The LINCOLN LINK LINKINGThe TOGETHER LINCOLN ALL ELEMENTS OF THE LINCOLN MOTORLINK CAR HERITAGE The Continental Mark IV Page 4 2019 Lincoln Homecoming Page 13 Museum Momentum Page 18 spring–summer 2019 the lincoln link SPRING- SUMMER 2019 The LINCOLN LINK CONTENTS 3 Chairman’s Message: notes from David Schultz 4 Contest of Wills: The Lincoln Continental Mark IV by Jim and Cheryl Farrell 12 Lincoln Aviator on Display at Lincoln Museum 13 All Ford Products Invited to Sixth Annual Lincoln Homecoming 15 Featured LMCF Member: Bruce Kopf 16 LMCF Library Moves in New Direction: a report from Joel Dickson 17 The Lincoln Legacy Society 18 Museum Momentum: a report from 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 DIRECTORS 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- Mike Denney, Director, Road Race Lincoln Register ments of $250); Memorial ($500 mini- 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 H. Gene Nau credit card. Contact them by e-mail at Gerald A. Capizzi Darryl B. Hazel Dr. David W. Roycroft [email protected]. Chris Dunn Robert Johnson Jack Shea ■ ON OUR COVER: A 1972 Continental James D. Farley+ Vaughn A. Koshkarian John L. Sweet Mark IV, a 1940 Brunn-bodied Zephyr Town Joy Falotico* Lee R. Miskowski Jack Telnack Limousine, and a 1952 Capri represent the articles in this issue. Dennis R. Garrett James Muller Paul C. Temple ■ LINCOLN LINK AVAILABLE TO Foundation MEMBERS ONLY. + Executive Vice President and President, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Information on how to become a member Ford Motor Company appears above or visit the LMCF web site: www.lincolncarmuseum.org * Vice President, Ford Motor Company and President, The Lincoln Motor Company 2 FALL-WINTER 2018 A Message from the Chairman s we approach the sixth is pleased and honored by this annual Lincoln Home­ support. The Lincoln Motor coming, I’m pleased to Company has also announced its The LINCOLN LINK report that 2019 will be support of the annual Lincoln another year of achieve­ Homecoming. mentA for the Lincoln Motor Car Our 15,000­square­foot museum EDITOR Foundation—albeit with one chal­ contains a variety of elegant David W. Schultz 1221 Providence NE, Chestnut Hills lenge. More on that shortly. Lincolns as well as significant Massillon, Ohio 44646-4105 The Lincoln Motor Car Heri­ Lincoln memorabilia—thanks to tage Museum & Research Center many generous donors. Memo­ GRAPHIC DESIGN is “world class.” Since opening in rabilia can take the form of litera­ Richard L. Cole August 2014, thousands of people ture, showroom materials, historic Graphics Ltd. have visited. What they see is an photographs or dealership display 200 E. Fesler St., Suite 206 Santa Maria, California, 93454 attractive, professionally­designed items. We are always interested in and outfitted museum that “tells donations and loans; please con­ PHOTOGRAPHY the Lincoln story.” tact LMCF trustees Jim Blanchard Walter Herip, John Walcek, Bruce Kopf Our current focus is the or Joel Dickson. museum’s endowment program. Dates of the 2019 Lincoln The Lincoln Motor Car The board continues to work Home coming are August 9­11. Heritage Museum and at raising $1.5 million that will Our host club is the Road Race Research Foundation, Inc. Gilmore Car Museum ensure the continued operation Lincoln Register. Our guest speak­ 6865 Hickory Road of the museum. To date, we have ers will be Andrew Layton, Hickory Corners, Michigan 49060 achieved just over $1 million—or author of a biography on Lincoln lincolncarmuseum.org 68% of our goal. To assist those Panamericana driver Ray Crawford, efforts, a Legacy Society was cre­ and Gale Haldeman, Ford Motor ■ The Lincoln Motor Car Heritage ated in 2018, by which individuals Company retired designer. There’s Museum is for you! America’s pas- sionate love affair with the Lincoln and businesses can make provision more Homecoming information automobile continues to inspire new in their estate plan or establish on the foundation web site: generations. This is demonstrated in a life­income gifts to benefit the www.LincolnCarMuseum.org. variety of ways, including the formation Foundation. An article on the Everyone I know is looking of affinity clubs in which enthusiasts can share their interest in a particular Lincoln Legacy Society appears in forward to celebrating the Lincoln brand or segment of the automotive this issue. Motor Company’s centennial market, past and present. The Lincoln A special donor pin was created in 2020. The seventh annual automobile has inspired the creation for those individuals who have Homecoming, held in August, of four major affinity clubs. These become members of the LMCF should be our most special Home­ have inspired the Lincoln Motor Car Foundation, its Museum and its work Fabulous Fifty group—individuals coming yet. I expect a large of Sharing the Living Legacy of the who’ve donated $5,000 or more. attendance and dozens of Lincolns Lincoln Motor Cars. Pins were personally presented to from all eras, representing the those donors who attended the 100 years of the Lincoln Motor The Grand Opening of the Lincoln 2018 Lincoln Homecoming, and Company. Motor Car Heritage Museum took place August 9, 2014. We invite you to that will take place in 2019 as well. Thank you for all you do for explore what we have to offer and visit We recently received another our Foundation and Museum. the Museum located on the Gilmore very significant vehicle from the Car Museum Campus in Hickory Lincoln Design Studios—the new Corners, Michigan. The Museum is Lincoln Aviator, which arrived open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, Saturday and Sunday a few weeks ago. It joins the from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The 6th Annual prototype of the new Lincoln Lincoln Homecoming, the annual Continental and the Lincoln —DAVID W. SCHULTZ gathering of the four Lincoln clubs at Continental clay styling model. All LMCF Chairman and CEO the museum, will take place at the have been very well­received by museum August 9-11, 2019. Join in the fun! Museum attendees. The LMCF 3 THE LINCOLN LINK Contest of Wills: Lincoln’s Mark IV ly on that they had been assigned the Mark IV, which was not due to be designed for another year, as busy work. Slab­sided cars with front and rear ends pulled out to the maximum were de rigueur for Lincolns of the day. Dahlberg, however, designed his cars dif­ ferently, and some, if not all, the designers in his studio silently ad­ ■ Fritz Mayhew’s original sketch used for the design of the alternate Mark IV. mired his European­style designs BY JIM AND CHERYL FARRELL Mark III’s final design was se­ with full sides and plan views that lected, reviews recommended the pulled inward. n spring 1968, at almost the original design without the Rolls­ In prior interviews, Dahlberg same time the Mark III went Royce grille or spare tire hump. has indicated that six different on sale, Henry Ford II hired I But Iacocca ignored the reviews, proposals were considered for the Bunkie Knudsen away from GM followed his instincts, and sales Mark IV. He also acknowledges, to become president of Ford of the Mark III finally moved however, that he never saw more Motor Co. When Knudsen got Lincoln into the big leagues. than two Mark IV proposals. The to Ford, it didn’t matter to him Initial sales of the Mark III other designers in his studio only how successful Lee Iacocca, a gave Lincoln­Mercury Division recall two, and although there Ford vice­president for all cars good reason to believe it would may have been many more Mark and trucks, had been at picking soon outsell the Cadillac Eldora­ IV renderings, in fact there were winning car designs, or the past do, or if the Mark III wasn’t the only two designs built as full­ relationships Iacocca had forged, car that knocked off the Eldo­ sized clay models. especially with Gene Bordinat rado, the next­generation Mark The designers who worked and his designers. Knudsen was almost certainly would be. As the with Dahlberg on his Mark IV now president of Ford, and he father of the Mark III, Iacocca proposal were Jim Arnold, Dean thought that as president he got felt he was entitled to take credit Beck, Dick Blair and Bob Hack­ to choose the designs he liked. for Lincoln’s newfound suc­ ett, a clay modeler who did dou­ Within weeks after he started, cess, and that he had earned the ble duty as a designer. The clay Knudsen was prowling Ford’s right to control development modelers assigned to Dahlberg’s Styling Center picking car de­ of the next model of the reborn studio were supervised by master signs he favored and encouraging Mark series when it came time modeler John Cecil.