[Spridgets] An American car in England

[Charlie Shelden]

Might be something you checked. I presume it has oil and the shipper didn’t make them drain the engine. How awful that would be. 

Sounds like you may become very familiar with this little beast of a car. 

Charlie 

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> On Oct 30, 2019, at 4:20 PM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> Well pondering marking the holes etc for my 1960s racing style door mirror bracket I was partway through making, I was interrupted by the sound of the air brakes of a truck outside my house, actually over the road from my house.  On the back trailer was a large American car.
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> Turned out my Polish (that's a person from the country of Poland) neighbour who recently bought a new-ish Porsche is now the owner of a 1970 (H reg) white Lincoln Continental.  Delivery man kept thinking it was mine when I went out to have a look and take photos.  Helped him get it unloaded but no petrol and wouldn't start.  Neighbour went to get some petrol.  Delivery man had a Snap-on powerpack but it wouldn't start - kept tripping it.  Went to fetch my jump leads to find the delivery man, truck and trailer gone - just the car and my puzzled neighbour.  Passer by pulls up and produces a power pack - less results than the Snap-on power back but discovers battery leads aren't tight (on the little 'Halfords' battery).  I fetched some imperial spanners but the bolts are metric!.  Tightened them up and no luck so passer-by suggests jump leads (he also thought it was my car).  I get them from back in the house and passer-by has gone.  Neighbour has his Audi and I let him connect the jump leads (his wife has appeared to run the Audi).  Lincoln Continental Mk3 starts up after a while but with a graunching sound (stuck starter or air con or water pump or?) disconnect my leads and warm my cold hands on them.  Engine stops suddenly (5L of petrol gone already?) and wouldn't start with neighbour re-connecting jump leads with the Audi engine still running (Mmm) - bad starter??.    Pushed car towards his house (downhill, across my road with no lights other than my torch.  
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> So, another classic car in the neighbourhood (small neighbourhood too!).  Neighbour seems keen but owns no tools that I know of!  Neighbour and delivery man told me it was a 4.6 Litre engine (never head of one).  Says 460 on the air filter - yep 460 cu in - what a beast - 7.5 litres!
> 
> Boot lock is missing - I'll bet the neighbour wants to find one - anyone have one kicking around amongst their Spridget stash of spares?  Or a workshop manual (in Polish?)?
> 
> I'm amazed that someone who knows almost nothing about classic cars or any cars and doesn't own a set of jump leads goes out and buys something like this!  I'm probably more interested in it than he is (almost certainly more than his wife is, or  mine!).  Here is a link to the website that sold the car https://www.salvagemarket.co.uk/vehicle-list/details/1970-lincoln-continental-460cc-petrol-automatic-coupe-at-chase-autos-ltd-chase-autos-ltd/808921?x=0&type=0&make=&trns=0&fuel=0&catc=0&dist=0&sort=0&srch=&page=21
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> Regards
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> 
> Daniel 
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