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Volume 20 Issue 6 June 1, 2020 John Trandem’s beautiful Mark V John really knows how to find these great cars. We want to take time to thank John Trandem of the Fargo-Morehead area for responding to our plea for articles for our newsletter. Over the years, John has contributed a few which really show his long time love of our favorite brand. John is really an expert on the 70s era Marks. He knows how to find the best examples and at the right price. Here is John’s story…. It was 1994, and I had just moved to Minneapolis at the age of 19 when I started noticing the Lincoln Mark V. In those years, there were still plenty of them on the road, and they could be bought for a reasonable price, so I set out to find one. Now when I say 'reasonable price,' what I Welcome to the really mean is three figures- not four, so my choices were not exactly abundant, but they were out there. Browsing one of the local auto trader type magazines one day, I came across a 1977 Lincoln Northstar News, the Mark V Cartier and wanted it bad! The problem is that it was $2,000, and I didn't have $2,000 monthly publication of any more than I had $2,000,000, so I looked at the ad every day and hoped that another one would the Northstar Region come along in my price range. Well, one did, but it was not a Cartier, and is not the subject of this story, but I did own my first Mark V- Burgundy with a white half-vinyl top and Burgundy Roma- of the Lincoln and no velour interior. I held the car for many years and put on a ton of miles until it was so rusty I Continental Owners had to scrap it, but I did save that beautiful and durable interior! Club. We value your Back to the Cartier, I continued to pant and pine after one and took every opportunity to admire them as I came across one. So why the '77 Cartier? I always liked the lines of the Mark V opinions and appreciate and the impeccable attention to proportion in design. Still, the understated elegance of the dove your input concerning gray leather interior paired with the dove gray exterior and a single painted Burgundy pinstripe this newsletter and the represented to me a timeless statement of class and character. The 70s were a time of excess; loud and gaudy color schemes and designs (which I also admire and own) were the rage (think about operation of the club. the linoleum in your kitchen in the 70s), but what the subdued monochromatic palette of the Car- This is your club. tier illustrated and punctuated the true beauty in the form of this car. It allowed the razor-sharp (Continued on page 4) This Issue Contains Feature Story 1 Directors Message 3 Club Information Page 4 Northstar Monthly Board Meeting Minutes 5 Editors Message 2 North Star Events 15 Trivia 2 NORTHSTAR NEWS Trivia from the Editors Message June 2020 Internet Good friends and gentle readers… And now it is presently have. June, the beginnings of summer. It seems as Almost every day, I receive emails from our though winter went on for a very long time, and favorite Lincoln dealer (Bloomington Lincoln). we came up a bit short on those nice spring days Ford is offering many different deals to try to get that are often promised to us. And if you want a customers into their dealers to look at new cars real spoiler, in just a few weeks, the days will and maybe even buy one. Discounted prices, low once again begin to get shorter. -interest financing, payment forgiveness are all I do hope that we get some nice mildly part of the plan. If a new Lincoln is in your fu- warm summer days and that we can figure out ture, now might be a good time to check out just how to get together exactly what the at a distance and bottom line would shout/yell to one be. It might be easi- another about how er than you thought much we love our to own (or lease) a Lincolns. So very 2020 Lincoln of many of my your choice. Lin- friends are suffer- coln really is a very ing from acute fine car and repre- boredom. Some- sents good value for what like the never the money. John Sandford -ending refrain that This issue, we American Novelist as children, we have two nice sto- would often repeat ries written by our when at home dur- members. John John Sandford, real ing the summer Trandem tells us name John Roswell months; “there is about one of his Mark V’s and the Camp (born February nothing for me to do.” Most of us thrill of the chase to 23, 1944), is a New York have plenty to do; acquire it. Bill Times bestselling au- it’s just that it is Holaday tells us a thor, American novelist, not much fun, and little more about his a former journalist and as older adults, we Sweet Olga is the picture of happiness on this sun- ongoing project, his ny Memorial Day afternoon. David’s nephew, Paul, his recipient of the Pulitzer feel that we should 1959 Lincoln, and wife Nola and, daughter McKenzie stopped by for a the help he received Prize. be able to pick just the fun things to visit and to plant some colorful flowers in a small from a number of Camp was born in do. So we bargain planter in the front yard. Like everyone else during this people associated Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the with ourselves, we period of house confinement, Olga enjoys visits from with the club. Fel- son of Anne Agnes do a few fun things her favorite humans. Not much for phone calls, Olga low member Brad (Barron) and Roswell and then do a few likes personal visits best. Videen really per- Sandford Camp. His things necessary to formed above and keep our lives in good order, like mowing the beyond in helping Bill with a couple of projects. mother's family was lawn, doing the dishes, or running the clothes It is all about networking and the real benefits of German and Lithuani- washer and dryer. It seems as though the older belonging to our fine club. Networking with an. He received a bache- you get, the less and less time there is for the fun other members just makes the job so very much lor's degree in Ameri- things. easier. can history and litera- One of the simple pleasures that I miss While it will be hard to visit with many of ture[7], and a master's in greatly is a haircut. I have not had mine cut in our Lincoln friends close-up and personal this weeks, and the sides are quite unruly, starting to summer, many of our members would welcome journalism, both from grow over my ears. I really look unsightly. The your email or telephone call. We tend to forget the University of Iowa. barbershops are supposed to reopen for business just how nice it is to receive a call from a long From 1971 to 1978, sometime after June 1. I hope that I can wait that time friend. In this day and age, we tend to place Camp wrote for The Mi- long. For years I have been stopping by the bar- a higher value on a text message or an email. An ami Herald. In 1978, he bershop every other week to get things trimmed old fashioned phone call is so much better and moved to Minneapolis up a bit. My father always told me that you much more personal. Please give it some thought should get it cut often enough so that it never and make that call to a friend or loved one today. and started writing for looks as though you have just been to the barber- If you run out of folks to call, I am home most of The Saint Paul Pioneer shop. If the sides get much longer, it will take a the time and would welcome your call. Press as a features re- lawnmower to get it cut short enough. It does Till next month, David and Sweet Olga, the (Continued on page 3) appear as I am in good company, as I see a lot of Samoyed. fellows out there with much longer hair than I 2 NORTHSTAR NEWS (Continued from page 2) porter; in 1980, he became Directors Message by Bob Johnson June 2020 a daily columnist. That The same message as April and May, Stay well, is year, he was a Pulitzer my hope for all our North Star Members. After three finalist for a series of sto- months, life has changed since February. Coronavirus ries on Native American COVID-19 is still here, and the result is we changed the culture. In 1985, during way we live. We canceled most of our activities through the Midwest farm crisis, July. We will have a report next month on what we may he wrote a series entitled have for the remainder of the year. Jay White has "Life on the Land: an scheduled an August brunch at Dangerfield’s and a No- American farm family;" vember Brunch at the Lowell Inn in November. Our which followed a typical brunches probably will not be the traditional buffet southwest Minnesota farm style, but menu ordered meals.

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