This just showed up at the CC Cohort, shot by coconv. Now that’s a tow rig to believe in (I hope). All it needs is a rumble seat in the trailer. Well, and maybe a bit lower ride height. Looks like it has a pickup chassis under it. A lighter and lower welded-up frame and straight axle would be just the ticket. But still…
please, tell me that nobody trashed a classic lincoln to do this…
actually, i suspect it’s photo-chopped. why else would the trailer look so much larger than the trunk of the identical model?
I thought Photoshop too, but if so it’s a good one. Compare the car’s rear wheel and fender cutout with the trailer’s. I think that’s why it looks bigger, it’s riding high.
Surely the trailer was rescued from a front-end wreck or other such total loss. Chopping apart a restorable JFK Lincoln would be like burning $100 bills.
Unfortunately, it’s sitting on the frame of an old pickup truck, which explains why it’s so high above the wheel. The Conti was a unibody; no more. It looks real to me. That’s not to say it couldn’t be fake, but I don’t think so.
I’m sorry to rain on your parade, but do you have any idea how many “classic” cars are crushed, shredded, and sent on the slow boat to China every day?
I’m all for saving as many of them as possible, and if that means making a trailer out of one, or a couch (would love to do that with the front or back end of a car someday), so be it. At least it’s still out on the road, or at least part of it is!
If it is real, I want it! But being up higher and closer to the camera may play a part in making it look bigger.
Here’s a thought: convert the Lincoln to electric power, and put your generator/ auxiliary power unit in the trailer!
Now that’s Class! If only the trailer wasn’t taller than the car, they’d really have something there.
Should shot the 59 caddy vert trailers set at southwards for yall
I saw a similar trailer in 2010, made from the tails of *two* MGBs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/argentla/5000725094/
Continental convertibles don’t have much trunk space with the top down. This would be a solution to that problem, but not a very pretty one.
However, I think it’s a fake. The body of the trailer is slightly bigger. While it is true that the trailer is incrementally closer to the camera, I don’t think that’s enough to account for the difference in size. It’s also easy to see that the wheel covers are different sizes, though otherwise the same.
The whole thing just looks wrong to me.
Well I guess who knows if it’s fake. I probably spend counterfeit money when I get it and am none the wiser. One of the commenters on the falcon article (hipster special/bay area or something like that) had done the same thing with an old falcon or comet.
I have four trailers in my place right now. Would love it if any of them looked this good. All but one are on old truck frames. Just about the most useful thing ever. This guy is to be complimented whether body chop or photo chop. It looks really good. Hope it’s real.