Lincoln-Mercury

Now, ironically, racing was the quirk that brought these two men together.

Now, what makes the Lehman Peterson operation special is that it has an exclusive contract with Lincoln Mercury people to do the coach work for all Lincoln Continental limousines.

In case you've always thought that all Lincoln Continentals had a limo-like look to them, notice now one fact.

An ordinary Lincoln Continental has a price tag of, back in the day, you know, around about six grand.

On February 25th, 1964, after 40,000 miles of testing on the prototype, Ford and Lehman-Peterson reached an agreement.

Now you'll see here in this photo to the left, Mr. Peterson seated and Mr. Lehman discussed the cost estimates for a bid on a special coach building project.

They bid on several hundred such one-off jobs like these each year in addition to their limousine work for Lincoln Mercury.

Now, I did want to mention this or give a little bit more detail, rather.