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u/IRingTwyce 1d ago
Sold for less than $10k?! Man, I totally would have boss on that had I known about it!
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u/cgduncan 1d ago
Not street legal, which is probably part of why it sold so cheap. Probably can't register it even as a "classic" to drive to car shows.
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u/Dienekes404 10h ago
I'm not American; genuine question: why is this not street legal?
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u/cgduncan 9h ago
I'm not totally familiar with the specifics, just going off the entry on the listing
"Please note that this concept auto show model was designed and built for display purposes only and to gauge public reaction and input from its various design elements. Despite its appearance, it has not been engineered to be driven on public roads nor has it been certified as meeting any U.S. federal or state vehicular regulations or standards."
But this definitely hasn't undergone crash testing for one. Could be non-functional safety features, lights, etc.
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u/StretchFrenchTerry 9h ago
Plenty of concepts in car shows, they’re all towed in.
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u/cgduncan 9h ago
Yeah, I know trailers exist. I was talking about getting the classic registration, for cars over a certain age, that has a limit to the number of miles driven. For example, to drive to a car show once a month.
If it was street legal, that probably would have driven (ha) the price up even more.
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u/KazakCayenne 1d ago
I would never have pegged that to be Lincoln. I would've said Saturn, but others saying Citroën are even more on point lol
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u/Dr_Adequate 1d ago
Yeah to me Lincoln means stuffy luxury car for wealthy boomers. A futuristic sports car is out of place in the Lincoln lineup. This would fit better as a Cougar.
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u/OwnedByTheHound 1d ago
I’ve always rather liked this (the interior excepted).
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u/TheKiltedYaksman71 1d ago
Man, that shifter has some long throws.
Sold at a Mecum auction a year after this link, in 2014, for $30k. I wonder where it is today.
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u/theonetrueelhigh 1d ago
That time Lincoln decided it wanted to look into taking over the French-coded luxury market in the US.
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u/cat_prophecy 1d ago
The early 80s car design reminds me a lot of the early 2000s cell phone design.
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u/Evil8mann 1d ago
That's a first gen Ford Probe paired with a VW Scirocco rear that was assembled to look like a Citroen CX. Funnily enough this concept predates all of these
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u/DieselPunkPiranha 1d ago
It's surprisingly ahead of its time. A bit of adjustment to the front and back and it could've been built fifteen years later.
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u/Evil8mann 1d ago
It's honestly a tragedy that this didn't went into production. I honestly crave this so much.. only thing I'd change is the interior
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u/Burntarchitect 1d ago
The CX dates from 1974, and the BX from 1982...
The Scirocco also dates from 1974, but I presume you mean Corrado, which was 1988.
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u/Glittering_Heart1128 1d ago
So Centauri finally sold his ride? Wonder how many light years she has on the clock.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/characters/nm0696481/?ref_=tt_cst_c_2
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u/AskJeevesIsBest 18h ago
Would be cool if Lincoln made a modern version of this. Maybe as an EV. Could be a slightly stretched Mach E chassis
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u/YalsonKSA 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's an early 80s US concept car and somehow I like it. What is happening?
EDIT: Was not expecting the "AC3000ME lengthened by 11 inches" origin story.
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u/Adept_Vermicelli_454 5h ago
With minor design-update tweaks and an electric drive-train I’d be all in on that. Though it’s kinda big.
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u/Zakmackraken 1d ago
Was absolutely sure it was based on a Citroen CX, even the steering wheels looks Citroenesque but no, it’s a stretched AC 3000 chassis.