Having car fantasies that I shouldn't have...

I'm "in between jobs" as they say so I spend all day on the computer looking for work until my eyes bleed. I have been getting sidetracked by a nightmare of an idea sure to push my wife one step closer to divorce: Buy an old early 60's lincoln and find a way to stuff an old nasty diesel engine into it. Is this wrong?

plus this...

would you give it a smoke stack, too? smokey tailpipes aren't as cool as smoke stacks.

Hmmmm...60s Lincoln+Big smoke=

I see absolutely nothing wrong with anything you've said so far. I say proceed.

Because the 430 MEL big block that comes in such a car just doesn't make enough torque, right?

You wouldn't be the first, but that shouldn't stop you :) :

http://jalopnik.com/274838/duramax+powered-buick-grand-national

I think we had a thread at one point of a clamshell Caprice Wagon with a Duramax, too.

DO IT!! DO IT NOW!!

Or at least after a successful job search. Good luck with that.

bad idea. terrible idea.

just sign the title for the Lincoln over to me and ill take it away so you wont have to worry about it.

No, you all don't quite understand. Duramax? That sounds too new to me and too small. No, no, no. I mean something old and huge out of like an old mack truck or something. I mean this ain't no silly buick, its a lincoln for God's sake!

plance1 wrote:

That is the funniest thing I"ve seen in a long time!

Take it road racing:

i just saw some diesel magazine that did a Cummins swap in an old Caddy Deville, and a Durmax in a Chevelle!! My co worker is doing a Cummins swap in a Jeep Wrangler, its AWESOME!!

I was watching the smoking tire and when he was at SEMA there was a huge cadillac low-rider witht he diesel, it was pretty awesome. I love the look of those old lincolns but would hate to see the body all hacked up for stuff like stacks.

How about one of those Rolls Royce Merlins in that little car, can you say V16

In reply to slantvaliant:

Hey, where did you get that pic!?

Looks like I answered my own question...

http://www.racingjunk.com/category/85/Other/post/1629077/1964-Lincoln-Continental.html

take this motor:

and put it in this truck:

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/1505364227.html

aussiesmg wrote: How about one of those Rolls Royce Merlins in that little car, can you say V16

You mean V12. Of course, that's 27 liters of V12 goodness.

I'm seriously torn on this question.

On one hand, I'm totally in favor of such wackiness, the more oddball the better.

On the other hand, a suicide door Lincoln is on my Absolutely Must Own list, mainly for its smooth style and early-60s understated panache. I feel like the spirit of the car is too civilized to cotton such tomfoolery. If it could, the car would give you the stonefaced Tommy Lee Jones look, adjust its French cuffs, turn around without saying a word or so much as moving an eyebrow, and glide smoothly away, leaving you standing there feeling like a completely uncivilized oaf.

So...I really don't know.

Ah hell, what am I saying? They made a million of these things, and I can't say no to tomfoolery. Do it!

(Maybe do it with a two door so you don't cut up one of my sedans? Just a thought.)

plance1 wrote: Hey, where did you get that pic!?

I took that pic, as a volunteer courseworker at the Big Bend Open Road Race. I mainly keep cows and cowboys off the road, listen to Race Control on the radio, and take photos.

Here's another:

Ive never seen a road race lincoln, but I like it.

The diesel swap ain't a bad idea either.

Well I have never seen a two door lincoln of that early 60's era, I thought they were all 4 doors?