Bought one few days ago. From an older gentleman. Now it’s my turn to keep this piece of american pride in shape.

@UnionPacific1997

Жыл бұрын

25 years old and got a 76 continental 2 door base coupe in myrtle beach and an 81 mark vi in concord North Carolina they my gems

@Exotic3000

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations! That's awesome!

I, am a proud owner of a 1975 Lincoln continental 2door mark IV red with white top white leather interior with 19,000 original miles. Lv this car. Take it to all Cruz inn & car shows. Mary Ellen Beall.

Gotta love that 70's sounding music.

@RivieraByBuick

7 жыл бұрын

bigband + strings bossa

@TVHouseHistorian

4 жыл бұрын

Very CHiPs.

@russellseilhamer4552

4 жыл бұрын

Jim Dayton I love jazz, this is like love boat music.

@robertortiz8540

4 жыл бұрын

@@russellseilhamer4552, Yes I agree

@kj475

3 жыл бұрын

The Land Yacht, soon will be making another run. The Land Yacht, promises something for everyone.

Take me back to the 70's, when cars were big, and the world was a better place to live.

@a.stefanatos954

4 жыл бұрын

And we were young......so young...my God...

@milfordcivic6755

4 жыл бұрын

Gas shortages, unemployment, inflation, middle east conflicts. Great times.

@mgp870

4 жыл бұрын

@@milfordcivic6755 the Covid-19 virus, U.S. deficit and the middle east still has conflicts!

@doug9066

3 жыл бұрын

I agree even though I was 8 in 1975. This is why I like watching most tv shows from the 70's including "Cannon" & "Barnaby Jones" which have both complete series.

@jackiebarker4082

11 ай бұрын

That's for sure.

As a small child, my Granddad had this exact same car. Color and everything. He lived in East Dallas off of Fern Dr close to 635 and Ferguson. There was an older black gentleman who drove the city bus and for years would always stop in the bus while on his route if my grandpa was out in the yard with the Lincoln waxing or washing it. The bus driver LOVED that car. One day he stopped for the last time I think around the early 90's because he was retiring and it was his last day. My grandpa gave him the keys to that 75 Mark IV that was still mint with 21,000 miles on it and signed the title over to him right then and said "consider it a retirement gift." I'll never forget the emotion and happiness on that bus drivers face. Was such a great memory and left an impression on me I will never forget. The bus driver kept in touch with my grandfather all the way up to his death in the early 2000's. He still had that car and did all the way up until I lost contact with him in 2005.

@jamesrecknor6752

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

Omg what a beautiful car! Love those big fords with the big engines and luxurious styling!

One of the most enduring, beautiful, and memorable designs of the 1970s. The Continental Mark IV outsold the Cadillac Eldorado in those years. The Mark IV offered so many more color selections in interior personalization way more than what the Eldorado could offer. The Mark IV could still be ordered with full dual exhausts for the standard 460cid V8 with more horsepower than the Eldorado's 500cid V8 But that said, give me any luxury car from the 1960s or 1970s over anything built today! These were truly the golden decades for true, unique American Luxury. My uncle's sold Lincoln-Mercury's in those days. The family drove many, many of these fabulous automobiles. For the pinnacle of comfort and travel, the cars to have were the fabulous Lincoln's, Cadillac's, Imperial's, Oldsmobile 98's, Toronado's, Riviera's, Marquis', etc. We will never be able to walk into a new dealer showroom anymore to buy beautiful automobiles like these ever again. We must preserve these gorgeous automotive icons of the past. I am forever blessed that I grew up around and had the pleasure of driving and owning these wonderful cars.

THEY DROVE LIKE A DREAM!!! TOTAL ISOLATION. "OH? WE'RE HERE ALREADY?"

A classic video..... 75 was the pinnacle yr of the IV as by 76 they started cheapening out.... No more rear seat armrest for one thing. The rear quarter windows no longer functioned by 76 either. :( My 75 is a "Gold Luxury Group" car, resurrected from a garage in Troy, Mich in 2018. It had sat there for thirty years undriven. Just last summer (2020) i found out an interesting bit of trivia about my car. The elderly gent who owned the car had passed, and the fam was selling his cars and home. I recently found out that The owner was also partners back in the eighties with Richard Wershe, Sr. The father of famed "White Boy Rick" of Detroit. The father and this gent had a car "restoration" business back then.... (ahem...) and eventually Wershe Sr was convicted of stolen car fraud and racketeering. I have no doubt now that my Mark IV was most likely stolen, way back in the late seventies or early eighties and re-worked. thence parked in this suburban Detroit garage and forgotten about. I have a clear title and the car is a pristine running driving example of classic elegant Detroit Iron from this time period.... And knowing the history now makes it all the more interesting....

Gosh the music takes me back. Sounds like the music for Dallas!

Narrator is classy too- so is the car.

FATHER HAD A 75 (RIP)! STILL THE BEST DAMNED CAR I'VE EVER BEEN IN! MISS IT GREATLY! NICE VIDEO.

I'm quite certain the Blue Diamond Edition segment was filmed around the corner from my grandma's old house in the Toluca Lake neighborhood of L.A. Between that and the Marquis footage being shot in and around San Marino, I'm convinced the Lincoln-Mercury film crew was stalking both my parents two years before they met. O_o

I had 6 Mark 4's of different years. Loved them all. It really was my favorite car.

Thank you for uploading. I drive a 1975 Continental Mark IV and have done since 2002.

@calebproductions5970

7 жыл бұрын

Your lucky

@janinsweden8559

2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations!

4 wheel power disc brakes. ahead of it's time. really a beautiful car.

When I see & hear the first seconds from video & music I remember the serie streets of san francisco with Malden and Douglas. I loved these serie.

Its amazing how heavy these cars were. And they were quick. The harmonic balancer had 5 belts a.c. power steering, air pump, alternator, vacuum pump

I love the big fords that were big

@styldsteel1

3 жыл бұрын

You like big Fords that were big?

@marmaly

3 жыл бұрын

Much better than the big Fords that we're small.

If anyone remembers the tv series "Cannon", Bill Conrad? always drove these Lincolns thats how I remember them.

@blisterbrain

4 жыл бұрын

He had a phone in it too!

@crist67mustang

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I remember very well. Me on 10 years young. Cannon, also a brand of my sheets. XD. Greetings from Southamerica.

@davidmeyers6884

4 жыл бұрын

It comes on METV at 3am eastern Mon.-Fri.

@FrankGutowski-ls8jt

4 жыл бұрын

Donald Hungate 77 Sunset Strip was all Fords.

@user-xk3ip6wd1z

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. My brothers and I used to yell out "Cannon car" when we saw a Lincoln Mark!

the "Frenched" rear windows sold me, even more so than the "lipstick" interior.

They just *loved* mentioning which year it was in these old commercials.

My dad had a '69 Mark III. Dark Blue on White. I have considered getting one of these as they are the best coupe of the era. Such great style with that giganitc front end! Especially the Bill Blass edition.

Fantastic commercial. Look sot be inspired by the TV show CHiPs. That came out the same time as this commercial. I had a 1974 Mark IV. Drove like a dream.

I'm in love with all these vids

Wow! Forge Aluminum Wheels in 1975, not cheap cast aluminum wheels that we have today.

2022, and she's still as beautiful as in 1975, by Lincoln Continental. " "Ford puts it on wheels! "

Landau roofs, white walls, and velour interiors...when cars had style!!

@calebproductions5970

7 жыл бұрын

Remember pulling into Polynesian resort hotel at Disney in one of these back in 1975. Got lots of looks

@jimdayton8837

6 жыл бұрын

That's for sure!

@DanniTheMagicJunkDrawer

5 жыл бұрын

Mike Follis they were like a living room. My parents had a mark iv 1974 continental. It was huge, I loved it when I was a little kid

@cnnw3929

4 жыл бұрын

Cars had a style, and a beauty that you could never imagine today.

@zekerivers5189

Жыл бұрын

Took my driving test in Las Vegas my Uncle had a Brand New 1973 Silver Moon dust with Cranberry Corduroy Interior

This is the Iacocca ford era personified. He knew what the people wanted and offered it to them. These cars are so exquisitely made speaking of the body and the interior, they were comfortable to sit in and beautiful to look at and the ride quality was unsurpassed. But reliability issues hurt Ford as well as Chrysler and GM, people couldn’t afford to replace a car every 4 years anymore and deal with expensive repair bills. The imports never made anywhere near as nice a car as the big 3 in the 70s and 80s but they got in the back door by offering a more reliable product

Thank You for posting these Classic Commercials from 1975. I was 15 years old back then.

Had One for 20 Years ..Loved it .. ,Shoulda kept it ..

@eman8920

6 жыл бұрын

Hank Lutz could you tell me more about it

I'll take a blue diamond edition please! That was really a great looking car... maybe my favorite generation of the Continental Mark series.

Wow. And music background is great. Very Henry Mancini perhups. Continental was huge in dimensions as it elegance. Greetings from the charm city of Santiago, CL.

Love that smooth disc jockey announcer, a grad of the Columbia school of broadcasting.

In response to "No Name's" inquiry asking about the quick defrost option. I owned a 1975 Thunderbird that was absolutely loaded with every option available that year. It had this option, front and back. It was powered by a separate 120v alternator which had it's wiring running through a bright orange loom with "caution high voltage" warning labels attached.I've told this to people through the years and no one seems to believe me but I remember it well. The windshield and rear window had a silvery cast to them when viewed from the outside but appeared normal when looking through from the inside of the car. As the car aged that silvery color started to take on a brown hue as I recall.

@karltork2853

4 жыл бұрын

100% correct. Alt. could power a small town!

Too bad America doesn't even try to make big coupes like this anymore.

@robertortiz8540

4 жыл бұрын

I wish they would bring back the 75 Continental two door coupe but probably Ford would have to modify it.

I want one and a penthouse at at sunrise tower in long beach and I want my own detective series produced by Quinn Marten

I like the blue diamond better. Defrost was better as faster than my 2006 Lincoln Town Car or it seems. Beautiful cars of the 70's.

"light maple wood-tone applique" That's fancy talk for "plastic stick on---no trees were harmed in the making of"

@richardmark561

6 жыл бұрын

🤣👍

@styldsteel1

3 жыл бұрын

If ford used real wood,then no one could afford one. The price of the car would be huge.

@thomasshort1784

2 жыл бұрын

@@styldsteel1 They did for the 1970 and 1971 Continental Mark III.

This year was the most well equipped standard model of any 70s car excluding special edition cars. Only thing it didn't have standard was a rear defroster. Otherwise, it was an extremely well equipped, then in '76, they moved a handful of features back to the option list including tilt wheel, cruise, power locks, power seats, and I think 1 or 2 more options.

Cannon approved!!!!!

I have owned a Continental Mark V and currently drive a new Lincoln Continental. Without a doubt this Mark IV has more style and comfort than the new Continental.

Class still to this day.

Sounds Like An Episode Of Cannon

@242HP

7 жыл бұрын

This video really makes me want to watch a few episodes of that show... if I could find them somewhere!

@dejohn913

7 жыл бұрын

+242HP Doesn't It Brings Back Memories?

@242HP

7 жыл бұрын

Definitely. Used to watch all of those Quinn Martin Productions shows back in the day.

@dejohn913

7 жыл бұрын

+242HP Barnaby Jones. Hawaii 5-0. Streets of San Francisco. Just To Name A Few.

@242HP

7 жыл бұрын

Hawaii Five-O wasn't a QM show. You forgot "The FBI", starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., lol.

Wonderful cars.....

The forged alloy wheels look great

if ford and gm still made cars like this, they wouldnt be going out of business

Nice video takes me back👍

If I remember correctly the quick defrost gave the front and rear window i a slight gold tint

I have driven it my dad had it and the ride was like sky.

子供の頃スーパーカーより 最高にカッコいい フルサイズクーペでした‼️

LoL that music fits right in.😂

This is the car my mom wanted so badly . Beautiful car and they don't make them any more., so sad they don't

Just purchased a lipstick edition. Needs some work, but love the style

Very nice car

GORGEOUS CAR. HOWEVER, I STILL RATHER HAVE THE 72 MODEL YEAR MARK 4 THAT TAPERED MOULDED STYLE FRONT BUMPER JUST STANDS ALONE ASTHETICLY SUPERIOR LOOKING AND MORE STYLISH THEN ANY MARK SERIES EVER MADE.

Be still my beating heart!

Had the exact white lipstick red accent loved tht car

Isn't that Blue Diamond the one late William Conrad used in Cannon?

Slide out mirrors on the dashboard make snorting your blue diamond cocaine even more convenient. Also available is a Car Phone so you can get a hold of your dealer in the most discriminating way possible.

Heated front glass and lumbar support. 1970's luxury cars had it all.

A lot of action in the backseat lipstick red sure!

I prefer the Mark IV offer the Mark V. this one is a beauty

Dam this is a sweet car. BUT!!! I just like the Mark V better. To me it's more sharp and majestic looking. Mark IV was the preview of what's to come. LOL!

@SpockvsMcCoy

4 жыл бұрын

The Mark V had a bigger trunk and the standard 400 V-8 was slightly more fuel efficient. The Mark IV was really better made because the Mark V used more lightweight (plastic) materials to save weight. Also, the Mark V is worth less than the Mark IV as a collector car. But I like them both.

@styldsteel1

4 жыл бұрын

@@SpockvsMcCoy thank you. I appreciate that.

Nice car ❤❤❤😍😍😍

0:40 - Is that a Volvo P1800 in the background?

2:00 Is this a nickle film electric defroster, like the "Insta-clear" windshields of more recent years, or simply a "de-ice" setting that allows you to run the defroster in recirculate mode while it's sitting still? Many old Cadillacs had the later, as does my Honda, but I'm surprised at how many cars don't. It would only cost a few dollars per car to make it a standard feature that could be disabled automatically (for safety) when the car is switched into Drive.

It's almost a twin to the Thunderbird.

@thomasshort1784

2 жыл бұрын

@Kirby Waite That's the thing about the 1972-1976 Thunderbird and Continental Mark IV, they seemed to look more similar than ever before (but, they still had their distinctions, of course).

Gotta have the lipstick!

Can anyone say that the music plays at the beginning of the video?

I wonder how this car drove on bumpy roads. Maybe you could be seasick?

Dressed up t bird... beautiful

There was a film between the glass that electrically heated

There's plenty of nice ones for sale. Can't think of a better car for a cross country drive, though you will pay plenty for gas.

@242HP

7 жыл бұрын

My '05 Town Car is a pretty comfortable ride too, and gets around 28 mpg on the highway. Haven't taken it on a ride longer than from FL to NC yet.

I own a 79 lincoln continental town car!👍

Lipstick?!! They called their red "Lipstick"?!!! They don't make ads like that anymore.

@robertortiz8540

4 жыл бұрын

No they don't make ads like this.

Filligreed body-side mouldings...well, hot damn!

There's nothing more macho than a Mark IV with "lipstick" colored interior...lol

@TheGewidener

7 жыл бұрын

And the leisure suit and shades complete it!

@standingwave73

7 жыл бұрын

George Widener Grow a big mustache and throw in some gold chains to complete the look.

@postmodernrecycler

7 жыл бұрын

Only in the '70s would they make cars with something called the "Lipstick Edition". Also, the rear window is FRENCHED, hhahahaha!!

@SpockvsMcCoy

4 жыл бұрын

In the 1950s men drove American cars with bright pastel colors like salmon pink, turquoise, and canary yellow.

would like to find a Blue Diamond with the full dark halo vinyl roof and blue velour interior

1:50 How did that Quick Defrost work?

@blisterbrain

4 жыл бұрын

Uranium.

@karltork2853

4 жыл бұрын

Platinum layer in glass, front and rear. Current runs thru it like defroster grid. Way to expensive to produce, or replace. Dropped after a couple of years. G.M. had "Instaclesr" on Roadmasters late '90's.

The narrator pronounces "media" velour as Medea velour. !!!

With that music I'm waiting to see on the screen a Quinn Martin production lol nothing rhymes like Lincoln's I'm a Cadillac fan through-and-through but nothing rides like a lincoln

Perfect thing to sail to Las Vegas in. Or escape Lt. Colombo after you just knocked off some rich broad.

I have seen similar body styles compared to the Ford Thunderbird.

What exactly is a French rear window?

@kirbywaite1586

3 жыл бұрын

"Frenching" is an old obscure car- customizing term. In the 40s and 50s customizers would remove the chrome trim around a headlight or a taillight or other body features and then fill them in with metal and then paint around it , eliminating the chrome bezels. Basically, that is what they've done here with the rear window. They have eliminated the trim and "Frenched" it, using the vinyl material itself to finish off the window " reveal".

I Think that this was the Car that was Used in the 1977 Terror Movie....The CAR...

@TerryWHayes-yb3cj

4 жыл бұрын

In The Movie "The Car", They Custom Built 4 1971 Lincoln Mark III Coupes. They Chopped The Roof Down 2 Inches, Built Up The Sides With Rolled Sheet Metal And Added Double Tubular Bumpers To The Front End.

@styldsteel1

3 жыл бұрын

@@TerryWHayes-yb3cj otherwise it's exactly the same. Lol!!

I prefer these over the Cadillac Eldorado.

@SpockvsMcCoy

3 жыл бұрын

@Danny Uyeno The front wheel drive in the Eldorado was a useless, high maintenance gimmick.

@MaestroTJS

3 жыл бұрын

I've always preferred these older Lincolns to Cadillacs. More understated and elegant. Cadillacs are a bit too chrome-laden and ostentatious. Still true today, actually, although I think Cadillac builds nicer cars now (Lincoln's new SUV's might be better though).

0:48 WTH is a "frenched" rear window?

@waynejohnson1304

5 жыл бұрын

That's when you kiss the rear window with your tongue sticking out.

@basitk12

5 жыл бұрын

It’s a design of rear window

@blisterbrain

4 жыл бұрын

Recessed rather than flush mounted.

Gees you would have to get air controller clearance to park one

Wouldn't want to crash into a new Yaris with one of these. The Continental's weak frame would fold like a politician's spine.

The Dick Vaughn show!

I learn Spanish word filigrana, in English sounds similar. It is a repetitive draw into a band or line.

First 15 seconds remember CHiPS tv show

Yes, I would like to place my order for a new Continental Mark IV. I want a body on frame car that weighs way more than 2,000 pounds. And I don't give a tinkers damn about fuel economy either.

I can see Frank Cannon rolling his big butt out of his Lincoln...

My brand new Ford doesn't have quick defrost now ??? Come on Ford

I love all the big fancy names and colorful descriptions used to sell these poor handling, hastily built, slow, thirsty and crude "leisure suits on wheels" back in the day. My family had a BMW 2002tii and a BMW Bavaria in the 1970s. Not as "fancy" as these Lincolns, but far more capable and still look fresh today.

@ksmobile1

6 жыл бұрын

Hater

@andymacdonald821

6 жыл бұрын

Kevin has zero experience, just prejudice. Let's drive from coast to coast in his little german applecart and my rolling luxury lounge Lincoln. If the little bmw motor screaming at 4,000rpm doesn't deafen you, and the parkbench seat & rough ride doesn't crush your spine, then the long walks after repeated breakdowns will finish you off. My uber comfy quiet Lincoln will coast along at under 2,000rpm getting 20+ mpg (actually better than the revved out bmws) with the climate control keeping the temp just right, the pillowed seats & "hot knife through butter" ride delivering me refreshed & relaxed. The hydoboost 4-disc "freight train brakes" and big f/r sway bars make for very capable roadholdong & stopping. As for the 7.5L 460-4V engine, 100mph is an effortless cruising speed, and passing trucks on uphill grades is no drama whereas you just don't dare with the torqueless tiny german mouse motor.... Unlike Kevin, I've owned & driven many miles in BOTH types of cars. I speak objectively from facts & experience. Kevin just spouts off subjective bias with no knowledge of reality.

@ksmobile1

6 жыл бұрын

Andy MacDonald , I am with you Andy, I've got six of these Lincolns, Mercury Marquis, and 1 Ford LTD wagon and they are all highly functional wonderful cars bad gas mileage but they start up everyday. Including one Mark 5 1977 convertible, that beats the living shit out of my Mercedes of the same time frame that is the biggest piece of German shit that I've ever driven and I use it as an anchor to lock my work trailer down LOL. It's a diesel and that's the only good thing about it. Fixing one part on it actually totals the car as far as the value. I will stick with my big giant Lincoln Landyachtz any day of the world, over some piece of shit that this other Kevin described. Unfortunately that butt wipe dick nut or McNutt whatever his name was shares the first name as me what a shame. LOL

'Shag deep' - How deep is a shag? How did they measure it to determine that it was deep enough to be a shag?! I wonder how many women were enlightened by the saleman at Lincoln when they were informed of the shag deep carpet, stroking it during their pitch. I bet they didn't care about the options list after that - it's got to be made lip-stick red some how!

With optonial car.

Like to time warp just to get one