Twin-grille 1937 Lincoln Zephyr

[petehoovie]

https://silodrome.com/lincoln-zephyr-v12-twin-grille/

[mark180]

Never seen anything quite like that!

[Seth Swoboda]

It hurts my eyes to look at that. Literally it hurts them.

[Kube]

That car went through auction many years ago. If I recall correctly, it didn't bring much coin. Big surprise huh?

[V8COOPMAN]

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One more for grins!

Coop

[cas3]

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I like the racer next to it. Even has a period correct burp tank.

[sidevalve8ba]

These photos were taken several years ago at the Jalopy Showdown in Pennsylvania.

[pistonbroke]

That's a good who done it and why? I like those old zephyrs but have never seen the like. I wonder if it's still a V12? Tim

[mhsprecher]

It was at Hershey a few years ago. I think it was done to improve cooling.

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by pistonbroke

That's a good who done it and why? I like those old zephyrs but have never seen the like. I wonder if it's still a V12? Tim

Yes, it still has the V12...

See >https://www.hemmings.com/stories/twi...incoln-zephyr/

Willard L. Morrison couldn't do much about the engine design, but he nevertheless believed he could improve the Zephyr's cooling by adding a second grille to the car's front end.

Morrison claimed in his design patent for the twin-grille Lincoln (D111840) that the modification helped to streamline the car, aided driver visibility, and gave the car a more powerful appearance, but given his background in air-conditioning systems and in designing accessory Winterfront grilles, it's plain to see his primary intent behind adding the second grille was to add cooling capacity. Indeed, behind the grilles he mounted a split radiator and overflow tank setup designed to take advantage of the additional forward ventilation.

[rufus39]

I cannot recall the year, but I saw this car at Hershey, I'm thinking it was 2017.
It still doesn't appeal to me.

[Ken/Alabama]

I’m thinking a gentleman name Al Audett owns it. Could be mistaken. Met him at an early Ford V8 meet several years ago.

[Joe B.]

I just did a double take. Dad's first car, he was in his 30's after the war was a '37 Zephyr. As you know cars were scarce then. He and my uncle did a valve and ring job on it. The saying "fill her up and give me some gas" comes to mind. I don't know how that well went as neither were mechanics, but in those days every guy had some mechanical experience. He did buy his first new car a couple years later, a bare bones '50 Chevy. Here's me behind the wheel.

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by Joe B.

I just did a double take. Dad's first car, he was in his 30's after the war was a '37 Zephyr. As you know cars were scarce then. He and my uncle did a valve and ring job on it. The saying "fill her up and give me some gas" comes to mind. I don't know how that well went as neither were mechanics, but in those days every guy had some mechanical experience. He did buy his first new car a couple years later, a bare bones '50 Chevy. Here's me behind the wheel.

[JM 35 Sedan]

I took pictures of a twin grille Lincoln just like that one at the 2017 Westcoast Race of Gentlemen in Pismo Beach, California.