Lincoln Mark VII BOB

[flightsuit]

Somebody in a Facebook group I belong to snapped a picture of this oddity in the wild.

I don't hate it.

[flightsuit]

Direct image link, in case it's not displaying the full image in your browser window:

https://i.imgur.com/5nV74xR.jpg

[Turbofurball]

As long as they're having fun, why not? Looks like a way to have a lot of car for little money (not counting the petrol costs, lol)

[Taipan]

I don't care if they had fun making it or not, if they tried to make the BoB they failed.

[flightsuit]

Do you think they actually believed somebody would look at it and think it was a convincing copy of the real thing?

[roadwarriormfp]

The creator of this made all sorts of fabulous claims many many many yrs ago...

[flightsuit]

Oh? Do tell!

[roadwarriormfp]

He also had a Camero? painted in MFP colours.

Kept banging at how he built the VERY FIRST MM REPLICA anywhere in the world!
Worlds biggest fan blah blah blah... when i asked him to show me his Interceptor he posted up that..er.. that car...
I tried to explain to that isnt a replica... he said it was..... i gave him a definition of "replica"....thats when he lost the plot.

He used to post on here for a while many years ago.

[flightsuit]

Well the Lincoln Mark Vii was introduced in 1983, as a 1984 model, so I guess there's a remote possibility he built that thing before anybody else got around to replicating the BOB, but it's not a very plausible story. I mean, he would have had to have been rich enough to pay full price for a Mark VII, brand new. Most folks who are going to do something like that to a car are going to start with a used one that they were able to pick up cheap, many years after it rolled off the assembly line.

[Taipan]

Ha!

I knew there was something oddly familiar about this one!