Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Mpi Home Video
• VHS Release Date: May 15, 2001
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00000F9SB
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #671,925 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4.0 out of 5 stars For the auto aficionado, September 6, 2007

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Mad Max (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Visual History of Cars - Lincoln [VHS] (VHS Tape)

An award-winning documentary of the Lincoln company. I suspect this would interest any auto aficionado, or Lincoln fan.

Includes interesting & rare footage of the very first Lincoln cars, of the founder Henry M. Leland (1917), and of Henry Ford and the Ford board members when they acquired Lincoln in 1922.

Leland named the car after President Abraham Lincoln, for whom he had voted in the first presidential elections for which he was eligible. And Lincoln has provided transportation and limousines for more US President than any other car.

The first car specially built for Presidential use was the 1939 Lincoln V12 convertible called the "Sunshine Special" used by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It remained in use until 1950. A 1950 Lincoln Cosmopolitan called the "Bubble Top" was used by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and once by Johnson. It was retired in 1965. The Kennedy car was a 1961 Lincoln Continental convertible. It was in use from 1961 to 1977, having undergone extensive alterations which made it an armor-plated sedan after Kennedy's assassination. A 1969 Lincoln was used by Nixon and a 1972 Lincoln used by Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush.

Next to the Rolls Royce, Lincoln has also made some of the most beautiful cars in automotive history. This video shows the early development, archival footage, and modern footage of some of these Lincoln classics: the L-series (1920-1930), K-series (1931-1939), Zephyr (1936-1948), the Custom (1941-1942, 1955), the Lincoln Sport (1946-1951), the Cosmopolitan (1949-1954), the Lido (1950-1951), the Capri (1952-1959), the Premiere (1956-1960), and the Versailles (1976-1980).

The Lincoln Town Car, a global status symbol for luxury cars, has been one of the best-selling and longest lasting makes of any luxury car, in production from 1981 to present.

I give the video 4.5 stars. The video is only updates to the 90's, and some of the newer footage looks to have come directly from Ford commercials. But overall, a very interesting and entertaining documentary.