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Miscellaneous => Auto Mobilia, Literature and Misc Items. => Topic started by: EDNY on December 14, 2013, 12:35:18 PM

Title: Original Hot Rod Lincoln
Post by: EDNY on December 14, 2013, 12:35:18 PM

Original Hot Rod Lincoln

Video:

https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/Yw0I4LIPTm8%26feature=youtu.be%26utm_source

Title: Re: Original Hot Rod Lincoln
Post by: ghost28 on December 14, 2013, 05:51:05 PM

Very cooool.

Title: Re: Original Hot Rod Lincoln
Post by: themoose on December 14, 2013, 06:02:24 PM

Looks pretty darned  nice....At first glance it could be mistaken as a  Model A.

Title: Re: Original Hot Rod Lincoln
Post by: TFoch on December 14, 2013, 06:14:07 PM

I remember the song.  Nice to see the car that inspired it.  Thanks for posting.

Title: Re: Original Hot Rod Lincoln
Post by: EDNY on December 14, 2013, 06:21:21 PM

This is from Wikipedia:

Ryan owned a real hot rod that was built from a 1948 12-cylinder Lincoln chassis shortened two feet and with a 1930 Ford Model A body fitted to it. Thus the song explains how in "Hot Rod Race" a kid in a Model A could have outrun late-model Ford and Mercury sedans.

Title: Re: Original Hot Rod Lincoln
Post by: sixball on December 14, 2013, 07:15:47 PM

The one in the song is a V8. I remember seeing a yellow Model A with a Lincoln OHV V8 that claimed to be the one the song was written about but I guess the guy who wrote the song would know.

 "It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up
That a Model A body makes it look like a pup
It's got eight cylinders and uses 'em all
Got overdrive, just won't stall"