Another Lincoln selling for mucho $$$...

[pro-five-oh]

I guess if I was loaded and had a nice garage for it to collect dust...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6305&item=4512709556&rd=1

Still, gotta love the Diamond Jubilee Lincolns! smile.gif

[NYC LS8]

Huggy Bear called - he wants his car back.

:D

[79_Conti_Mk_V]

My Mark V resembles that car. Nice. I wish i had a garage and the $$, that baby'd be MINE! :D

[Dereck]

Hi All

A guy has a Diamond Jubilee just down the road from my shop, it has sat outside and not turned a wheel in 3 years but is in very good condition with only a few minor cosmetics and no foam roof :( , it only has 73,000 on the clock to boot. I have been trying to buy tit for about 6 months now but I geuss he doesn't want to sell, yet smile.gif at least I got first refusal when he comes to his senses.

Regards

Dereck

[NYC LS8]

quote:Originally posted by Dereck:
....I have been trying to buy tit for about 6 months now...

Are they that hard to come by out your way? :D

[backquiet]

"diamond in the back........sunroof top.......diggin' the scene,with the gangster lean,woo woooo....."

[Dereck]

Hi NYC LSC

quote:Originally posted by NYC LSC:


Are they that hard to come by out your way? :D

Funnily enough no, there have been a couple of Diamond Jubilees for sale in the mags this year, one a real peach in Scotland complete with umbrella, also severall other Mark Vs and Mark VIs, I even spotted a Mark VII diesel for sale but it was sold when I phoned, they are all here if you want to pay for them, the guy with the Diamond Jubilee doesn't really know what he has got, he wants about $1600 (UK average price for average car $8000)but I have offered $800 :D and are slowly working up.

Reagrds

Dereck

[OneWayStreet]

LOL @ Dereck!

[pro-five-oh]

$1600 for a DJ in decent condition in England? Sounds like a bargain even at that price.

You said no foam roof? All DJs had a landau roof on the back, are you sure its a DJ?

[DaKat]

LOL@Tommy! :D

[megaforcer]

Maybe it’s the pics, but for some reason that car doesn’t look new to me. The engine is dirty and the trunk is messy. The bags on the seats look out of place, I dono maybe in the 70es they did it that way but I would not know anything about it. I wasn’t even born then :D

[Desert Stallion]

quote:Originally posted by megaforcer:
...I dono maybe in the 70es they did it that way but I would not know anything about it. I wasn’t even born then :D

Me neither. :D

I could so go for a 460 BBF in a car. (evil grin on)

[pro-five-oh]

The car looks like a perfect DJ to me...the trunk has all the stuff spread out, but its clean. Under the hood it looks a bit dusty, but its darn near perfect otherwise.

That car is certainly a survivor. Way better than the $800 Mark V we bought. ;)

[Silver Cobra]

Wow. She's a beaut. If I bought it, I'd keep the plastic coverings on cuz I'd constantly wet myself while driving that gold brick :D .

[Steve Moran]

I am far from knowlegable on the subject but I was under the understanding that all DJ's where a light metalic blue? I even think they called it Diamond Blue Metalic??
I really don't know where I remember this from, or if I am just making it up from somewhere. :confused:

[pro-five-oh]

Diamond Jubilee Marks came in two colors:

1) Diamond Blue
2) Jubilee Gold

Pretty easy to remember since the color's name uses the car's name. smile.gif

[Dereck]

Hi Pro

quote:Originally posted by pro-five-oh:
$1600 for a DJ in decent condition in England? Sounds like a bargain even at that price.

You said no foam roof? All DJs had a landau roof on the back, are you sure its a DJ?

Yep it's a DJ allright, it's 1978 Jubilee Gold, 460ci, "Real" Diamond in the opera window, padded hump in the deck lid, he took the half landau off because he said it was rough. The interior is almost perfect, everything works including the DTE thingy, starts on the button every time, first time.

Yeah $1600 is a steal, I am tempeted to just give it to him but you know what we motor traders are like :D

Regards

Dereck

[Silver Cobra]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6305&item=4513713266&rd=1

Here's another one with 9496miles on it. Very very gorgeous. Yeah guys can say gorgeous. It's not a woman I'm talking about afterall ;) .

[pro-five-oh]

That's understandable, Dereck...but don't let it slip past you! Gold DJs are the best of the best. smile.gif

[OneWayStreet]

quote:Originally posted by Dereck:

I have been trying to buy tit for about 6 months now but I geuss he doesn't want to sell, yet at least I got first refusal when he comes to his senses.


Yeah $1600 is a steal, I am tempeted to just give it to him but you know what we motor traders are like :D

Regards

Dereck

Buy any tit yet Dereck? ;)

[90LSC]

If you are paying, damn well better get more than tit.

[DaKat]

LOL@Armond! :D

[Bob Hubbard]

That Diamond is in great shape.
Mine was originally that color but, after many years of looking at every thing gold, I decided to change the color.
If the mileage is accurate, the seller may well get his/ her price.
I am selling mine on this site and, a couple of others.
I will take $7000.00 for mine.
If I returned it back to the original Jubilee gold, I would be asking $10.000.00
Check it out in the "rides" section under "marks".

[Dereck]

hi All

quote:Originally posted by One_Way:


Buy any tit yet Dereck? ;)

LOL@ Myself, I have read this thread severall times and never noticed that typo smile.gif

Regards

Dereck

[Steve Moran]

quote:Originally posted by Dereck:
I have been trying to buy tit for about 6 months now but I geuss he doesn't want to sell, yet smile.gif at least I got first refusal when he comes to his senses.


I am still wondering why you want tit from another man

:eek:

[Dereck]

Hi Steve

quote:Originally posted by Steve Moran:

I am still wondering why you want tit from another man :eek:

What can I say, I am a tit man :D

Regards

Dereck

[lincolnman460]

The 1978 Lincoln Continental Mark V "Diamond Jubilee" edition, as previously stated, came in 2 colors, Gold metallic, and Silver Blue metallic, and the Wixon, Michigan USA plant produced exactly 5,159 of these stunning automobiles. The 1978 brochure called it "the most luxurious production automobile we have ever built" (the 75th anniverary of the founding of Ford Motor Company). There were a total of 72,602 Mark V automobiles manufactured during 1978, and the "Diamond Blue Metallic" and the "Jubilee Gold Metallic" were the most expensive priced Lincoln's, to date, that had ever been produced, with a MSRP of $20,529.00, compared to the base price of the 1978 Mark V at $12,099.00 and the 1978 Mark V Designer Coupe priced at $13,899.00
The 2009 Directory of the International Publication of the Lincoln and Continental Owners Club(Issue #287D) lists fifty nine (59) of these rare 1978 Lincoln Continental Mark V "Diamond Jubilee's" in existance, that is, by "offical members of the worldwide "Lincoln & Continentals Owners Club" The majority of these 59 remaining cars are in the United States, however, five(5) are in Norway, one(1) is in Belgium, one (1) is in the Netherlands, and one (1) is in Canada.
The November/December 2009 Black Book "Cars of Particular Interest" Collectible Vehicle Value Guide lists the 1978 Mark V "Diamond Jubilee" 75th anniversary edition in "excellent" condition
(#2) at seventeen thousand dollars even ($17,000.00) US. Also, the listing for a (#3) Good Condition 1978 Mark V Diamond Jubilee is listed at seven thousand eight hundred dollars ($7,800.00) US. Finally, a (#4) Fair Condition 1978 Mark V Diamond Jubilee is listed at three thousand seven hundred twenty five dollars ($3,725.00) US
Also, reflecting back 2 1/2 yrs earlier, (July 2007 Black Book CPI) the 1978 Mark V Diamond Jubilee edition #2 has held its value, during this USA recession, and has actually gone up about $400.00 US, while the #3 (Good) and the #4 (Fair) condition 1978 Mark V DJE's
have actually dropped in value by about $900.00 to $1,000.00 each.
(covering the past 30 months...2 1/2 years).
Just my 2 cents worth from a Lincoln Lover of the past 37 yrs...
(especially the Mark II thru the Mark VII's):)

[95pres]

I had a DJE for awhile, it was completely trashed (rust,grease stained interior, trunk was a "parts bin" etc.) the guy was asking $500 for it but I eventually talked him down to $300 and drove it home. rode and drove fine ,but the body was WAY too far gone to drop any money in it (when you can STILL buy an original/low mile unrestored one for -$10K) . I parted it out for about $1500, but kept the seats/center counsole -and oprea windows-- which I took to a jeweler to FINALLY put that "real diamond" rumor to rest.... not real...not even zirconeum.... just glass ;) .
I've got a friend that has got a REALLY nice DJE ,and that diamond is STILL a "hot topic" for him ,lol.

[JeepOwner]

wow who handed out the shovels? :eek:

[ImTheJoker4u2]

OP 12/21/04!!!


http://www.rooney.org/tlc/silly/holy%20thread%20resurrection.jpg

I went to look at the pic - Im like, "oh it's only about a month old - it should still be listed" LMAO

[CartierBear]

wow who handed out the shovels? :eek:

Well it happens when you tell Newbies to use the search functions. they dig in the archives :)

[Hizhonor]

Hi Steve



What can I say, I am a tit man :D

Regards

Dereck


MUST RESIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

[DaKat]

Jack has his mind in the gutter today! :p

[Newave Dave]

"diamond in the back........sunroof top.......diggin' the scene,with the gangster lean,woo woooo....."

Another LOLer that appreciates good music!

[04Ultimate]

There's a beauty on ebay right now (Diamond Jubilee that is... ;)) &...no...I don't know how to copy & paste the link....sorry :(

That is a really beautiful automobile. I've always thought the standard Mk V seats looked kinda cheezy but these are gorgeous!

[younglincoln]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Lincoln-Mark-Series-1978-LINCOLN-CONTINENTAL-MARK-V-DIAMOND-JUBILEE-SHARP_W0QQitemZ190366061885QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_C ars_Trucks?hash=item2c52b3953d

its not to far from where im at.

[CartierBear]

My dad had one of those brand new for about 2 months till he wrapped it around a tree while he was drunk.

[04Ultimate]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Lincoln-Mark-Series-1978-LINCOLN-CONTINENTAL-MARK-V-DIAMOND-JUBILEE-SHARP_W0QQitemZ190366061885QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_C ars_Trucks?hash=item2c52b3953d

its not to far from where im at.

Thanks for putting the proper link in ;) One of these days I'll learn something about pc's!

Go lookee go buyee! Sharp car!:D

[lincolnman460]

There's a beauty on ebay right now (Diamond Jubilee that is... ;)) &...no...I don't know how to copy & paste the link....sorry :(

That is a really beautiful automobile. I've always thought the standard Mk V seats looked kinda cheezy but these are gorgeous!

I have personally followed up on the bidding of this "pampered like a
poodle" 78 Mark V DJE in Jubilee Gold.....sitting in Palm Springs, CA.
The car was on "no reserve" and sold today for $13,100.00 ( a steal)
The car had 61,500 miles on it, and a stated earlier, about the seats, this, like all DJE's had a special group of embroiders on hand @mfg plant to produce the elaborate seat back designs. Only a few light nominal paint chips, and a new set of Firestone tires, rather than the factory Michelin's, & some tiny edge wear around the moon roof, kept this car from being a 95 point #2 show car! The original owner's optional platinum name was still in place on the car dash panel, and the owner's initials, another option, appeared to have been removed from the driver's & passenger's doors, breaking up, of course, the smooth uninterrupted pinstriping on the other DJE's without the owner's initials applied on the right & left door. The car had the rare optonal engine heater, garage door opener kit, and the dual exhaust option, for the last yr of the 460 engine. I wrestled with bidding on it, but, as I stated in my earlier posts this month, it is more like a rare "Norman Rockwell Painting" instead of a car for weekend driving now....trust me from experience...the cat calls, and the incredible attention the Designer & DJE series Mark V's bring nowdays, will cause more paranoia, than former ego gratification, as there are so many mean people in our society these days, that, the "cosmetic parts" on these "special edition" 30+ yr old classics, are non-existent in many cases, and the situation, gets worse every year, especially for Designer, Collector, & DJE 70's Mark's. Being a victim of a violent carjacking in 2003, the car IMHO is too impractical to drive around in a large urban US city in 2010, as the crime rate, and the cosmetic parts shortage, restrains one from exposing the car to the elements as a steady sunny day driver. By the way, this car sold on E-Bay today, had never been driven in the snow or rain, & has been either in Washington State or California, since 1978, always kept inside a enclosed garage by all 3 previous owners!!! The shipping charge with a enclosed 18 wheeler (insured) for delivery from Calif to NC ($1,100.00 to $2,000) was the final factor than caused me to pass on bidding for this car, plus the fact my $350,000 Condo has indoor parking, but no security gates, & the condo where I live, has had luxury cars vandalized (twice) in the past 6 yrs. Storage in my city is at a all time high, $250.00 per month, for a double gated, barb-wired, video-camera, 30 ft x12 ft,
garage, with a private roll-up door & a barrel lock. These expenses , responsibilities, and risk factors, for pride of ownership, is what has
driven me away from driving, and collecting 1970's Lincoln's since 1973, when I started this journey. I just hope the new buyer went to a Lincoln Lover who will give the car a good home!!! "Gone forever are the days that ever were so divine" (The Great Gatsby) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[CartierBear]

Heres a jubilee in NC :) And it has Dereck whitewalls :)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Lincoln-Mark-Series-1978-CONTINENTAL-MARK-V-DIAMOND-JUBILEE-EDITION-MINT_W0QQitemZ260543366387QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Ca rs_Trucks?hash=item3ca99844f3

[BattleshipMarkIV]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Lincoln-Mark-Series-1978-LINCOLN-CONTINENTAL-MARK-V-DIAMOND-JUBILEE-SHARP_W0QQitemZ190366061885QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_C ars_Trucks?hash=item2c52b3953d

its not to far from where im at.


I've seen this car in person (I live in Palm Springs...) worth every penny.
We do have a high number of DJE cars out here I've documented six, including the new neighbors.

[04Ultimate]

Heres a jubilee in NC :) And it has Dereck whitewalls :)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Lincoln-Mark-Series-1978-CONTINENTAL-MARK-V-DIAMOND-JUBILEE-EDITION-MINT_W0QQitemZ260543366387QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Ca rs_Trucks?hash=item3ca99844f3

Beeeeutiful! Especially those seats! I had no idea that Lincoln put so much effort into any model back then. Of course I was into my Grand Marquis, and collecting other cars, and chasing women back then so... :D

At least they ain't the gangster walls...we'd need a puke smiley for those :p

[lincolnman460]

Buy any tit yet Dereck? ;)

Dereck,
When I was in the car business, selling F-L-M new & used cars,
1979 to 1990, I got a "college education" with "car jargon" from my
peers, my "F & I men" my "Used car sales managers" "new car sales
managers" and the talking "lingo" (seldom spoken directly in front of
the "customers" was so highly prevalent, in North Florida, Northern
VA/D.C./Baltimore corridor, and finally, my last 6 years in Phoenix,
Arizona, that, I was tempted to write a book on the "backroom
talk, and all ot the amusing slang" used from the GSM's all the way down to the 1980's "track system selling" liners & closers i.e the good guys and the bad guys, the "300 lbs gorillas" Two books came
out in the 1980's that described some of the sales schemes, with a small list of jargon, for the "educated consumer: "The Car Buyers Art"
Darrell Parrish (1981) Book Express ISBN 0-9612322-0-X , and, my s/o's sales manager in Phoenix, after burning out, wrote the book,
"How to Outsmart the New Car Salesman" by Gary Carr (Collier Books & Macmillian Publishing Co. New York & London (1987) I was acquainted with him at his last sales mgr job @BigTwo Toyota BigTwo Oldsmobile in Tempe, Arizona (Greater Phoenix) THE POINT IS I WELL REMEMBER THE CAR TRADE LINGO/JARGON FOR "TITS", COMMONLY USED MY THE "DESK MEN" IN THE 1980'S TOWERS OF THE BIG SHOWROOMS, THEY REFERRED TO A "TIT'S UP CAR" or a
"ALL TIPS UP CAR" and a often incoming car on trade, or recently bought at the auction, as a impeccable, imposing car that was "tits
up" meaning suggesting the car should arouse the male public to get a "hard on" and a irresistable obsession to "buy that car" ...that even a "average run of the mill salesperson" should be able to sell the car "by mistake" due to the fact the car was so very much "ALL THERE" FRONT LINE READY, AND A CAR THAT WOULD CERTAINLY TURN HEADS BY ITS LOOKS AND/OR PERFORMANCE/ AND/OR OBVIOUS "PAMPERED LIKE A POODLE BY ITS PREVIOUS OWNER" IN THE LATE 70'S TO EARLY 90'S ..IT ALSO INFERRED THAT A BIG GROSS PROFIT WAS EXPECTED ON THE TITS UP CAR, AND ALL
SALESMAN ON THE FORCE DAMN WELL BETTER BRING TO THE DESK
A HIGH GROSS DEAL, AS THE USED CAR MGR. WAS IN NO MOOD WHATSOEVER, TO, GIVE A "ALL TITS UP" car "STRONGER THAN DEATH" AWAY FOR A SKINNY COMMISSION AND/OR A BELOW THAN AVERAGE PROFIT. SURE THE DEALER KNEW WHAT THEY HAD, AND
ALL INTENTIONS WERE TO "TEAR SOMEONE'S HEAD OFF" either on the front end, or the back end (F & I) with a TIT'S UP CAR" (such a a woman, or animal in heat)........Reading this somewhat new forum,
brings back a lot of memories, fun selling times, and (now) some
rusty, but not forgotten car jargon, for me!!!!!!! (more lingo, from
Fla, Va/DC/MD suburbs, and urban Arizona.....POS was a code on the used car appraisal form for a "Piece of Shit" (we did not tell the customer that) "Box him or her in" was a command to wear the customer down, with previous earlier agreements, and then to drive home, "high pressure" the buyer, to honor their word, that we had the right car, the payments were in reasonable alinement, that they had driven the selected car and admitted they liked it, and then,by using a 1980; "4 square piece of bonded paper with the dealer letterhead on it, we tried to intimitate (for lack of a better word) the buyer to agreeing that all conditions were met, if that didn;t work, since we always kept the used car appraisal "keys: then, I sent in for re-enforcements (the gorillas with a title) to work the buyer over. Other lingo descriptions of potential buyers were "pikers"
"Mooches" "Weisels" "Slephers" "Smucks" "Grapes" other terminology
used in those days was to "gaff the figures" on the sale order,
expecially for a credit union, sometimes even for a in-house lender,
People walking up to the showroom with Edmunds car buyers whoesale/retail costs books, we quickly spun off to the new hire
"greenpeas" ditto, with buyers who walked into the showroom with
dark glasses, tanktops, bathing suits, and flipflops, we immediatley went to the bathroom, or get busy fast on the phone, so the new "greenpeas' (new hires) would wait on these younger couples.
In the early days, before we set up a demo drive, we had a credit application,called a 5 liner, where we asked the customer, to just sign it, as it was company policy when a new car went out on the street for a test drive with a demo tag for us to have documentation, the five liner included full legal name, DoB, address,
Social Security Account Number, and we asked for them to sign the simple formality, as it was company policy, we immediately ran a (back then TRW, now called Experian, or on the East Coast we ran
a "Equfax" and if the cr report turned out "bad" like a lot of charge offs, placed for collections, backruptcy background, Fed Tax Leins,
or Judgements, or especially former "car repo's" we got rid of the customer ASAP, unless he he was putting down over 59% cash down against MSRP (rare) and, that one of his banks had not been burned, like Ford Mtr Credit, or GMAC. If the credit report showed strong credit like lots of ones, no late pymts on anything, a house mortgage, and a low debt to gross income, we liked 30:)% or less, then we would spend 3 or 4 hours with the couple, or individual, easily. time for me to wind down............."Tits up" by "Derick: brought back to me a lot of fond memories, when it was a lot of
fun in the car business at big urban dealer lots, "a day off, a free demo, and a weekly draw" ....those were the days, the Reagon years 1983 to 1989, also 1976 until early 1979....lots of cash spiffs, a Christmas Club savings plan, flashier demos as we gained the respect of the owners...that ended during 1986 thru 1988 around most big urban dealerships,,,,even the extravagent expensive Xmas
parties with liquor flowing every December....ended during the late 1980's.