Hot Rod Lincoln at SEMA 

As a teenager in the nineteen seventies the author loved Commander Cody’s version of the song “Hot Rod Lincoln” but when my father heard the song he would say that in his youth he had owned a 1941 V-12 Lincoln Zephyr which was a “dog” when it came to performance. The truth was the 292-cubic inch Lincoln V-12 flathead engines only developed a little over 110 horsepower and were notoriously unreliable.

Pat Reisinger of Reisinger Custom Rebuilding LLC of Evansville Indiana loved the idea of a “Hot Rod Lincoln” but he decided to send his 1947 306-cubic inch V-12 flathead engine to H& H Flatheads to add power. H&H in La Cresenta California added Ken Austin aluminum cylinder heads and a supercharger topped by four Stromberg 97 carburetors that brought the engine to life with 295 horsepower.

 

Now with the engine making good power, Pat built the car as he started with a Brookville Roadsters 1931 Model A 5-window body mounted on 1932 Ford rails with a Winters quick-change rear end and dropped I-beam front end. The period look is finished off with steel wheels with Lincoln V-12 hubcaps.

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Reisinger’s creation which he calls “V Doce” (Doce is Spanish for twelve) was on display in the NSRA (National Street Rod Association) booth at the 2017 SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) show.

All photos by the author