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| Re: 1958 Limited Four Door Riviera I understood the money issue when I was told about this car. I had actually seen this particular car 2 years ago when I was looking at another one in the same building. My friend Hank Deglman was with me when I saw it, and we checked it out for a few minutes. He told me, "You're not ready for a 58, yet." He then proceeded to tell me how much his chrome and stainless bill was for his 58 Roadmaster convertible.
Well, I don't plan on handing over the entire pile of chrome to the shop at once, so I won't be sweating that all at one time.
I need a project like this. I need a challenge! This fits the bill nicely [img]<>/smile.gif[/img]
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| Re: 1958 Limited Four Door Riviera Wagons Ho, full speed ahead.
Congratulations.
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| Re: 1958 Limited Four Door Riviera Adam
Nice find! Now here's a question: I was looking through Kris Trexler's site, and noticed the underside of the trunk lids are different:
Possibly if the 58's are like 55's the trunk of a 2dr is longer than a 4dr.
Willie
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| Re: 1958 Limited Four Door Riviera Willie, I got confirmation that is true on the buick-59 site.
Thanks!
Are you at/on your way to Flint?
__________________ Adam Martin BPG# 1358 BCA# 39765 1971 Buick Centurion Formal Coupe 1958 Buick Limited Four Door Riviera |
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| Re: 1958 Limited Four Door Riviera WOW! Those are monsterous cars! They were a foot longer than a Cadillac of the same year! I had one back in the 60's; it was silver mist, too. Now the bad news.......not that I wish to be the bearer of such, but I discovered that the '58 Limiteds were somewhat of an experimental car. The original suspensions were rubber air bags that didn't last long, and soon, the car would become a "lowboy." The automatic transmission was the Flight Pitch type which also didn't pan out. There were a couple more issues which slip my memory just now, but beware, unless those issues have been remedied befor you purchased it. I DID love the looks of it, and it had room galore inside, and it was comfy, too. |
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| Re: 1958 Limited Four Door Riviera Yep, the air poise suspension was replaced with coil springs. I am still unsure about the transmission, though. I'll have to wait and find out about that.
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| Re: 1958 Limited Four Door Riviera Adam, you may already know this, but if not, when you look under the car at the transmission pan, if it is a perfect square, that is the Flite-Pitch. If the trans was changed in the past, sometimes they also changed the gear indicator on the dash to the Dynaflow indicator, but I've seen several where they left the Flite-Pitch indicator in and just had to use memory as to where the gears were.
Flite-Pitches can be a pain, but when they work, they are great. If the LTD still has it, and it needs work, there are a couple people I know that specialize in rebuilding them, so there'll be no need to go the Dynaflow route.
Sweet machine, Adam!
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| Re: 1958 Limited Four Door Riviera Adam,
You already have an excellent restored driver in your formal coupe, so taking on a long term project such as this is not so disheartening. You can always hop in the Centurion and take a break from the Limited.
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| Re: 1958 Limited Four Door Riviera BJM - I think that's the only way I can justify having two cars [img]<>/laugh.gif[/img]
__________________ Adam Martin BPG# 1358 BCA# 39765 1971 Buick Centurion Formal Coupe 1958 Buick Limited Four Door Riviera |
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| Re: 1958 Limited Four Door Riviera Picking it up today!
I hope I'm not the only one who loses sleep over this stuff.
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