The Lincoln Continental
November, 1961
Continental has for more than 30 years been a classifier indicating a desirable, sought-after automobile. Rolls-Royce used to make a Continental, a special high-speed grand touring car. When the postwar Bentley Continental came out in the 1950s it was priced at $26,000 and Messrs. Rolls-Royce urged, indeed ordered, dealers to restrict its sale to highspeed drivers of demonstrable competence. But it is of the Lincoln Continental that most Americans think when they hear the term; not the $10,000 M...
