I saw this a couple months ago & finally had to go get it before something happened to it.
I'll clean it up & mount the wheel to a piece of black painted pvc or something & mount it on a wall in my basement or garage. Get all the lights working & maybe convert the clock to quartz so it works.
It's from a 1959 Lincoln Continental. I didn't realize what tanks these were & how many screws, bolts, nuts these cars used.
This car had about every option that cars had could have then, AC, p. windows, locks, seat, etc.. The AC was vented through the door panels to blow on the rear passengers!

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Cool! It does seem like that vintage of car used 8 fasteners when 4 would have been adequate! But I suspect they didn't rattle and shake loose as easy as the newer cars with fewer fasteners and plastic clips

John

 

wow........................

 

Nice find... I like that steering wheel...............

 

You know, it's quite common for that year Lincoln to have that clear plastic gauge panel all broken and cracked. It seems the unit body flexed so much that the evidence was easily seen there. The following year the gauges were put into pods.