Lincoln Town Car Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/31/2010
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Placed as part of the Central Maine Power Run by the Power Rangers.
This is a camoed film can, that contains a log and a collectable pathtag for the FTF.

Lincoln Town Car

The last car my Dad owned before he died was a bright red 1991 Lincoln Town Car. After He died in 1997, the car became my wife’s. She drove it until 2003. Even though it was 12 years old, the cars classic styling gave it an appearance of being “new”. We drove to Florida in it several times and it was like cruising down the highway in your living room! There are a lot of gated communities in Florida but when I drove up to any of them in our Lincoln town car with our 3 digit license plate, we were always waved in!!
The Lincoln Town Car is a full-size, rear-wheel drive luxury sedan sold by Ford's upscale Lincoln brand. The Town Car features a V8 engine and large exterior and interior dimensions. The Town Car remains one of the best selling American luxury cars in spite of declining sales. It is America's most used limousine and chauffeured car. While relatively affordable when compared to European flagship luxury sedans, the Town Car is currently the most expensive American luxury sedan (according to base MSRP), with priced at $46,525 for the Signature Limited, and $52,195 for the extended-wheelbase Signature L. This vehicle has been available featuring ballistic protection since 2003, adding nearly $100,000 to Town Car's base price.
In 2006, Ford considered ending production of Lincoln's largest model after the planned closing of the Wixom Assembly Plant in Wixom, Michigan in 2007. Ford ultimately decided to keep the model and move assembly to the St. Thomas Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada where the Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis, which also use the Ford Panther platform, are currently built. The Town Car's manufacture resumed at its new location in late 2007. The first Canadian-built Town Car rolled off the assembly line on January 10, 2008. The Town Car is currently the largest Canadian-made car, measuring nearly 18 feet (5.49 m) in length for a standard Town Car and 18+1/2 ft (5.64 m) for an L Edition.
Consumer Guide cites the vehicle's strengths as comfort, materials, ride quality, and 'braking [that is] short and stable for a heavyweight"; with weaknesses mentioned in acceleration and handling. The Town Car is one of the safest cars available on the North American market.
Name
"Town Car" is English for "Sedan de Ville," Cadillac's model that was gaining popularity in the 1950s. Both names refer to a classic style of limousine, popular in the 1920s, which had an open chauffeur's compartment up front, but only Lincoln has sometimes attempted to make its modern models visually suggest their older namesakes. Many examples from the 1970s and 1980s have a vinyl roof style which sweeps down the center pillar as part of a raised molding, complete with opera lamps, which suggests a partition between front and rear seats, while no vinyl is applied to the front section of the roof over the driver.
History
1978 Lincoln Continental Town Car. The 1979 model year was the final full-size body before downsizing in 1980. The Town Car name first appeared in the Lincoln line in 1922, on a custom built Lincoln for Henry Ford.
The Town Car name later appeared on several trim levels on the Lincoln Continental from 1959 to 1980 before becoming a model in its own right for 1981. With the introduction of the smaller Continental sedan in 1982, the Town Car became Lincoln's largest car.
There have been three major design generations of the Town Car body, introduced in 1981, 1990, and 1998. Each of these received a substantial refresh approximately halfway through its production cycle, in 1985, 1995, and 2003.
Pre-1981
The Town Car name appeared in the Lincoln line for the first time in 1959, on a special limousine-like version of the standard Continental. This first Town Car was available only in black and was identifiable by a unique padded vinyl top, which was a rarity at that time.
After its first appearance in 1959, the Town Car name went dormant for 10 years, and re-emerged as an especially plush interior option package for the 1969 Lincoln Continental. It next appeared as a trim option in 1970 ("Continental's Town Car Interior option", to quote from the 1970 deluxe catalog), and thereafter continued through 1980 as the top-line trim option package for the Lincoln Continental. Again, the Town Car trim featured an extra plush interior along with, usually but not always, a landau vinyl roof over the rear passenger compartment. The Town Car badge has always been applied to sedans, but from 1975 to 1981, there was a similar option/model for coupes called the Town Coupe..

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