Lincoln Town Car 1st Gen

Coming from my other blog, VreMax, and from the DIM -- Detroit Iron in Moscow series which is a series of posts where I do a bit of car spotting and photograph "Detroit iron" in Moscow -- i.e. full-size American automobiles that I see on Moscow streets, lanes and especially in back yards whilst not specifically looking for them.

As part of that series I wrote about this Lincoln Town Car spotted about a year ago in 2014 (now it's October 2015).

This one is first generation and towards the end of it, I think.

Not the first Lincoln Town Car on this series but the first one first gen. 

 

To be fair, I spotted this one not on a street per se, not in traffic, not in a Moscow high-rise back yard (where most of them seem to have congregated so far) but on some kind of historic movie shoot, not far from the Kremlin actually.

Though the Lincoln appears to be out of keeping with the other cars on the shoot which are 1960-70s Volgas, Pobedas etc.

Maybe the movie guys are trying to pass it for a much earlier car but it is from the late 1980s.

However, to the present-day observer unfamiliar with American cars, it may indeed look like something out of the 1960-70s.  

A view through the passenger front window.

At the time I wrote this about the movie.

What's the movie going to be about? We see the Lincoln cornered by a 1950s M-20 Pobeda and a 1970s GAZ 21 Volga. No escape. 

Now, a year later, I have no idea what movie it was that they were trying to shoot or if it came out.

A couple of old ad photos of the 1st Gen Lincoln Town Car off the internet. It looks bigger (longer) in these pictures than it is in real life.