We open the smallish front doors, typical of open cars of the 1920s, and climb in. Chris Kidd pulls down the spark lever on the big Lincoln open tourer’s steering wheel hub and then eases out the choke, flicks the key, and steps on the starter pedal. The starter spools up, kicks the engine over, and the big 357.6-cubic-inch V8 flathead engine fires easily.
We let it warm and it settles into a rhythmic slow ticking-over characteristic of the long stroke, low compression motors of the era. He clutches and pulls the tall floor-shift lever into first gear and we are off. Chris uses low just to get the car rolling, and then double-clutches into second.
