A NEW Standard

Photography: Jonathan Fleetwood

“I’ve been looking for a car like this for 10 years,” says Terry Jeeves. “There aren’t that many out there, of course, and even fewer good ones.” Terry has owned this beautiful and largely original example since August 2017, when he acquired it from a man in Canada who in turn had rescued it from 29 years in a museum. Does it strike you as odd that someone would be so patient in tracking down a relatively obscure old American car? That probably depends what you know about the Continental Mark II.

We take it for granted that readers know quite a lot, especially about Mustangs, Tri-Chevys, ’59 Cadillacs, Corvettes and muscle cars, plus the gist of the Edsel story... but what about the Continental Mark II? My suspicion is that our readers fall into two camps: a few of you have admired them for ages and could recite the story in your sleep; for most they’re