1976 Lincoln Continental Mark IV Givenchy Edition & Engine Sound on My Car Story with Lou Costabile 

Thank you for this video! It really took me back -- this was my very first car. I inherited it from my dad. Boy! At 16, I was king of the road! :)

Thanks so much - back when Continentals were so cool!

Love the 1970s Lincolns, especially the Mark IV & V

This just came up in my recommended. A great looking Mark IV! "Your best bet's a true baby blue Continental!" - Billy Joel

My dad had a Mark IV . It had the 460 , a sun roof and was white with lipstick red trim . It was beautiful car . That one there is really sweet .

Clean & classy for sure! It's always nice to see Humberto & another one from his collection. Thanks for sharing this rare Mark IV with us, Lou!

I am really enjoying this channel and learning quite a bit. Even seeing these cars up close at a show you dont notice or get to see some of these small details that you include in the video. A lot of these cars you never get to see in person at all! So thank you Lou! We like what you're doing.

Gosh that is absolutely beautiful in that color with the Givenchy pinstriping! These 70s Lincolns are some of my favorite cars ever made!

My dad owned an auto body shop in East Dundee which neighbors Carpentersville and he and my mom always had a stable of Lincoln’s. I recall a brown 71 Mark III, a gold Mark IV and my personal favorite as a kid was the 1979 Mark V Bill Blass edition. What makes these cars great today is that they are a such a joy to drive because nothing on the road today feels quite like them and also they are extremely affordable to enjoy again. Another great video, Lou! Thanks.

Love these cars

Just watched this video Umberto has such a great passion for Lincoln Marks, I think it's time I started looking for a 1973 and under.,these videos make me want to get another one. Thanks for the great videos. Bruce

The designer Marks were such good looking cars. Nice find and thanks for showing us this fine example. I believe the 78 Givenchy edition was green exterior with green velour interior, would love it if you found one of them to record.

The last series of the BIG Lincolns⛽. Pi symbol - 3.14 and March 14. Another enjoyable and educational video. Thanks Lou and to Umberto.

Thank you Mr Lou for sharing your passion.

Beautiful car. I loved the evolution of styling from the Mark III to the Mark IV to the Mark V. Each body style was gorgeous. Of course they were ridiculously long, after all they were basically a much longer cousin of the Ford Thunderbird. I always shook my head how these personal luxury coupes (Cadillac Eldorado included) had relatively little rear seat leg room considering their aircraft-carrier length 😁 The Marks (III to V) are still as beautiful today as they were 40-50 years ago. Thanks for sharing your car story Humberto and Lou!

That Umberto has got one VERY CLASSY ride! Never heard of this edition. It’s one of the best looking “edition” type cars I’ve ever seen with all the extra classy touches. That color! Those intricate mouldings, the light wood trim that goes so perfectly with that blue! And the ‘76 Continental’s lines are so simply elegant to begin with. Lucky I wasn’t there when this video was recorded or Umberto would have had a bunch of drool to wipe off of that car. So Beautiful and classy! And Umberto seems like such a nice pleasant guy - friendly, warm, well spoken...I loved listening to him talk with that accent of his! Thanks Lou, for another great edition of your fabulous ongoing classic automobile documentary!

I bought a 1972 cadillac new and a friend bought a 1973 Mark IV new. We would have constant rival discussions about which car was better. Most ended in a draw. And jokingly he would add at the end of the discussion that Cadillac makes "a good radio." One thing that wasn't a draw was the fact that more young women were attracted to the Mark IV than my Coupe DeVille "in the day," hands down, no contest. The Mark IV's timeless design still looks good today and if I had to do it over again I would have purchased the Mark IV absolutely. Good video.

Greeting from Australia Lou. . I thoroughly enjoy your videos especially with Humberto. I just purchased a 1978 Lincoln Continental Diamond Jubilee Edition in gold that has the 460 engine. Travelled 31,000 original Miles. These are beautiful cars to drive.

Hello Lou and Umberto! Guess what? I just purchased the exact same car the other day! The example I purchased has only 53K original miles! I just LOVE it! Thanks for posting this great video, as all of your videos are!

Gorgeous GORGEOUS car! I think it's the most beautiful car Ford has ever produced.

My dad bought my MOM this exact car in 1976 I was 6!! So I grew up riding around in the back seat!! Amazing!!! Sold it in 1980!!!! I wish I had it!!!

Very nice, and I like the color.

Beautiful and majestic!

That was great Lou!!! Wow!

Mr. Garcia is my favorite among your classic car owners! I ever buy a Mark I am taking it to him.

For sure a beautiful car. Thanks Lou.

Awesome Lincoln! Love the silencer on the air cleaner! Great video! 😍

My dad had this exact model car bought it new off the showroom floor in 76. His brother has it now.

Lou, you're always good for a surprise. Just found this vid.

The mark iv is my absolute favorite the Givenchy is even more gorgeous great video

work of art.

As always Lou, a fine stroll down memory lane! Hands down, other than a 79 Trans Am and maybe a 74-76 Starsky era Gran Torino, the 72-76 Mark IV was the ultimate disco cruiser that epitomized classiness in the 70s. Ricardo Montelban (did I spell that right?) would be jealous...Shaft and Superfly would be proud! 👍

This is a super car!!! Thank You for this video!!!

Beautiful is an understatement.

My all time favorite car!

Really beautiful car!

Gorgeous .

Nice work and nice colour thanks Lou and I did subscribe.

I love Humberto's cars. So classy. I had a '74 Cougar, which was very close to the Mark IV. Might have even shared chassis bits. Nothing like these big 2 door Fords.

I've loved these car's ever since I'd seen one on the TV show "Cannon"....ole' Frank Cannon had a mobile phone in his, that was so cool. Never was able to own one but they are just beautiful today as when they were first introduced. What a machine.

Talk about memories, I am breaking out discos clothes . With that ghetto sled, me and buds would have had largetime. Keep it up gents, excellent gets. Semlpwr Fidelis

Beautiful car there clean sharp nice color and that grill looks like it came off a Rolls Royce it's lovely

Oh Lou you have just had my ultimate ultimate favorite car! I had a few Lincolns in my life but never a Mark. They were just more money than I could afford in those days. This car is loaded with everything that year! Quadrasonic in the radio I had in my 1979 Town Car except mine was the first year if the digital tuning. Anyway quadrasonic is another name for 4 channel stereo. In the home too it was called 4 channel. I love this car and one of my dream collection cars. Givenchy was a beautiful car in that Edition a little Notch higher that a Cartier. I am jealous! Lol!

This is a very cool car. My grandmother had a '76 Mark IV, but not a designer one. Her's was in Cinnamon Gold Moondust color with similar leather interior. She drove that until she lost her license due to bad eyesight, but she still drove anyway. (She was headstrong). She eventually rear=ended a police car and that ended her days with her pride and joy, '76 Mark IV... These cars ride like a dream and easy to drive. Beautiful!

Hi Garcia & Lou / This car 🚙 May have been built close to my train room / Wixom, Michigan / Cool ride and well maintained / 1976 plate was voted the best plate in the USA 🇺🇸Take care Gary 🚂

My Dad loved these. He made so much money on Ford products of this vintage. LOL! All he had to do to convince me to never buy a Ford was pull customer files of repairs for Lincoln, LTD and Mercury! LOL! They had style but broke down all the time. One of his customers vowed to cut the top, hood, and trunk off and make into a flower planter for his wife. To a nine year old kid, it left quite an impression.

This was such a beautiful car back in the bicentennial. It's eve my favorite color combination. Loved this car. Comfortable, definitely had power. A 460 probably.

You had me at the turquoise leather seats!!

I could never hang out with Umberto. I'd wind up buying a Lincoln, lol. He's got the nicest ones I've ever seen.

This was the first time that I had ever learned about Cartier, Bill Blass, Pucci and Givenchy!

The color is gorgeous

Love 2 find one wow beautiful car

JSHEE - VAWN - SHAY It's a beautiful Lincoln! The script in the vinyl insert on the trim is called Filligree

Fantastic car ! 😍

That is one beautiful automobile.

Another great video Lou. Seems like your camera makes the blue color a bit greenish, but still looks good. Umerto's car is in mint condition. I've just noticed the thermometer is not 76 correct (must be from a Mark V) but seems to fit very well. Interestingly my 76 Givenchy has another plastic fuel filler door with "Unleaded fuel only" badge, while Umberto's has it printed below :)

Beautiful car

I had this same car in 1983.it was aGivenchy with valuer interior I pollished the wheels out to look like chrome....One beautiful car

Lou, running to the back of the car to get the REV on the Exhaust. :))

nice those bicentennial plates in good nick would be becoming collector items themselves.

My step grandpa who is now 96 and in remarkable good health, remembers his brother who is now deceased, had a medium to dark blue 1976 Lincoln Continental, he doesn't remember the version, owned it for about 12 years or so. Sold it a few years before his passing, grandpa remembers like it was yesterday riding down country roads back in the early 1990s, the ride was so smooth and comfortable, the seats were comfortable second to none, the car was so long you could literally watch the hood bounce up and down driving through the farmland, and the fact it was parked outside because it would not fit in his garage in the house he just brought, or he would have to leave the garage door open all the time. I was born in 1989, and step grandpa was telling me and my step brother who is 16 yrs younger than me, you haven't truly experienced luxury cars if you didn't grow up in the 1960s and 1970s.. back before all the emissions regulations, before they started going to v6 and inline 4s, before Mercedes Benz and the downsizing, Cadillac and Lincoln was the gold standard for luxury cars. These days it is about the biggest and greatest touch screens, heated and air conditioned seats, the best 0 - 60 times, you can go on and on. Now aside from the lack of available safety features, and the fact that these cars drank gas like a fish, these full sized Lincolns and Cadillac were comfortable like nothing todays generation had ever experienced

Beautifull, great car!

So quiet you would bounce the bendix off the starter thinking it wasn't running. Great luxoliners.

ive seen alot of thos lincoln, but its the first time i ever saw that metal flake paint...didint even knew it existed. thats a homerun lou

These cars for a dream on the highway.

great video Lou, I am so impressed that i promise never to throw any more negative comments at you. Now im biased as a Ford man, but lets face it, from 1954 0n lincolns have always made cadillacs look sick......

I had the '76 Bill Blass Edition. Really miss that car...

Beautiful Givenchy Mark IV! We also own a Givenchy Mark IV with the factory moonroof and velour and leather interior but no thermometer on the driver's mirror. I'm sure this car was repainted (as was ours) because of the Givenchy logo in the pinstripes which is just great...where in Michigan are you? We are north of Detroit..

Hi there l love it I have a Emilio Pucci that l imported from Mass to Australia 🇦🇺 It was very good watching this I was wondering why the side window would not roll back until I watch this they never were meant to retract Thumbs up for the GIVENCHY 👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺

~2:05 an absolutely beautiful perfect start!

What a nice massive barge!

I had a 75, same color, not a Givenchy, same color interior, w a blue roof, 4 wheel disc brakes, rode beautiful, went from gas station to gas station, A/C was a refrigerator, so quiet inside, Mercedes charges 120,000 for a S550, that rides almost like this car, my car had the same mouldings, in blue, my god, Disco music playing on the 8 track tape deck, great car

🔝🏁🎬📹🚘 Merci mon Lou 🚘📹🎬🏁🔝

What beautiful car thats a gentleman car

AWESOME LOU!!

My parents had a 74 mark iv white with red interior and red pin stripe huge car lol

That's a very sexy car. My dream is to when I get a little bit older own a Lincoln or two :) I'll make it happen...

If I remember correctly, Lincoln had anti lock brakes a few years before '76. I remember commercials for the Mark III having anti locks.

3:47 Thank God, in my 77 Mercury Marquis I can hear clearly the sound of 460 :) However mine is definitely not a luxury car.

hi please let me know where did you get the drivers side outside mirror ,, i know they never had one for 76 mark,,iv ,, could you let me know or someone nows thanks mike

Beautiful GIVENCHY MARK IV!! Mine has the velour interior and moonroof, built in April 1976. Where in MI are you?

nice car

hi i like to know is that mirror on the drivers side with the temperature an option on the mark iv let me know please ,, mike thanks

i wish I could find one !!!

The Givenchy editions with crushed velour upholstery were also stunning, but I doubt any of those survived. That fabric was delicate.

emission era luxury barge =D the cougar and t bird of the same years were pretty swell too!

Awesome Lou《☆》Humberto is very knowledgeable of His car. Good thing it has the 120mph speedo to outrun the Mustang guys who will want to take the 460 out of it ☻

We had a 1976. It was lipstick red with white trim. It floated down the road as it got 10 MPG. It Was fairly troublesome. Also had a 1979 Mark 5 Cartier. Liked it much better.

ZZ Top should slap themselves hard for not including this car in one of their videos. Its such a BEAUTIFUL Car with class just oozing from every orifice! While not a rod, it's still very cool. Put on a set of Crager mags though. I give it a Wow with quadrasonic Thumbs Up! The only other thing I'd change on this baby is to remove the noise dampener. Why? Well - since you asked (heh) .., If a car is too quiet, to me, it's not running. I love to feel that slight vibration of the engine through the steering wheel and hear it run even at a hum, otherwise (in my brain) it's not really running, but coasting and that drives me nuts. And yes - its a very short trip to Nutsville. :-)

so rare

Steve Zissou, Bill Murray's character in the film, would surely have had a Lincoln just like this.

Sweet :)

Umberto didnt show u the tilt wheel, u push the turn signal lever towards the dashboard and u adjust the tilt wheel, that Quad 8 track was cool, very limited amount of tapes were available

Aqua Blue Diamond Fire Metallic is the paint. The seating could be ordered in leather like this example or in velour ...the price for the Givenchy Edition was $1500 regardless of seating material. The $885 moonroof was not included with the Givenchy Edition. However, the polished aluminum wheels were standard with all Mark IVs in the Designer Series. The vinyl roof is padded to give that special look and feel. The opera windows on the Designer Series are unique with specific logos...be careful not to break them because they are costly to replace. Both the Givenchy and Pucci Editions are rarer than the more popular Bill Blass and Cartier Editions.

14:55 I miss Mr. Garcia saying "Twilight Sentinel."

Just LOVE the 1976 Continental MARK IV's . I own 4 of theses . I noticed the mirror temp gauge was not available in 1976 so the drivers side mirror is from a newer MARK V . Radiator cap is not original but try to find a original . oil cap should be black . But I LOVE THIS CAR and I want it

Jhee-vawn-sheee... Say it with me. Superior car, though... Absolutely beautiful!

Hey Lou nice one You know, Suretrac was only rear drums only Think Chrysler had 4 wheel ABS first

Umberto knows what he’s talking about, Lou doesn’t.... He’s just winging it...it’s funny he’s constantly being corrected, it’s rather funny. I love these big cars, so smooth and luxurious

HEY LOU COULD YOU LET ME KNOW ABOUT THAT MIRROR WITH THE TEMP