4 wheel eye candy.

[f6john]

I’m not in love with the fastback roof but I admire the workmanship. I would love to own a 65 Riviera.

[signart]

Poncho inspired wheels looks like. I'm glad he stuck with the old skool nail head
I've got a low mile 401 nail head w/2 fours in my stash waiting on my gasser project.

[scooperhsd]

I liked the styling of the '72, equipped with the 455 CI 4bbl.

Like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdJkUzXK8KU

[Oss]

I liked the Wildcats

Loved the 66 convertible and 67-8 models also   

very similar styling

Some great GM cars in those years

Thanks for the pics lots of memories

[Willow]

Different strokes.   

[Jess from VA]

I absolutely love a whole pile of muscle cars from that era (except most Fords, and all Mustangs).

I spent years of work and $17K fixing up the 1969 Corvette droptop I just had to have.

But I just never had enough money or garage space to keep a beautiful vintage hot rod (or 2-3).

Even as a backup, my cars have to get used.  And leaving your vintage hot rod in parking lots or garages or anywhere really in urban America is not acceptable (or smart).

So I just had to abandon my deep desire for owning one (similar to my deep desire for large chested womenfolk).  Primitive urges are rarely good for us, in the long run anyway.  

But looking and dreaming is always free and easy.    

[f6john]

Just a few details. The wheels are custom made for the OE wheel hubs (brake drums) from the early Pontiac’s, can you say $$$$. The roof is from a Mercury Cyclone. The engine is sporting custom fuel injected throttle bodies. I know that it would have cluttered up the engine bay, but this money pit doesn’t have air conditioning. But I have to remember, many of the factory Rivera’s did have air conditioning either.

[vanagon40]

I believe mine was a 1967. It had A/C and climate control that caused the A/C to run always (until I pulled the wires to the compressor). Got about 12 mpg on premium (the reason I disengaged the A/C). It would cruise like a boat at speeds up to 100 mph (55 was the national limit at the time, so rarely got over triple digits).

And speaking of speed, I remember the rolling barrel speedometer.



[photo from Internet, not mine]

[signart]

That's no 455. It's either a 401 or optional 425 nail head, original to the car with factory OEM  Rivera valve covers. Looks like factory OEM 2/4 intake also.

[f6john]

That's no 455. It's either a 401 or optional 425 nail head, original to the car with factory OEM  Rivera valve covers. Looks like factory OEM 2/4 intake also.

It is a 401 and all original accessories, only deviation from stock is the fuel injection.

[OnaWingandaPrayer]

Nice work . Not sure If I would have done the top but its not bad. I really luv the 8lugs.

[Patrick]

I absolutely love a whole pile of muscle cars from that era (except most Fords, and all Mustangs).

I spent years of work and $17K fixing up the 1969 Corvette droptop I just had to have.

But I just never had enough money or garage space to keep a beautiful vintage hot rod (or 2-3).

Even as a backup, my cars have to get used.  And leaving your vintage hot rod in parking lots or garages or anywhere really in urban America is not acceptable (or smart).

So I just had to abandon my deep desire for owning one (similar to my deep desire for large chested womenfolk).  Primitive urges are rarely good for us, in the long run anyway.  

But looking and dreaming is always free and easy.    

You're not an old Ford/Mustang fan huh.  What don't you like about them ?

[Jess from VA]

Patrick, I suppose it's primarily growing up in the Motor City with all the Fix Or Repair Daily/Found On Road Dead (FORD) I was exposed to at an early age.  That, and GM cars looked better.  

PS, I still owned two Fords back in the day:  A Pinto wagon and a Granada; neither of which was based on anything more than being a student with little money.  The Pinto was a surprising good little car, but the Granada was just a complete embarrassment.  

Which reminds me of a humorous story:    I had the Pinto to commute from the suburbs to law school in Detroit.  One day driving in to take a three hour final exam (the only thing you got your grade on for the whole semester) the freeway got backed up to a dead stop, and afraid I would miss the exam completely, I got off in a bad part of the city, and proceeded to drive through that wasteland at high speed on unknown back streets.  I got completely airborne over some raised RR tracks, and when I hit hard, the engine and transmission fell out of the car (and the frame bent up at 20 degrees).  So I had to run the Mogadishu 5 miles in to school, arrived late, and did very poorly on that examination.  

Needing another car badly and right away but with no money to put down, one of those used car salesman guys said he would sell me the Granada (apparently no one else wanted, with low miles and a 3 on the tree, with no power anything) (but no other car), by giving me a $1200 trade-in on the totaled Pinto (which had been brought in to that dealer lot on a wrecker, and dumped in a pile over in the corner) (and adding $1200 to the Granda price).  He had me over a barrel, but desperate, I took the deal (and with the stupid high FOMOCO financing interest rate too).  But he also did me a huge favor as I wasn't going to get any other car for no money anywhere else.  

It took several years before that became a funny story.  

[msb]

 I still owned two Fords back in the day:  A Pinto wagon and a Granada;

  I can see why you're not a fan of Fords, based on that early experience

[Jess from VA]

Yeah Mike, and my Squire Pinto wagon had the extra luxurious wood paneling tape on the sides too.  


(NOT eye candy) (and the pinto wagons didn't blow their gas tanks being rear ended nearly as often as the regular models) (and another benefit was you never needed to lock them)

[Patrick]

 I still owned two Fords back in the day:  A Pinto wagon and a Granada;

  I can see why you're not a fan of Fords, based on that early experience

 
I agree.




I was born and raised in Studebaker and Ford garage.  But, we worked on everything and most of what we fixed were GM. GM makes some of my favorite stuff [ Super Duty Pontiacs, W series Chevy engines, Chevy Model D, 1961 Chevy conv ] But I don't like working on them as much as other makes. I really don't like GM management. Growing up a neighborhood fella had a '57 J3 conv , neat car then and today. We spent a lot of time riding around in that monster.

[Skinhead]

My BIL had a '75 pinto when he first started dating my sister in 1976.  He was attending dental school at Pitt at the time.  In 1977 he had graduated and he and my sister married.  As a practicing dentist, he could now afford a better/newer car so the Pinto sat until my brother needed a cheap used car.  My BIL gave the Pinto to my brother, which he drove for several years.  By the time he scrapped it the doors had to be tied together to keep them closed, and the floor boards had rusted through.  We used to lift the carpet and drop our empty beer cans out through the holes in the floor.  The door pillars had rusted through, and the entire body would flex over bumps.  My brother had the pinto parked back in a field at a house he was renting, and was going to scrap it.  So one day we were having a party at his house, and after putting a good dent in a keg of beer, we decided to start the pinto up and put a brick on the gas pedal to see how long it would take to blow up.  I ran for quite some time before it ran out of gas.  Never did blow up.

[Chrisj CMA]

One of these will replace my motorcycle instead of a trike someday

[Patrick]

I had a '65 small block Cobra. Bought it without the engine and put in my own. 535 HP at the wheels.