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Originally Posted by gtohurstjudge

My Dad always bought Buicks for the family car, that were mainly driven by my
mom as he always had a chevy company car(he got a new one every couple of years).
In the summer of 1964, my family was living in Houma, Louisiana and I accompanied my Dad when he went to Bernie Dumas Buick in New Orleans to order a 1965 Buick Lesabre
station wagon. When we walked into the dealer showroom there was a 1964 Buick Riviera
on display. I had never seen a Riviera before, as Houma was a blue collar town and everybody drove Chevies and Fords. I flipped over the car and talked my Dad into test
driving a 64 Riviera. He fell in love with the car too and he wound up ordering a white
with saddle interior 65 Riviera. I learned to drive in that car and used to take it out on special occasions in high school. I wound up buying my GTO while I was in college, and got into muscle cars but I always wanted a 65 Buick Riviera, and two years ago found a Seafoam
Green 65 Riv with 55,000 original miles on it, and I've really enjoyed the car....wish I had bought one decades ago! Below are pics of the original 65 Riv, and the one I own now......

63-65 Rivs are the coolest personal luxury car ever built. GM hit the nail on the head with both the interior and exterior styling. A close second would be the early Grand Prixs.