... because me local dealerships will give me nothing in a trade in for an '08 Town Car.

I'm one of those "buy American" guys with a pretty solid history of new cars:

'65 Coupe de Ville

'67 Coupe de ville

'69 Coupe de Ville

'70 XKE 2+2 (didn't like it)

'71 Coupe de Ville

'74 Coupe de Ville

a Ford Granada somewhere in there

Some Lincoln Town cars in the 80s

1990 Montero (ran it to 125,000-miles) and was offered 50% of what I paid for it new about 4 years later.

A couple of other Ford Products for a while...

...and back to a few more Town Cars in the 90s and now have 90,000-miles on the '04 Ultimate (needs to be washed, though).

I'm doing the best I can to keep the economy going....!

JB