Equipment
400/159hp, automatic, wire wheel covers, whitewalls, power windows, air conditioning, Cartier dash clock.
Condition
Represented with 4397 actual miles. Aged, likely original paint. Excellent original interior. Maintained but a little grubby underneath. Doesn't look quite as factory-fresh as it could given the mileage, but a good example and reasonably well-preserved over the past 40-plus years. Located in Texas.
Market commentary
With gas under $2 a gallon, land yachts are more appealing than ever right now. Lincoln offered the Continental Mk V in four "Designer Edition" trims (Cartier, Bill Blass, Givenchy, Pucci) as well as a "Diamond Jubilee" (1978) and a "Collector Series". This one is just a base car, but all Mk Vs are worth roughly the same. This isn't quite a time warp car and this was the fourth lot to close in an 86-car online auction, so the seller here couldn't have hoped for much more than this reported high bid and should have taken the money.