There are 2 reasons I love Buicks. One being the 55 Chevy that my father transplanted a Buick motor into back in 1970. The other was his 1966 Riviera! I grew up riding both. He gave the Riv to my bro. back in the 70's when he got a liscense. He gave me the Chevy when I was 13. I kept mine on the road. My brother let his Riv sit for many years and start a serious decline. I finally talked him into a resto on the Riv. back about 13 years ago. In my opinion, it was now or never because the car was going down fast. He agreed. We worked slowly on it and saved every penny. Last month, we decided to do the final touch and drop the frame and detail an nice topside car. Hard work pays off. Here are the pics so far. It will be done next week if everthing goes as planned. :3gears:
This is my brother and our friend from South Carolina. Our friend in the pic. is only 64 years old, but found out last week he has to have immediate heart surgery. Send a prayer for him! The newly painted frame made a good leaning post for chats.
4 undercoatings to remove by hand!!!! 5 days of scraping and sanding. Now shining with Shermin Williams basecoat. :laugh:
Looks pretty good for a car that got hit by a train back in '73!!! What can he say, dad was late for work and it was raining. More pics to come soon.
Very nice man! I wish I had the time, resources and money to do the same to mine. o No: Oh well, someday. . .
The car has been on the road most of that time. We just did small things each year to it. This year was the time to do the remaining big items. Got a rebuilt 425 and s/p tranny painted up ready to go in now. Never planned on all this, but somehow it happens.
\ Yeah, I have had a serious case of that this year!! Looks like I have turned into a full time resto. man.
The car really looks good. I am jealous of people that can do such pretty work.. beautiful....... Doc
Dupont basecoat clear on the inner fenders and core support. Dupont basecoat on the firewall wrapped back to the tail-lights. Can anyone say gloss?? :laugh:
New chrome on the bezels, polished lenses, bead blasted housings and single stage poly on the surrounding bezels. Took my buddy Roger over 4 hours to assemble and install them today. :jd:
I worked detailing the Offy valve covers, valley pan and breather on a fully redone 4 and a quarter. Got several more items to install then it will drop in the frame. :3gears:
Nice work! That blue looks a lot like my dad's old 66GS Riv. Looking forward to seeing a pic of the car all finished.
Put the engine and tranny in while the power was off from Ivan blowing through on Friday. Hard to wrench in the partial darkness. :rant:
