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Lincoln is an American luxury car manufacturer, operated under the Ford Motor Company. Founded in 1917 by Henry M. Leland and acquired by Ford in 1922, Lincoln has been manufacturing vehicles intended for the upscale markets since the 1920s. Leland named the brand after his longtime hero Abraham Lincoln, for whom he had voted in the first presidential elections for which he was eligible
The company was founded in August 1917 by Henry M. Leland, one of the founders of Cadillac (originally the Henry Ford Company). He left the Cadillac division of General Motors during World War I and formed the Lincoln Motor Company to build Liberty aircraft engines with his son Wilfred. After the war, the company's factories were retooled to manufacture luxury automobiles.
The company encountered severe financial troubles during the transition, coupled with body styling that wasn't comparable to other luxury makers, and after having produced only 150 cars in 1922, was forced into bankruptcy and sold for USD $8,000,000 to the Ford Motor Company on February 4 1922, which went to pay off some of the creditors. The purchase of Lincoln was a personal triumph for Henry Ford, who had been forced out of his second (after Detroit Automobile Company) company by a group of investors led by Leland. Ford's company, renamed Cadillac in 1902 and purchased by rival General Motors in 1909, was Lincoln's chief competitor. Lincoln quickly became one of America's top selling luxury brands alongside Cadillac and Packard.
In 1932, Lincoln introduced the V12-powered KB. The same year, Eugene T. "Bob" Gregorie (1908-2002), at the styling studio created by Edsel Ford, began designing what became the Continental, eventually the most important car made by Lincoln. It started as a one-off project car for Edsel, who wanted a European-style car unlike the boxier designs his father's company produced, to drive around on vacations in Florida.
The Lincoln Cosmopolitan, the first all new Post War Lincoln offering, was a full-size sedan sold by Lincoln from 1949 to the early 1950s. The Cosmopolitan featured an "aerodynamic" hood ornament and sleek styling. The Cosmopolitan featured rear suicide doors, which opened from the B-pillar, a design cue continued in the Continental of the 60's. With limited production in the first place, very few of these cars survive.
This nice example was treated to a restoration in the 90's and has had an additional $10,000 spent on it in the last couple of years. It was converted to 12 volts, had the cylinder heads replaced, dual exhaust installed, fuel pump rebuilt, new belts, hoses, tires, and new battery installed, the transmission serviced, carburator rebuilt, and the fuel tank cleaned and relined. Generally this is a very nice driver quality car that is fully sorted and ready for the road!
