Continental Divison was aware of the shortcomings of the coupe, and had an active program to alleviate its sluggish performance with a turbocharged 368 c.i. Lincoln Y-Block (!)

Testing was well along until financial started toting up the beans. Continental Division was losing money fast with no sign of recovery, boom. Done. Roll credits, fade to black.

Much of the learning on 'blow-through' forced induction systems ended up in the '57 F-Code 312 - the carb is a straight pick up from that development.