Show Us Your Car: 'Entourage' Lincoln hits town
Harold Tennen lives with a big Hollywood star. It's his black 1965 Lincoln Continental convertible.
It's an amazing car, a moving piece of midcentury design, repleat with the best of the day -- leather, steel and aluminum. "If someone want to know what America was, you show them cars like this," he says.
Tennen didn't set out to own an entertainment industry icon. He simply adored 1960s Lincoln Continentals, having owned a 1964 model when he was in his 20s.
One day he took it in for service and it just happened that the hit HBO show Entourage was filming across the street. One of the show's workers noticed that Tennen's car was identical to the one they had been using for the show, one in which there were concerns about a finicky owner.
So Tennen says it is his car that was used for the rest of the series. The car is driven by one of the entertainment industry characters. With its newfound stardom, there are plenty interested in buying the icon, he says. He says he has turned down $100,000 offers. The stars of the show have signed the inside of the glove compartment cover.
But that would have meant losing the ability to take the car for pleasure cruises and feel the accolades of just about everyone he encounters. "When I'm driving, I get the thumbs up" from lots of onlookers, Tennen says.