The new model offered a sportier, high performance, somewhat smaller and lower-priced alternative to the other personal luxury cars then on the market such as Ford Thunderbird, Buick Riviera, Lincoln Continental Mark III and Oldsmobile Toronado, The 1969 Grand Prix production ending up at over 112, 000 units, far higher than the 32, 000 1968 Grand Prix built from the full-sized Pontiac body.

1953 Ford Motor Company spent an estimated US $ 2 million ( US $ in dollars ) to engineer a Continental Mark II with a servo-operated retractable roof.

* Continental Mark II concept car c. 1953

Iacocca participated in the design of several successful Ford automobiles, most notably the Ford Mustang, the Lincoln Continental Mark III, the Ford Escort and the revival of the Mercury brand in the late 1960s, including the introduction of the Mercury Cougar and Mercury Marquis.

However, although the updated Taunus was introduced to Continental Europe in January 1976, Ford were able to continue selling the Cortina Mark III in undiminished numbers in the UK until they were ready to launch its successor as the Dagenham built Cortina Mark IV, which went on sale on 29 September 1976.

Mark Walton went on to play with the Continental Drifters.

The Continental Mark II was a personal luxury car produced by the Continental Division of the Ford Motor Company in 1956 and 1957.

Many aficionados of the automobile consider the Continental Mark II one of the classics of the postwar period.

The Mark II's inspiration was the celebrated V12-powered Lincoln Continental of the 1940s, among the most notable cars of that War-interrupted decade.

While other makes experimented with flamboyant chrome-laden styling, the Continental Mark II was almost European in its simplicity of line and understated grace.

The Continental Mark II had only one option, air conditioning, for $ 595.

1956 Continental Mark II.

While technically never a Lincoln and manufactured by a separate new division, Continental, the Mark II was sold and maintained through Lincoln dealerships, featured a Lincoln drivetrain, and sported a Lincoln-emulating spare tire hump in the trunk lid.

From today's vantage point, it can be argued that the Continental Mark II was successful at being what it was intended to be: an American Rolls-Royce or Bentley, and a re-creation of the grand cars of the thirties.

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The Lincoln Continental Mark III was a personal luxury car produced by Lincoln and sold in North America in the 1969 through 1971 model years.

Introduced in April 1968 as an early 1969 model, the Continental Mark III is the direct spiritual successor of the limited production, ultra-luxurious Continental Mark II produced by a short-lived Continental division of Ford Motor Company between in 1956 and 1957.

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Spain temporarily broke off from the Continental System, and Napoleon – aggravated with the Bourbon kings of Spain – invaded Spain in 1808 and deposed Ferdinand VII, who had been on the throne only forty-eight days after his father's abdication in March 1808.

Introduced for the 1984 model year, the Continental Mark VII shared its platform with the Ford Thunderbird, Mercury Cougar, and Lincoln Continental ( the Ford Fox platform from the code name of the first program using the platform ).

Like its predecessor the Lincoln Continental Mark VI, the Mark VII was manufactured at the Wixom Assembly Plant in Wixom, Michigan through 1992.

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* Luxury Sport Coupe model on the Lincoln Continental Mark VII

Air suspension would not return to standard production until Lincoln introduced it as standard equipment on the Lincoln Continental Mark VII in the 1984 model year.

* Lincoln Continental Mark VII ( 1984-1992 ), an American personal luxury car

Allen, who later claimed that he said it to Captain Delaplace, said, " In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!

George Washington ( –, 1799 ), was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later as the new republic's first President.

Chosen by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, Washington managed to force the British out of Boston in 1776, but was defeated and almost captured later that year when he lost New York City.

Middleton's son, Arthur ( 1742 – 1787 ) would also get involved in politics, succeeding his father as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, after his resignation, and, later on, sign the Declaration of Independence.

The Industrial Revolution on Continental Europe came a little later than in Great Britain.

* 1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.

" James Witherspoon, president of Princeton, teacher of James Madison and later a member of the Continental Congress, and one of the most influential thinkers in the Colonies, joined the cause of the Revolution with a widely publicized sermon based on Psalm 76, identifying the American colonists with the people of Israel.

Ever since its first publication, Murray's theory has come under criticism for flaws in its use of evidence, with later historian Ronald Hutton remarking that it consisted of " a few well-known works by Continental demonologists, a few tracts printed in England and quite a number of published records of Scottish witch trials.

* 1775 – The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy ( later renamed the United States Navy ).

McKean proposed the voting procedure that the Continental Congress later adopted: that each colony, regardless of size or population, have one vote.

The Continental campaign was carried on by Cumberland, defeated at Hastenbeck and forced to surrender at Convention of Klosterzeven ( 1757 ) and thereafter by Ferdinand of Brunswick, later victor at Minden ; Britain's Continental campaign had two major strands, firstly subsidising allies, particularly Frederick the Great, and second, financing an army to divert French resources from the colonial war and to also defend Hanover ( which was the territory of the Kings of England at this time )

* July 26 – The Second Continental Congress appoints Benjamin Franklin to be the first Postmaster General of what later becomes the United States Post Office Department.

* October 13 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy ( later the United States Navy ).

He also later said that he demanded that the British commander surrender the fort " In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!

He later became a Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and he is most famous for leading the failed 1775 invasion of Canada.

Because some of the less familiar Romance languages branched off early from the others ( Sardinian in particular, followed by Romanian and related Eastern Romance languages ), it is also common to reconstruct later stages: e. g. Proto Continental Romance ( after Sardinian branched off ); Proto Italo-Western Romance ( after Sardinian and Romanian branched off ); and Proto Western Romance ( after the branching-off of Sardinian, Romanian, and the central and southern Italian languages, including standard Italian ).

Putnam joined the Continental Army when it was organized in July 1775, was commissioned as colonel of the 3rd Connecticut Regiment, and later became brigadier of the Connecticut militia.

The team began play in East Rutherford, New Jersey at the Brendan Byrne Arena, later renamed the Continental Airlines Arena and now the Izod Center, where they would call home through the 2006 – 07 season.

Six victories later, Jesús found himself fighting for the Interim WBC Continental Americas Light Middleweight title on May 1, 2008.

The high cross later spread to the rest of the British Isles, including the Celtic areas of Wales, Devon, Brittany and Cornwall, where ogham inscriptions also indicate an Irish presence, and some examples can be found on Continental Europe, particularly where the style was taken by Insular missionaries.

Major General Samuel Holden Parsons, commander in the Continental Army under Gen. Israel Putnam, later chief judge of the Northwest Territory, lived on Black Rock Turnpike.