OOOPs! Add 12,550 to the Lincoln total for 1958 (I forgot about the brief
brand change for Continental from 1956-1958).
This makes the Lincoln total 19,409, and puts Imperial back into third
place.
Dick Benjamin
> >
> > For 1958, the totals were:
> >
> > Cadillac: 140,777
> > Imperial: 16,133
> > Lincoln: 6,859
> > (Packard had no entry in the luxury class in 1958)
> >
> > Total sales of US made cars in 1958 was very much lower than 1955 -
> without
> > spending hours adding figures, I can say from personal recollection, the
> > total was somewhere in the 5 1/2 to 6 million range.
>
> Yes, there was a recession in '58. Imperial sales were only half the high
> water mark of 1957, when Imperial outsold Lincoln. I had always been led
to
> believe that was not the same in 1958. Is this because, briefly, the
> Continental became a make in its own right? It was listed separately in
the
> 1955 totals, but it's sales were described as only negligible.
> Hugh
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