The 1961 Lincoln Continental did something radical in an era of chrome excess: it got quieter, cleaner and smaller, and in the process became one of the most influential American luxury cars ever ...

Luxury did not whisper in the early 1960s, it arrived in a long, low Cadillac with chrome flashing in the sun. When the 1961 Cadillac Series 62 emerged, it traded the wildest fins of the previous ...