Day 5 of “A week of ‘51s”
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario
1951 Lincoln Cosmopolitan
Earlier this week we featured a Mercury with suicide doors, and today we see that Lincoln also used this gimmick in their post WWII cars. The ’51 Lincolns were offered in two wheelbases: 121 inches, and the 123-inch version in the Cosmopolitan series which featured this four-door sedan as well as a two-door coupe, the upscale Capri coupe, and a convertible. The Lido (in the base series) and Capri coupes were in line with Ford’s Crestline and Mercury’s Monterey, which tried (in vain) to make up for FoMoCo’s lack of a pillarless two-door hardtop.
We saw this one at this summer’s Kinsmen Show and Shine car show.
— Jim Corbran
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