{"id":3816,"date":"2018-11-01T00:32:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T14:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2018-11-05T01:52:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T15:52:25","slug":"driving-a-1979-lincoln-continental-huge-two-door-a-lounge-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/driving-a-1979-lincoln-continental-huge-two-door-a-lounge-on-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving a 1979 Lincoln Continental; Huge two-door;  A lounge on wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Lincoln name was introduced into the Ford line up in 1939, it was as a personal vehicle for Edsel Ford.<\/p>\n<p>The latest models have smooth rounded lines but from the second generation starting in 1956 to the end of the seventh generation in 1988 they were cars with a lot of straight lines and chiseled features.<\/p>\n<p>They were a monument to American excess. Not pretty but certainly stand-out in their looks.<\/p>\n<p>Ford has pitched them as the American Rolls Royce.<br \/>\nI came across the owner of a 1979 Lincoln continental. The vehicle was 5.65 metres long and it is a two door.<\/p>\n<p>Mark and I went for a drive and chatted about the car, his other vehicles which include a Smart ForTwo!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Driving a 1979 Lincoln Continental; Huge two-door;  A lounge on wheels\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/asS-a0iIKW8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Lincoln name was introduced into the Ford line up in 1939, it was as a personal vehicle for Edsel Ford. The latest models have&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1793],"tags":[2263,129,1700,19,2265,311,2264],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-continental","tag-david-brown","tag-driven-media","tag-ford","tag-harbord","tag-lincoln","tag-two-door"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}