* Elwood Engel’s Lincoln Mk IX concept, intended to replace the 1961 Lincoln Continental, never made it beyond the mockup stage, but it ended up inspiring many a car throughout the decade, both at Ford and at Chrysler, thanks to Elwood Engel’s hasty departure from the former, or at least so goes Andy Prieboy’s theory, presented this week over at Motorland.
Photo by Gust.
* A group of four Kentuckians have been charged with fraud and conspiracy after three garage fires in 2009 and 2010 destroyed eight different collector cars the group owned and claimed as restored to collect bigger insurance payouts. (via)
* The current owner of the Packard plant may already have gone to work on its restoration, but that didn’t stop a group from running a design contest asking architects to reimagine the site for modern purposes.
* The above car doesn’t look like a Porsche, doesn’t carry a Porsche badge, but was indeed designed by the sports car company as part of an effort to win a government contract to build cars in China. As Ronan Glon at Ran When Parked wrote, Porsche expected to build up to half a million C88s per year, but then the Chinese government suddenly pulled the plug on the project.
* Finally, this Packard motorhome showed up recently on the H.A.M.B. Nobody seems to know much about it. Do you?
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