What Is It? - The Augusta Chronicle
The Lincoln was a 1947, but the 1946-48 Lincolns were pretty much identical, so don’t feel lost if you missed it by a year. Seven score and 11 years ago President Lincoln gave his famous address, the first line of which referred to the Declaration of Independence crafted by the Continental Congress in 1776. “Three score and seven years ago (in 1947) the Ford Motor Co.... Actually, the ’46-’48 Lincoln Continentals all looked alike, but we picked 1947 keeping up with the ‘score’ motif, since it was just one score fewer (three score and seven) vs. what was in the president’s speech (four score and seven). “The Lincoln Continental cars of the late ’40s were elegant automobiles with powerful 12-cylinder engines. “When Edsel Ford returned from a visit to Europe in 1938, he tasked lead designer Bob Gregorie with designing a car that was ‘strictly Continental’ to regain luxury car market share that Cadillac had been usurping. AIKEN: Bob Ennis said: “No doubt, a Lincoln Continental. I’m guessing a 1948. They were classics made from 1939 to 1948. Edsel Ford was the driving force behind the first Lincoln Continental. Henry Ford II drove a yellow Lincoln Continental pace car in the 1948 Indianapolis 500. Source: chronicle.augusta.com
