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    Lincoln goes midsize

    Mar 14, 2022 4 minutes
    Story and photos by Bob Tomaine

    Two decades ago, John W. Heyer decided to look into a fellow club mem-ber’s 1977 Lincoln Versailles that had suddenly become available.

    “The car belonged to a guy in the (AACA Ontelaunee Region),” Heyer said. “He passed away, it was stored at another friend’s place and he said to his widow, ‘You’ve got to get this car out of here.’ He called me up and said, ‘Do you want to come down and look at it?’

    “I remembered vaguely what the car looked like. We went down and I said to my wife, ‘What do you think?’ ‘Oh,’ she said, ‘it’s a beautiful car.’ I said, ‘Well, then I’m going to buy it.’ So we

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