Introduced on April 22, 1948, the 1949 Lincoln line was the carmaker’s first new postwar product. Like its Ford and Mercury siblings, Lincoln received a complete redesign for ’49, and the luxury brand was treated to coil-spring independent front suspension, a big new 336.7 CID L-head V8, and the GM Hydra-Matic automatic transmission. Body designs were all new as well, including one body style that would last just a single year, the Town Sedan with its dramatic fastback roofline. I've never seen one of these, anybody ?
My dad traded his '48 Chrysler Windsor in on a new '50 Lincoln. Kept it until '53. My mother had a '50 Mercury stick with OD.
The kid with bare feet ain't too smart, I always had to use shoe leather for brakes when my axe handle didn't do the job! Henry is thinking "It will do OK until Chevy comes out with their small block V8"
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