The Real 1989 Lincoln Town Car Signature Series Special Edition With Marti Report

Oh, Tony, driving you nuts is such a very short trip. LOL 😆.
Nice car though.

I have a 1988 same color same top but no leather cloth

It’s a beautiful example. Enjoy it.

Do u fix and sell

Well its a Tony project! Nice daily driver, glad to see it went to a good home. Best of luck with the new ride.

Such a stately looking car, with so much presence. Beautiful.

Higher mileage Tony but a lovely car. I am sure, as you replace a few things, it will present perfectly. Definitely a keeper. 👍

Southern vehicles generally never have any rust. They don't use calcium chloride on the roads despite some years have more freezing rain and snow than the Northeast!
I definitely wouldn't call this junk, just a well used, well maintained vehicle.
A shame about the interior, as leather needs lots of moisture to keep it from cracking. It needs to be fed!
A nice project car to repair, to bring it back to being original.
Old car brochures online does not have the Special Edition cars brochure, so I couldn't find any information on this particular model. It also doesn't list dual exhaust as a stand alone option either; I'm under the impression that it was only available in the towing package, so I'm probably mistaken.
Best of luck with this vehicle!

Sweet saved another always wondered on how to aquire a build sheet

🏁 congratulationsTony that's a very beautiful Lincoln Town car! Looking forward to the videos on this car. 🇺🇲🏁🏁🏁😎🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

Tony unlike you I bought my 97 town car signature series with only 51,000 miles on it and according to the Carfax, that’s the original mileage. I pointed out all the things wrong with it but it’s a honest car. It’s rust free. It’s so clean underneath. It looks like a two year old car. The only rust is on the driveshaft and you can brush that off, but they’re small things because the car was painted and not painted right things were taped off properly or taken off like they should’ve been that’s driving me crazy But the leather seats are in good shape. AC works good automatic patrol works good. I don’t have a power antenna, the power trunk release power truck pull down works. The one thing I gotta work on now is the horn it did not work and I had airbag light on so by a clock spring I put a clock spring and nothing changed. The horn relay was bad so when I put a new relay in the horn blows won’t stop blowing so there’s a short somewhere, but anyhow I’ll work on that with a good time. Your town car looks beautiful. I’m glad you found a good one.

You should buy my lincoln

You should buy my lincoln

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Even with all the minor flaws this Town Car has it’s still absolutely gorgeous. I think a big luxury car looks so classy in white and that blue roof and interior really sets it off. I’m with you on anything stuck onto my cars. The dealer I always use puts a stick on nameplate on the back of all their cars. I always ask them to have it removed. I don’t mind advertising their dealership with a license plate frame but no stickers on the paint for me.

I think you and other Lincoln owners are wrong. What you should have learned from your parents accident isn't that you need to stop driving but the total opposite. You just found your parents 2 Lincoln's that had low mileage and who ever owned them did not drive them but saved them for the next guy which was you. So the real message is that you need to drive them and enjoy them not save them for the next guy. I own a 1980 Chrysler Newport and no I don't drive it every day it's not my daily driver but I do drive it and it is way more rarer then your Lincoln because they weren't popular and most people don't like them. What can I say I do. So enjoy them and drive them.

I love how this one has the full vinyl roof, same goes for the LTD Crown Victoria and Grand Marquis, that half vinyl roof was okayish, but I always preferred a hardtop or that super luxurious looking full vinyl roof!!

It takes forever and a day to get a Marti report back.

Looks like a great summer daily driver

I am anxious to see the video on fixing the silver panel on the rear of the car. The black is pealing really bad on my 89 towncar and I am at a loss as to what to fix it.

My favorite rims are the deep dish machined rims.

Hi Tony, i would love to see you working with this Town car till it is mint again, so this is going to bee a lot of work for you but i like to se the videos.👍👍

Looking forward to your repair videos. What a great car!

Beautiful car i love it. I've always loved the body style they are so classy. I'm not to crazy about the jelly bean style town cars. I miss my town car i would love to own another one again. They just speak elegance and class

Tony I have OEM blue floor mats in excellent condition if you're interested ? I have them in Pennsylvania ...thanks

Were the ACS conversions on the roof done at Wixon or were they sent somewhere after assembly

To be fair, this Town Car has 140K miles on it. I think it looks pretty darn good for the mileage. Was especially impressed with how nice it looked underneath! As always, the devil is in the details! Where did those goofy stick on plaques come from? I guess I would have assumed they came with the car. The exhaust tips look just fine, I would have guessed they were stock as well. Sure want to watch you repair that sun roof and wadded up paper inside, will you have to pull down the headliner? You will attend to the details one at a time, and love doing it. This car will be a great daily driver for sure. It would seem like the wrecked Town Car will have many of the parts needed for this car, give the seats a good leather treatment and they will be fine.
I have often wondered about those "Marti reports", I hear them mentioned all the time. Where does "Marti" get all this information from? To be fair, the report said your car was "equipped with the following...", it didn't say whether they were "options" or standard equipment for the trim level.

My late father purchased a brand new 1988 Town Car Signature Series. Dual exhaust, all the chrome. Black with burgundy interior

I have to wonder about those reports when it says "HO SEFI engine" The engines were the same across the whole line. The only thing that made more power was dual exhaust. I am rather doubtful that it was SEFI...though I may not remember as well as others but I am pretty sure it was bank-fired(4 injectors at a time...no sequencing at all) and was not SEFI. The actual HO 302 may have had but what was different about the LSC and Mustang stuff is that it had forged pistons and a 351W cam(different firing order). I am sure that the engine is not the HO 302 even though that "F" code seems to say so. That is not true, I think.

My memories of working on those when they were new (warranty stuff at dealership) were these things: #1 Oil leak due to rear of intake manifold gasket leaking fooling the naive to think it was a rear main seal. They were cork originally and loved to get sucked in by the PCV system. #2 AOD direct clutch burnout... Why? Don't know but maybe because we're in a snow belt. #3 Occasional 8.8 rear axle howling. Nonetheless a lot of those were sold. They're valuable now but at the time I could not believe how much they dropped in value after initial sale. Give it 2 years back in '89('91) and they were selling for 1/2 of the MSRP. Cool memories though. Hence me watching this with a passion. Thanks.

If anybody thinks that car is a piece of crap they're nerves it's in damn good shape some better shape than my '86 Mercury Grand Marquis with 117,000 mi on it it's got weird rust none of it's through yet but it's got weird rust on top of the windshield few spots on the doors in the trunk lid is rotten but I still love that car because it was my great grandmother's and it needs a vinyl top

TYVM for replying to my comment on the part 1 video. I apologize because I've been confusing your channel with Tony's Fords & Mustangs channel. Been subbed to both channels for quite awhile & of course both channels are excellent. <<Mark in Ohio>>

Tony, do you (or can you make) have a video on troubleshooting the illuminated keyhole? My passenger side works but the driver does not. Thank you in advance.

Excellent Video Mr. Tony and what a nice car just as it stands. Seems like it drives really nice and the engine/undercarriage looks very clean. It is amazing to us how much you know about these cars and how to fix all these items. Your skills are amazing and we will patiently await the next video. Please have a great week. Roseann & Dan

I am so curious, I have a 1989 "special edition" that doesnt say it on Marti report. But there is advertising saying its special edition. I have the Garnet red with red piped/white leather interior and white carriage top. Do you know whats up with that?

It was originally bought about a mile up the road from the Honda dealership where I work.

Tony. Please help me and show me how to adjust the mini vent and window in my 1979 Lincoln Mark V Cartier edition coupe.

I need help on everything you put in this video I need help on dropping my headliner so I can fix my moon roof My buddy gave me a seal for the glass that you're talking about for the moon roof My driver door lock is off like on the door like you showed on your example it's just loose it doesn't move and then I got to change out all my door actuators which he showed us the front doors I'm interested in the back doors

Tony...What state are you located in?

Nice I would take no problem

My window does that to got to grease it. Up

People put those dashboard plaque (usually with their name ) on cars not realizing that they will cause problems in the future, you see that so many times especially on Lincoln mark V ‘s and Eldorado’s, the plaque is there 45 years later long after the owner is gone , luckily you have replacement dashboard panel off of your parents wrecked car you can swap

Tony, I really enjoy your channel, especially the Lincoln content!

Hi Tony! Thank you for giving us an in depth tour of the Special Edition! Beautiful! We will look forward to seeing you work your magic with it. Can't wait to see the repair videos as you bring this car back to its original glory. Very exciting to see a car like this rescued!

Finally got to watch this vid. Thank you for taking the time to show us the characteristics of a real Signature Series and more of the one you just purchased. I was surprised to see the 3.27 Trac-Lok rear end on the build sheet. Learned a few things and definitely looking forward to more vids from you.

Just subbed, happy your parents are ok, so they bought you this one for the burgundy interior one!

Own an 05 Signature myself, also love an 89 because of the amber markers and 302!

I still think of your mom's phrase, "I don't want a tinfoil car." My vehicle is a 2004 Lincoln Aviator with less than 54K miles. My 2005 was rear-ended in Feb. 2020. I looked nationwide for the same model. Covid was beginning, and I didn't want to relearn a different SUV. I drove to Philadelphia ( I live in Maryland). The truck" 's paint wasn't a Lincoln color. I found a couple in the Miami area. But to my great surprise, a listing in Glen Burnie, Maryland, popped up with the Carfax report verifying one owner, all maintenance, and less than 53,000 miles. I'll call that a gift from God or "pennies From Heaven"! Back to your mom's saying, I'm weary of all the high-tech, plastic parts and turbocharged small engines. And also these crazy CRV transmissions. Email me if you ever have a reason to visit the Mid-Atlantic area.

Nice score. I could've got a couple of those Lincolns in my earlier years of driving but something always happened . I'm considering finding a nicely loaded Cartier edition if I can find a nice original one. How are they in the reliability department? If get one it'll probably get daily driven and even taken on a cross country trip