Near-Detroit Lincoln Owners: Ford 100th show

[Dan Szwarc]

http://www.michiganlcoc.org/portal25/ju ... on-july-15

The staff of the annual Ford Product Development Center (PDC) Truck and Car Show is pleased to announce its addition to the calendar of official events celebrating the Company’s 100th Anniversary of Lincoln! The Lincoln Anniversary Team would like to invite all Lincoln owners to this exciting show, the only Company-sponsored, internal event of its kind. The PDC Show is unique in that it emphasizes the product development aspect of the participant vehicles and includes a wide variety of models of many makes and types. Company staff and management from all areas of product development attend to learn, and draw inspiration from, the heritage, features, and lessons associated with the field of vehicles on display.
The grounds in Dearborn cover nearly a half mile of Rotunda Drive along the PDC Staff Buildings’ lawn frontage. All Lincolns – as all vehicle classes in the event – will be parked in a single area (includes Lincoln entries normally distributed between Pre-War Cars, Post-War Non-Ford FoMoCo-Branded Cars, and Trucks). The PDC Show is comprised of vehicles owned by collectors and museums from throughout the United States and Canada (and occasionally from other countries, as well).
We are extending the invitation for Lincoln owners until May 31, 2022. For details, click on link below.
When: Friday, July 15, 2022
Where: Product Development Center, 20000 Rotunda Drive (for GPS purposes), Dearborn, Michigan
Schedule: Feature Cars (To Be Identified) Setup at 5:00am to 6:30am
General Arrivals from 6:30am to 8:30am (sharp)
Executive Tour at 11:30am (approximately)
Participant Raffle at 12:30pm (approximately)
Lockdown ends 1:15pm (approximately)
Most vehicles leave by 3:30pm (estimate)
Amenities:
Complementary calendar of each vehicle in isolation (via photo station; photos taken by WHQ Archive photographers)
Pre-printed owner card
Dash plaque
Automatic entry in participant raffle (one chance per each participating vehicle)
Lunch for low purchase price
Trailer parking
On-site clean portable toilets and washing stations
On-site security
Separate dedicated lane on Rotunda Drive for entry to the show grounds
Others to be announced
Vehicle requirements:
Complete vehicles in presentable to concours condition to fulfill the primary goal of education and inspiration
Representative historical example of the model
Preferably in factory appearance, though not mandatory
Owners can nominate and, upon confirmation, participate with multiple vehicles
Instructions for registration:
Simply send the following information, along with any questions, via email (DGLICKM1@FORD.COM) for each desired entry:
Name
Mailing Address (kept confidentially)
Phone (kept confidentially)
Year
Make
Model
Any significant fact or equipment (optional)
One front picture minimum reflecting current appearance of vehicle
Show staff will send confirmation within a week of receipt
Owner replies to complete the confirmation process
Thank you in advance for your interest in joining Ford Motor Company’s 100th Anniversary of Lincoln celebration at PDC Dearborn!

[Stuart M. Cohen]

What's that I smell? Oh, another road trip!

Was planning on driving up to Kitchener, Ontario for a car show the week before, so just a slight detour on the way home.....

[Dan Szwarc]

Get your application in asap, Stu. Say you're with the Michigan Region LCOC and Doug Shahady referred you. This post will disappear on May 24th.

[Stuart M. Cohen]

Emailed him last night and got the confirmaiton today. See you there, thanks!

[Stuart M. Cohen]

Anyone else going?

[TonyC]

Not with these extortionist gas prices still hiking up, unless the government decides to up my pension to compensate for that. In fact, I've had to delay my Texas trip yet another month just so I can finish recovering from the Florida trip. That's really my only reason; all the car's ills have been dealt with except for the cruise control, which is still refusing to act properly...but because it's an aftermarket device, any diagnosis I do is purely conjecture.

---Tony