Did you ever break that Lincoln out of storage for the wife to drive?
The '79 Town Car is 'out to pasture'... for parts--and I have a line on another with a 460. (The one retired one had a danged 400 modified--miserable engine, anyway).
She has a little Mercury for running errands in town, but likes the big car on the highway, where it does best.
She says "They can have my Lincoln when they pry my cold dead hands from the steering wheel, and not until."
The '77 LTD is in storage, too (also a 460).