Can anyone translate Swedish?
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The writer sent me this translation. Not all accurate but almost on spot.
A heavy factory custom
When Bob Gregorie got the mission to build a modified -39 Lincoln-Zephyr for
Edsel Ford (then CEO of Ford and son of Henry Ford) he did use the same
methods and the same amount of lead work as many custom builders later would
use: the car was sectioned, the fenders extended and it goot a lower roof
line. The design was so good that Edsel did decided that his one-off car was
going to be a low series production car. By all means: a factory custom.
One of Edsel´s own prototypes was taken over and used by Bob as a daily
driver for years, and of course he kept on modifing it...
The modified version of the Lincoln-Zephyr later got the name Continental.
Continental meant the continent Europe, the continent were luxury cars were
built with lines that had a great feeling for design. The difference in the
USA was that instead of building cars based on Minerva, Hotchkiss or Isotta
Franschini as in Europe, the amercian builders did of course use american
canvas as the base for their work of art. But all done with the same feeling
of custom design.
Mark II
In 1956 Ford started an all new brand: Continental, made by the Continental
Ddivision and all different from other Ford products. Instead of a crome
decorated car, the designer Gordon Boehrig did use his sharp pen to draw
very stylish and strict lines. In addition to that, the Ford top management
decided to build this car with best possible quality and techniques. That
did set a price tag about twice as high as a Cadillac.
Just as for the first Continental, the inspiration came from European luxury
cars. By this time Continental restyling had became a conceptual. When the
guys did develop the Mark II for the Continental Division they once again
used the custom builders methods: a channeled an sectioned Lincoln coupe was
used as a test mule while developing the Mark II.
One intended version was a rectractable convertible, a concept first used by
Peugoet in 1934. Though that idea did require a bit more development and was
instead saved for the 1957 Ford Skyliner Retractable. Mark II was only made
as a coupe.
Hess & Eisenhardt
But what are we seeing here? A factory custom in the highest quality!
In September 1955 the marketing people at Ford´s Chicago office decided to
order two covertibles. Cars that were meant to serve as “attiontion getters”
to potiential customers.
Two coupes were taken from the assembly line with pre-production cars to be
delivered to Hess & Eisenhardt (during the transport to the coachbuilder
both cars were a bit damaged).
The car shown her did start its life as a black coupe, when it did reach
Hess & Eisenhardt it was disassembled. But before the body was removed and
the roof was cut off, the body was temporary reinforced to make sure that it
didnt twist and loose shape (just as custom builders do when chopping
roofs). The floor was modified and the frame got an X as well as a ¼” plate
that covers the top of the frame. As Hess & Eisenhardt was mainly limosine
and armoured car builder, building rigid cars was a thing that really knew
how to do. The way this car was built no problems with a flexing frame or
body did ever appear.
Clayton
As the Mark II was planned as a coupe and convertible but the last one never
built, the frame of the first year of the make did as a matter of fact have
a couple of body mounts never used by the factory for the coupe body. But in
this version by Hess & Eisenhardt these body mounts did find work!
But the two Hess & Eisenhardt Mark cvt´s are not the only one convertibles
that was built. Another one was built for Clayton Ford (grandson of Henry
and of course CEO of Ford...). In that case it was the coachbuilder Derham
that chosed to build it. That car is one of the two known remaining
Continental Mark II cvts.
The other one is the Hess & Eisenhardt we see here. This one was first
painted white, but did change color a lot of times during its first years.
Ford wanted to give car a new appearance a lot of times and as a show car
for potential customers it might have had a rough life in its early years. I
suppose it got a better life when when it was given to the wife of Clayton
Ford to be used as her daily driver. When she got it, it was repainted
“Shenandohah Green”, a color that sometimes looks green, sometimes blue.
Blue is also the chosen color for the restored car.
When the days as were over for her to use it as her daily driver it was
supposed to be scrapped. Paul Wagnar had the sad comission get the car
scrapped, but after fighting hard for saving it for the future was allowded
to keep it as his own car, and he did that.
But after he sold it, the car did change hands a lot of times. That was
until a guy in Georgia really felt in love with it. He started to modifiy it
a bit to further improve it, to give it a bit better lines than when Hess &
Eisenhardt had built it.
The roof line of the convertible to was modifed to give it sleeker lines and
he made it look much more like the first drawings of a Continental Mark II
cvt made by the designer Charley Phaneuf in 1953.
Hess & Eisenhardt did use some Mercedes-Benz parts when they built the car
and this builder did also like Mercedes. Influed by how Mercedes SL
converitbles did work he built an mechanism that made it possible to cover
the fold down top by an all new hard boot-cover.
Continental x 3
Custom built or factory original? Whats really in these words? Fords own
historians do name this car as a “certified custom”. But what´s in a name,
as Shakespeare once wrote. Whats important its the love. In this case the
love for a car.
Barry Wolk in Michigan do really fullfill the requiremant to make hime the
best possible owner of this Continental Mark II. This is not the only -56
Continental is in his possesion, but two more: a -56 Chris Craft Continental
and a -56 Porsche Continental (the American model name of the 356 cvt).
But Barry really wonders about one Continental, and he gets no peach of mind
before he gets the answer of the riddle: What happened to the sister car of
his Continental Mark II cvt? Many years ago it was probably shipped to
Scandinavia, very likely to Sweden. We at Gasoline have heard rumours about
the current state of that car but we have not got them confirmed yet. So if
anyone out there would like to give us facts obout the lost Continental Mark
II cvt we will submit them to Barry to make his happiness complete.
A heavy factory custom
When Bob Gregorie got the mission to build a modified -39 Lincoln-Zephyr for
Edsel Ford (then CEO of Ford and son of Henry Ford) he did use the same
methods and the same amount of lead work as many custom builders later would
use: the car was sectioned, the fenders extended and it goot a lower roof
line. The design was so good that Edsel did decided that his one-off car was
going to be a low series production car. By all means: a factory custom.
One of Edsel´s own prototypes was taken over and used by Bob as a daily
driver for years, and of course he kept on modifing it...
The modified version of the Lincoln-Zephyr later got the name Continental.
Continental meant the continent Europe, the continent were luxury cars were
built with lines that had a great feeling for design. The difference in the
USA was that instead of building cars based on Minerva, Hotchkiss or Isotta
Franschini as in Europe, the amercian builders did of course use american
canvas as the base for their work of art. But all done with the same feeling
of custom design.
Mark II
In 1956 Ford started an all new brand: Continental, made by the Continental
Ddivision and all different from other Ford products. Instead of a crome
decorated car, the designer Gordon Boehrig did use his sharp pen to draw
very stylish and strict lines. In addition to that, the Ford top management
decided to build this car with best possible quality and techniques. That
did set a price tag about twice as high as a Cadillac.
Just as for the first Continental, the inspiration came from European luxury
cars. By this time Continental restyling had became a conceptual. When the
guys did develop the Mark II for the Continental Division they once again
used the custom builders methods: a channeled an sectioned Lincoln coupe was
used as a test mule while developing the Mark II.
One intended version was a rectractable convertible, a concept first used by
Peugoet in 1934. Though that idea did require a bit more development and was
instead saved for the 1957 Ford Skyliner Retractable. Mark II was only made
as a coupe.
Hess & Eisenhardt
But what are we seeing here? A factory custom in the highest quality!
In September 1955 the marketing people at Ford´s Chicago office decided to
order two covertibles. Cars that were meant to serve as “attiontion getters”
to potiential customers.
Two coupes were taken from the assembly line with pre-production cars to be
delivered to Hess & Eisenhardt (during the transport to the coachbuilder
both cars were a bit damaged).
The car shown her did start its life as a black coupe, when it did reach
Hess & Eisenhardt it was disassembled. But before the body was removed and
the roof was cut off, the body was temporary reinforced to make sure that it
didnt twist and loose shape (just as custom builders do when chopping
roofs). The floor was modified and the frame got an X as well as a ¼” plate
that covers the top of the frame. As Hess & Eisenhardt was mainly limosine
and armoured car builder, building rigid cars was a thing that really knew
how to do. The way this car was built no problems with a flexing frame or
body did ever appear.
Clayton
As the Mark II was planned as a coupe and convertible but the last one never
built, the frame of the first year of the make did as a matter of fact have
a couple of body mounts never used by the factory for the coupe body. But in
this version by Hess & Eisenhardt these body mounts did find work!
But the two Hess & Eisenhardt Mark cvt´s are not the only one convertibles
that was built. Another one was built for Clayton Ford (grandson of Henry
and of course CEO of Ford...). In that case it was the coachbuilder Derham
that chosed to build it. That car is one of the two known remaining
Continental Mark II cvts.
The other one is the Hess & Eisenhardt we see here. This one was first
painted white, but did change color a lot of times during its first years.
Ford wanted to give car a new appearance a lot of times and as a show car
for potential customers it might have had a rough life in its early years. I
suppose it got a better life when when it was given to the wife of Clayton
Ford to be used as her daily driver. When she got it, it was repainted
“Shenandohah Green”, a color that sometimes looks green, sometimes blue.
Blue is also the chosen color for the restored car.
When the days as were over for her to use it as her daily driver it was
supposed to be scrapped. Paul Wagnar had the sad comission get the car
scrapped, but after fighting hard for saving it for the future was allowded
to keep it as his own car, and he did that.
But after he sold it, the car did change hands a lot of times. That was
until a guy in Georgia really felt in love with it. He started to modifiy it
a bit to further improve it, to give it a bit better lines than when Hess &
Eisenhardt had built it.
The roof line of the convertible to was modifed to give it sleeker lines and
he made it look much more like the first drawings of a Continental Mark II
cvt made by the designer Charley Phaneuf in 1953.
Hess & Eisenhardt did use some Mercedes-Benz parts when they built the car
and this builder did also like Mercedes. Influed by how Mercedes SL
converitbles did work he built an mechanism that made it possible to cover
the fold down top by an all new hard boot-cover.
Continental x 3
Custom built or factory original? Whats really in these words? Fords own
historians do name this car as a “certified custom”. But what´s in a name,
as Shakespeare once wrote. Whats important its the love. In this case the
love for a car.
Barry Wolk in Michigan do really fullfill the requiremant to make hime the
best possible owner of this Continental Mark II. This is not the only -56
Continental is in his possesion, but two more: a -56 Chris Craft Continental
and a -56 Porsche Continental (the American model name of the 356 cvt).
But Barry really wonders about one Continental, and he gets no peach of mind
before he gets the answer of the riddle: What happened to the sister car of
his Continental Mark II cvt? Many years ago it was probably shipped to
Scandinavia, very likely to Sweden. We at Gasoline have heard rumours about
the current state of that car but we have not got them confirmed yet. So if
anyone out there would like to give us facts obout the lost Continental Mark
II cvt we will submit them to Barry to make his happiness complete.
king triton
LVC Member
It says,Yah Da King Triton vood luv to own dis cah!He vood even svap da voman and da kids for it!He vood even svap da voman for da ride in it.Heck,he vill give you da voman jus for lettin hem look at it!Jus tell him vere to send her.But dis is da no return item,yah!
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