The Lincoln Continental

The Lincoln ContinentalContinental 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...