1951 Lincoln Lido for sale - Morgantown, Pennsylvania

Description:
Interior Color:
Dark Green

Exterior Color:
Everglade Green

Description:
1951 Lincoln Lido Hardtop The Lincoln Lido was a bodystyle of the Lincoln EL-Series of the Lincoln marque during the 1950 and 1951 model years.  It was introduced on July 5, 1950 as somewhat of Lincoln\'s answer to the GM hardtops that debuted in 1949.  List price for the 1950 model was $2721.  It was similar to the Mercury Monterey and the up market Lincoln Cosmopolitan Capri, all were two door coupes.  The 1950 to 1951 models featured a vinyl or canvas-covered roof, fender skirts, bright roof drip rails and rocker panel moldings, dual door mirrors, a gold-colored hood ornament from the Cosmopolitan and a custom leather interior with special door and side panels.  An electric clock was standard.  Few were sold, however it reappeared as a special show car in 1963 called the Lincoln Continental Lido. With hauntingly small numbers of these cars built and even fewer surviving, let alone being unrestored, this is a hen\'s tooth of a consignment.  A 2 owner, all-steel body, a 336.7ci displacement flathead V8, and at the turn of the new decade it\'s the best it gets as to the design.  Aerodynamics were a second thought in the day; however, this car has the design of a sleek rocket ship, albeit in Buck Rogers heavy form, but still sleek and swept.  Big chrome adds to the look, and weight, which nearly eclipses 2 tons!  As stated, this car is unrestored but still presenting nicely inside and out and mechanically sound.  It\'s time to grab this baby and start crowing about it. Exterior Arriving in our first zip code is the massive 3 tier grille that is polished to the nines and has 5 small teeth to grind up the competition.  Flanking this big chrome is more...well chrome with rounded headlights complete with deeply sunken bezels in chrome, and a small chrome crest hovering just below a tarnished rocket style hood ornament.  This fronts a bulbous hood with that stylized jet streaking in front along with a mustache style bump out on the leading edge clearing the way for the wonderfully large hood bathed in a Everglade Green.  Rounded integrated fenders with more curves than Brigitte Bardot are bathed in more Everglade Green which makes their way back to the large door and lower belt line trim spear works its way from front to rear.  In the next zip code is the passenger compartment roof with its stainless trimmed white vinyl roof covering, window surround trimmings and beautiful door handles with some extra pinstriping embellishments just for s**#s and giggles.  More of the Everglade Green runs to the rear of the car, on a rounded rear quarter, shades of Marilyn Monroe.  Here resides the very rare and not often seen chrome trimmings around the gas door.   Some chips and cracks are noted throughout the curvaceous body along with some surface rust that is mainly reserved for the lowers.  On the back is more curvalicious steel, another crest and some big chrome in the form of a bumper that wraps around the rear quarters.  Like the headlights, the tail lights, in classic cathedral style, are slightly sunken into the semi-pontoon rear fenders with chrome trimmings all around.  Rear fender skirts and wide whites all around shown off by polished smooth caps with the Lincoln crest making this iconic skate even more bada$$! Interior Swinging open the long sleek door and we are met with a multi ivory covered door panel that has a mix of smooth leather on top, a central corduroy broadcloth area and ribbed leather lowers.  These panels have a thin chrome strip and the panels are peppered with shiny chrome cranks and handles along with chrome buttons for a little extra wow!  This cloth and leather plays out on the seats with broad corduroy striped tuck and roll lower cushions, also covering the half of the upper cushion before transitioning to a smooth ivory leather with small padded armrests for the rear bench.  We cannot even begin to assume the full condition of the front split bench but we can note that the outer of the driver\'s side a