This is to share a couple of vintage Lincolns I stumbled across on a road trip I completed yesterday. I went to Livingston, TX on Thursday for a cigarette run; now, why would I take a 6-ish-hour road trip for cigarettes?? Long story...but before anyone gets snarky, it does not involve the green funny s**t. Homey don't play dat; it's the proper brown s**t I use. But, after coming up flat in my searches of the San Antonio smoke shops for unfiltered cigarettes, I decided that I should probably just commit to the smoke shop located in a Shell gas station near the Alabama-Coushatta Indian reservation east of Livingston, which is northeast of Houston. Besides, at $44 a carton, plus the fun of a road trip, how can I go wrong?
Well, maybe there's a way...maybe I could have waited until I at least did surgery to Frankenstein's stabilizer 
. I learned about a week ago that the end links were a bit on the worn side, and the bushings were well beyond the worn side. Though I ordered a new all-inclusive kit, it hadn't arrived yet, but I still made the trip out there, hearing disconcerting thumps from the front end at low speeds and getting a taste of Taiwan's recent experience when braking at high speeds. Can anyone tell me whether worn-out stabilizer bushings and end links could contribute to low-speed thumps and an earthquake effect when braking at speeds above 40 mph...? 
Anyway, back to topic before I digress further: I felt just too tired to try and make the return trip Thursday night, so I checked into a local hotel with intent to return home Friday. Perhaps it was a good thing I did, not only to make sure I did not crash on the way home; but also to share a couple of lucky finds with the Forum which I likely would have missed if I tried going home on Thursday. My first discovery was a '76 Givenchy, which I saw from my hotel window at a mechanic's shop of sorts next to the hotel. That's not an everyday find, so I got a few pictures of it (see below); I didn't talk to anyone about it, so I don't know its status, but aside from a messed-up nameplate on the headlight flap it was in very good shape (not museum, but still very good). Then, on my way back, passing through Conroe, I came across a used-car dealership that had a black '62 facing the highway—the second lucky find! That one looked like a pretty much stripped example—meaning hardly any options fitted to it at the factory, save for leather upholstery and door-edge guards—but it was significantly customized, as the below pictures show. That one is for sale, but again nobody came out to talk to me, so I don't know asking price; but if anyone has an interest their contact info is pretty clear in the pictures (one of those pictures also shows how much they know–or not know–about what they have
). The dealership also had a '77 full-sizer under a canopy, but I didn't get any pictures of that.So, I'm sharing what I found, Lincoln love from eastern Texas. Enjoy!
---Tony
