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As always, I enjoyed your review. It's great to hear your generation's take on a car that was new when I was your age. Let's face it these cars were at their best going in a straight line on the freeway ...... with no need to slow down quickly or make any thing more than a minor change of direction. On quality level on the "showroom floor" the paint and leather couldn't hold a candle to that eras Jags and Mercedes (BMW was known for the 2002 not their luxury cars as yet) which used lacquer paints and great smelling leather and real wood which topped the industrial leather and chrome plated plastic used in American luxury cars of the era (and remember Mercedes and Jaguar could still be had for the price of a decked out Buick Electra in the early seventies). However, used and taken care of as most Americans did in those days the Cads and Lincolns stood up better to use and abuse than their European counter parts. My impression at the time was that Cadillac's, not Lincoln's, quality improved with the introduction of the 1977 models, but deteriorated again in the 1980's.

Thanks again for a fun and enlightening review, Chad! Hope to read more in the future.

P.S. I wish cars still had floor headlight dimmer buttons, much better than than the column stock lever ubiquitous since the mid eighties. The column mounted dimmer switch was better for manual transmission cars (as most European cars were and are even today, but not as useful for automatics.)