LCOC Logo Items for Sale on Brand New Website

An exciting new Website partnership between LCOC and Lands’ End Outfitters is offering LCOC logo merchandise to all our members just in time for this year’s car show season! Who wouldn’t want to show off their brand new LCOC jacket, shirt, sweater, hoodie, cap, or accessory!

Thanks to an initiative by LCOC member Hal Reniger, LCOC National has approved the arrangement and created a link to our club Website at Lands’ End that offers dozens of items for purchase.

Founded more than 60 years ago, Lands’ End, Inc. (NASDAQ:LE) is a a classic American lifestyle brand. The company is a leading digital retailer of solution-based apparel, swimwear, outerwear, accessories, footwear, home products and uniforms for businesses, schools and clubs, through the Outfitters distribution channel.

Ladies polo shirt is typical of items offered on LCOC club Website from Land’s End Outfitters.

Product focus has shifted significantly over the years, but they continue to adhere to their founder’s motto as a guiding principle: “Take care of the customer, take care of the employee and the rest will take care of itself.”

For LCOC, both men’s and women’s clothing is offered along with accessories including BBQ aprons, scarves, belts, and ties. Clothing includes a wide variety of shirts, jackets, sweaters, pants, scrubs, and caps. A number of men’s and women’s styles in various sizes and colors is part of the Website’s initial offering.

There is a lot to choose on the LCOC Lands’ End Website and over time, we expect the selection to grow as more members discover and purchase their LCOC merchandise.

Website items are displayed minus the LCOC logo. Once color, size and style are selected, the LCOC logo may be added for a small added charge. Discounts are offered for selected items that can offset the added cost of the embroidered patch logo.

Some sample items from the Website are shown below.

Numerous jacket styles and colors are available for purchase. Some of the ladies styles are shown here.

Some of the many men’s shirt styles are shown.

How to Access the LCOC/Lands’ End Website

  • To access the site and begin shopping just log in to the Members area on the LCOC.org homepage.
  • After logging in click the Merchandise link in the navigation bar.
  • On the Merchandise page, click the Visit the Lands’ End Outfitters LCOC Merchandise Website button at the top of the page.
  • Once inside the Website click Sign In in the upper right of the page, create your personal account and then begin shopping. You may save your user name and password for future use and ease of log-in. To begin shopping, choose from Men’s or Women’s styles. Some items are unisex. Click the Add Logo button to add the LCOC patch to your item and then Choose Location to position the patch before placing your item in the cart. The embroidered logo is 3 inches in diameter.
Boats and Buttercup

Boats and Buttercup

ABOVE: The first time many Hoosier Region members met “Buttercup” was at the 2021 Annual Meeting at the Hilltop Restaurant near Spencer, Indiana.  (Photo courtesy of Jeff Shively.)

By Charlie & Becky Griffith

Originally published in the January/February 2025 Lincoln and Continental Comments magazine (Issue # 382)

ABOVE:  Photo by Becky Griffith

On Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024, Charlie and Becky Griffith attended the White River Yacht Club Classic Car and Boat Show in Indianapolis. The event benefits the Riley Children’s Foundation/Cancer Research. This is a multi-brand car and boat show. There were 146 vehicles in attendance, ranging from Volkswagens, Jeeps, Studebakers, Indy cars, Packards, Lincolns, Rolls-Royces, Bentleys and many more. There were food vendors, a silent auction, a 50/50 drawing, and a mystery wine pull to make things more fun.

ABOVE:  Photo by Becky Griffith

Charlie and Becky Griffith, LCOC members from Indianapolis, attended with their 1966 Lincoln Continental Coupe named “Buttercup.” The rare coupe was well-received by many of the spectators. Fellow Hoosier Region member George Odom of Fishers, Indiana, brought his 1946 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet. Unfortunately, the authors didn’t get a chance to meet up with Mr. Odom. This was a fun event, and the proceeds go to a great cause. We hope that we can stir up more interest for next year.

Charlie & Becky Griffith are LCOC members from Indianapolis, Indiana.

A Lincoln for the Digital Age – The Proposed 1990 Lincoln Zephyr

A Lincoln for the Digital Age – The Proposed 1990 Lincoln Zephyr

by Jim & Cheryl Farrell

Originally published in the January-February 2019 issue of Continental Comments (Issue # 346.)

The name Zephyr has been associated with Lincoln longer than the name Continental. Edsel Ford himself selected the name Zephyr for the all new, midsize 1936 Lincoln-Zephyr introduced in November 1935. Even though the Zephyr name was borrowed from a series of new, streamlined diesel locomotives built by General Motors, it certainly gave Edsel’s new car the mystique that it has to this day.

According to the late Dave Cole, writing in The Way of the Zephyr in January 1996, sometime during World War II, Henry Ford II decided to stop using the “Zephyr” part of the name in postwar Lincolns. This was an effort to upgrade the Lincoln brand so that it could better compete in the luxury market. Complicating matters, Lincoln’s new model was not scheduled to be introduced until April 1948 as a 1949 model. At the same time, the decision was made to promote Mercury as Ford’s mid-price entry.

From 1978-83, Mercury produced a mid-size model called the Zephyr. In 2006, Lincoln marketed a mid-size car called the Zephyr. The Zephyr name was dropped for 2007 onward, and the model was renamed the MKZ. Presumably, the “Z” was for Zephyr.

There was one other attempt to revive the Zephyr name on a Lincoln, but that proposal was stillborn. It came shortly before the introduction of the new Lincoln Town Car in 1990. IAD, the British company that made the 1990 Lincoln Town Car prototypes, suggested that Lincoln market a grand touring car model of the Town Car. They called it the Lincoln Zephyr Touring Sedan. IAD built two working prototypes shown in the accompanying photographs taken in the Design Center courtyard in Dearborn, Mich.

The proposed 1990 Lincoln Zephyr Touring Sedan featured lots of exterior blackout trim, blackwall tires, pseudo bucket seats, a center console with floor shift, additional plastic wood in the interior, and a different taillight treatment. The 1990 Lincoln Zephyr Touring Sedan was not produced because management didn’t think the U.S. market was ready for a European-style touring sedan. They may have been right about the market in 1990, but today things have sure changed because all Lincoln passenger cars qualify as European-style touring sedans. That would have probably pleased Edsel Ford very much if he were alive today.