Vehicle Description
Vehicle to be offered for Auction sale WITHOUT RESERVE and SOLD to
the highest bidder June 2nd - 4th, 2017 at Russo and Steele\'s 5th
Annual Newport Beach California Auction. Please contact us for more
information. \r\n\r\nThe Continental Mark II is a very rare car. In
the two year the car was made, only around 3,000 were built. Ford
basically built the car to one up the competition for luxury cars.
At a price tag of over 10,000, the Mark II was more expensive than
a Rolls Royce and twice the price of a Cadillac at the time. Even
at that high price tag, Ford lost over 1,000 on each car. Ford did
not care. These cars were extensively hand built from the engine to
the body. No detail was overlooked and each car met meticulous
standards. Each car was powered by a 368 Ford motor that produced
over 285HP. The engine was connected to a Lincoln 3 speed automatic
transmission. The car brought the company tons of prestige and
publicity. Such famous personalities as Frank Sinatra, the Shah of
Iran, Elvis Presley, and Elizabeth Taylor could be seen driving
their new Mark II.\r\n\r\nThis Mark II comes with a special
history. It was once owned by the very wealthy and eccentric J.C.
Daniels. Mr. Daniels started his career as a body shop worker at a
Ford dealer and then became an owner of his own body and radiator
shop.This plays an important part in the car\'s history. Being an
ambitious and creative, Daniels approached the Ford dealer to buy
his dealership. Instead the owner guided Daniels in starting his
own Lincoln dealership. As a dealer, Daniels became enamored with
the new Mark II and proceeded to get orders for 34 cars.
Unfortunately, Ford would only allow him to sell 3. This did not
sit well with Daniels and could have been one of the reasons he
sold his dealership in the early 60\'s. From there Daniels went
into the oil business where he became extremely wealthy. With his
new found wealth, Daniels was able to invest in his true love,
Lincolns. He collected more than 300 Lincoln\'s with 47 of them
being rare Mark II\'s. When Mr. Daniels died in 2000 he left behind
388 Lincolns. In fact, while he was in the hospital he was still
buying cars and his wife was surprised to have 3 show up after his
death. In 2002 his cars all went to auction including this
Continental. \r\n\r\nThis car was the rare and odd one in the
group. For some reason J.C. decided to create a 4 headlight
Lincoln. At the time Mark IIs were built, no cars were manufactured
with 4 headlights. This did not happen until 1957 when Mark II\'s
were out of production. Daniels had a personal crew of 3 body shop
workers remember body work is how he started that created this
special 4 headlight Mark II. The actual work that went into
building these special fenders is professionally done and actually
quite fascinating. After 40 years the bodywork shows no fractures
and is immaculate. The car is exactly as it left the Daniels estate
with a little bit of refreshing and tuning including new tires.
