Nethercutt’s Lincoln V12 | Too Radical for Edsel Ford | Last Car Judkins Built | Jay Leno’s Garage
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This 1938 Lincoln Model K V12 was built for Edsel Ford, rejected by Ford’s designers as too far ahead of its time, and kept by the coachbuilder as his own car. It was the last car J.B. Judkins ever built.
Jay calls it “a little sorbet in between the supercars.” Cameron Richards, Curator of the Nethercutt Collection, brings over a car from the Nethercutt Museum in Sylmar, California, that most people have never heard of: a one-off Judkins Touring Coupe on the Lincoln Model K Twelve chassis. Judkins built it as a speculation car meant for Edsel Ford. Ford’s designers thought nobody would like it, so Judkins kept it for himself. He later sold it, and it ended up in Florida. In the mid-1960s he tracked down the owner while on vacation and bought it back. When Judkins died in 1969, his wife Elizabeth called Dorothy Nethercutt: “We always knew you liked this car. Would you like to have it?” It has been with the Nethercutts ever since. It was repainted in 1969 and has never been restored, and the family has put more than 50,000 miles on it, including a couple of drives across the country.
It has a 150 horsepower V12, a three-speed, a big two-barrel downdraft carburetor and an aluminum body. The pillarless roofline came years before the 1950s hardtops. The doors are five feet long, the window crank takes two and a half turns, and when you shut the door with the windows up, “you need to put a shoulder into it.” It cost $7,000 new in 1938.
Jay covers how Henry Leland founded Cadillac and then Lincoln, why Leland named it after the first president he ever voted for, and why “the Cadillac was the flashy car. Lincoln was the quiet old money.”
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Jay calls it “a little sorbet in between the supercars.” Cameron Richards, Curator of the Nethercutt Collection, brings over a car from the Nethercutt Museum in Sylmar, California, that most people have never heard of: a one-off Judkins Touring Coupe on the Lincoln Model K Twelve chassis. Judkins built it as a speculation car meant for Edsel Ford. Ford’s designers thought nobody would like it, so Judkins kept it for himself. He later sold it, and it ended up in Florida. In the mid-1960s he tracked down the owner while on vacation and bought it back. When Judkins died in 1969, his wife Elizabeth called Dorothy Nethercutt: “We always knew you liked this car. Would you like to have it?” It has been with the Nethercutts ever since. It was repainted in 1969 and has never been restored, and the family has put more than 50,000 miles on it, including a couple of drives across the country.
It has a 150 horsepower V12, a three-speed, a big two-barrel downdraft carburetor and an aluminum body. The pillarless roofline came years before the 1950s hardtops. The doors are five feet long, the window crank takes two and a half turns, and when you shut the door with the windows up, “you need to put a shoulder into it.” It cost $7,000 new in 1938.
Jay covers how Henry Leland founded Cadillac and then Lincoln, why Leland named it after the first president he ever voted for, and why “the Cadillac was the flashy car. Lincoln was the quiet old money.”
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