I was at my mechanic friend's garage today and saw this 1956 Lincoln he was working on.  The pictures arent the best being inside the garage, but maybe you can see what appeared to me as definite similarity in lines to the T-bird.  The motor is a 368 Lincoln Y.

The owner wanted Bill to install a Tach drive distributor he had obtained ($500).  However familiar problems developed.  The old dizzy was stuck.  After 2 hours it was out.  Soon Bill discovered the tach drive unit had no weights for centrifugal advance, only going on vacuum advance, and the distributor did not come with the vacuum unit.  Another compounding problem was there was a different carb in place than original, so even had there been the vacuum advance, the carburetor didnt match.  So at this point the motor is set on a fixed non advancing 20 degrees.

Edit:  Sorry no pics.  Two times tried and each ended with and internal server error.  The car was exciting to see.  I was especially interested in the factory stainless steel exhaust manifolds which exited into the inner fender then went down and back between the frame and outer body panels.  They are very similar to what I need to fab some day. 

The car is/was apparently a factory custom with lots of specials, including a completely different front grill. 

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.