1949 ​Lincoln ​​C​osmopolitan

1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan - Street Rod Build

Overall Street Rod Restore

This car took a year to build, mostly to do with the owner not having a plan in place. It started off as; "throw some paint on it, slap a Chevrolet 350 in it and sell it." So I attacked this project on that basis.

Then it started; "can we make it power steering and power disc brakes?". "Can we add air conditioning to it?" Well these things needed to be know up front as this required things I had already put back together, to have to take back apart again.

He wanted all the chrome redone and that isn't cheap. The two bumpers were right at $3000 at that time. He spent $1000 on getting the door handles re-chromed.

Right before I was ready to paint it, he decided to shave the door handles and use a remote to open the doors. So that was $1000 wasted.

I had to modify the door hinges so they were adjustable to get the body lines correct. He wanted a fantastic sound system in it and some other electronic gadgets.

I painted it with Dupont's Chromabase base-coat and used a Dupont clear called Cronar. It was a very easy clear to use and to buff. The first show we took the car to, it sold for $46000. So the effort paid off...

Slide Show

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