The LINCOLN LINK LINKINGThe TOGETHER LINCOLN ALL ELEMENTS OF THE LINCOLN MOTORLINK CAR HERITAGE The Mark V: There Were Two of Them SEE PAGE 7 FALL-WINTER 2019 the lincoln link FALL- WINTER 2019 The LINCOLN LINK CONTENTS 3 Chairman’s Message: notes from David Schultz 4 2019 Sixth Annual Lincoln Homecoming 5 LMCF October Annual Meeting 6 2020 Homecoming to Celebrate Lincoln Centennial 7 The Mark V: There Were Two of Them by Jim and Cheryl Farrell 16 Telling the Lincoln Story 17 The Lincoln Legacy Society 18 Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum Report 19 Obituary: LMCF Trustee Steve D’Ambrosia 20 The All-New 2020 Lincoln Aviator 23 The Kanzler Lovett Brunn by Jim Blanchard ■ THE LINCOLN LINK is the official news- letter of The Lincoln Motor Car Heritage LINCOLN MOTOR CAR Foundation Museum and Research Foundation, Inc., Gilmore Car Museum, 6865 Hickory BOARD OF TRUSTEES Road, Hickory Corners, Michigan 49060. Opinions expressed herein do not neces- sarily represent or reflect Foundation DAVID W. SCHULTZ Chairman & CEO policy. Newsletter contributions should be JAMES D. BLANCHARD, JR. President & COO, sent to the address above. Museum Director ■ Earlier print issues of The LINCOLN LINK EARLE O. BROWN, JR. Executive Vice President are available as back issues. Price is $5 RUCE OPF each, postpaid. B M. K Treasurer C. JOEL DICKSON Secretary ■ MEMBERSHIP IN THE OHN ACK BY LINCOLN MOTOR CAR FOUNDATION J T. “J ” E Chairman Emeritus Membership categories: $25 Annual; $100 Annual Sustaining; $1000 Annual James Blanchard, President, Lincoln-Zephyr Owners Club Corporate; $1000 Lifetime (or four pay- ments of $250); Memorial ($500 mini- Mike Denney, Director, Road Race Lincoln Register mum, please provide name of honoree). John Talbourdet, President, Lincoln and Continental Owners Club Send your name and a check to: David W. Schultz, President, Lincoln Owners Club Cornerstone Registration Ltd., P.O. Box 1715, Maple Grove, Minnesota 55311- 6715, or call 866 427 7583 and pay by Robert Anderson Al Giombetti David W. Roycroft, MD credit card. Contact them by e-mail at [email protected]. James Ayres Darryl B. Hazel John L. Sweet Chris Dunn Robert Johnson Jack Telnack ■ ON OUR COVER: Richard Schierloh’s illustration of a gold 1978 Continental James D. Farley+ Vaughn A. Koshkarian Paul C. Temple Mark V Anniversary edition posed against Joy Falotico* Lee R. Miskowski Raymond Theriault the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas. Dennis R. Garrett James Muller Eric van den Beemt ■ LINCOLN LINK AVAILABLE TO H. Gene Nau Foundation MEMBERS ONLY. Information on how to become a member + Executive Vice President and President, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Ford Motor Company appears above or visit the LMCF web site: * Vice President, Ford Motor Company and President, The Lincoln Motor Company www.lincolncarmuseum.org 2 FALL-WINTER 2019 A Message from the Chairman The LINCOLN LINK EDITOR David W. Schultz 1221 Providence NE, Chestnut Hills Massillon, Ohio 44646-4105 GRAPHIC DESIGN Richard L. Cole Graphics Ltd. 200 E. Fesler St., Suite 206 Santa Maria, California, 93454 PHOTOGRAPHY Walter Herip, John Walcek, Bruce Kopf ■ David Schultz (left) escorted members of the Lincoln marketing team during their recent visit to the Lincoln museum. The Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum and Research Foundation, Inc. s we approach 2020, the the 2020 celebration, and the Gilmore Car Museum focus is on the centennial LMCF has offered its support of 6865 Hickory Road of the Lincoln Motor the 2022 celebration. In fact, Ms. Hickory Corners, Michigan 49060 lincolncarmuseum.org Company, which was Falotico will join us for a dinner incorporated in 1920 during the 2020 celebration. ■ The Lincoln Motor Car Heritage toA build motor cars. An earlier The relationship between the Museum is for you! America’s pas- company, also named Lincoln LMCF and the Lincoln Motor sionate love affair with the Lincoln Motor Company, had been Company continues to grow. A automobile continues to inspire new generations. This is demonstrated in a founded in 1917 to built Liberty few weeks ago, members of the variety of ways, including the formation motors during World War One. Lincoln marketing team made of affinity clubs in which enthusiasts The 2020 Lincoln Home- a first-time visit to the Lincoln can share their interest in a particular coming will be held August 6-9 at Motor Car Heritage Museum & brand or segment of the automotive market, past and present. The Lincoln the Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Research Center. In their words, automobile has inspired the creation Museum & Research Center in the museum exceeded their of four major affinity clubs. These Hickory Corners, Michigan. It expectations. That’s something we have inspired the Lincoln Motor Car will be preceded by a “warm-up” love to hear! Foundation, its Museum and its work event in Dearborn, Michigan. Finally, as you think about of Sharing the Living Legacy of the Lincoln Motor Cars. Additional information on the your year-end donations, please 2020 Homecoming is in this issue. consider a significant gift to the The Grand Opening of the Lincoln I should note that the LMCF Endowment Fund. It Motor Car Heritage Museum took Lincoln Motor Company will be ensures the continued operation of place August 9, 2014. We invite you to celebrating the Lincoln centennial our Museum. explore what we have to offer and visit the Museum located on the Gilmore in 2022, which is the year that Thank you for all you do for Car Museum Campus in Hickory the Lincoln Motor Company our Foundation and Museum. Corners, Michigan. The Museum is was acquired by the Ford Motor open Monday through Friday from 9 Company. So, there will be two a.m. to 5 p.m, Saturday and Sunday centennials to celebrate—and we from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The 7th Annual Lincoln Homecoming, the annual gath- will celebrate them! ering of the four Lincoln clubs at the Joy Falotico, president of the museum, will take place at the muse- Lincoln Motor Company and —DAVID W. SCHULTZ um August 6-9, 2020. Join in the fun! Ford’s chief marketing officer, has LMCF Chairman and CEO stated that Lincoln will support 3 THE LINCOLN LINK 2019 Sixth Annual Lincoln Homecoming “Featuring FORD BLUE IN KALAMAZOO” BY MIKE DENNEY AND um, the W.K. Kellogg Gull Lake Mexican Road Race win with BOB JOHNSON Mansion/Bird Sanctuary and the actual film. Tony Russo again Vicksburg Historical Village. conducted our Lincoln parts he Lincoln Road Race Wednesday began with reg- and memorabilia auction to raise Register (RRLR) hosted istration opening at noon, with funds for the LMCF endowment the 2019 Homecoming in T a cruise-in at the Gilmore Car fund. Saturday night’s scheduled August, which featured “Ford Museum and hors d’oeuvres speaker, Gale Halderman, was Blue in Kalamazoo.” We wel- and refreshments at the hotel on unexpectedly ill, so we enjoyed comed 125 individuals and their Wednesday night. On Thursday and danced to music by DJ families from all four Lincoln night we enjoyed an Italian buf- Mitch Wooster. clubs plus Ford, Edsel and fet at the hotel. On Friday and Saturday was show day on Mercury for this first-time event Saturday nights we enjoyed buf- the grounds of the Gilmore Car which featured all Ford-built fets at the Gilmore Car Museum Museum in front of our beauti- automobiles. Conference Center banquet ful Lincoln Museum, where our The weather was ideal, al- room, which was a major change. meet participants picked their fa- most perfect for the entire week. On Friday night, Andrew vorite cars for awards on Sunday. There were driving tours to the Layton was our guest speaker, Sunday was the day to display Gerald Ford Presidential Muse- detailing Ray Crawford’s 1954 our cars. Peoples’s Choice awards 4 FALL-WINTER 2019 were presented at 12 noon in 1950-1959: 1952 Lincoln Capri 300 Custom Dragster, John and front of our museum. The day Sedan, Mike and Joan Denney, Jim Herren , Davie, FL at the Lincoln museum wound Mounds, OK Best of Show Mercury: 1939 up with a car parade around the 1960-1969: 1969 Lincoln Mercury Sedan, Tom and Alice Gilmore Car Museum grounds. Continental Mark III, Joseph and Dailey, Colville, WA Something new was added Gayle Karasinski, Redford, MI for Monday—an all-day visit to Best of Show Edsel: 1958 Edsel the US 131 Motorsports Park in 1970-1979: 1979 Lincoln Con- Pacer Convertible, Andy Konyha, Martin, Michigan, where indi- tinental Mark V, David Knowles, Carlton, MI viduals ran their cars or simply Cayuga, Ontario Long Distance Driving Award: watched. Ten cars participated. 1980-1989: 1989 Lincoln Mark 1939 Mercury Sedan, Tom and VII Convertible, Bob and Mary Alice Dailey, Colville, WA 2019 PEOPLE’S CHOICE Johnson, Shafer, MN • DECADE Award WINNERS 1990-1999: 1992 Lincoln Mark A Special Thank You to the 1920-1929: 1928 Lincoln VIII Convertible, Bill Cuddy, 2019 Homecoming Committee: Locke Sport Phaeton, Lee Packer, Grosse Ile, MI Mike and Joan Denney, Road Litchfield, MI Race Lincoln Register; Dennis 2000-2019: 2017 Lincoln and Louise Garrett and Bob and 1930-1939: 1939 Lincoln- Continental Sedan, Al Kelly, Mary Johnson, Homecoming Co- Zephyr Convertible Coupe, Con- Birmingham, AL Chairs, as well as Jim Blanchard, nie and Iva Moore, Nowata, OK • David Schultz, John Talbour- 1940-1949: 1942 Lincoln- Best in Show: 1954 Lincoln Ca- det, Joel and Suzanne Dickson, Zephyr Convertible Coupe, Jack pri, Dan Staehle, Brownsville, WI Vaughn Koshkarian, Bruce Kopf, and Monica Sweet, Uniontown, Best of Show Ford: 1957 Ford Paul Temple, Jim Muller, Dan VA Staehle and Tony Russo. LMCF October Annual Meeting BY JOEL DICKSON Board of Trustees. There were new candidates were elected to LMCF Secretary 522 LMCF ballots mailed three-year terms: Jim Ayres from or e-mailed domestically and California and Ray Theriault from he Lincoln Motor Car internationally, with 233 ballots Connecticut.