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Car Show Classic: 1982 Lincoln Town Car - Honey, I shrank the Lincoln!
Lincoln had its own hangover in 1980. The late 1970’s had been very good to the Lincoln Division with the Mark V selling over 72,000 units annually from 1977 to 1979, and the four door Continental selling around the 70,000 mark for those same years.
Then the ugly monster of a hangover set in for 1980; it’s name was CAFE.
Lincoln was courteous enough to ease everyone into the letdown. Well, perhaps that’s arguable, but the King Kong of Ford big blocks – the 7.5 liter, 460 cubic inch V8 – was terminated at the end of 1978, leaving only the 159 horsepower 400 cubic inch V8 as motivation in 1979. Think of it as that hiccup you get at the height of inebriation; you know what’s coming next and it will certainly put a damper on the fun.
Enter the 1980 Lincoln Continental.
This is the Lincoln that comes about after the doctor tells you to lose weight since you’ve been drinking too many empty calories and have become way to portly. Knowing you need to lose some of that beer belly, and knowing Dr. Uncle Sam has a lot of influence, the folks at Lincoln put the Continental on a serious weight loss program.
Ten inches of wheelbase and a half-ton later, along with being bolted to a Panther platform, the new Continental (rechristened as Town Car for the ’81 model year) offered as much interior room as it ever had. Motivation, if you want to call it that, was by a 129 horsepower 302 or, in 1980 only, a 140 horsepower 351 cubic inch V8. Drag racers they were not.
Initial reaction by the buying public was much akin to the reaction one gets after losing one-quarter of their body weight: It looked good but people didn’t recognize it. This, mixed and stirred with a putrid economy in the United States, helped drive Lincoln sales downwards by around two-thirds. The only silver lining in that otherwise gray cloud was everybody else’s sales were down also. Lincoln would rebound for 1982 (...)
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