1979 Lincoln Town Car Town Coupe review from North America

After I purchased this beautiful car, I did a VERY THOROUGH inspection- and found that the bolts which secure the steering column under the dashboard had worked themselves loose through the years. An easy fix- just tighten the 4 bolts. But for such a smooth-riding car, it surprised me that something like this would happen.

Other than that, no strange or out of the ordinary issues, just minor things like replace 1 headlight trim ring (broken), full tune-up, replace missing dash bulbs, etc.

2-barrel carburetor hesitates a bit upon acceleration, otherwise runs very smooth. No mechanical problems otherwise; everything works great.

The 8 track radio works, although volume is broken (stuck on low setting). I sent the unit out for service, and am still waiting for it (2 months). I have since found the 'perfect parts car' at a salvage yard with am/fm radio. I installed this radio, and... it has a very bad "hum" in the background: (

I purchased this '79 Town Coupe as a hobby- an addition to my '66 Pontiac GTO and '66 Pontiac Tempest.

It is undoubtedly the most comfortable car ever built- an excellent representative of an era when American luxury cars were at truly their greatest.

There were no compromises then. Although it's neither lightweight, great on gas, nor does it fit right into the average parking space, it does however perform exactly as it was designed to perform- to provide all of it's passengers with the highest quality of comfort during any type of travel, and with a most prestigious bodystyle.

It seemed very typical for these cars to either:

1. Fall into complete disrepair through the years due to owner neglect.

2. (just the opposite) many they'd be elderly owned since new and treated fairly well and preserved for many years.

This was the last year for the big Lincolns; it's really too bad that most people see these cars only as "HUGE" and not much else past that.. this really was the height of American luxury, at it's finest.