Rosa Schwartz: a Tale of a Lincoln Continental
by Peter Pan
Copyright© 2021 by Peter Pan
True Story: I thought this might be of interest to some of the (older) readers. I didn't write it to garner votes. As the title suggests, simply a tale about just one of the 1.4 billion cars on the planet. A distant relation of Stephen King's "Christine"
Tags: True Story Paranormal
Exactly ten years ago, I fulfilled a young man’s dream - not that I fitted that description any more by at least three decades – of buying a car I had coveted since first I saw the model, as a brash twenty-six year old, semi-qualified accountant in Sydney Australia. My first child/daughter was but fourteen months old, “The Horse With No Name” was number one on Billboard and NASA had just launched Pioneer 10 on its Jupiter exploratory. I had as much chance of owning what struck me then, as the most beautiful car ever built, eclipsing even a 1963 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud III, as replacing Sean Connery as James Bond. This then is the car itself. A 1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV V8 Coupe which many believe ranks second only to the now classic ‘66 suicide-door model favored by US Presidents. The picture was taken just last year at home in Colorado
The vehicle looks and drives exactly as it did when Rosa Schwartz drove it out of the showroom in Florida early 1972 having just handed over $7,995 for the privilege. It is completely original from the carpet in the trunk to the unmarked vinyl roof.
The door id
Directly above the glove-box
At the time, all I knew was that the car once belonged to someone called Rosa Schwartz. It mentions that on the original sales paperwork and obviously she was excessively proud of the car, emblazening the door handles with her initials and a small name plaque on the passenger side of the dashboard.
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