1948 Lincoln Continental Club Coupe
Autumn 2012
1948 Lincoln Continental Club Coupe
Owned by Willie & Louise Spann Pacific Northwest Region -- CCCA
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Club. Club Awards and a feature presentation by Sandi and Al McEwan will give us the lowdown on the September Windsor Castle Concours and
cavorting with the Queen!
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We hope you enjoyed reading the special edition of the Bumper Guardian as much as we enjoyed putting it together! It is the first time our region has ever printed an entire issue in full-color. Many thanks to Hagerty Insurance, Bill Smallwood III, Glenn Vaughn, and Conrad Wouters for supporting this issue with their advertising.
We printed many extra copies for use in promoting our Club. If you are planning to be somewhere where there will be lots of "car-people" make sure you ask Brian Rohrback for copies to hand-out.
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The region was founded in 1963.
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Table of Contents
Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 LeMay Museum Showcase Car:
1948 Lincoln Continental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Articles:
Lincoln Continental History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Klassic Korner for Kids. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Classic Cars in Films & Literature. . . . . . . . . . 24 Technical Topics: Microtips from Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Startix Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Cooling the Aussie Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Columns: Director's Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 PNR Member Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Membership Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Editor's Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 PNR-CCCA Events: Flying Horse Ranch Tour Ellensburg, WA. . . . 8 Motoring Classic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Trident Submarine Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Yarrow Point 4th of July . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Steinman Picnic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Concours at the Wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Regional Events: Caledon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 ABFM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Kirkland Legands / Gig Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Director's Message
The days grow chilly and gray is mixing in with the evergreen ...
So, with Fall transitioning into Winter, we must continue to lobby the weather gremlins for a nice day here and there so we can keep our fluids pumping, our pressures at just the right levels, our electrical connections connected, and all the moving parts exercised. That goes for our cars too! And use the time to finally get that wood trim touched up or the clock fixed (oh wait, everyone had that idea and Abbott in Portland is booked solid). Or, look around for that lonely Classic that could use your
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1948 Lincoln Continental Club Coupe Article & Photos by Willie Spann
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My history with this car began on a sunny Friday evening in May of 1998 when I pulled into the Burger King cruise-in in Everett, WA looking for a 1939 Cadillac to restore. I saw a gentleman with a nice Cadillac and asked if he knew of one similar to his needing restoration. He mentioned knowing of an old Cadillac near Sea-Tac airport that was for sale, but he didn't know the specific year or model. As he was not interested in it for himself, he gave me the contact information. I called the owner of the "Cadillac", and asked it was still available. It was, so I went to see the "old beast." Much to my surprise, it wasn't a Cadillac after all, it was a 1948 Lincoln Continental Club Coupe that had been sitting in their garage for over 31 years. The Lincoln had 60,000 showing on the odometer and was mostly complete. However, along the way the original flathead V-12 engine had been removed and replaced with a 1956 Lincoln V-8, 368 cu in. The engine was frozen and would not turn-over. I bought the car as-is.
When I got the Lincoln home, I was planning to get the 1956 engine running to better assess its status. Unfortunately, the engine had four bent
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push rods in addition to a few loose hydraulic lifters within the engine. While working on the 1956 engine a friend told me about a Lincoln V-12 that was for sale. Luckily there were two of them that had been in this guy's back yard, under a tarp, for the last twenty-five years. One engine was for a 1941 Lincoln, the other for a 1948 Lincoln. I bought them both.
I chose to restore the 1948 V-12 and used the 1941 engine for parts. Both the cam and crank-shafts were checked for cracks and found to be okay. I then had the crank turned (to insert a rope seal) to work with a new high-pressure oil pump. Being a member of the Lincoln Zephyr Owners Club helped me find parts from all over the United States.
I located new rings, valves and valve springs and even found a set of new hydraulic lifters that had never been out of the package. After assembling the block, I checked-out the aluminum heads and intake manifold from the 1941 engine and when
found to be okay, polished and installed them on the 1948 engine to complete the rebuild.
Eager to test drive the "old beast" I couldn't wait any longer and first took it on the road with the correct V-12 engine in November 1998. This was the first time the car had moved under its own power in over thirty years and it had been even longer without the correct engine. Although there was still much work to be done, I continued working on the car during the winter months and did car shows in the summers with a note in the window explaining to onlookers "this car is in work."
I have verified that this car was assembled February 26, 1948, and shipped March 2, 1948. The previous owner had the Lincoln V-8 engine installed in the late 1950s while he was a member of the US Air Force. In 1967 he drove it from Ohio to Washington State and not long thereafter stored it in the garage from where I rescued it.
Over the following three winters I spent lots of time bead-blasting, cleaning, hand scraping and repairing all the body damage. The fuel tank and fuel lines were replaced, along with the exhaust and brake system. The power window motor had to be repaired and it took me about a year to get enough good parts to make it work. I stripped the body, hand sanded, repainted everything and had all of the original bright work re-
chromed. The car had been blue when it originally left the factory. Some time along the way It had been repainted turquoise, however, when I bought the car it was painted black. I liked the way it looked, so I repainted it with five coats of black paint and then added a final clear coat. The radio had to be replaced but the clock only had to be cleaned. Finally, I had a new, correct interior installed to complete the restoration.
After all that time of expending my sweat and elbow grease, I drove the finished car for the first time in 2001. Today, the car has been driven only 66,000 miles, the last 6,000 since I got it back on the road 11 years ago, most of which was accumulated by driving it to car shows throughout the south Puget Sound area, If you see it, please stop by and say "hello". Perhaps one of you can help me confirm this was one of the very last of the only 847 - 1948 Lincoln Continental Coupes ever built?
I enjoyed this opportunity to tell you my story and especially want to acknowledge and thank all of my friends who lent me a hand on the restoration.
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