I'm Guessing
that you mean the final Lincoln rather than the final one of these unitized Lincolns built on the 1961 body. That was the 1968 built for Nixon by Lehman-Peterson, who were building the Lincoln limousines from 1964 on. It was the first with the flip down rear bumper to make a step and the grab bar built to raise from the trunk lid. They also made a standard '67 Lincoln convertible into a matching SS followup car. The last Lincoln was the one that Reagan used when he got shot in '81, and it was a beauty--based on the 'Mercury' Lincoln that came out in 1970. They put suicide doors on it.
To my eyes, the ugliest of tho limos of that time was the Reagan Cadillac, photo below. They made the door windows so slanted that it looks like it's drunk! There's a shot here also of Clinton's pudgy Impala/Fleetwood based limousine.
There's a shot here also of JFK's SS-100X when it was quite new; you can tell because it has the 1961 Lincoln grille on it, which was replaced in 1962. Remember, Ford owned it and they wanted it updated for marketing reasons. You may notice those beautiful wheel covers on the early SS-100X. They are actually the cast wheel covers for the Continental Mark II. Because they kept getting damaged in transport, they were replaced by the much less expensive 1957 Lincoln covers. Those are the covers on the car when JFK was murdered. Why those? The '61-63 Lincolns used 14" wheels and the last Lincoln with 15" wheels was the '57. And of course after the murder the car went back to Hess & Eisenhart, who stripped it and added over a ton of armor plating, and the bulletproof greenhouse, along with a trunk a/c unit. It remained in service until 1977.
LBJ never liked riding in that car, and I don't blame him. I'm not superstitious or anything like that, but the idea of riding around in the same place where another guy got murdered would give me the creeps!
that you mean the final Lincoln rather than the final one of these unitized Lincolns built on the 1961 body. That was the 1968 built for Nixon by Lehman-Peterson, who were building the Lincoln limousines from 1964 on. It was the first with the flip down rear bumper to make a step and the grab bar built to raise from the trunk lid. They also made a standard '67 Lincoln convertible into a matching SS followup car. The last Lincoln was the one that Reagan used when he got shot in '81, and it was a beauty--based on the 'Mercury' Lincoln that came out in 1970. They put suicide doors on it.
To my eyes, the ugliest of tho limos of that time was the Reagan Cadillac, photo below. They made the door windows so slanted that it looks like it's drunk! There's a shot here also of Clinton's pudgy Impala/Fleetwood based limousine.
There's a shot here also of JFK's SS-100X when it was quite new; you can tell because it has the 1961 Lincoln grille on it, which was replaced in 1962. Remember, Ford owned it and they wanted it updated for marketing reasons. You may notice those beautiful wheel covers on the early SS-100X. They are actually the cast wheel covers for the Continental Mark II. Because they kept getting damaged in transport, they were replaced by the much less expensive 1957 Lincoln covers. Those are the covers on the car when JFK was murdered. Why those? The '61-63 Lincolns used 14" wheels and the last Lincoln with 15" wheels was the '57. And of course after the murder the car went back to Hess & Eisenhart, who stripped it and added over a ton of armor plating, and the bulletproof greenhouse, along with a trunk a/c unit. It remained in service until 1977.
LBJ never liked riding in that car, and I don't blame him. I'm not superstitious or anything like that, but the idea of riding around in the same place where another guy got murdered would give me the creeps!
