One of Neil Young’s most visible automobiles is his 1959 Lincoln Continental. The white-cream convertible sports all the classical body stylings of a 1950s daily driver. However, there’s one significant change to the vehicle that Young has personally overseen.
Neil Young once told The New York Times that this style of larger-than-life automotive design was a personal favorite — particularly the Lincoln offerings. “With all this talk about gas, people are saying we should go to small cars. But I love big American cars with power, why give up on that?” he said in 2008. Still, American muscle cars seemingly fly in the face of Young’s passionate defense of the planet, so he devised a plan to merge these two worlds.
Neil Young’s Continental has been dubbed the LincVolt, because he teamed up with an automotive genius in Jonathan Goodwin, swapping out the stock V8 engine with an electric motor that can still perform at high output. Goodwin noted to The Times that Young was like a teenager when it came to working on the vehicle.
“There have been times where Neil will get out of a concert at midnight or 1 a.m., charter a $60,000 flight and come here to work on the project.” The passion for hands-on automotive work and the environmentally-friendly refit blend together to perfectly encapsulate Neil Young’s style and personality. There may be no better car in the man’s garage to capture the essence of who he is at his core.
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