Oh Lordy, I now own a Fordy (a Lincoln actually)..

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And a better scan of the original 2017 Hemmings Classic Car article. Funny thing is that when you google 1971 Golden Anniversary Lincoln, this is the very first thing that pops up! We're famous!

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Today I took the old girl out for an early morning cars-n-coffee in Millstone, NJ. 100-mile round trip. Drove very smoothly. A/C worked fine. No issues other than the gas gauge moving toward "E" very rapidly. On the way back I was surrounded and overtaken on I-95 by a gaggle of tiny JDM cars on their way to a show somewhere in Central NJ. It was hysterical. It was like a whale shark surrounded by a school of remoras. I hit the gas to get over into the far right lane and the Lincoln pulled the group along like it was caught in the riptide current.

Just need another 25 mile trip and I'll finally have an entire 1,000 miles on the engine I rebuilt in 2018.

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And...the mission creep continues. When I got home yesterday I decided to pull the interior for a deep cleaning that has never been done. And I did have one young kid stick their head in the car at the show and say to their dad "This car smells like old people". LOL
Due to all the years of storage it has had its battles with mice, mildew and mold. I pulled everything out and started cleaning. Found two enormous mouse nests in the back seat and several petrified mouse mummies under the carpet.

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Found several broadcast sheets including one that said "REWORKED DOORS" on it. I am borrowing the wife's carpet cleaner today to shampoo the carpets after I spent an hour vacuuming them out and beating them with a stick to get all the sand out. And the mouse nests (next to a piece of 2x4 for scale).

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Close up of the broadcast

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A better shot of the broadcast remnant that was stuck to the underside of the carpet. And other paperwork found under the tar paper, sound-deadening mats in the rear seat area. And the rear seat with a pristine broadcast sheet in the springs. I guess the mice weren't interested in it for their nest(s)

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The carpet sections after two rounds of shampooing with the wife's Bisell machine. They smell very nice now. Not like "old people" any more. I also used the machine and shampooed the headliner, seat belts, and the door panel carpets as well. It was a balmy 90 degrees out today so the dampness in the fabric/carpet evaporated very quickly.

I reinstalled all the tar paper sections that I took out yesterday to vacuum and disinfect the floors. By the way, the section of tar paper on the back floor that was permanently bonded to the floor was most likely the result of the ambient heat from the original single muffler that resided just underneath that location. There was no sense in trying to remove it since I was reinstalling the rest of the sections anyway.

Ready for the carpet to go back in tomorrow.