Topic: Solved - NEH 1875: LincVolt

[Carnut]

Identify this car fully and correctly for 1 point:

ANYONE CAUGHT GIVING ANSWERS GLEANED BY USING GOOGLE SEARCH BY IMAGE WILL BE BANNED FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD!

[Avalanche]

1958 Lincoln Premiere Convertible?

[Carnut]

1958 Lincoln Premiere Convertible?

The car clearly started out life as a Lincoln (although not a Premiere) but this being AutoPuzzles that is not the answer to this puzzle!
Puzzles are rarely quite as easy as they appear or are what they seem to be...

[spider]

1958-59 Lincoln Capri Landau ?

[Carnut]

1958-59 Lincoln Capri Landau ?

It's not based on a Capri either, but you're barking up the wrong tree as well...

[Avalanche]

1958 Lincoln Premiere Convertible?

The car clearly started out life as a Lincoln (although not a Premiere) but this being AutoPuzzles that is not the answer to this puzzle!
Puzzles are rarely quite as easy as they appear or are what they seem to be...

OK...a little more digging found this...

LincVolt...a 1959 Lincoln Continental converted to run on earth-friendly fuels. Neil Young recorded himself driving around in it and has released a video of it.

[Carnut]

That's it!  The LincVolt it is:

[RayTheRat]

Interesting.  Every photo I've seen of the Link-Volt has flat wheel covers.  I sure wouldn't want to deprive anyone of a point, but I'm just sorta curious about the photo and its place in the history of the car's construction.  A story I've read about it says that it was the cause of a fire that destroyed a warehouse of Neil Young's "collection" of memorabilia, instruments, etc.  I don't know if the Lincoln was destroyed in that fire or not.

RtR

[Carnut]

Most do show the car with those 'aerodynamic' wheel covers but there are some photos of it without, which I hoped were taken of the same car before it gained them..

Here's a bit about that fire:

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Innovative musician Neil Young has apparently found the most eclectic manner yet of triggering a million-dollar warehouse fire. An aircraft carrier-sized 1959 Lincoln Continental the singer hired a team of experts to transform into the world's largest hybrid vehicle apparently burst into flames in the wee hours Nov. 9, sparking a blaze that destroyed reams of Young's rock memorabilia.

Young has been documenting the creation of the "LincVolt" vehicle on film -- and the car even has its own website.

Young believes the fire may be traced to "an operator error that occurred in an untested part of the charging system ... We are investigating the components involved with plug-in charging."

Around 70 percent of the contents of Young's San Carlos warehouse was saved by firefighters -- but he still suffered around $850,000 in property damage and a quarter of a million in structural damage.
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[RayTheRat]

Most do show the car with those 'aerodynamic' wheel covers but there are some photos of it without, which I hoped were taken of the same car before it gained them..

Here's a bit about that fire:

QUOTE
Innovative musician Neil Young has apparently found the most eclectic manner yet of triggering a million-dollar warehouse fire. An aircraft carrier-sized 1959 Lincoln Continental the singer hired a team of experts to transform into the world's largest hybrid vehicle apparently burst into flames in the wee hours Nov. 9, sparking a blaze that destroyed reams of Young's rock memorabilia.

Young has been documenting the creation of the "LincVolt" vehicle on film -- and the car even has its own website.

Young believes the fire may be traced to "an operator error that occurred in an untested part of the charging system ... We are investigating the components involved with plug-in charging."

Around 70 percent of the contents of Young's San Carlos warehouse was saved by firefighters -- but he still suffered around $850,000 in property damage and a quarter of a million in structural damage.
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As we used to say in the 60s, "Major bummer, man!"    Fires like that always lead me to wondering about insurance and indebtedness.  If 70 percent of the contents were save, one wonders what burned and what was saved and the actual value of each category.  If it truly was an accidental thing, then my sympathies are extended.  One of my favorite blues artists, John Mayall, lost everything, including a priceless collection of old 78 rpm records and other musical memorabilia when his home in California (was it Topanga Canyon?) was caught up in one of the Santa Ana wind-driven fires that seem to happen with sickening frequency.

RtR