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What a Luxury Car Should Be The 1989 LINCOLN TOWN CAR

Lincoln ads for 1989 claimed that its products were “What a luxury car should be,” and speaking from personal experience, that was not false advertising. The Lincoln Town Car looked like a Rolls-Royce for the American upper-middle class, and that’s exactly what it was. This particular 1989 Lincoln is my own. I bought it because it was a tangible link to carefree childhood family road trips. And, well, I just have a thing for the now-lost “great American luxury sedan.” My Town Car is affectionately known as The Magnolia Belle, because she’s the sort of genteel carriage a southern lady of a certain vintage might drive.

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