Oh Lordy, I now own a Fordy (a Lincoln actually)..

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Took Grampa's Lincoln to the local cruise night today. I was able to deliver Kevin's Camaro grill, that I promised him a few weeks ago before the last show was rained out. You definitely know your car is a wide-load when you can fit an entire 69 Camaro grill, flat in the trunk with a foot to spare on either side.

A buddy also showed up in his 65 restomod Vette, so I had some more company as well.

I gotta say, the old Lincoln seems to attract a helluva lot more attention than any of my musclecars. Everyone that came by had a dad or grandad story of having one in the family. I let a bunch of people sit in the back and reminisce on the rear sofa.

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Perusing the interwebs I found some more old historical info on the Golden Anniversary (or more like the Guldens Mustard Anniversary, given the exact color match to the spicy brown condiment). Here you go:

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And a better scan of the original 2017 Hemmings Classic Car article. Funny thing is that when you google 1971 Golden Anniversary Lincoln, this is the very first thing that pops up! We're famous!

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Today I took the old girl out for an early morning cars-n-coffee in Millstone, NJ. 100-mile round trip. Drove very smoothly. A/C worked fine. No issues other than the gas gauge moving toward "E" very rapidly. On the way back I was surrounded and overtaken on I-95 by a gaggle of tiny JDM cars on their way to a show somewhere in Central NJ. It was hysterical. It was like a whale shark surrounded by a school of remoras. I hit the gas to get over into the far right lane and the Lincoln pulled the group along like it was caught in the riptide current.

Just need another 25 mile trip and I'll finally have an entire 1,000 miles on the engine I rebuilt in 2018.

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And...the mission creep continues. When I got home yesterday I decided to pull the interior for a deep cleaning that has never been done. And I did have one young kid stick their head in the car at the show and say to their dad "This car smells like old people". LOL
Due to all the years of storage it has had its battles with mice, mildew and mold. I pulled everything out and started cleaning. Found two enormous mouse nests in the back seat and several petrified mouse mummies under the carpet.

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Found several broadcast sheets including one that said "REWORKED DOORS" on it. I am borrowing the wife's carpet cleaner today to shampoo the carpets after I spent an hour vacuuming them out and beating them with a stick to get all the sand out. And the mouse nests (next to a piece of 2x4 for scale).

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Close up of the broadcast