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Thank you @Seafoam65 Agreed on the Thunderbird sales data—T'bird sales didn't peak until 1973. Through 1976 (Ford exited the market in 1977) Riviera beat Thunderbird just twice: 1969 and 1971.

Flory believes that the 1963 Riviera's competition was the Chrysler 300-J, the Ford Thunderbird, and the Studebaker Avanti. Thoughts? The Thunderbird would seem obvious and correct …

eBay can still come through—congratulations!

There's always someone with more. We're relatively serious participants in a non-Riviera portion of the automotive hobby—we have three. Our non-car friends think that's an insane number of hobby vehicles. Our car friends think "they're nice folks—some day they'll get serious."

Mobsters dying in Buicks was evidently a 1970s/1980s thing.

That bomb was meant for John Gotti, if I remember correctly.

Lordy …

Pretty slim pickings right now on eBay Motors and Hemmings if you are looking for cars you haven't seen on sale for months.

Kodachrome or something else?

Agreed—gorgeous.

Always good advice—I have multiple data points of very good experiences with Hagerty in times of need. Certainly there are other insurers in the same space that can work just as well.

All it does is cost a little bit more money.

They are.

Ooog …

It was a Jalopnik video, so who knows.

I really like this photo.

I think folks are going to get a lot of work done on their cars over the next couple of months.

That's a hike!

I also really enjoyed that article and the pictures, with those hard-won badges in front of the grille.

Riviera results from Mecum Glendale earlier this week. 1963 Silver Cloud (I think) Riviera coupe with red leather bucket seats—$13,500 hammer price https://www.mecum.com/lots/AZ0320-404141/1963-buick-riviera/ 1963 Arctic White Riviera coupe with completely incorrect (and so admitted) blue cloth bucket seats—$10,500 https://www.mecum.com/lots/AZ0320-404583/1963-buick-riviera/ 1970 Harvest Gold (I think) Riviera GS coupe with a black vinyl top and a green vinyl bench seat—a no sale with a maximum bid of $19,000 https://www.mecum.com/lots/AZ0320-405040/1970-buick-riviera-gs/ 1973 Burgundy (I think) Riviera GS coupe with burgundy vinyl notchback 60/40 seats—$15,500 https://www.mecum.com/lots/AZ0320-404588/1973-buick-riviera-gs/ 1982 White Riviera convertible with a black (!?) convertible top, maple leather 45/45 seats, and a claimed 52,000 miles—$8,500 https://www.mecum.com/lots/AZ0320-404075/1982-buick-riviera-convertible/ 1985 Gray Riviera coupe with a gray vinyl Landau top and gray prima cloth 45/45 seats—$10,000 https://www.mecum.com/lots/AZ0320-405164/1985-buick-riviera/

A close one …

Agreed. That is simply an astounding amount of money. But it was an AMG from when that meant something with relatively low miles in a very good color.

Do you have the standard radio or the Bose?

I'm surprised it sold at all—I thought there would be a higher reserve than that.

A quote for the ages.