UltimateSVT
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About 4 months ago while going through the glove compartment on my prairie tan I come across the maintenance booklet behind the owner's manual.
In the first page was written the original owner's contact info & address.
I told my wife one day I would call the original owner to let him know his car is still alive.
Yesterday while driving over to my mother's house I did just that. I grabbed my cell phone & dialed the number.
I told the man (senior) that this would be a very weird phone call to him & that I was the proud owner of a 1997 prairie tan Lincoln Mark VIII. The man went crazy. He was so happy to hear that his car was not only alive but in the condition I described it.
He explained to me he purchased it brand new from Longwood Lincoln Mercury now named Parks Lincoln. He bought his first Lincoln there in 1981 & purchased his last Lincoln in 2010. He isn't happy with Ford's desicion of discontinuing the Crown Vic/Grand Marquis/Town car.
He purchased my Mark VIII at age 50 in 1997. He owned it until 2002 when he traded it in back to Longwood Lincoln with only 33,000 miles. He purchased a 2002 Lincoln Towncar which he owned until 2010. Just 4 months after owning his '02 Towncar he encountered his first air ride issue & took it in for repair. He asked his salesman what ever happened to his Mark VIII. He told him he sold it himself to a retired Marine which makes perfect sense because that's exactly who I purchased the car from. I think this was a great phone call for both him & I. He got the news that his car is alive & well & owned by a "car nut just like me!" as he put it & I of course got to learn the roots of my car's past. Florida car all its life & 3 really good verifiable owners counting myself.
I'm very happy! Not too many ppl can say that about their car(s).
