Built as the ultimate expression of the luxury automobile, Ford’s 1956 Continental Mk II spurred a war that lasted over forty years, with General Motors’ Cadillac division on the other side of the V8 trenches. In response to the first post-war Continental, the Eldorado landed on America’s roads, putting the two posh marques in a rivalry that exuded excess and opulence. Not even the oil crises of the seventies and eighties could put a halt to this mutual hatred. However,…
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