[Conway Twitty's ' 63 ']

2 hours ago, Seafoam65 said:

On a related note, there is an online only Auction later this month that will take place and one of the cars up for auction

is a 1963 Riviera originally owned by Natalie Wood. It is being put on by the Volo Auto Museum.

 

Wow , great stable you have there ,

very jealous , I only have room for 1 toy . 

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14 hours ago, jframe said:

Absolutely! He even did a song called "Little Rivi Airhead" about a girl with one. Check it out it's worth a listen. I am going to Birmingham in December to one of his shows, and I contacted him thru Facebook, he said bring it; he would love to see it again!

 

Go armed with a sharpie fella , his signature on the inside of the glove box or roof lining would be nice plus .

[Conway Twitty's ' 63 ']

hi Mike .

 

i'll buy into that , its better then anything I've got fella .  big bags of cash do get results every time ,.

I've still got the original wheels and white walls off it in my shed , your welcome to pop round and pick them up

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hiya

its fun listening to Conway whilst driving his car .

I guess you do the same with Junior Brown .

 

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Hiya ...

 

thanks for the interest guys .

Bragging rights are great buy them self  but even if the Riv was only ever owned by a Satanist who used it on Sunday mornings to squash kittens I wouldn't love it any less .

I'm a 44 yr old English guy so I hadn't even heard of Conway until FAMILY GUY started using cut aways of him singing in their show , I liked his voice and bought some of his music ,

then a few years later I spotted the Riv on ebay ( that was the old listing MIKEJS spotted , ) and I would have been just as fast to slam the cash down if Conway hadn't owned it , its just a bonus .

 

the pics below are the original Bonhams catalogue , the page and right up of the Riv saying it was own by Conway and finally a copy of the Title with his name and address as Music village blvd ,  Hendersonville , TN .

its not easy to read but the site wouldn't allow a bigger pic , too many bites of some waffle ...

I have a thick folder of other bumf that came with the Riv , there is no official appraisal but the title and Bonhams writing it up as Conways is plenty for me , they will I'm sure have done their due diligence before handling it .

I still don't know why it had a Wisconsin vanity plate on it , can any body out there put an answer to this please .

 

on a different note ..

i'm in Florida in early February for 2 weeks , are there any shows on , bikes cars truck ect ect .

 

Thanks Paul .

 

[Conway Twitty's ' 63 ']

hiya .

 

thanks for the input ,

I do actually have a copy of that book , the author is a very well known motoring journalist over here .

but your right about it saying its a 64 , he had an ooops moment on that one .

the guy I bought the car from told me about the book and about a classic car mag the Riv was in so I got both of them on ebay .

 

thanks paul  h  .

[Conway Twitty's ' 63 ']

hiya

 

thanks for that Dwane Allen lead , I will follow up on that  .

forgive my lack of knowledge on the geography of your country , I have only been to Florida a few times and Canada , so there is a rather large bit between the two I haven't seen YET , so I might be saying something stupid here .

the vanity plate is for JAN  WISCONSIN . maybe he kept more then one property . maybe had a ranch or something too .

i'll do my home work later and familiarize myself with the 2 locations on google maps .

thank for replying , appreciate it .

 

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Hiya from England..

 

I mostly just wanted to show off my 63 riv to you guys ,,,,   but loosely hidden under the disguise of asking a few questions about it   .

 

this 63 was bought new buy Conway and as far as I can find out was in his car collection until he died but was also his main run about .

It still has his Vanity plates (  TWITTY  ) fitted behind its British plates .

Bit of a long shot but Does anyone out there have any info on the car  .

And maybe even a picture of the legend himself with the car , what would be to me the Holy Grail , I have heavily search the internet to no avail and messaged the Conway Twitty fan club but they couldn't help .

 

Its featured in a motoring magazine and a book over this side of the pond but any other little tit bits of info would be greatly appreciated .

 

thanks Paul H .