The 2,269 Lincoln Model KBs built in 1932 and 1933 are widely considered the finest Lincoln automobiles ever built.

They were powered by the company’s first V-12, a massive 448 cu.

in.

mill with fork-and-blade connecting rods that was virtually hand-built to order and produced 150 horsepower with peerless smoothness.

The Model KB was capable of a top speed of 120 mph, a speed comparable to such greats as the Duesenberg Model J and Marmon Sixteen—making this one of the great motor cars of the Classic Era.

Jack Dunning’s Model KB is a handsome seven-passenger sedan with factory coachwork featuring beautiful cloth upholstery on both the front and rear seats and no division window in between.

It was acquired for his collection in the early 1980s from the widow of its longtime owner, who had disassembled the car for restoration but never completed the work.

The project was brought to Mr.

Dunning’s longtime restorer, Ed Cobb of Washington Court House, Ohio, who performed a body-on re...