Carlisle to Host Collector Car Auction
Beginning at Spring Carlisle 2006, April 20-23, there will be a high-end collector car auction with antique and special interest vehicles, said Carlisle spokesman Brad Adcock. The inaugural Carlisle...
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Plymouth at Pontiac Regional
After traveling back home for a family function over the weekend, I couldn’t resist the urge to make the short trip to Warwick for the POCI Eastern Regional with camera in hand on Saturday morning. My...
View ArticleMusclecars and Monster trucks intersect at Bling’s Corner
You may have noticed, in the toy aisles of your local die-cast emporium, a strange new hybrid of die-cast car. It’s got a standard passenger car or SUV body, but the wheels are of monster-truck...
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Buy Mine Now
1968 Riviera fans, take heart. Your cars are slowly increasing in value. This one — a 35,000 mile original that looked like it may have had original paint — was stunning. It bid up to $19,000 at Russo...
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Rod-V-Era
OK, it’s not a great photo, but there’s an explanatory story here that needs to be told first. I shot this about a minute after the 1970s Chrysler “artifact” in Branson, Missouri. You know, the one...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1978 Buick Riviera
If you have not noticed, there’s a pretty big following for Buick’s Riviera outside of the striking 1963-’65 models, including this two-tone, Limited Edition ’78. The body style seen here was only...
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Ad of the Week: Sort of…
Last week I blew it – perhaps just as badly as the officials in the US soccer game (FIFA World Cup) – and simply forgot to present an interesting Ad of the Week. So this week I opted to switch it up a...
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Riviera: the one made by Buick
If you’ve ever traveled through Pennsylvania, the you’ll know there are two seasons: winter, and road construction. Because it’s late June, I’ll let you guess the reason why I arrived a little later...
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Sunny Riviera (then rain) Day
If you missed the Riviera meet because of the threat of rain, it’s a shame. With the exception of the quick thundershower that moved through the area at roughly 1:30 in the afternoon, it was a sunny...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1972 Buick Riviera GS
Plenty of people don’t like the boattail Riviera one bit. I am not one of those people – I think it’s an awesome car, with just enough throwback design elements, but not so many to turn it into a...
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SIA Flashback – Two Kinds of Personal Luxury: Riviera and Thunderbird for 1963
In the personal luxury category, there are no two heavier heavyweights than the four-seater Thunderbird and the Buick Riviera, so it would stand to reason that a comparison between the two is...
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Rivieras Rolling into Branson
Beginning on Monday, Branson, Missouri, will become the center of operation for the Riviera Owners Association’s annual International Meet, which culminates with a peer-judged car show on Thursday at...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1950 Buick Super Riviera
Where do you draw the line between “driveable dream” and well-preserved original car? What amount of patina distinguishes the two? Take, for instance, this 1950 Buick Super Riviera for sale on...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Buick Riviera
What is it that makes this 1965 Buick Riviera for sale on Hemmings.com so appealing? Is it the Mitchell/Jordan-era design? The shade of turquoise it wears? Its excellent condition, including the...
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Four-Links – bullpen carts, Ratso Italiano, Riviera ragtop, regal Riviera
* With the baseball playoffs upon us, what better time to take a look at the various bullpen carts used throughout the years to ferry relief pitchers from the bullpen to the mound. Reader Jim Camery...
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Bill Mitchell’s post-war masterpiece, the Buick Riviera, turns 50
1964 Buick Riviera. As long as we’re pointing out semicentennials such as that of the Chrysler Turbine, we’d be remiss in failing to mention that Buick’s grand-tourer-slash-personal-luxury car, the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1964 Buick Riviera
Yes, this 1964 Buick Riviera for sale on Hemmings.com has non-stock wheels, but wheels are just about the simplest item to change out on a car, and besides, there’s more to the car than just the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1966 Buick Riviera
In 1963, GM reintroduced the Buick Riviera as a stylish personal luxury coupe to combat Ford’s successful Thunderbird. While the 1963-1965 Buick Riviera models are favored by collectors for their bold...
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the soggiest cruise-in yet, but they still came in droves
So we knew the rain was coming. It was about as inevitable as the morning, but somehow, the cars kept coming, and kept coming from further and further away. New Hampshire, Maine, Boston, downstate,...
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Riviera reservoir
CARS, Inc. now has windshield washer reservoirs for 1963-1970 Rivieras Well, it finally happened. You hit it with the butt end of the torque wrench. The original washer fluid reservoir under the hood...
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