beams" for example) which killed a lot of European cars around 1973. The D-Jetronic could become a real pain but there are several solutions.

 

Did you know that a retired US teacher still drives his 1966 Coupe and holds a world record in having the most "private" kilometers (in 2013 something close to 5 MILLION kms in total!). Still first engine and gearbox which is unbelievable. We have to keep in mind it´s a "sportscar" and not a Mercedes /8 Diesel Taxi with it´s forth engine ;-)

 

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Ronald, I had an early P1800 for college. Biggest headache were the Smith's gauges. You can tell the Jensen built ones by the "cow horn bumpers", although I know of one man who installed them on a 1971 model because he preferred them!

I've attached an image of mine - it was a bit tarted up.

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