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The LINCOLN LINK LinkingThe together LINCOLN all elements of the motorLINK heritage

3 An Appreciation of Ford 4 Every Lincoln Enthusiast Has a Story to Tell

10 71 Days of Work 12 A Great American Story 14 Meet Your Foundation Trustees

published semi-yearly Volume vii, number 1 • summer, 2009 the lincoln link

n This issue’s leading article, from the editor “Every Lincoln Enthusiast Has a Story to Tell,” is a thinly disguised n Hello again and welcome exhortation for each of you who to issue number one in the read this deathless prose to take seventh year of The Lincoln Link, pen in hand and tell the world a publication of the Lincoln what you have done in your Motor Car Foundation. We own addiction for the Lincoln hope you enjoyed the previous automobile. The text herein Link issue, which was entirely consists of highlights from my devoted to the racing exploits own car story, beginning in North of the 1950s racing Lincolns in David Schultz from Ohio. See Dakota, that starts on page four. the famous series of La Carrera the “Meet your Trustees” section Panamerica, popularly known as of this issue for an introduction. n We assume, of course, the Mexican Road Races. William that everyone who receives S. (“Bill”) Culver, Jr., was the n One of the rewards of The Lincoln Link cherishes author and guest editor for that being active in the Foundation’s and preserves each copy in a issue, and is very well qualified Board of Trustees is working controlled helium atmosphere for for the task. He is both with people of the quality future generations. If, however, the President of the of those who populate you are missing an issue, call me Road Race Lincoln the Board. Typical of and I can send you an issue for Register and the Editor these people is Richard $5 each postpaid. The bulk of of Viva Carrera!, the Hopeman. Although Dick the back issue supply has now publication of the is no longer a Trustee been transferred to the Gilmore RRLR. The RRLR of LMCF, he has made Car Museum, near Kalamazoo, has joined the three a massive contribution Michigan, where the Foundation major Lincoln clubs in to the hobby with his plans to build a museum. support of the Lincoln contribution of digitizing However, I have retained a small Bill Culver Motor Car Foundation, Lincoln ephemera for cache to assist members with and this qualifies Bill to the Foundation and as a back issue needs. E-mail or write be a Trustee of the Foundation. former President of the Lincoln or call or send a carrier pigeon Welcome aboard, Bill! Owners Club. Thank you, Dick, (they are delicious). for those many and sometimes —C had Coombs n Speaking of Guest Editors, frustrating hours you spent in V.P., Publications we invite others to become the promoting the Lincoln Heritage. 703 754 9648 editor of The Lincoln Link or [email protected] at least edit a single issue. This is a chance for you to publish your enthusiasm for Lincolns With a working heater, young or feature a particular aspect of Chad’s 1938 Hudson was Lincoln lore and usage. As Home just the vehicle for navigating Depot advertising says, “You can the wintry North Dakota do it—we will help.” You will landscape. find great satisfaction in seeing your talent and ideas in print. Contact John T. Eby, Foundation Chairman, or me, if interested.

n The Foundation has added three new members to the Board of Trustees. They are Carolyn Henderson from Maryland, Glenn Kramer from Texas, and 2 volume vii, number 1

An Appreciation of

n Much has been written about gulf of misunderstanding between Edsel Bryant Ford, and much Henry and Edsel Ford, and more could be written, for the Edsel’s fondness for his father relationship between Edsel and and deep reverence for the early his cantankerous father was Ford triumphs prevented him complicated and likely spilled over from prevailing over the elder into other members of the Ford Ford’s stubborn opinions except family. That relationship also by occasional gentle persuasion. affected the products of the mighty When Edsel recognized a , including challenge in the superbly built the Lincoln motor . So, it but homely and moribund Leland is always refreshing to read yet Lincoln, it took this sort of another viewpoint that comments persuasion to convince Henry on Edsel and that critical Ford he should buy . . . relationship with his father, . n contrast to his father, The following excerpts are Ford was among the very first Edsel was a gracious and taken from the powerful book, The to realize that the heretofore sensitive man whose grasp Olympian Cars of the Twenties utilitarian motorcar should be a of style and understanding and Thirties, by Richard Burns thing of beauty as well. He saw of the creative mind made Carson. This book and its author beyond the immediate success Ihim a Medici of automotive summarize the classic car era like of his father’s Model T to the art. His stewardship of the no other book, and the author’s day when all automobiles would Lincoln involved association with comments on Edsel Ford make depend on visual appeal as well fine traditional coachbuilding timely and thoughtful reading. as sturdiness and practicality for houses like Brunn, Judkins, and Enjoy.—Editor their success. As a result, Edsel Willoughby. He also sponsored felt a ’s value would Raymond Dietrich’s move to espite his millions, Henry be both intrinsic and practical. Detroit to found the innovative Ford remained such an On the one hand, perfectly designing and coachbuilding firm enthusiast of barnyard built, brilliantly capable, and of Dietrich, Inc. After its take- culture that one could immaculately tailored luxury over by Ford, the Lincoln car’s expect at any moment automobiles were mechanical reliance on custom bodywork Dto hear that Clara Ford’s bottled embodiments of the unfettered benefited custom designers and preserves had just taken first artistic process, and desirable in builders with contracts and also prize at the county fair. Mr. and their own right. But they also insured the marque’s aesthetic Mrs. Henry Ford were just Ma utilized talents and ideas which, consistency from 1922 to 1939. and Pa Kettle in the Money. on a lesser scale, could be applied Edsel closely supervised all Edsel Ford, their only toward the improvement of custom coachwork for Lincoln child, was altogether different. mass-produced cars someday. chassis and yet thoroughly Born with a gentle and artistic That day was still far away at the respected his artists’ integrity temperament, he was devoted Ford Motor Company, though, and originality. His taste for to his father but avoided the because Henry was sure the expression of automotive publicity Henry basked in. Edsel Model T could sell itself forever personality was superbly subtle was himself creative and was without any silly eye appeal. and his recognition of the need sensitive to the many forms of Disagreement over the worth of for such expression in high- and creativity in others. And he was, automotive styling became the low-priced cars alike was in above all else, a gentleman. Edsel first incident in an ever-widening advance of his time . . . 3 the lincoln link

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he stories of Lincoln dramatic, spaceship styling and Zephyrs have always been thin enthusiasts are the twelve cylinders. It hung heavy in on the ground. It was a thrill to precious records of living my mind for two decades, until park one’s Zephyr smack-dab and breathing humans 1965, when I found a straight among a whole group of Zephyrs who have a compelling and rust-free 1939 Lincoln and Continentals and meet like- Tfascination for automobiles, old Zephyr and a twin for a minded owners. We had 29 cars and new. Many stories cover parts car. It needed everything, at that first meet, setting the lifetime involvement and are and I started by overhauling pattern for many GOFs to follow. influenced by health, finances, the engine. About that time For GOF II, at the same garage space, personal time, the brand-new Lincoln Zephyr place, we arrived in a 1942 spouses and family, beyond the Owners Club engulfed me and , cars themselves. Some stories I plunged enthusiastically into which we had bought at an are inspiring and are models of club activities, at the expense estate auction five miles from astute planning and restoration of car restoration, but making our home. It had been the last and driving pleasure. Whereas many new, lifelong friends in the item sold, and I sweated out most stories are happy, some, process. Then, time was precious; that day with a pocket full of alas, are not, but should be we had a single salary, small cash. This limousine turned out recorded nevertheless. children, and a job that required to be a lovely, original car with This is my story, starting in travel. great character along with its North Dakota and involving The very first LZOC vacuum-operated windows and our respected family doctor, Dr. Gathering of the Faithful Meet rare hood side trim pieces that W.E.G. Lancaster, who saved my was held at Bird-in-Hand in disintegrated and fell off over life during a bout of pneumonia Pennsylvania on June 7, 1969. time—impossible to replace. The in 1937. The good doctor drove As Meet Director, I just had car would swallow nine adults Ford products, including an to bring a Zephyr, so John effortlessly and highway cruise immaculate tan 1938 Lincoln- MacAdams found us a nice, at any speed. We were invited Zephyr sedan and a later black original and drivable blue 1942 to drive it in the Washington, postwar Continental , Zephyr sedan with overdrive, D.C. Bicentennial Parade. I wore along with a green which we cleaned up and drove my chauffeur’s cap, and Queen Super Deluxe club coupe, among to GOF I. Bear in mind that Evelyn waved a lace handkerchief many others. That Zephyr did it few of us had even attended an at an adoring crowd. Exciting for me. It was whisper-quiet with old-car meet forty years ago, and stuff!

Above: the 1931 Left: the 1942 Lincoln Custom Limousine

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efore concentrating on straight-through return visits to Lincolns, I went through North Dakota. It had long stroke B a series of transportation pistons that rose and fell like Otis cars, starting with a tired, college elevator lifts. At this point in runner 1931 Pontiac. Even those money-scarce days, I had before that, however, was a carried out all the maintenance Cushman model 54 scooter, with on my own cars, and removed Cushman model 54 scooter optional two-speed transmission, and overhauled engines from with Side Kar larger tires and an essential Side these first three cars to get those Kar for winter use. Great for lumps running properly. With the college, but . . . And prior to Nash, however, now flush with that, my father took delivery of Boeing salary money, I actually a brand-new black six-cylinder bought new gaskets, hoses and 1946 Ford Super DeLuxe sedan fluids! in August of 1946. Since new A dashing two-tone blue 1949 cars were all but impossible to 98 sedan arrived get at that time, his car-struck next, with and that 18-year-old son was overjoyed. lovely V-8 engine. Push the gas Mom and Dad allowed me pedal another quarter inch and generous use of that family Ford, you were out in front of all the within limits. Thanks to help other traffic! I drove that car from Grandma, my rattletrap ’31 to the Bon Marche department Pontiac was followed by a 1938 store to buy an engagement Hudson Eight sedan (another ring (another story). Next came Dad’s 1946 Ford Super story) with hydraulic brakes, a a reliable two-tone blue 1955 DeLuxe Sedan good heater and a radio. The Ford Customline Tudor V-8 Hudson carried me to Seattle with Fordomatic and little else, for my first job at Boeing in the which carried us across the famous B-17 Boeing Plant Two. country at Christmastime, 1956, (My car-related college degree to Washington, D.C., for a job was Mechanical Engineering.) in nuclear engineering designing A quality black 1946 Nash reactor fuel elements. That Ford Ambassador sedan arrived often carried our growing family next, with overdrive, bed, and to Canada and North Dakota to a highway 20 mpg for those visit grandparents. And it carried 1946 Nash Ambassador

Above: the 1957 Left: Evelyn and Chad with the 1949 Oldsmobile 98

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us to the middle of Pennsylvania World’s Fair in three days with walking-wounded runners and for a sales job at the Curtiss- two night stops and a pleasant parts cars. In addition, we “baby Wright Research Center. all-night drive across Montana at sat” a 1954 Lincoln Capri coupe high speed (no limit, clear night, in two-tone green for a Naval nd that is when the Lincoln no traffic and an arrow-straight friend on overseas assignment. Experience thunderbolt road). This Olds later carried us Although a high-mileage car, Astruck. We turned in the to Virginia and The Job with it was a pleasure to drive, fast Ford for a year-old 1957 Lincoln Atlantic Research Corporation and nimble, demonstrating that Capri hardtop sedan in white that occupied me for the next 39 Road Race pedigree. At one with a red top. Wow, what a years and sustained us through point, we owned both a 1979 car! It was fast, it handled like a the Lincoln hobby period. Lincoln Collector’s Series sedan, sports car, it was quiet (Evelyn Along the way, a 1960 white with blue leather, and a and the children spent many Mark V blue 1980 Mark VI sedan with a mile peacefully asleep), and sedan arrived and departed, blue leather. The difference in it was roomy (we once shut a huge and roomy car. Then technology between the two the trunk lid over a full dining there was a 1958 cars was striking. The 1980 room table top in the trunk). sedan that Evelyn bought at an Lincoln, generally speaking, Many were the four-hour trips auction, after the auctioneer at was two feet shorter, half a ton to Niagara Falls and five-hour first refused to recognize her lighter, roomier inside and in the trips to Washington, D.C., to bid. (What is a nice lady like trunk, and eight miles per gallon visit family and friends, and the Evelyn doing in bidding on this better than the 1979 Lincoln. three-hour trips to Princeton old car—the nerve!) The crowd The ’80 Lincoln family car was on business. What a car! I forced his hand; we think he replaced by a low-mileage white worked it hard in that salted- was holding out for a friend. 1982 Mark VI sedan with blue road area, and drove it more There was also a brown 1960 leather, wire wheels and dual than necessary just for the joy V-8 sedan, which exhausts. It had been owned by of driving it. I also changed all came from the much-loved a ‘little old lady’ in Houston. four mufflers individually during Sherm Rinard. We drove this I absolutely loved that car! It the wintertime in the garage. It one home from Cleveland. It was easy to drive, with all-day had great presence—strangers was a “whazat” trip—any new comfort. We put 110,000 miles would do a double take and and strange noise prompted on it over eleven years and sold comment on it. And it carried the query, “Whazat?” (What is it for $1000 more than we paid us to Delaware for a new job that?). Also, a 1962 Lincoln in for it. It participated in three selling rockets with the Thiokol leather, formerly of the Egyptian family weddings and carried Chemical Corporation. Embassy, showed up, stayed many friends and relatives to Next up was a new gray 1960 awhile and moved on to a friend. dinners. It was loaded to the gills Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 sedan, Of the 78 vehicles that have twice with books and brochures with a regular gas V-8 and a 2.98 passed through our hands over after auctions. We used it for all economy axle. Evelyn learned time, 18 of them have been distance driving. The next owner to drive in this car. It carried Lincolns, including the working was overjoyed to get it. our young family to the Seattle family cars, show cars, the We only sold the ’82 Mark

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VI because we stumbled upon Massachusetts. We sold the 1942 or simply have no time for such a low-mileage 1996 Lincoln Custom Limousine to Pat Ryan foolishness, or you can’t write as Cartier Town Car at a local to pay for it. Pat eventually paid well as your favorite author. If estate auction. We use it for us with a grocery sack filled with you don’t want to write, simply highway travel and church small-denomination bills, casually talk! Use your inexpensive and with friends for dinner or passed to me in a car on the way little tape recorder and tell concerts. This is a roomy car to an LZOC Board Meeting at it of your experiences, both with a vast back seat area that Hershey. I stuffed the sack into joys and sorrows of obtaining, delights friends and family. It also my briefcase, kept an eye on it, repairing, driving, showing and pulls 24 mpg during highway and later counted the bills late selling these joyful objects in travel, well suited to its aged in the evening while sitting in your life (and justifying all this owners. At this point in our lives, the bathroom of the motel room to Mama). How often have we are downsizing. Although we shared with three club members. you said, “How I wish I had a have sold it, we still have a white In the hobby, you know your picture of Uncle Edgar’s 1939 1977 Lincoln Continental sedan friends by the horseplay that Lincoln (or Graham ‘shark nose’ with a marvelous blue leather occurs. or Whippet or Model A or . . . ). interior. This Louisiana-via-Texas And why didn’t someone write car is every inch original with here! You have just read down some of Grandpa’s Stutz 50K miles. It drives nicely, but is about a few highlights from Bearcat stories? They held us unwieldy and thirsty in today’s T our Lincoln enthusiast spellbound!” frantic driving world. Yes, folks, story. What is your Lincoln So, what do you do with these Lincolns (and four Mercurys and story? Worry not if your story stories ? Beyond saving with eighteen Fords) have been an involves only low-buck cars family records, let me remind absorbing part of our lives for and restorations. Our own you of the Lincoln Motor Car many decades. story was low-buck all the way, Foundation. This organization The Lincoln that probably and we have had a mountain is set to preserve your car hobby delighted us and our friends of enjoyment, especially from stories and make them available most was a black 1940 Lincoln the friends that are a major for generations to come. Pull in Zephyr three-window coupe ingredient in the hobby. Most the computer geek in your family (pronounced cou-pay—coops are of you have lived through the and get him or her involved. for chickens) with the behind- start and serious growth of the Simply send your notes or the-seat shelf option and a two- preservation and activities of recordings to the Foundation speed axle. It drove beautifully, the hobby. Your present and and they will do the rest. Start smooth and fast with wonderful future family members will now, so that eager grandson steering, good brakes and rejoice to have a written and who took over the care and comfortable, chair-high seats. graphic record of the actual cars keeping of your pride-and-joy This was an original-condition and events in the life of dear Lincoln will have the benefit of car out of Minnesota that old Dad, or Grandpa or Great what went before his tenure of traveled through two hobbyists Grandpa or . . . Let us not hear ownership. Everyone wins! in Texas to Gerry Richman in that you have no writing skills, —Editor

Right: Chad with the 1940 Lincoln-Zephyr Coupe Below: 1996 Lincoln Cartier Town Car

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Posing cars with airplanes used to be popular with the manu- facturers. This 1959 two-page ad is a lulu, featuring Donald Douglas, no less, with the brand new milestone DC-8.

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his amazing booklet, 71 Days of Work, is dated 1933, at perhaps the time of the lowest point of the Great Depression worldwide that began late in 1929. We cannot imagine, in today’s environment, the suffering that event caused. There simply was no money anywhere for most people. Millions were destitute, Tdiscouraged, and desperate. This seemingly strange message in this little booklet was entirely appropriate for that time. Its message of “you can help many people if you buy a new car” is also frighteningly appropriate for the present economic climate, especially for the beleaguered American automobile manufacturers. The booklet was produced by , then and now a giant in the industry. It is ironic that this little booklet seems to be tailor-made for them at the present time. In 1933, the cheapest General Motors family car available would be a 2- door coach, offered late in the model year for $465. It weighed 2,425 pounds and provided 60 hp. Only 23,033 were built. Shown below is the more popular Master Six coach (Eagle series), with 65 hp, 2,770 pounds weight and a production run of 162,629 units. Total Chevrolet production for the 1933 model year was 486,378 cars.—Editor

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under the direction of Jack Juratovic, is well underway. The A Great American Story... interior of the building will not have intrusive interior load- bearing elements in order to a Museum Celebrating the Legacy maximize presentation flexibility. Ford Motor Company has agreed to cooperate in providing a of the Lincoln Automobiles continuing changing exhibit of contemporary Lincoln vehicles he Lincoln automobile is located on ninety sylvan acres and show cars. enthusiast clubs’ project located midway between Chicago A specific architectural theme to create a unique and Detroit. It currently exhibits or architectural firm for the educational experience 250 vehicles in a number of Lincoln facility has not been to tell the story of the restored historic structures. selected. A debate is taking place TAmerican automotive industry • The Gilmore Museum will between utilizing a recreation using the legacy of the Lincoln provide sufficient land to the of an historic building with ties brand and products as the Lincoln clubs to build the facility. to the Lincoln brand or a more major unifying theme is moving The clubs will provide the funds contemporary theme. persistently ahead. Under the for construction and “own” the The Franklin Club, which is leadership of Allen McWade, building and exhibits. For a fee, currently constructing a 7,000- a number of major decisions the Gilmore will manage and square-foot Franklin Museum have been made and a variety of maintain the building, grounds adjacent to the Lincoln site, took essential committees have been and collection. its inspiration for the exterior of formed. The Lincoln clubs have its structure from an early Los A quick review of the museum selected the Lincoln Motor Car Angeles Franklin dealership. The project: Foundation, their educational, Franklin Museum will open at • A free-standing 20,000-square- public foundation, to serve as the end of 2009. foot Lincoln facility to be built in the coordinating, fund raising The current state of the two 10,000-square-foot phases and temporary governance economy has significantly slowed on the campus of the Gilmore organization for their educational the fund raising for the Lincoln Car Museum in Hickory Corners, museum. facility. The initial 10,000- Michigan, with the first phase to be A specific site for the building square-foot phase requires opened as quickly as practical. on the Gilmore campus has been $2.0 million to construct the • The Gilmore Car Museum selected, and exhibit planning, building and exhibits and to

The site on the Gilmore Car Museum campus (arrow) where the Lincoln Motor Car museum will be built.

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$79,200 create sufficient endowment to maintain the facility. Current Contributions by Club Membership It was previously hoped that a significant portion of Lincoln Owners Club • Lincoln-Zephyr Owners Club the required funds would Road Race Lincoln Register • Lincoln & Continental Owners Club be provided by Ford Motor Company and foundation and government grants. Although we have received encouragement $37,000 and endorsement from those sources, they, understandably, $29,000 have suggested that they are not currently in a position to help. We will continue to pursue these possible sources of financial assistance as the economy improves, but it appears that the $10,000 bulk of the funds will now have $2,500 to come from club members and $700 private benefactors. To date, approximately LOC LZOC RRLR L&COC Other Total $80,000 in cash and pledges has been received. Although organizations to solicit their contributions and pledges is this is only modest progress, it members personally. raised prior to July 1, 2010, is recognized that this is early A major—and currently and the museum is opened in the fund raising process and anonymous—benefactor promptly. This offer was made in the vast number of potential has offered a very generous order to jump-start the funding contributors have not been $200,000 matching challenge process, but understandably is a directly contacted or solicited. grant to the project if an temporary offer requiring that The clubs are currently forming additional $200,000 in “new” we move quickly.

My Personal Support for the Lincoln Motor Car Museum n Please join your friends and supporters of the Lincoln automotive heritage in making a generous gift for the purpose of building a museum with which to share with the public the history of the Lincoln brand. Contributions for the museum building fund of the Lincoln Motor Car Foundation are welcome as a one-time gift or as pledge payable over five years, appreciated securities, or as part of your estate planning. The gifts can be made in your name, in commemoration of someone you wish to honor, or as a memorial to a loved one or friend. Appropriate recognition of your gift will be made at the museum site. Many special naming opportunities are available, or one that particularity appeals to you can be created. n The Lincoln Motor Car Foundation is organized as a not-for-profit Michigan corporation and is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a public, tax-exempt foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Your contributions to the Foundation should be tax-deductible from your federal income tax.

Supporter’s Name(s)______

Postal Address/City/State/Zip______Telephone ______E-mail Address______Pledge Amount $______Enclosed:______Payable Over 5 Years:______Name (s) for Recognition______Some available naming opportunities (payable over five years if desired): n Walkway Bricks $100 n Patio Pavers $500 n Interior Benches $1000 n Gardens $5,000 n Exterior Stone Benches $10,000 n Patios $25,000 n Exhibits $25,000 n Galleries $50,000

Please make checks payable to the Lincoln Motor Car Foundation and mail to: Jack Shea, Treasurer • Lincoln Motor Car Foundation • 5022 Harbortown Lane • Fort Myers, FL 33919-4651 13 the lincoln link

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Club near Canton, Ohio. Schultz. Since then Schultz has Ten years ago he established put thousands of enjoyable miles the Lincoln Owners Club News- on the car, including a CCCA Letter for the Lincoln Owners CARavan through Montana in Club and still serves as its editor. 2008. He is a regular columnist for “Although I’ve been Hemmings’ Classic Car and assists privileged to show my cars at in maintaining the CCCA web site. some of the top shows, there He is also a national director is absolutely nothing more of the Classic Car Club of enjoyable than driving these cars. America and is a trustee of the I prefer a scenic tour any day Classic Car Club of America’s over a ‘show award’.” Museum, located on the grounds Schultz says he’s excited about of the Gilmore Museum in the prospect of a museum that Hickory Corners, Michigan— recognizes the Lincoln motorcar future home of the Lincoln and hopes the funding will soon Schultz Motor Car Museum. be in place to begin. Over the years Schultz has David and his wife, Jane, avid Schultz of Massillon, owned a variety of vintage live in a “vintage home” in Ohio, was a logical choice automobiles, including a 1923 Massillon, Ohio. They have D to become a member of the Locomobile 48 Sportif, 1936 two adult sons, Benjamin and Lincoln Motor Car Foundation’s Cord 810 Beverly, 1934 Stephen.—DWS board of directors. Airflow and 1940 “I consider myself an Lincoln-Zephyr Continental club automotive historian who coupe—the first one built. happens to own vintage “My pockets weren’t quite automobiles rather than a vintage deep enough to keep all of these car collector,” says Schultz, cars,” he chuckled, “but they who dates his interest in vintage provided some very interesting automobiles to his first trip to experiences.” Greenfield Village in the mid- Today, he owns two 1950’s with his grandfather. Lincolns—a 1931 two- “That was my epiphany,” he window Town Sedan in mostly remembers. “My grandfather original condition and a 1937 showed me the car on which Willoughby Sport Sedan that he learned to drive—a Brush is an older restoration. He has with a wooden front axle. I was a special fondness for original, hooked.” unrestored automobiles. Henderson Today, following a career in “The 1931 is probably my the newspaper and advertising all-time favorite. I bought it arolyn Henderson grew up industries, Schultz has turned his years ago from another Lincoln with cars, helping the guys long-time interests into a job. aficionado, the late Sam Dibble C in the neighborhood as a He serves as executive director of Michigan. I first saw it at a teenager. She would slip away on of the Glenmoor Gathering Michigan Region Grand Classic Sundays to go to the drag races, of Significant Automobiles, an in 1964 and never forgot it. It later racing a Sunbeam Alpine. automobile concours held each took me years to coax Sam to She was teased as a woman driver September at Glenmoor Country sell it but he finally did,” said until she won the class; then

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she became a celebrity. Her first installed that boat-anchor “old” car was a 1948 Chevrolet engine in the ’58. Carolyn also Fleetmaster sedan. When she created a dazzling complete new and Bernie Wolfson found upholstery suite for the ’58, each other, she was introduced too. Sewing is a talent Carolyn to Lincolns. Along the way, developed early on to assure Carolyn slipped into club work, she had clothes that fit properly serving first as Registrar for the (she is elegantly tall). Carolyn Lincoln & Continental Owners is well grounded in architecture Club Eastern National Meet style, construction techniques at Annapolis in 1988. Next, and materials and fabrics, thanks she was Registrar for the 1993 to husband Bernie, who was a LCOC ENM at Williamsburg. popular builder of fine houses. Her effective registration abilities After Bernie’s passing, Carolyn did not go unnoticed. She was remains active with her many recruited to do the same for friends in the Lincoln clubs Kramer many Lincoln-Zephyr Owners and has retained that 1958 Club meets, and became a Lincoln and a 1923 the LCOC magazine, Lincoln Director in the LZOC, serving as Lexington.—Editor and Continental Comments. Chief Judge for fifteen years. Her Glenn has owned several latest registration task was for the erving his first year on companies over the years, a Shipshewana Meet of the Lincoln the Foundation Board computer franchisor and an Owners Club this year. S of Trustees is Lincoln & Internet Service Provider, to When Carolyn discovered Continental Owners Club name a couple. Currently, he Lincoln-Zephyrs, the 1937 to president Glenn Kramer. Glenn and his business partner Tony 1942 Zephyr three-window has served on the LCOC board Howlett own Network Security caught her eye. She and for the past five years and was Services, Inc. They work with Bernie gave a full restoration to elected president this year. community banks throughout an award-winning 1942 Lincoln- Glenn lives in Houston, Texas doing IT security services. Zephyr three-window. Other Texas, and owns two Lincolns, Given his lifelong dedication Lincolns included an elegant a 1970 Mark III and a 1979 to the Lincoln marquee, Glenn 1938 Lincoln K Willoughby Mark V. He and his girl Dawn hopes to be a contributor to the Sport Sedan. Only twelve Pirone keep busy attending the Foundation’s goal of building of this model were built the LCOC regional events as well and maintaining the Lincoln 1937-1939 model years. Then, as the three national LCOC Motor Car Museum. He feels there is the full restoration of meets. He has been fascinated that club participation in building a magnificent 1958 Lincoln by Lincolns since youth. His the museum is essential and he convertible coupe in red. Team first two cars were ’58 and ’60 will work to include the LCOC Bernie/Carolyn themselves Continentals. He writes often for in the march to that goal.—GK

15 LINCOLN FOUNDATION In memory of LCOC Philadelphia Region DONATIONS Elmer J. Rohn LCOC Southern Region LCOC John & Joanne Lower In memory of Al Bonlie Marilyn Rohn John D. & M. Ellen Steve & Beckey D’Ambrosia In memory of MacAdams Ed & Christine Gray L. Dale Shaeffer Jerry & Evelyn Horn Allen McWade LCOC Joe & Carol Sherlock Harvey V. Oberg Kris J. Sundberg In memory of Michael Simco Larry Pittman Frances & Maurice Willyard LCOC Michael E. Robbins In memory of In memory of Roy Thorson Jack E. & Virginia G. Shea Earl & Margaret Carpenter LZOC David & Diana Stevens T. Jack & Betty Carpenter LZOC East In memory of Robert H. Davis In memory of LCOC Bernie Wolfson In memory of Buzz DeClerk David M. & Norma F. Blum LCOC Hubert & Dorothy Vaughn In memory of In memory of Carl H. Yoho Thomas R. Groden, Sr. Marsha Y. Turner John J. Groden In memory of Eldon Yung In memory of LCOC Midwest Region Barney B. Hightower Building Fund LCOC Midwest Region Gregg A. Alfvegren In memory of Eric Brandt Richard Mackintosh Harold A. Breed LCOC Earle O. Brown, Jr. & Jean In memory of E. Brown James G. (Grant) Milne III John T. & Jeanne L. Eby Jack & Ginny Shea Jerry Emery In memory of Sylvester Stanley Grant (“Hank”) G. Pittman LCOC Vesta B. Pittman LCOC 2006 ENM In memory of Walter P. Rhea LCOC Hoosier Region LCOC LCOC Midwest Region

Founder Lifetime Members Patrick M. Dingman Gordon A. Jensen Michael E. Robbins William Clay Ford, Sr. Gregg A. Alfvegren David R. Dingman Jack Juratovic R.A. Romeo Nanette Anderson Chris W. Dunn* Allan Kammerer David & Elizabeth Roycroft Trustees Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Anderson* James I. Dunne Ralph R. Keller III Glen D. Roycroft Robert J. Anderson Robert J. Anderson, Jr. Elizabeth L. Eby Vaughn A. Koshkarian Stephen F. Sauer Earle O. Brown, Jr. Mervin B. Atkins Jennifer R. Eby Ed & Hazel Lacey Jim Schmidt Thomas W. Brunner Alan S. Berg John M. Eby LCOC Arizona Region Jack E. Shea Jerry Capizzi Joanne M. Bernardon John T. Eby LCOC Midwest Region David & Diana Stevens Chadwick A. Coombs Bob Boos* John F. Fischer LCOC North Texas Region Charles A. Steward William S. Culver, Jr. Earle O. Brown, Jr.* Leon B. Flagg LCOC Southern Region John L. Sweet John T. Eby James Robert Brown William Jake Fleming* Wilma Lenz Charles E. Taylor II Jerry L. Emery Jeanne Brown John B. Fryday John D. & M. Ellen MacAdams Dick & Joyce Thams Al Giombetti Thomas W. Brunner William T. Gerrard C. Manley Roy & Jeri Thorson Darryl B. Hazel Bryan E. Cash Keith H. Gornick Wendell Mathis Russell Upton* John S. Juratovic Charles M. Cawley Stanley Grant Douglas W. Mattix Craig M. Watjen Vaughn Koshkarian Jerry Capizzi Damien A. Grierson John R. McNabb H.H. Nick Weaver Glenn Kramer Joel Champagne William & Sharon Grzeskowiak Allen R. McWade Alan S. Whelihan* Allen R. McWade Stuart & Robin Cohen Gordon D. & Virginia D. James G. III & Joan M. Milne Carl A. Wolf Lee H. Miskowski David L. Cole Harbuck Mr. & Mrs. Lee R. Miskowski Tim & Billie Yeomans* H. Gene Nau Harold Doug Courtney Darryl B. Hazel Rod & Linda Moore Dr. David W. Roycroft Robert W. Young Michael C. Cunningham Carolyn Henderson Lloyd E. & June M. Pearson *Lincoln vendors supporting the David W. Schultz Richard I. Davis Chris & Maria Herrel David Petit Jack E. Shea Foundation through lifetime C. Joel & Suzanne S. Dickson Judith A. Herrmann Dan Pfeiffer membership John J. Telnack Michael D. Dingman Peter Heydon, Ph.D. Larry Pittman Russ Upton Betsy T. Dingman Roderick Hilgeman Vesta B. Pittman

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