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That just means it's really green.

 

Did you look underneath to make sure that wasn't a load-bearing emblem?

 

I'm thinking it's a Buick thing. My 60 LeSabre was the same way when I started shaving it. Holes galore.

 

Well I ended up with the Hemi and it's going in my 32 sedan. It's a nice safe place for it! Haha mocking it up now to build motor mounts.




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Holes gone few more to go.


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For about five years, I've been wanting a 65 Riv again. My friend just traded for a 66, not the same. I will continue looking. Your car will sparkle!

 

"I will kill that mother fucker and eat his babies if he puts one more logo on my car."


I would say there were some babies eaten...Because I doubt the same guy designed my grandpa's Riv...

Then...


1982

 

Ryan, you seem to on the road to recovery. Keep the faith, Cat

 

Did the engine fall out when you pulled the badge???

 

clean'in up the lines,new paint,very nice.class ride

 

Hey,

The Rivi design came outa Bill Mitchel's love of the line of late 50s Ferraris & british coachwork on the "razor edge'' designs on Rolls Royce & Bentley vehicles from the 30s-50s. When you study those designs, ya see very little '' tinsel & glitter '', they're mostly all line and form! Most big name designers spent awholelotta time at auto shows in europe in the 50s.
The many '' stud holes'' in those zamac cast Rivi enblems were there to insure that when ya ran your new Rivi thru an automatic car wash, or hit a pot hole in downtown Detroit that the brand name hung tough, even if the fender skirts and back window frame had already started ta rot from the salt

" Humpty Dumpty was pushed "

 

So,what about the Boranni's?

 

That thing ought to slicked up by the Roundup!!!!

 

Ryan you're on the right path with this car. Less is more with a Riviera. Guys get cute and chop them, flip the rear bumper and do other goofy shit to customize the car. They just fuck'em up. I had plans of shaving mine more. I changed my mind on the door handles and mirrors. Then I got to the ass end. I couldn't part with the emblem for the trunk key. I sat there and looked at it for an hour. I'm glad I left it. I carefully took it apart and re-painted the red. It looks good back there. It's the only emblem left outside. I had a guy tell me at a show. "That's a good looking Plymouth." How do you respond to that? I just said "Thanks".

 

^^^You did that car just right. A little clean-up, but not too much.

The reason why GM put 7 studs on a emblem is to it wouldn't lift and snag on everything that got wiped over it. Plus, if you're trying to advertise your car, how ghetto would it look if the corporate logo was hanging in the breeze with air gaps under it. That touch was one of the things that (to me) made the GM cars of that era so much better than the competition.

 

Nice move keeping the Verde Green and the door handles. Its looking nice. Keep those pics coming!

 

I had the privlege of hanging out with Jamie at the shop yesterday.

The Rivi looks killer!

 

I dropped in the shop on my way to Broken Bow for a New Year's party. It looks great!

I've got some spy shots if anyone feels compelled to contribute a little moolah to the roadster project.. Just saying.

 

Ryan is Lee Pratt coming to the GNRS?...would love to meet him?

 

I'll have to go up there this week. and check out the progress (40 min away) I'm sure Iv'e got something in the stable that needs to get out and stretch. Love a nice clean RIVI If it wasn't for the emblems They would be a certified factory KUSTOM. BUCKD

 

I guess I'm the only one who likes the Riviera script on the fenders?

 

Yeah Muttley your the only one ! Haha


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Filling more holes.



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I still say it needs a RediRad. As a big THANX, Ryan, just tell me where to shippit and so it shall be.

 

It's not always easy being the only guy with good taste.

 

And now that the logos have been shaved...

GM Marketing goons; "GREAT-NOW NOBODY WILL KNOW THAT THE CAR IS A BUICK RIVIERA"!!!

 

Haha!


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Going to work with the long block.




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The Rivi is going turn out nice thanks to all my hard work... Oh yea I am not doing anything. DaddyO is going to get this one really nice. I now want a 65 Riviera again and must have one. Thanks a lot Ryan.