michel88

I have been a Hemmings subscriber for the past 37 years and still enjoy the magazine very much. I like the auction coverage and the articles especially Daniel Strohl's. I don't consider them "fluff" at all. Hemmings was always considered the Bible and was helpful to us all in the early days before the internet. I recently put an ad with a picture for my '51 Ford Country Squire and with this type of ad it is also put on the internet site and you can put multiple pictures at no additional charge. I priced the car fairly and it sold before the magazine came out. I got a LOT of calls from all over the country. I think advertising in Hemmings give your car tremendous coverage and it is well worth the cost of the ad.

Someone took a lot trouble to create a truly tasteless Buick custom! Yuck!

You could also consider Hemmings Motor News which has always been a good tried and true way to sell your car. If you put in a picture ad, it will almost immediately go on their website. It takes a while before it will be in the magazine ( a month or more lead time). With Hemmings you reach a lot of potential buyers. I used them to sell my '51 Ford Country Squire and it sold before the magazine came out.

That looks like a nice '54 Buick at a good price. I like the fact it is a manual transmission. Looks like a good one for MrEarl!

Restoration garage is a pretty good show that I watch. I also think Fantomworks is a good one. IMHO the absolute worst is the totaly obnoxious Fast and Loud.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful video. I graduated from high school in '62. The cars in the video were interesting to see, a lot different than what we see at Hershey now. I had forgotten how different the every day dress was then. All the women had on skirts and dresses. The men had on dress slacks and shoes, sport coats and ties. I even saw a guy with a black suit on. Nowadays people don't dress up that much for church!

I took a look at the show after seeing the comments made here. It is much better than most car shows, especially the totally obnoxious "Fast and Loud". They did a good job on restoring the '56 Olds and the black and white paint job looked good. I remember seeing them in black and white as new cars and I always liked the look. It was a turn off to me when they decided to put an air bag suspension on it and stopped watching at that point. The show is promising and I will watch the next episode. By the way Auburnseeker I had a '55 Olds 88 2 door hardtop with stick and I still am so sorry I sold it to get a new car. That was a great car!

It looks good but it could stand a paint job IMHO.

One of most beautiful automobile designs was the 1953 Studebaker Starliner hardtop and Starlight Coupe. Bob Bourke was a major contributor to the design of these cars while working for Raymond Loewy co, Ted Putsch was very fortunate to have Bob Bourke as a mentor. I don't think Raymond Loewy had much to do with design of the '53 Studebaker Starliner. There was a post a while ago that showed some cars designed by Raymond Loewy and in my opinion did not look very good.

The '57 Imperial is a great looking car. That is my favorite year of the Imperial, and I have always admired them since they were new!

That is a beautiful car and a good deal! It would have been a shame if it had been made into a hot rod!

Try giving Gene Guarnere a call (610)359-8901. He has a lot of '63 Riv parts and may have plastic part. Last time I was up there he had several seat tracks for Riv's.

That would be a real shame to "Rat Rod" that rare and beautiful car. It looks to be in decent driver shape and very original. Why would the owner even suggest Rat Roding it? That would destroy a nice car that has survived 87 years!

I enjoyed it very much! How was it done? Thanks for posting this.

My first good job that paid me a good wage was working in the production machine shop at Black & Decker power tools. Back then (1965) almost every part in their power tools was made by them. They even made and wound the armatures. It's hard to imagine that any more. Computers have also led to major job losses. I later became a draftsman and in the early seventies there were huge rooms of draftsman and engineers. One room I remember must have had about 75 draftsman in it. So many that I did not even know the guys in the front of the room. In the nineties it changed to to less than a dozen in cubicles doing the work. This was because of computers .

As far as a correctly restored engine compartment, the color of the engine should be silver. My '63 engine is painted silver and is a completely untouched original.

Reproduction upholstery kits are available from Clark's Corvair and they look just like the original. I have a white '63 Riv that I have had for over 25 years. They are great cars with beautiful styling. My advice is go for it!

That is a very sharp '67 Skylark! Looks like a very nice original car. I had a '65 Skylark and wish I had never sold it. One of my favorite cars.

I don't know about the gas line location, but that sure is a good looking 41 Royal coupe!

That makes sense that Robert Bourke did the design of the '53 Studebaker and Loewy took the credit. Bourke had a lot to do with the '49 Ford design that was very good looking.

I always respected Raymond Loewy because of his (I think) design of the 53 Studebaker Starlight coupe. I wonder if he had other designer's with good taste doing the design and then for him taking credit for the car. That Jaguar design is just plain ugly!

It looks like a good buy to me. If it runs and drives good, it is well worth 6k. The chrome on the bumpers and grille looks decent for a driver and could probably be cleaned to look even better. It has a solid looking body and the paint is pretty good. It's a car that could be enjoyed as is and taken to a higher level, if you want to. I would question that the engine was rebuilt 12k ago, looks too dusty and dirty. These Roadmaster's with the 320 cu. in. straight eights can keep up with traffic pretty good. They also have a higher (numerically lower) rear end ratio that makes them better to drive on Interstate highways.

That car was obviously built by a true "craftsman"!

If you have radial tires on the stock rims this will cause the rims to flex more than they would with the stock bias ply tires. When I put radials on my 63 Riviera the hubcaps started to creep on the rims and bent the valve stems crooked. It does it mostly on the front wheels. I haven't found a cure except to pull them off and straighten them periodically, and to go slower around turns. The car handles better with the radials but now I go slower around turns.

David, thanks for a very interesting overview of the 1957 Buick. I was a car crazy kid of 13 when the '57 models came out, One day I was walking to school in September 1956 when I first saw a '57 Plymouth 2 door hardtop and it looked like something from outer space! The 1957 Buick was the car that I fell in love with though. There were not many in my neighborhood but one I liked was a '57 Special 2 door sedan that was grey and very austere looking. It had black walls and small hubcaps and I thought it might be a 3 speed manual. I was disappointed to see it was an automatic. When I got my drivers license in 1960, I saw a '57 Buick Special convertible with the top down and I was behind it at a red light. The light changed and when the '57 Buick started off the driver shifted to second gear with the column shift and I knew that was the ultimate car for me! I saw it several other times, but being 16 without much money it was only a car to dream about!