2018 Lincoln Homecoming Part 1

The 2018 Lincoln Homecoming will Recognize the 50th Anniversary of Lincoln-Zephyr Owners Club 

The 2018 Homecoming is being hosted by the Lincoln-Zephyr Owners Club and all four Lincoln clubs are invited to attend the annual Lincoln Homecoming: Road Race Lincoln Register, Lincoln Continental Owners Club and the Lincoln Owners Club. Any Lincoln owner who is not a club member is also encouraged to register and attend this event. The 1936- 1948 V-12 Lincoln-Zephyr plus pre and post-war Lincolns will be featured.

Please join us and celebrate on the rolling prairies of northern Indiana August 6-9, concluding with a Golden Jubilee Heritage bash at the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Automobile Museum on Thursday, August 9,” said Tom Brunner, LZOC president.

On Friday, August 10, we tour to Kalamazoo to enjoy our Fifth Lincoln Homecoming at Hickory Corners on Saturday and Sunday. We will have a People’s Choice All Decades Lincoln car show on Saturday, August 11, for all Lincolns. It is anexhibition show only with no point judging. The presentation of People’s Choice awards will be Sunday, August 12, featuring awards for each decade–the 1920s through the 2000s; Best of Show and First, Second and Third Places will be awarded for each decade.

“Best of all, “ Brunner continued, “we will have luxurious motor coaches for all of our tours in Indiana. All tours will leave from the Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Elkhart, Indiana. On Tuesday, August 7, bus tour # 1 will go to South Bend and the glorious National Studebaker Museum where you will see the carriage that took President Lincoln to Ford’s theatre. You will see the ‘36 Studebaker that looked like a ‘36 Zephyr, visit the Notre Dame Football Room, and see the Oliver Victorian Home that will transport you to another era. Enjoy a delightful lunch at the Victorian castle of the Studebaker family called Tippecanoe Place.

On Wednesday we will have three bus tours. Bus tour #2 will feature a Brown Bag Tour to Amish cottage industries. On bus tour # 3 you will visit the “Real Housewives of Amish Country. On bus tour #4 we will ride to Shipshewana and see the old fashioned Amish livestock and home furnishing auction. There will be plenty of good things to eat. If you choose, you may visit the Hostetler Hudson Museum on your own.

“On Thursday’s bus tour #5 we will travel the route of the original 1913 Lincoln Highway through the farm country of northern Indiana, to visit the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, the National Automotive and Truck Museum(NATMUS), the Early Ford V-8 Foundation’s re-creation of the Ford Rotunda, and the DeKalb County courthouse. Thursday night will be our Founders Dinner and LZOC history celebration and Golden Anniversary Bash at the Auburn-Cord-Dusenberg Automobile Museum.

The number of seats on our tour buses are limited so it will be first come, first served, until rooms and tours are filled. We have coordinated with three different Elkhart hotels, each with different rates. Each hotel has complimentary breakfast and trailer parking. 

We have coordinated with three different Elkhart hotels each with different rates. Each hotel has free breakfast and trailer parking. Room reservations start December 1, 2017 and cutoff is July 1, 2018. Indiana Hotels are:

• Hilton Garden Inn, 3401 Plaza Court, Elkhart, Indiana, 46514, Phone 574-970-4444. We have 20 rooms for four nights, August 6,7,8,9, which could become 30 if we need them. Each night there are five kings and 15 standard queens. The rate is $115/night. Use the code “Lincoln Car Clubs” to get the special rate at each hotel.
• Fairfield by Marriott, 3501 Plaza Court, Elkhart, Indiana, 46514, Phone 574-970-1688. We have 30 rooms which could become 40 if we need them. Each night there are 15 kings and 15 standard queens. The rate is $104/night.
• Microtel by Wyndham, 3301 Plaza Court, Elkhart, 46514. Phone 574-970-0420. We have 41 rooms, which could become 55 if we need them. They have no kings, but have 1 or 2-bed queens, and queens with sofa bed. Rates are $65 per night and $75 per night. Minimum of 26 rooms must be reserved to qualify for the rate to get a discount; otherwise, the rate will be $90 and $100.

Friday morning we will travel to Kalamazoo to get ready for our Friday evening festivities that will take place at Four Points Sheraton Kalamazoo our host hotel, beginning with a happy hour followed by a buffet and then a lively Lincoln parts auction.

Click Here to Download PDF Form

Register early to ensure getting the tour that you want.

Meet registration will close on July 1. Help us by registering before this date.

Tom Brunner 
LZOC President, Meet Host and Meet Chairman 
480 471-7274 
480 353-9658 (Cell) 
Click Here to Email Tom

James D. Blanchard 
419 868-6586 
419 461-1113 (Cell) 
Click Here to Email James