Survivor 1942 Lincoln Continental V12 

I had the privilege of driving a 1948 Continental. Not too peppy, but easy to shift and steer. I loved the hydraulic window lifts.

Awesome car in stellar condition =) Thank you so much for the link

Greg, thanks for putting this video of your car on RU-vid. You noted the "Liquimatic" name on the glove compartment door. That was Lincoln's attempt at a semi-automatic transmission. Sadly, it was a failure. Very few were put in cars to begin with and they all failed fairly quickly. I think they were all installed in January, 1942. As far as I know, none are know to survive in a car. The bell housing for the Liquimatic was different than the manual transmission and so the back of the engine block was different. When the Liquimatic had to be replaced with a manual transmission, so did the engine, to accommodate the replacement transmission. The Liquimatic is almost certainly no longer in your car; however, you have a fairly rare '42 Continental since it still has the glove box door. That was normally changed when the engine and transmission were. I have heard that a couple Lincolns are known to still have the "Liquimatic" glove box door like yours. Maybe your car is one of them. At any rate, the Lincoln Zephyr Owners Club and the Lincoln & Continental Owners Club would both love to know of the whereabouts of this (I am a longtime member of both). I encourage you to join both clubs if you haven't and to tell them about your car, perhaps even do a short article about it and what you know of the history of it. I don't know if you've ever had a 1940-42 Continental before, but the gold tone on the metal trim is important. Lincoln called that "macoid gold"; it is kind of dull in appearance. It is rather some sort of plastic coating. In time, it fades or become rubbed off. Sadly, when people acquire a car like that, they often just buff off what remains of the macoid gold. Of course, that leaves all these trim pieces with an incorrect look. As it were, it looks fancier with the gold. Unfortunately, macoid is no longer available, as I understand it. What is acceptable in the Lincoln clubs is to have the macoid removed and the trim replated in real gold. Now that might sound expensive but I now a fellow who had that done on all the trim in his car and it was only several hundred dollars. Take a look at some 1942 Continentals on Hemmings.com and you can see what they look like with gold plated trim. I hope to see your car in an article in the Lincoln club magazines.

I like these early Continentals. Hopefully you have found an original air cleaner in the last 4 years - so many of those always seem to be missing the air cleaner or have some little tiny fluted chrome air cleaner that looks like it belongs on a lawn mower.

Interesting, factory turn signals, obviously an option as they were not standard equipment until 1953.

Would've been nice to hear it start up and run but...oh well.

Wow! What a beauty all those beautiful curves and the colour amazing. The engine looks so clean how many cylinder 12? It must be fun to drive that thing standard wow! Please show us more video on this beauty, Cheers Be safe 🇨🇦

Is that heater drawing hot air off the exhaust manifold? I thought that went away long before 1942.

Could you explain for us in a video how to fix or tune up de incendido system? Can you modificate this system to a modern other?

What about the 1949 Plymouth I the background?