Got them both, peritrochoid! I’ll never forget the cathedrals – Chartres, Notre Dame, Salisbury – I saw many years ago, in my traveling days.
Now, as for your MLs…
flying - driving? - license?
Welles - film? - reel?
license -?- slaughter
reel -?- hoedown
Bingo on the film ML. The other was actually flying-pilot-license.
ML for yours:
license -kill- slaughter?
reel -fiddle- hoedown?
hoedown —> boogie
slaughter —> Texas (this could go two obvious ways)
Kill is right on the first ML. I’d thought dance for the second, but yours is good too.
Your MLs:
hoedown - dance? - boogie?
slaughter - Enos? - Texas?
boogie -?- bugle
Texas -?- thorns
I would’ve guessed chainsaw or massacre for slaughter -> Texas.
My guesses for the next ones:
boogie -> woogie? -> bugle (I know there’s a song about a “boogie woogie bugle boy”)
Texas -> rose? -> thorns (Yellow Rose of Texas)
bugle -> ? -> cow
thorns -> ? -> cat
Ah, Kat - of course it must have been chainsaw or massacre! And you’re correct on both of my MLs.
I’d say yours were:
bugle - horn - cow?
thorns - claws - cat?
And now for my turn:
cow -?- locomotive
cat -?- cow
Well, ETF, you got the dance right. Kat got massacre right.
And now …
I turn my attention …
to EddyTeddyFreddy’s latest in this long line of wondrous puzzlement.
cow - catcher - locomotive?
cat - milk - cow
Next Up:
locomotive -?- stair
cow -?- Spain
Hmmm…I don’t have any idea. I’m just posting to say that horn is right, but the other was thorns → scratch → cat. 
Hey, I’m batting .500! Not bad, not bad. Or should I say, not bat, not bat?
I didn’t think so. 
Anyway, cow - catcher - locomotive is right. But it was cat - fiddle - cow. That old nursery rhyme is still clanging around my head now.
So… onward to the new challenges.
peritrochoid, I’ll guess your missing links are:
locomotive - rails? - stair (this one I’m quite :dubious: about)
cow - bull? - Spain
Next up:
stair -?- heaven
Spain -?- snow
Not bat … err … not bad at all, EddyTeddyFreddy. To be so :dubious: about one of my links, you sure hit a home run with them both. 
And, yes, now I remember that nursery rhyme. I think it’ll be stuck in my head for a few days now. Thanks.
Anyway … my guesses:
stair - way - heaven
Spain -?- snow … eh … I have absolutely no clue. Kat, Sternvogel, can either of you help me out?
On that note, I’ll continue with heaven and leave snow for the next gamer to nudge along.
heaven -?- Alba
“The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain” – My Fair Lady.
And “Stair way to Heaven” is still playing in my head, so don’t feel so bad about the nursery rhyme.
heaven - help us??? - Alba??? No clue, no clue. At. All.
So let us continue with:
Alba -?- Napoleon
Hint: think palindrome. 
And I’ll shovel up the snow -?- pulling
Whew! That was close!
We just about lost this thread off page 2!
BTW, EddyTeddyFreddy, how’s lil ol’ Freddy doin’?
Well, my last link was:
heaven - angel - Alba (as in Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba).
Hey, don’t look at me like that … she’s a hottie, and was the first thing that came to mind when angel popped into my head.
Now, to yours:
Alba -?- Napoleon :eek: help? 
Fair enough, ETF, you got me.
snow -sled?- pulling
Moving along:
Napoleon -?- wine
pulling -?- novocaine
Thanks for asking about Freddy, peritrochoid. He’s back to fine fettle, fortunately. And thanks for reviving this thread.
Angel, huh? It would appear I need to delve deeper into pop culture. Especially the variety featuring hot babes.
My MLs were:
Alba - Elba - Napoleon: You know, where the emperor was exiled after the Brits had squelched him. What was my hint about? Ah, the hoary old palindrome: “Able was I ere I saw Elba.”
snow - plow - pulling: Now, here’s where I rode off on my hobby horse (pun intended). Plow linked on to draft horse pulling contests, a popular feature at agricultural fairs.
Now for your MLs:
Napoleon - brandy - wine, right?
pulling - teeth or tooth - Novocain, correct?
Serving back to you:
wine -?- song
Novocain -?- ass
I’ll say women for the first, pain for the second.
By the way, I was thinking of trend as the link between motor and fad. Perhaps Motor Trend magazine is as unfamiliar to your eyes as Jessica Alba apparently is…
song - ? - brain
ass - ? - Kong
Ah, motor - trend - fad – of course! Yes, I have heard of that magazine. Very good!
Correct on both of my MLs.
Yours would be?
song - bird? - brain?
ass - (as)king? - Kong?
Now it’s your turn:
brain -?- thought
Kong -?- shit (sorry!)
ready?
ONE …
TWO …
THREE …
HEAVE!!!
Whew! Rescued again!
Now, where were we?
Ah, EddyTeddyFreddy left the last clues. Let’s see what kind of links I can make here.
brain -storm?- thought
Kong -Ape?- shit
Next up:
thought -?- reminisce
shit -?- drunk
Oh, thank you, thank you, my noble rescuer!
I’ll take your brain - storm - thought link, if only because it’s been so long, I forgot my own ML. :rolleyes:
Kong - ape shit it is indeed.
Yours would be, ummm…
thought -* about?* - reminisce?
shit -face(d) - drunk – gotta be!
Onward, and let’s hope Sternvogel returns to assist in the life support:
reminisce -?- election
drunk -?- *stink
(Some time later… a dim bulb struggles to life and light…)
Ah! I’ve remembered my missing link! It was:
brain - food - thought.
Carry on.
(Bulb flickers, wavers, goes out again…)
With some confidence, I’ll guess skunk for the second, and recall for the first (the ideas came to me in that order).
By the way, song - bird - brain was correct, but I thought of ass - Donkey - Kong, Donkey Kong being a video game.
election - ? - lily
stink - ? - Eater (the capitalization should be a big clue)
Right on both of mine, Sternvogel.
I’ll guess:
stink - Death - Eater and hope you’re a Harry Potter fan.
election - day - lily, right?
*lily -?- pose
Eater -?- sot
I bet one is easy, and one is hard unless you’re an art connoisseur.
Right on the second, but my idea for the first was Odor, as in the brand Odor Eater(s).
Wild guesses, just to revive the thread:
lily - Portrait - pose?
Eater - weed - sot?
pose - ? - answer
sot - ? - disorderly