W, I've always found it fascinating how seemingly normal guys can get so strident and entrenched in their views about what they feel was/is best regarding autos. One time I was talking to a guy with a beautiful '66 that was going on and on about all the revolutionary design features and when I did no more than mention to him that I have a '67 he just dumped all over it and went on this rant about how Oldsmobile ruined it and should have redesigned the next year entirely. I've run into the same thing with Toronado people. On the back you have to jack it from the body so the axle will drop or you can't fish the tire out of the wheelwell even with the fender skirt off.Īmongst '58 - '60 people there seems to be a line drawn with those who are of the opinion that '58 was the pinnacle of styling and that the next two years they threw in the towel on design to satisfy the critics, and then those who think '59 and '60 are superior because they refined the issues that people didn't like with the '58 by making the lines more subtle. People must have used them because every bumper I've ever had has evidence of it but it's certainly not anything I would ever attempt.
It would be interesting to know where that car is today. The irony was all the painted cars were junk and brought ridiculous money and all the good ones were the parts cars in the field out back and sold for $400 bucks each. Looking in the front fender wells there were diagonal pieces of angle iron stuffed where the torque boxes used to be. Several years back there was a huge Lincoln auction and in it a '59 with very poor gaps and horrendous body work. The outside can exhibit little in the way of rust issues even if not repaired yet still have torque box damage. It is important to do a close inspection of the torque boxes if you ever shop for one of these things. My '60 will flex a little when I put it on a typical two-post lift but not so much that I can't still open and close the doors as other non-unibody cars are prone to do. For all the obscure topics they cover, the Service Bulletins are silent on that issue. I don't know of any instances of where they changed joint designs or braced things. I've never read anything official but have heard that early 58's had weld failure issues (though nothing as dramatic as windshields cracking) and I think they mostly overcame it by increasing the number of spot welds.
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Perhaps it was myth, though, but it was said that if you jacked the front of one of these up with the bumper jack, there was a chance that the windshield could crack because of flex in the body. I recall hearing decades ago that the early '58 Lincolns, because they were unibody, had structural problems.
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