Tom Lay flew the original at the VSC several years back. I think it's larger than the Continental. Tom made a statement that it flew sorta like a lowered '49 Mercury! I don't know if I have any photos or not, but if some one out California way can contact Tom, I'm sure he can clear it up.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
Edit to add; It just occurred to me that at around the same time, Bob Storick showed me a picture of it taken back in the day when he lived out there, and was a friend of Tom Warden's and saw both models. Sparky out to be able to answer the question.