What is the Lincolns West story. . . ? The story starts back in the year 2000. I'm 23 years old, and I'm fresh out of college. My uncle, with whom I grew up like a brother, owns a Lincoln Town car and is always cruising it when he comes home from base (USMC). We talk about the suicide door Lincolns and how nice they are. So I start to look into them and find one in Phoenix that's a pretty good deal, has good metal, good chrome and an okay interior. I don't know much about the engine but owner says it probably needs a rebuild. I think we all know what that means. 2 years later I enroll in grad school and the Lincoln gets put on the back burner. I, in the mean time, get to know a couple of guys who knew a lot more than I did about Lincolns. I listened to these guys and asked a lot of questions. Then one of those guys helped me out with my 64 sedan by buying it from me. He bought it from me with the condition that we would chop it up, store the parts at my place and I would help him sell the parts. No brainer if you ask me. A few years later we spot a 64 convertible in Sacramento that was honestly someone else's parts car. I should have never bought that car. The floors were solid, the quarters were solid and the car ran and drove. I brought it home but it needed A LOT of work. I had to buy 2 parts cars to finish it off ( a 65 sedan and a 65 convertible). So I got all the parts I needed off the 65 parts cars and everything else was for sale. From there we bought another car or two, both very local, and chopped them up and sold the parts online. So the parts started to pile up but I saw there was something in hanging on to all these parts. I guess my one saving grace was that I was somewhat organized and always put things in containers or bins, or together with other similar parts. And so its been going on for almost 20 years now. I've learned a lot about these cars and have come to appreciate them not only for their beauty and craftsmanship and engineering but for how difficult they are to restore. And so it has been my mission to restore one or two of these cars but more importantly to help others restore their own projects with all of this know-how i have accumulated over the past 18 or so years. So, if you'll allow me to use my "knowledge" I would be happy to assist you in restoring your suicide door Lincoln Continental project.
