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this time on Wheeler dealers a car
that loses style and risk you never know
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with these cars once you start digging
a little bit deeper if it gets sinister it
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could really start costing us a lot of
money we want to customize it with a
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small seed but can't agree how maybe
a mad volcanic orange paint would be
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awesome we're not painting the
car orange it's a real looker but ends
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worried about a serious oil leak
so after all that effort of trying to be
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a little bit clever and not have to look
the engineer it seems my plans have
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rather been scuppered I search out
classics in need of care and attention
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yes egg gets with the spanners and saves
them from a rusty grave then we sell them
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on hopefully for a profit the Lincoln
Continental symbol of 60s America built
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to take on Cadillac and challenge
for the luxury car crown the 63 model
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you find the link and look straight sides
crisp lines and minimal rear tail fins
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the suicide doors are a design signature
of this vast four-door cruiser at over
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two tons it's a real heavyweight but a
massive v8 means it could reach 120
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miles an hour new this Lincoln came
with a 24,000 mile warranty unheard of
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in the 60s they were obsessed with
quality each engine was run at speed for
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three hours and then stripped and
checked before it left the factory this
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is a classy car and 50 years on that
mix of quality and charisma make these
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continentals highly desirable
stateside and across the world now I'm
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basing myself in Northern California
because I've had a lot of success here
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before I've had the Willys Jeep the
DeLorean the Chevy pickup truck and
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I've made good money now there's
lots of good solid rust free metal out
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if you look really hard I don't want to
spend more than 10,000 pounds and
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there are cars within my budget I'm
looking for a straight body because
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rust or crash damage will be very
expensive to fix here we go I found a
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car it's a little rough around the
edges but the ad says it's a solid
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unrestored car that's been garaged
for years now it's on with a dealer
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who says he's commissioned it for
the road but it needs a little bit more
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work and that's good because that
means that they've got the car into a
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livable state and it's really important if
you're gonna travel far make sure you
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can get behind the wheel and drive
it the downside to all of this they want
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$10,000 but then saying that that's
only six and a half thousand pounds.
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hi Greg my name's Mike I'm ringing
about your Lincoln Continental 1963.
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if I was to come down there with a
pocket full of cash do you think we
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could work on that figure see in a bit
then bye-bye now that sounds like a
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really good car and the most important
thing solid body and everything works on
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it so I'm gonna go and
see it straight away.
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now the owner Greg he did say
the right things on the phone what is
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interesting though is when I looked at
his website he seems to sell high-end
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sports cars and classic cars and I
would imagine an old Lincoln would look
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tatty in amongst his stock and he might
be prepared because he's a dealer to do a
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really good deal but it's looks
smart this place looks some nice new
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shiny stuff and some old classic stuff
but this is what I've come to see look.
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at the size of it wow it is absolutely
gigantic hello how's it going.
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Mike I'm all right you Greg yes I
am Greg nice to meet you to meet you
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it's looking a little bit sorry for
itself yeah you know there's a couple
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imperfections the biggest thing
going forward it's a California barn find
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pretty rare to find one of these in this
shape with all the panels intact no rust.
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beautiful car well let's have a
good look round okay first of all I'm
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desperate to do this because this
would be one of the first cars I've ever