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Cruise Control speed set dial. The underhood components are missing. The yellow hood insulation is correct for 1962.

👎😡 It just bugs me when someone tries to immediately double their money when flipping a car, without spending a dime to improve the car. If you're gonna ask top dollar for a car you'd better make damn sure everything is working per design. And hope your prospective buyer doesn't know more about the car than you do.

Any idea where the picture was taken? Driver looks East Indian. Possibly sometime during the Raj?

Pretty much. I've done this job solo several times. You'll need to disconnect the support bracket. Be careful with the shift pointer. You may have to adjust the antenna trimmer on AM band but that's easy enough. Shop book should walk you through it. Or can you pick up enough AM stations to make it worth the effort?😄

Another one that's way too close for comfort🙀. I like this Buick and the Coupe is a big plus for an interesting car. I would like to know which AC system it has, and I'm not sure if Buick was still offering Comfortron in 1985. If they were smart they weren't. The 80s GM B cars were good cars. 307 is a reliable engine if underpowered. I had one in a 1981 Catalina Safari that would routinely get 24 mpg. It never asked for much either; the worst repair I had to make in 7 years of driving it was the A.I.R. (smog pump) injection manifold check valves. It unfortunately lost a battle with an Eagle Talon that blew through a red light at 40mph. Girl didn't even try to slow down or avoid the collision. Go away Burick! before you make me do something stupid...

Car has California PCV. To keep that functional you'd need rocker covers that can accommodate it. Did Buick offer such chromed?

Thought only BelAirs got carpet? Wouldn't a Special, especially a business coupe, have had rubber matting front and rear? I like this Chevrolet. And I really like that Kaiser Club Coupe.

These years Hudsons are one of those cars that I prefer the two and four door sedans over the Hollywood hardtop. The sedans look... sinister! Crown Vic in the background.

Nice daily driver for the money, or a good HPOF candidate. Records are a plus, and it appears well cared for.

The 1969 W-Toronado had dual exhaust, just no notched bumper. Bullet resonators with turndown tips barely visible under the bumper. These look like exhaust shop pipes. Where are all the mouldings?

Where's the Superfly kit?

Cool tool! Can never have enough tools... I have one of the Lisles. Embarrassed to say I can't remember last time I used it☺️. I think there's an inline spark checker around here somewhere too. Can't remember last time I used it either!

Do other vehicles use this cone clutch differential? Maybe see what their fluid recommendations are.

I hear banjo music...

Someone say Deux Chevaux? Even Mike and Edd are impressed!

Generally accepted estimates of Oldsmobile stick production in those years is 2% of total. Approximately 54000 1957 88 4d sedans built. 2% is slightly less than 1100 cars so equipped. Figure 1% survived and maybe ten are left in any condition. This one is pretty nice. Another case of rarity doesn't necessarily equal desirability, but for the right collector this car is a goldmine.

It's an honest question. Nick has a 1950 Buick that's 40-some years older than he is.🙂

European license plate so it is probably a T5. A German truck company already had the Mustang name registered and rather than pay royalties Ford renamed the Mustang for the European market. There were some trim differences between North American Mustangs and the European market T5.

You may have already found this but here's what Wikipedia says about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Detroit_Corporation That looks like a fairly stout rig. Not sure Chevrolet built engines for fire truck duty on an engine that size. Hope you can find information and restore that hero back to new!

Looks like you've found your people.😎 Also look into the ROA, Riviera Owners Association. There's a link on the Riviera subforum page. Nothing like having a like-minded support group when you're trying to keep an old car going.

Better than a Ted Kennedy reference!😄 though in fairness his was a lower line Delmont 4d sedan.

That was intentional 🙂. 1967 Oldsmobile ad copy was full of "uncompromising Toronado styling", "Toronado-inspired from stem to stern", "engineered for excitement... Toronado-style!" references. I don't think this car has its original engine. That's a 68-later aircleaner and a 425 should be red, not blue. 70-76 455 and 75-77 350 were blue. Cruise Control isn't hooked up either. Mmph. A triple black convertible with non-working A/C and top and an uncertain drivetrain. If all you want is a convertible to sport around in this car might fit the bill. Might not satisfy most of us here, and there's some expensive repair work waiting. Look at how involved the stitch pattern on the rear seat upright is and imagine paying someone to duplicate that on top of smoothing out the top and getting it working.

I see a little rot in trailing edge of the front fenders, but overall an Idaho car might not be rusty. A lot of the state is considered high desert. Even though the windshield has to be replaced anyway that headliner scares me. This is one of those Fords that the windshield and back glass have to come out to replace it, which escalates into at least having to replace the rubber window seals if not the glass. Never saw many Fairlanes or Falcons wearing Chestnut around here but seems like half the Galaxies were that color. I almost had a Chestnut Galaxie 500 2d sedan as my first car but it was a 390/3spd/OD and the folks nixed it. "Too much power for a 16 year old!" The real reason was my mother had a decades-long dislike of the old fellow selling it. Something had apparently happened between him and my Grandpa long before I was born.

I like 1st-generation Barracuda a lot and being a Colorado car rust may not be a factor on this one. 273 with buckets/console make this one interesting. Barracuda beat the Mustang to market by two weeks yet Mustang outsold it by 6 to 1, using the same tactic of raiding the compact car parts bins. I think Barracuda's problem was Ford disguised the Falcon better. There was never doubt about Barracuda's Valiant origins, whereas Mustang looked completely new and different. Wonder how Barracuda would have fared if Iacocca had been at Chrysler in 1964? Pretty obvious someone at Ford noticed the Barracuda fastback styling, since Mustang followed suit when the full 1965 model year cars appeared. GM too ten years later with the wraparound rear windows on 1975 F-bodies.