Wasn't this car featured in the movie "French connection", with Gene Hackman? For some reason the letters around the spare wheel boss on the trunk had a strong impact on me when I first saw it as a child.
Clearly I would not call this a thing of beauty but the mostly square-box design of 1970s american cars has somewhat come of age and has today a certain specific coolness. With some friends we sometimes daydream (after the n-th glass of whatever) about renting something similar to drive all the way through the US, coast to coast...
How They Built Cars When Beauty Was All That Mattered
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"The French Connection" Yes!
Simply stated, an outstanding movie in so many respects - great story, very well-written and directed, gritty in its entirety, engrossing, great characters, NYC in its early 70s malaise, incredible car chase scenes, shootouts, good cops, hard cops and bad guys, heroin smuggling, the incomparable Gene Hackman as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, Roy Scheider and more - the list goes on and on.
Great "connection" to the Lincoln used to smuggle heroin into the U.S. by Aldo Ray's villainous character. It was a A Mark III per a quick search.
https://www.imcdb.org/v002340.html (Some French in this link.)
History of the 1961 real story that was the inspiration for the non-fiction book and later, the screenplay and movie:
https://nakedcitystories.com/frenchconnection.php
Simply stated, an outstanding movie in so many respects - great story, very well-written and directed, gritty in its entirety, engrossing, great characters, NYC in its early 70s malaise, incredible car chase scenes, shootouts, good cops, hard cops and bad guys, heroin smuggling, the incomparable Gene Hackman as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, Roy Scheider and more - the list goes on and on.
Great "connection" to the Lincoln used to smuggle heroin into the U.S. by Aldo Ray's villainous character. It was a A Mark III per a quick search.
https://www.imcdb.org/v002340.html (Some French in this link.)
History of the 1961 real story that was the inspiration for the non-fiction book and later, the screenplay and movie:
https://nakedcitystories.com/frenchconnection.php
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'26 911 Carrera S - PTS Verde British Racing Green
'24 Cayenne S - Algarve Blue Metallic
'21 718 Cayman GTS - Black
'22 911 Turbo S - Carmine Red
'21 718 Cayman GT4 - White
'11 GMC 1500 Quad Cab 4x4 - Black
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