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The white 63 just sold for $17,500. Not bad.
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22 minutes ago, Matt Harwood said:
This is a VERY tough crowd...
I have a '63 Riv that just came in and there's simply NO WAY I'm going to post it here and let it get picked apart. It's decent, but if that red one doesn't measure up, my car will get absolutely murdered.
After buying my 64, I wanted to clean up the engine bay, not restore it. Most of the blue paint on the engine block had peeled off. So I painted what I could reach with high-heat black paint. Kill me for it, whatever.
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Auction is this afternoon. Looks there is also a white 63 Rivi going across the block in a little while.
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Wow, never heard of ShiftWorks but those are some nice pieces. You can even replace the entire shift assembly.
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6 hours ago, 60FlatTop said:
The Buick Club has a 400 point judging standard. All you have to do is follow it. Then you can advertise it as a *** point car based on a standard.
That seems to be a really tough hairball for a lot of owners to hack up.
On the refundable deposit thing, as an expert at "snoozing and losing" on both ends of the sale, I won't hold a refundable deposit. Either come and see the car or send an authorized agent with money. And you don't get a "deposit" receipt from me, it is written out as "partial payment on the sale with balance due". Back out of the sale, I keep your money. We made an agreement. I can't remember refunding any deposit because I will do a screening on the buyer. If someone wanted a refund it would depend, mainly, on their personality and secondly my attitude.
A couple of cars sales ago a guy said he would come to look at a project Bug Eye Sprite after he picked his Wife up from work. I asked if she was coming. When he said she was I told him not to come. She wouldn't let him have it. I recommended a good restaurant near them and suggested he take her there instead and save us all some grief. He brought her. She said no. I'm not a fortune teller, but I am pretty good at "Name That Tune".
Car sales! There are a bunch of people excited about a football game today. I learned how to sell car in my early teens with my Grandfather. I chose a different career path and just make casual car sales. Now that's SPORT! I don't need no stinkin' football.
Bernie
This is great!
And I gotta say, unless you are buying a new car, you gotta know you are going to have to pay out on top of the sale price for who-knows-what fixes. When I'm buying, I always ask, "what needs to done and what would you work on it"? I just assume something isn't right. If they are a good seller, they will give you a direct answer and are confident they have priced the car with stuff like that in mind.
I once heard someone say to buy a car based on the seller (do they give you an honest vibe? do they have other cars and what shape are those? are they nervous? do they have a clean house, garage, yard, etc?)
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Never studied a 73 before, but man that front bumper is unfortunate.
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That car will do well at auction, wow!
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I've been waiting forever for them to be in stock, and finally they are! Just got a pair and they are very very nice, good quality.
I was this close to paying $$ to have my originals rechromed. These are $99 each.
Hope they fit well, we shall see.
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Unfortunately, while I would love to see Riviera values go up in the years to come, I doubt prices change much (except maybe some inflation effects). We are seeing a bump now with cars from the 80s and especially 90s, as the Gen Xers get money, but those folks (I'm one) don't seem to be super interested in 50s and 60s cars, unless Dad had one, etc.
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Tremendous condition. Hagerty values don't give you a lot to go from - it suggests anywhere from $31,000 to $67,000.
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I don't think I ever shared this one of my 64 at the Edmonds park last summer, with the ferry in the background. She's a beaut, Clark.
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2 hours ago, 60FlatTop said:
"Bring a Trailer" is a lot more descriptive than "Ebay". Maybe they should rename Ebay to "Reserve Not Met.com" OR FishingBay. That's appropriate!. I rarely look at Ebay anymore.
Bernie
I check eBay almost every day and maintain a "watch" list of Rivieras. You're right, it is extremely rare to see one sell on there. The last one I can think of obviously sold off site because it was removed before the listing was up. There's one gray first-gen Rivi in Idaho that is on there all the time and people clearly love to bid it up to below reserve over and over.
I love Bring a Trailer but it doesn't usually get good prices on 60s American cars. Probably why I have never seen them list a first-gen Rivi.
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1 hour ago, Riviera63 said:
Thanks for responding. That looks like a good system for chips where the paint is gone down to the metal. I was looking for something that one could rub on to remove or blend in more superficial scratches. The paint is still basically intact but discolored or marred.
It would work well in that situation. I used it to disguise a spider crack on my NSX paint that wasn't deep.
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I've used Dr ColorChip, including on my Riviera, and it's good and very easy to use.
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yes, thanks, now I feel dumb, I didn't realize those screwed off
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So how do you change the turn signal bulb? looks like maybe you remove a panel with two bolts from the front wheel well? I don't see any access from under the hood.
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Nice clean Rivi. Front disc conversion. Suspect that console wood veneer is not original, despite what is said. Looks darker?
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Yeah, the double whitewalls are very cool, too. Do they even sell those anymore?
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Lovely evening at the Edmonds WA waterfront
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39 minutes ago, jsgun said:
I'm really getting into LED's, but I have a lot to learn, to do the things I want to do. I have this one idea of following what Cadillac is using for driving lights... long lines of LEDs. They need to be diffused to look good. The round versions used on current cars are typically called "Halo eyes". This could be done somewhat easily with 65 headlight covers, because they have a open gap between the chrome edge, and the headlight cover. The LED could be hidden there. A 63-64 would need to be cut up to make it work.
Attached is a quick and dirty photo edit showing the concept.
Yeah I think that could be very cool, especially if the LEDs are not too bright.
They do make halo bulbs that fit the 63-64 cars.
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What might sell that car close to asking price are pictures of the underside and the engine bay.
I don't think 36,000 miles are necessarily any better than 86,000 miles, it's still 50 years old, you know.
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18 minutes ago, Hazdaz said:
Visually I like the way they look, but how bright are they? And is it a "good" brightness or does it blind oncoming traffic? Any night time pics?
Personally I'd like to go LED, but I haven't done enough searching yet to see if they even exist.
I've done LEDs on a previous car and it's why I went with these halogens, because the LEDs can easily blind people. It just splashes light everywhere. Really hard to retrofit a car for LEDs -- the modern cars that have them do a good job of controlling that aim. It's all about the housing.
I need to check the aim on these tonight. The light output is very nice.
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So what do you guys think of these of replacement lamps? I mistakenly thought they were sold in pairs so I will order two more for the brights, but I think they look fantastic. I'm not a stickler for a totally stock look.
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There are several options on Amazon, even. I purchased a basic gray CoverKing cover for about $85. My Rivi sits in a carport and surprisingly that cover is holding up OK after 2 years. I make sure to take it off and dust the car at least every two weeks. I does hang a bit loosely though. For a car in a garage like you have, that's probably fine.
I have thought about buying the custom fit cover from CoverKing, but that's more like $280. I have one of those on my NSX (it sits outside and needs more protection).
$107,000 '65 Riviera GS just sold at Barrett Jackson
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$107,000. That really is a stunning sale price. All the more interesting considering a more normal white 63 sold hours earlier for $17,500.
I have to think the 65 GS has enough rarity and beauty to command special status - and evidence would say other years are not jumping in price like that? I keep an eye on eBay and there have been very few sales even above $15K. Maybe that's just a bad marketplace on eBay.
Makes me wish I had snagged a 65 when I got mine!