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The Buick Riviera is a personal luxury car that was marketed by Buick from 1963 to 1999, with the exception of the 1994 model year.. As General Motors' first entry into the personal luxury car market segment, the Riviera was highly praised by automotive journalists upon its high-profile debut.
English: 1961 Buick Electra 225 Riviera sedan in "Desert Fawn" (WA2815), with four ventiports on the front fender. Seen in the parking lot of the 2021 Greenwich Concours d'Elegance, which is exactly where I photographed this car back in 2012.
Gen. Information / notes Model B: 1903 1904 1 The first automobile made by the Buick Company. Four: 1909 1915 1 Passenger car, the first model as a General Motors division. Six: 1914 1925 1 Senior model to the Four: Master Six: 1925 1928 B-body: 1 Standard Six: 1925 1929 A-body: 1 Limited: 1931: 1942: C-body: 2: Full-size car: Century: 1936 ...
The 322 Fireball V8 in a 1956 Buick Century. Buick's first generation V8 was offered from 1953 through 1956; it replaced the Buick straight-eight.While officially called the "Fireball V8" [1] by Buick, it became known by enthusiasts as the "Nailhead" for the unusual vertical alignment of its small-sized valves (Originally it was known to hot-rodders as the "nail valve", because the engine's ...
Buick Riviera; Global file usage. ... Date and time of data generation: 17:12, 24 June 2024: Lens focal length: 16.538 mm: Horizontal resolution: 72 dpi: Vertical ...
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The '36 was a very successful year for Buick and also marked the first time of using names rather than the simple serial numbers which had been in use before. [1] The first Specials rode on a 118 in (3.0 m) wheelbase, but for the next model year this was increased to 122 in (3.10 m) as all Buicks grew for that year.
For 1979, Cadillac Eldorado (tenth generation), Buick Riviera (sixth generation) and Oldsmobile Toronado (third generation) were downsized to an intermediate-sized front-wheel-drive platform, resulting in a 20 in (508 mm) reduction in length in the case of the Eldorado. Engines were also downsized, with V6 engines available in the Riviera and ...