Seafoam65 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I'll be heading to the BCA nationals on Thursday and I plan to take pictures of all the Rivierasat the meet and will post them when I return. I'm looking forward to meeting Gordon Wolfgang and seeing his beautiful low mileage black 65. Counting my car there are currently 3 65 rivieras signed up for the meet......don't know about the other year model Rivs.....hoping for a great Riviera turnout! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RivNut Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I know that Linda and myself and another couple (none of us are BCA members) are visiting on Saturday just to look at the cars. Perhaps we'll run into you others. Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msdminc Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Winston, Ed and all, See you in Springfield - leaving in a caravan of Buicks from the KC area soon. Rock On gord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seafoam65 Posted June 10, 2015 Author Share Posted June 10, 2015 I know that Linda and myself and another couple (none of us are BCA members) are visiting on Saturday just to look at the cars. Perhaps we'll run into you others. Ed Look me up Ed....I should be sitting next to my Riviera most of the time while the show is going on...looking forward to meeting you Saturday...Winston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RivNut Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Winston, Will do. I want to take a good look at your newly repainted rockers and rally wheels. And see if a phrenologist can make sense of those bumps on your head. Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seafoam65 Posted June 15, 2015 Author Share Posted June 15, 2015 I just got back from Springfield and I had a great time at the BCA nats. I gotto meet Gordon Wolfgang, Ed Raner and Dick Sweeney, who was the head judge on the teamjudging the Riviera class. I mainly went there to have fun, not to win any awards, as I'm still workingon my car with quite a few things I'd like to do to it yet. I entered the 400 point judging to see what issuesthe BCA could find with my car. That will give me a list of improvements to make. I knew going in that I wasgoing to get walloped on my tires. 4 points off for redlines, four points off for radials, and 4 points off for my steel valve stems.Also my undercarriage is completely untouched, I've never even washed it underneath yet. Basically the undercarriage looks likethe untouched undercarriage of a 57,000 mile car. I figure I got a lot of points deducted for not having a detailed undercarriage,and that added to the 12 points on my tires and I'm starting out in a hole. At the awards banquet, I got a Silver Award, so thatprobably means that up top they didn't find much wrong, although I'll have to send off for my judging sheet in order to seewhat they docked me for. Dick Sweeney knows 65 rivieras like the back of his hand, having owned them for 50 years, so Idoubt he would miss anything wrong on my car. I look forward to reading what the judging sheet has to say. That being said, I likemy redline radials so they aren't going anywhere anytime soon, but I think if I fix everything else, I can still score a gold award at some point. All in all it was a great experience. I'm looking forward to my first ROA convention....... The next time they have it in the southern region of the US I'll be there! I took pics of all the Rivieras in attendance and I'll post them here soon, along with a group picture of me, Gordon, and Ed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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