1922 Lincoln Model L 7 Passenger Touring

This historic Lincoln centenarian has been with the same family for the whole of its 100 years. The chassis for this early Model, with a precision V-8 engine at its core, was likely completed when Henry Leland still owned Lincoln, but the marque's transition to Ford ownership was probably well underway by the time the car was bodied by Brunn. When the completed 7 Passenger Touring first arrived in his Portland, Oregon, Ford dealership, H.J. Casey didn't know quite what to do with it. Most people came to him seeking a Ford Model T then priced at just over $300 (the Model T became the first motorized vehicle to surpass 1 million in annual sales that year.) He doubted the Lincoln, with its price tag of more than ten times the Ford, would sell - so he made it the family car. After a decade of use, the Depression made its sale even more unlikely, so Casey simply parked the Lincoln in the garage and told his son, Paul, then aged five, that it was his. For a time, it doubled as a fort or clubhouse for Paul and his friends, then it sat unused for decades. Paul brought it with him to California in the 1970s, refreshed it, drove it, then passed it to his sons, Michael and Tim.