Original Kansas car according to the dealer. This is the dealer friend of Hoovies Garage.
https://www.euroasianauto.com/details/used-1979-lincoln-mark-v/117574143
I clicked on the link and looked at all 66 pictures
A few thoughts . . .
The gvwr of over 6000lbs is as much as some 1/2-ton trucks from years past
I saw an A6 ac compressor . . . Itâs been my experience vehicles equipped with those from the factory would blow ice cubes 
in your face 
One picture showed a full tank . . . Right below it said â2 miles to emptyâ 
You can tell from the pictures that while it is indeed a sizable car, the cabin isnât particularly cavernous by todayâs standards. Looks like not much room in the back seat
Like many stylish cars of that era, it wasnât very roomy. The very long hood/short rear deck style was nice, but it wasnât practical.
Unfortunately I donât have the $$$ or the space.
IMO 2-door cars are for people that only occasionally have passengers in the back seat. Less leg room isnât such a big deal. Thatâs also why I prefer sedans.
In the early 70s I test drove a Mark III, front seat was roomy, did not try the back seat. In the John Wayne movie âThe Hellfightersâ there is a scene where the lead characters go out to dinner, the wives are in the back seat, seemed to have had adequate room. The exterior size did not bother me, at the time I was driving a 67 Catalina.
Did I buy it? No, my more sensible side took over.
Is that the one where he played Red Adair . . . ? . . . the oil fields fire fighter?
Before my co-worker bought that Mark 5, she had a '68 Bonneville convertible, which might have been even bigger than the Lincoln.
Yep, I just recently rewatched it.
That Mk V was 230", a Bonneville 223". Boats all.
Youâve probably got 300 lbs just in 5mph bumpers and filler panels.
Ford figured they couldnât make an A/C system as well as Harrison could so they just bought GMâs stuff.
My grandpa gave me 3 pieces of advice before he died, one of which is to always buy 2-door cars, 4-doors are for old folks. And true to his word thatâs all he ever drove. Even with 5 kids.
Mrs JT had a 2-door Cavalier when we had our first child. Putting the girl in a child seat in the back of that Cavalier got old quickly. We bought a Taurus and we were very happy with it. We considered 4-door sedans as family cars.
I am willing to bet that if your Grandpa were alive today (not knowing your ageâŠ) and you had a two door car and you made him climb in and out of the back seat, heâd be smacking you upside the head and yelling at you for not listening to him that â4-doors are for old folksâ and now that heâs an âold folksâ he needs a 4-door car⊠
PS: If my Grandpa were alive today, heâd be 127-years oldâŠ
I think car seats werenât even a thing during grandma and grandpaâs child-rearing years. He said 4 kids could sit comfortably in the back of his 56 Buick and the fifth would be in front where grandma could hold on to her.
Nah. Grandpa died at 71 (the night I graduated HS, coincidentally), but before he became stuck in bed with oxygen tanks he was still slim and nimble enough to climb into the back seat of dadâs 2-door Caprice. He was adamant about only having coupes.
I think mine would be 110, give or take. I still remember 3 things he taught me as a teen. One, when you have a cold, switch to menthol cigarettes. Two, always buy a 2-door car (my first car was a 2-door Cutlass). And three (this is the important one), he said âthe biggest problem for you young people is everyone tells you what to do. Just go your own way, make your own decisions, and you will be fine.â Iâve tried to teach that to my kids.
When I interned with my stateâs child protective agency, back in the late '60s, I learned about one advantage of 2 door cars. I was assigned to pick-up one of our adolescents after he finished his term at the stateâs âcorrectionalâ facility for minors. My supervisor told me to use one of our few 2-door models, in order to prevent him from absconding on the way back to his hellish home.
Naively, I asked why a kid would want to try to escape when we were returning him to his home, and I was informed that many of these troubled kids had such a bad relationship with their parents that it wasnât unheard-of for them to try to escape while they were being released from incarceration.
So, that day, I learned to use a 2-door car, and to place our newly-liberated kids in the back seat.
Iâm sure child seats werenât available. My parents never had them for us in the 1950s. Does the lack of car seats back then make your grandfatherâs coupe a really-old-personâs car? 
