The 1975 Lincoln Town Car Continental: Social Distancing Made Easy

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With the coronavirus pandemic currently bossing the world, a new expression has invited itself into our vocabulary: social distancing. We don't need to explain this one to you; it’s ubiquitous, and frankly the words speak for themselves.

On March 29th, I had to bring back my last press vehicle as confinement rules set in, and the wait for a return to “normal” began. Because I live an hour away from where it had to be returned, I asked a friend to drive me back home. This was before authorities banned travel between certain regions in my province of Quebec, and set up roadblocks and handed out hefty fines to scofflaws.

As I got into my friend's car, a 2004 Nissan Altima, I immediately had a thought about social distancing. We were not respecting it.

And that got me thinking about a car I once owned, in which social distancing was a done deal as soon as you got on board. Well, almost.

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