[uneasyrider]

Originally Posted by gary bennett

yep, thats the one. ours even had what they call nipple tail light lens.

Very cool! Someday when I win the lottery I'm going to get a car from that era. They have some fantastic styling! Back when style was spelled out in capital letters on a car.

[beemergary]

Originally Posted by Greg Reid

I know where one is with the same color combo right now. It's been sitting at that corner for so long, it's like a directional landmark. "Take a right where you see that old Galaxie." In decent shape too...

Of all the cars shows I go too I never see one that color.

[Alvin]

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[craigs69]

My Dad had a 69 Judge convertible that he purchased from a friend in early 1975. In the fall of 75, he traded it in on a new Dodge 4x4 truck. I know that there were once photos of the car in an old shoe box that my parents kept their pictures in, but they have been missing for many years. I'm hoping they they resurface someday.

The car was carousel red with parchment interior and a white top. It was a ram air 3 car with a 4 speed, hood tach and hideaway headlights. The last time I saw the car was 1976 and it was sitting alongside the new owners garage with heavy front end damage. Sadly, our next door neighbor's oldest son knew the owner and said that the car was sent to a salvage yard.

[rsavage]

My Dad had a 59 Chevrolet Impala 2 door hardtop with a 348 w block. Dual exhausts, PS, PB, black exterior and red interior. Striking car. He bought it used (1 year old) and I was 9 and absolutely loved riding in that car.

[Radman]

My father got a 1959 Plymouth Fury wagon. It looked plain Jane, but had the 361 in front of the pushbutton automatic. We had a lot of good trips in that car, and I learned to drive in it and a 1/2 ton Chevy pickup.

[400 4spd.]

This car, a 1961 Biscayne 2 door sedan in the same colors, except the dog dish caps were surrounded by wide whites. It had a 283 2 barrel with a 'glide. I remember riding home from Hampton Chevrolet in it with him, and a bridge we went over. Yep, I got to ride with my Dad in the new car and everyone else had to stay home!
I think the first thing added was the clear plastic seat covers with the herringbone shaped bumps. It wasn't long before he ordered some fender skirts for it at the the dealer and I went when those were installed, too. In later years it sported narrow white walls. In winter he broke out the recap black wall snow tires mounted on blue wheels, paint compliments of Pep Boys.
He was proud of that old Chevy.

[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......

[gtohurstjudge]

Pics of the perfect original interior in the 65 Riviera I own now......

[Greg Reid]

I think the '65 Rivi is one of the coolest cars ever designed. I'd love to have one.
I've never seen/noticed the two door handles before. I assume that's so someone in the back seat can open the door for themselves?

[GTOnly70]

Originally Posted by gtohurstjudge

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......

Beautiful car, Winston. Great color too. I always loved the '63-'65 Rivs, especially the '65s with the hidden headlights.

[gtohurstjudge]

Correct, it allows someone in the rear seat to let himself out.

[gtohurstjudge]

Originally Posted by GTOnly70

Beautiful car, Winston. Great color too. I always loved the '63-'65 Rivs, especially the '65s with the hidden headlights.

In 65, the only cars made with hideaways were the Corvette and the Riviera.
When my Dad picked up his 65 riviera in September 64, it caused a riot everywhere it
was driven....it would literally stop traffic. everybody wanted to come over and get us to
show them how the clamshell headlight doors opened and closed. Even today, when you drive one of these cars in public it causes a riot. It gets ten times the attention of any of my Pontiacs.

[gtohurstjudge]

One thing about the 63-65 riviera that most car buffs don't know, is it was
the first GM car to have frameless side windows. Also, most people don't know that these
cars have a solid metal panel behind the front door panels with no holes whatsoever. To
service the window mechanisms, door handles, etc. you get to them from the outside....
the outer skin on the doors bolt on and are removable. You can remove the outer skin
on the front doors in about ten minutes. To own a nice one of these cars you have to buy a very
nice one....they are extremely rare (only 34,586 65's built) and they shared body parts with
no other GM car, so parts cars with good rust free sheet metal are very hard to come by, and no repro sheet metal is available other than floor pan patches and rocker panels. There
is so much chrome on the inside of these cars that if you have pitted or rusted chrome in the interior, the chrome bill alone for the interior could run tens of thousands of dollars. If you
buy one of these you've got to find one with a mint interior with no pitting or rusted chrome trim.....It took me ten years of looking every day to find the one I have. It popped up online
on Hemmings .com and I bought it 45 minutes after it hit the net....I had been looking online
constantly for a mint one and had about given up hope of ever finding one. Generally the only mint ones you can find are GS models, which sell for 80K. Mint low mileage non GS
Rivieras are rarer than hen's teeth. I never considered buying a GS because I didn't want to feed gas into a 2 four barrel engine, and I felt that the 45K premium for the
GS was a little steep. One other thing that most people don't know is that the 65 Riviera has a turbo 400 trans(Buick called it the Super Turbine 400) with a switch pitch
torque convertor. When you hit about 55 miles per hour, the torque convertor changes pitch and in effect it's like having a four speed automatic transmission. These cars will cruise down the highway at 80 miles per hour effortlessly with the engine at a pretty low rpm. One of my favorite things about these cars is that the entire car has no
visible outside fasteners. Even the bumpers have no visible bumper bolts....they actually welded bolt holders to the inside of the bumper that regular bumper bolts will slide into,
just so that no bumper bolt heads would be visible from the outside of the car. These cars are first class, everywhere you look.....They were Bill Mitchell's proudest achievement.

[Will]

My dad's '72 Formula 400 which I now own.

I have lots of fond memories of trips to get burgers and shakes in that car on Saturday afternoons. He sold it to me when I was a senior in High School.

Before that he had a '68 GTO. We also had a '62 Bonneville which my sisters drove and we took on family road trips when I was a young kid and later a '69 Bonneville with a 428 that was my mom's car.

Guess my love of Pontiacs is genetic!

[hurryinhoosier62]

My dad had nothing but 4 door Catalina hardtops or wagons when I was growing up. On the other hand, my uncle had a '69 RAIV Goat and a '71 455/3 speed Goat. Dad's favorite car that I owned was my '76 Grand Prix. He loved the GPs, but Mom refused to let him have one. "It's NOT a practical family car" she would say EVERY TIME dad brought the subject up.

[OLDFLM72]

1971 GTX 440 6-pack... he ordered it new... black with a black top and white interior.
If he'd have kept it I'd probably still have it to this day, but he sold it a week before I got my driver's license because he was afraid I'd get hurt in it. So I took a grand out of savings and bought my Firebird! LOL

[7t8ta]

Though I never saw it my Dads 62' Cat is by far his coolest car. But out of the ones I've known his 72' Luxury LeMans is pretty cool, he still has it today!

[3fastgtos]

My dad used to have a '63 Catalina, just a regular everyday car. But for two weeks during the summer his cousin would trade my dad cars because dad's was more "streetable" and he would take his family on vacation.
Well dad got to drive his cousins '63 Catalina dual 4brl, 4-speed, rough idling car for two fun weeks.
I about fell over when he told me that story.
SD

[fiedlerh]

1953 Studebaker Commander Coupe. 3 speed manual with overdrive. Maroon.
1962 Pontiac Catalina 389 2bbl, 3-on-the-tree. Aqua blue Almost no options. Bought it new.
Traded it in on a 68 Catalina 4dr. First car we owned that actually had a options like AC and a radio.