Hello from Tennessee!

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My name is Ed, 67 yrs old next month, Multi-Event Great-Grandfather, USAF 4yrs, retired from IBM Corporation, native Tennessean, living in the woods near Nashville and am glad to be here on the forum!

I was drag racing in the 50's on a dirt strip at 14yo.. I raced SCCA in the 70's in a 1956 Lotus XI LeMans Serial #247. I've had a few other cool cars in my life.

I played bluegrass banjo a long time until my hands wouldn't work so well anymore

My first Lincoln will arrive in about 2 weeks from a dealer in So. Florida. 1998 Mark VIII, Base, Bright Toreador Red, Light Graphite inside. Plain alloy MK VIII rims. 60K Palm Beach area miles. From EBay. It looks real nice, but I'm sure it will soon have some ... challenges . I may be the 2nd owner. CarFax shows 3 owners, but the Florida title has the SAME number today as when it was delivered new ...

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I put up some more pix and the CarFax report here:

http://s994.photobucket.com/albums/af63/rrevved/My%20Lincoln/

I hope that works. If not, then: http://tinyurl.com/yakq9vf

The wheels point in the right direction now, dealer sticker removed, full brake job, fluids etc.,
and "..the dent in the driver's side was PDR'd and now only has a BB-sized mark" says the dealer.

He says it's pretty sharp .. :)

Somebody take a look at this thang and tell me what I have done!!

I'm excited about my MK VIII to-be and finding this forum.
 
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Welcome! :) Another retired IBM'er reporting in, about 3 hours south of you in metro Atlanta. Best of luck with your Mark, and glad to hear you like to drag race.

You might be interested in attending SSHS9 - a gathering of 4000 pound and up with driver big cars racing at Atlanta Dragway on November, 7. I plan to be there. Here is a link to the web site http://www.sshs9.com/
 
Welcome to LOD!!! Looks very nice. The only thing it needs is a coolant crossover cover. :D I'm 2 years into a 20 year Air Force career, too.
 
Welcome to the Lincolns of Distinction Ed!

Beautiful Mark VIII and photos.

Tennessee has always been one of my favorite states. Great people and beautiful land. Hello from Michigan!

As for what you've done, I think you've done very well.:D
 
Welcome! Beautiful car!

Hope to meet you in person at an event sometime, sounds like you've got some great stories to tell. :)
 
Thanks to everyone for the nice welcome! As far as traveling to events, etc, I won't be able to do that. I am the sole caregiver for my wife who is paralyzed from 3 strokes and and broken hip/replacement. I also have had a few interesting health problems, but they haven't affected my love for a hot car. I haven't owned one for a long time and these MK VIII's turn me on. To tell the truth, I have never paid any attention to Lincolns in general.

I was on Ebay kinda looking at buying a used police car, Ford/P71 with all the heavy duty stuff in it when I tripped over an ad for a MK VIII. I tried to learn all I could about them and loved every bit of it - :) Then I started looking for a nice one for several weeks. I've -never- driven one. That's all about to change. hehe.

A couple of the hottest cars I have ever owned, built or driven were my brand-new, blood red 1973 Trans-Am with a 455 ci SD motor and a whining Muncie M22 (rock crusher) 4-speed close ratio and a rock-hard add-on 'off-road use only' factory suspension. It was a Street Monster after a few tweaks. It had so much torque that it would occasionally warp the body or whatever causing the driver's door to get jammed. Then we would kick it open and re-adjust and then 6 months later, same thing. BIG FUN!!

I also worked with my uncle, a medical doctor, in the late 60's, and we built a 'street' 23 T-Bucket with a red-hot Chev 427 that we ordered from Nickey Chevrolet in Chicago. It was basically the Nascar engine from the ...quiet part of GM's Performance division. Nickey Chevrolet had factory permission to put these things into a few Camaros and Chevelles and sell them to certain people with GM's blessing. Way over 500 HP, but I don't remember the exact number. Our little fiberglass T-Bucket, probably 1100-1200 lb had an M22 4-speed and it had (real) Indy car tires and rims and fabbed axle adapters on it that we got from a local Nashville guy who had a couple of cars at Indy for quite a few years. His name was Eph Hoover.

The problem was that the T-Model was literally undriveable and a scary thing to me. You couldn't keep the front wheels on the ground at all ..He sold it to someone and I just hope the guy is still alive after driving it. TOO fast, NO steering most of the time, and TOO twitchy/sensitive. I have no clue about 1/4 mile times or anything like that. It scared the hell out of me and my uncle and we just drove it a few times on some paved back roads. I never took it hard through the gears for 1/4 mile and you wouldn't either.. ;)

I've got a lot of old racing and car stories and apparently I love to talk ... :)

Glad to be here, but just tell me to shut up if you get tired of all this .. hehe..
 
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