Pick Up This Lincoln Truck And Get Your Blackwood On

There seems to be no limit to the level of luxury that domestic automakers can pack into their pickup trucks. But it hasn’t always been full-speed ahead.

Back in 2002, Lincoln offered its own version of the Ford F-150 called the Blackwood. It was basically a tenth-gen F-150 Crew Cab with the face of a Navigator and a fake-wood-sided, tonneau-covered pickup bed.

The Blackwood was a commercial failure, and Lincoln discontinued it (in the US market at least) after a single model year and just 3,356 produced. That’s a far cry from the 18,000 or so it had planned, and less than half a percent of the F-Series trucks it sold that year.

That makes them somewhat unusual to come by. But for anyone who may be interested in this automotive anomaly, there’s one coming up for auction in Los Angeles this week.

Like all the others produced, this Blackwood is decked out in black on black. It came powered by a 5.4-liter V8, kicking out 300 horsepower and 335 lb-ft of torque to the rear wheels through a four-speed automatic transmission. No other engine option was offered – and unlike in the relatively more successful Mark LT that replaced it, neither was four-wheel drive.

Mecum Auctions hasn’t placed an estimated value on this rare blip on the radar of upscale pickups. But when it was new, it sold for over $50,000. Adjusted for inflation, that’d be about $74k – more than enough to put you in a top-of-the-line F-150 Limited (let alone the nearly-as-luxurious King Ranch or Platinum models). We’d be surprised to see it sell for more than $30k.

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