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Town Car Archive
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![I recently was driving down I-96 near Detroit, and the Dearborn area is where you’ll start to see more Lincolns on the road than you might be accustomed to seeing. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/79-Lincoln-7-115x115.avif "1979 Lincoln Continental Town Car: A 14,500-Mile Original Owned By The Same Family For 45 Years")
1979 Lincoln Continental Town Car: A 14,500-Mile Original Owned By The Same Family For 45 Years
Posted on September 17, 2026 | 17 CommentsI recently was driving down I-96 near Detroit, and the Dearborn area is where you’ll start to see more Lincolns on the road than you might be accustomed to seeing. […] -
![(Updated 3/19/2026) As a Panther fan, I often ask myself whatever happened to the Lincoln Town Car. It was doing so well before Dearborn got caught up in the SUV […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=800,height=513,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/aa-12-13-2012-002.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1997 Lincoln Town Car Executive Series And Friends – Landau Anyone?")
Curbside Classic: 1997 Lincoln Town Car Executive Series And Friends – Landau Anyone?
Posted on March 19, 2026 | 79 Comments(Updated 3/19/2026) As a Panther fan, I often ask myself whatever happened to the Lincoln Town Car. It was doing so well before Dearborn got caught up in the SUV […] -
![(first posted 1/11/2019) Long ago I wrote a CC for a 1982 Lincoln Town Car. It was written specifically for a theme week and, perhaps due to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IMG_4246.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1984 Lincoln Town Car – What A Luxury Car Should Be?")
Curbside Classic: 1984 Lincoln Town Car – What A Luxury Car Should Be?
Posted on January 11, 2025 | 90 Comments(first posted 1/11/2019) Long ago I wrote a CC for a 1982 Lincoln Town Car. It was written specifically for a theme week and, perhaps due to […] -
![(first posted 7/2/2018) I’ve been debating this essay for a while, but now seems as good a time as any. With my grandmother Violet (referred to previously […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/photos-Version-3.jpg "The Cars Of My Maternal Grandparents")
The Cars Of My Maternal Grandparents
Posted on July 28, 2024 | 39 Comments(first posted 7/2/2018) I’ve been debating this essay for a while, but now seems as good a time as any. With my grandmother Violet (referred to previously […] -
![(first posted 2/19/2013) For those of you out of the loop, I have a thing for 1950s to 1970s “big old American cars” in aqua. Whether the bright turquoise of […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/79towncaraqua224_zps7537c788-e1360620014696.jpg "Triple Aqua 1979 Lincoln Continental Town Car – I’m In Love!")
Triple Aqua 1979 Lincoln Continental Town Car – I’m In Love!
Posted on June 23, 2024 | 132 Comments(first posted 2/19/2013) For those of you out of the loop, I have a thing for 1950s to 1970s “big old American cars” in aqua. Whether the bright turquoise of […] -
![(Today, Sept. 15th, marks the 12th anniversary of the last Panther platform car ever produced. Enjoy this COAL submitted in its honor.) “Just when I thought I was out, they […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_14441.jpeg "COAL: 1989 Lincoln Town Car – If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix it; One Man’s Love for the Big American Car, Vol. 4")
COAL: 1989 Lincoln Town Car – If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix it; One Man’s Love for the Big American Car, Vol. 4
Posted on September 15, 2023 | 16 Comments(Today, Sept. 15th, marks the 12th anniversary of the last Panther platform car ever produced. Enjoy this COAL submitted in its honor.) “Just when I thought I was out, they […] -
![(first posted 1/11/2013) Events at Ford Motor Company have been silently spelling the end for their bread-and-butter V8 of the last two decades. With the cancellation of the Panther platform […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/4-6-failure.jpg "Engine History: The Ford 4.6 liter V8")
Engine History: The Ford 4.6 liter V8
Posted on January 12, 2023 | 214 Comments(first posted 1/11/2013) Events at Ford Motor Company have been silently spelling the end for their bread-and-butter V8 of the last two decades. With the cancellation of the Panther platform […] -
![(first posted 6/21/2013) Hangovers cannot be explained to the uninitiated. After a good long period of having pure merriment, you awake to find yourself regretting having ever been born. Despite […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1980-Lincoln-Continental-03.jpg "Car Show Classic: 1982 Lincoln Town Car – Honey, I Shrank The Lincoln!")
Car Show Classic: 1982 Lincoln Town Car – Honey, I Shrank The Lincoln!
Posted on July 22, 2022 | 73 Comments(first posted 6/21/2013) Hangovers cannot be explained to the uninitiated. After a good long period of having pure merriment, you awake to find yourself regretting having ever been born. Despite […] -
![(first posted 6/18/2013) By the late ’80s, Lincoln and Chrysler were essentially selling caricatures of their ’70s offerings. Hey, I like the square-rigged Panther Town Cars, and the FWD EEK […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=800,height=559,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/09-18-2012-009-e1371325347127.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1994 Lincoln Town Car – Best U.S. Luxury Car Of The ’90s")
Curbside Classic: 1994 Lincoln Town Car – Best U.S. Luxury Car Of The ’90s
Posted on September 13, 2021 | 93 Comments(first posted 6/18/2013) By the late ’80s, Lincoln and Chrysler were essentially selling caricatures of their ’70s offerings. Hey, I like the square-rigged Panther Town Cars, and the FWD EEK […] -
![(first posted 1/16/2015) It’s a peculiar pattern. From the early 1970s all the way up until their demise in 2006, the Australian Ford Fairlane and LTD would completely transform visually […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1976-Ford-Marquis-4.jpg "Large and in Charge: A Visual History of the Aussie Ford Fairlane and LTD")
Large and in Charge: A Visual History of the Aussie Ford Fairlane and LTD
Posted on January 16, 2021 | 83 Comments(first posted 1/16/2015) It’s a peculiar pattern. From the early 1970s all the way up until their demise in 2006, the Australian Ford Fairlane and LTD would completely transform visually […] -
![I love Lincolns. I hate Lincolns. Which Lincolns fall into which category is the stuff for which a website like CC was made. In which of those two barrels may […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1987LincolnTCSailAmerica11Small.jpg "Curbside Classic: 1987 Lincoln Town Car Sail America Edition")
Curbside Classic: 1987 Lincoln Town Car Sail America Edition
Posted on June 20, 2019 | 54 CommentsI love Lincolns. I hate Lincolns. Which Lincolns fall into which category is the stuff for which a website like CC was made. In which of those two barrels may […] -
![Author’s Note: It’s been quite a while since we’ve visited with Louis Broderick, the delightfully shrewd and unpolished driving savant who made an inadvertent splash in the underworld. While I’ve […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/thumb_IMG_8442_1024.jpg "CC Fiction: The Insightful Passenger")
CC Fiction: The Insightful Passenger
Posted on January 24, 2018 | 22 CommentsAuthor’s Note: It’s been quite a while since we’ve visited with Louis Broderick, the delightfully shrewd and unpolished driving savant who made an inadvertent splash in the underworld. While I’ve […] -
![Situated in the middle of a corn field near the tiny Northeast Missouri town of Bethel is a community called Heartland. Amongst the restaurants, housing developments, and dairy is the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_3845.jpg "Museum Classics: The Heartland Ford Museum")
Museum Classics: The Heartland Ford Museum
Posted on April 2, 2015 | 39 CommentsSituated in the middle of a corn field near the tiny Northeast Missouri town of Bethel is a community called Heartland. Amongst the restaurants, housing developments, and dairy is the […] -
![One needs to make the best of a crummy situation. About to go crazy from fighting a fever the last few days, I have regenerated enough vitality to take a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMG_0307.jpg "Walk and Talk: Rooting Around in the Photo Archives")
Walk and Talk: Rooting Around in the Photo Archives
Posted on December 17, 2014 | 66 CommentsOne needs to make the best of a crummy situation. About to go crazy from fighting a fever the last few days, I have regenerated enough vitality to take a […] -
![As of this writing (10-06-2014) I have had my 2000 Lincoln Town Car Cartier nearly a year. It was purchased on Columbus Day 2013, which was October 14. As today […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/08-02-2014-002.jpg "Town Car Update: One Year, One Battery, One Oil Change")
Town Car Update: One Year, One Battery, One Oil Change
Posted on October 14, 2014 | 93 CommentsAs of this writing (10-06-2014) I have had my 2000 Lincoln Town Car Cartier nearly a year. It was purchased on Columbus Day 2013, which was October 14. As today […]
