Shot and posted at the Chort by mtwilda. The attached caption reads: On display at the TWA Hotel (former TWA terminal) at JFK.
Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: Lincoln Continental In A Suitable Setting
– Posted on March 14, 2020
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Curbside Classics Archives
Just gorgeous…both the photo and the car…but I hope that puddle was there before it was parked.
Am I the only one here who cannot get past that lone window that won’t go down?
I’ll set the scene for you: You’ve just driven up to the terminal, about to take off on your Christmas holiday, decadently driving your new Connie on a beautiful early winter day with the top down, window up, and the heater on full blast.
Ahh, I’m feeling like a One Percenter already!
At first I thought by “Connie” you meant a Lockheed Constellation. They’ve got one of those on display out back, too. I guess this hotel has two different types of Connie on display.
Apparently the airplane serves as a cocktail bar, but I was there early morning, having just arrived on a redeye, so it was closed at the time.
Oh, no, not just you JPC.
And worse, by some visual oddity, the damn thing appears to me to start as the right-hand frame and end as the left!
I’d say the setting is a little too suitable by name. Some customers might see it as a bad luck omen.
This is a beauty, but owning its assembly line-mate ’63 Thunderbird has blunted my desire to ever own one of these even more complex Continentals.
Seem to remember this is a ’64, had several ’61-’66 Connie converts and Thunderbird converts, never got any a/c systems de-bugged, had steering/suspension problems, still think they are beautiful, but drive Imperials and Buicks OF the ’63-66 era, My son had a pretty ’63 Bird ht for two weeks, it was too expensive to fix, still, he’s looking for a better ’63. Dearly loved the style of my ’64 Bird convert in ice blue, the top was the only thing that worked well.
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cars-of-a-lifetime/coal-update-1963-ford-thunderbird-trying-to-keep-it-in-between-the-lines/
Your experiences mirror mine! I like the car, but I should have spent the extra money and bought a Riviera. 🙂 Oh well.
I suspect the background is the old TWA terminal at JFK which has been recently turned into the TWA Hotel.
Very nostalgic, very 60’s vive. A place for Mad Men execs to stay at.
Hope to have a reason to visit in the immediate future.
Jay Leno has an almost one-hour long presentation on his 1966 convertible.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=1966+lincoln+continental+convertible+jay+leno&view=detail&mid=638ED16993AAA385BC19638ED16993AAA385BC19&FORM=VIRE
it is worth downloading and viewing. He talks about clever engineering in this vehicle that give sone much appreciation for the Lincoln.
I’m certain I’ve seen somewhere a ’75 -’79 era Lincoln magazine ad with a Continental Town Car parked at the same location. I can’t find it on the internet, and my attempt to locate it in my archive has failed.
That is quite a cool hotel. Maybe bucket list worthy. Check out their website at: https://www.twahotel.com/
Indeed it is. To add to the whole 1960s feel they’ve got a large bank of rotary payphones. I think they’re actually functional, although I didn’t try to place a call. In hindsight I should have just for the novelty of it.
This just goes to prove that good design is timeless.
Beautiful building and car, although I think a Mies van der Rohe International style building and suicide door Lincoln make for the perfect pairing.
That would be perfect for a sedan, the convertible pairs well with this flashier theme building.
I actually was a construction foreman on that site. built 2 hotels, and underground convention center and remodeled the historic twa terminal this sits in front. do you believe this vehicle and a blue Chrysler sat on-site during the construction. it was an an accident waiting to happen but thankfully as union professionals great care was taken and the vehicles remained unscathed
I enjoy seeing these and the sedans on Perry Mason, 77 Sunset Strip, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Hawaii 5-0 and countless other TV shows of the ’60s and ’70s,with the black sedans often featuring as gangster cars.
Napoleon Solo, played by Robert Vaughn, piloted a white four door Lincoln ragtop in The Man Fron U.NC.L.E. TV series
Unfortunately many 1970’s Lincolns would magically change into a suicide door Lincoln just before it would go off a cliff or get blowed up on shows like “CHiPs”, “Hawaii 5-0”, or “Charlie’s Angels”.
Having used this terminal back when I traveled on TWA during the ’80’s, a hotel stay there is on my bucket list. My dad drove a ’64 Continental for a while, so double nostalgia.