{"id":185158,"date":"2016-04-01T00:29:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T00:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=185158"},"modified":"2024-08-23T21:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T21:16:51","slug":"1956%e2%86%921957-continental-mark-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1956%e2%86%921957-continental-mark-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"1956 &#8211; 1957 Continental Mark II"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>1956\u21921957 Continental Mark II<\/h1>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">In 1956 Ford launched Continental as an entirely new brand and the Mark II with some of the highest standards in the industry. Costing almost five times more than the average Ford, the Continental was very limited and meant to challenge the best that Cadillac could produce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Attention to detail was high and each Mark II was hand built. Despite the high price tag, Ford still lost money on every model, which they would correct for the 1958 model year.<\/p>\n<p>Over a two year production span, the model was a successful as a halo car to the Ford brand with over 3000 units sold. Famous personalities such as Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley were owners of this model.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1956-continental-mark-ii-gallery\/\">Continental Mark II Gallery<\/a><\/h2>\n<figure class='gallery-item'>\r\n            <div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\r\n                <a href='https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII2.jpg' class='tipi-lightbox'>\r\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"1956\u21921957 Continental Mark II\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII2-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII2-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII2-770x561.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII2-293x213.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n            <\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\r\n            <div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\r\n                <a href='https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII1.jpg' class='tipi-lightbox'>\r\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"1956\u21921957 Continental Mark II\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII1-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII1-100x79.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII1-770x608.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1956_Continental_MarkII1-293x231.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n            <\/div><\/figure>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<h3>In Detail<\/h3>\n<table class=\"cardetails\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">type<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">Series Production Car<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"label\" align=\"left\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"30%\">production years<\/td>\n<td class=\"value\" align=\"right\" valign=\"bottom\" width=\"70%\">1956 &#8211; 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Costing almost five times more than the average Ford, the Continental was very limited and meant to challenge the best that Cadillac could produce. Attention to detail was high and each Mark II was hand built. Despite the high price tag, Ford still lost money on every model, which they would correct for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2185,18360,1431,9348,17105],"tags":[2536,16842,18361,20856,1432,20508,20509,13061,17106],"class_list":["post-185158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1950s","category-continental","category-lincoln","category-guides","category-model-guides-production-cars","tag-1950s","tag-1950s-cars","tag-continental","tag-continental-model-guides-all","tag-lincoln","tag-lincoln-model-guides-all","tag-lincoln-model-guides-production-cars","tag-car-profiles","tag-model-guides-production-cars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1956 - 1957 Continental Mark II<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1956\u21921957-continental-mark-ii\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1956 - 1957 Continental Mark II\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1956\u21921957 Continental Mark II In 1956 Ford launched Continental as an entirely new brand and the Mark II with some of the highest standards in the industry. 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