Continental

 

Continental Mark.IV

When I mention elderly attorney Conrad Summerlin—grandfather of Jam and Jelly—driving an ‘ancient Continental,’ this 1959 Mark IV is pretty much the sort of car I had in mind. Conrad makes a brief in-person appearance in ‘One Christmas in the Sun’ but is mentioned here and there in both Sun novels. I remember just such a car in the early 60s in Naples, stopping to pick up a student at St Ann School (which both Joey and the Summerlin kids are supposed to have attended).