Early family cars

[Phil Waterman]

Pictures below are of my fathers first new Post War car (I believe it was the first New car he had ever bought) it was a 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Coupe powered by a 337cu.in. flat head V8 (same engine as F-8 Ford Truck, with a different cam). This picture was probably taken winter of 51 or 52 that’s me in the back seat. The second picture is of the first car I bought a 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Town Sedan which I bought in 1969 while in college, I was still driving the families Coupe but the salt on the roads of northern climes had taken a toll on the frame. So when the Town Sedan with only 25,000 miles came along I bought it. The car had been used as a “Summer” car on an estate in New Hampshire. The picture shown was taken in the spring of 1972 at a friends wedding.

I still have the engine out of the Lincoln my father bought in 1949 which has been extensively hot rodded. But what’s probably more important I still have the Town Sedan I bought, it is has been sitting in the back corner of the garage since 1975. Now that I have all three of my CMPs on the road, I hope to move the Lincoln into my restoration bay and start working on it this winter.