XP715

I've bought two already; why stop now?

The 1975 Charger is beyond words; how could they think people would "love the change [they] made?" It's a f@#king Cordoba with louvers over the rear quarter windows. Gross!

Water's water to me; tap or bottled really isn't an issue. "We gotta little rule back home: if it's brown, drink it down; if it's black, send it back." </Homer Simpson>

Until GM decides to build cars that don't suck anymore, I'd have to go hunting for a nice Dark Cherry Metallic '94-'96 Buick Roadmaster Estate wagon, or another last-generation Riviera. But since this isn't a hypothetical for me, with my Riviera blowing a head gasket on the 2nd, my 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille has been pulled out of storage and put on the road for the time being until I can fix it.

Maybe you need glasses then because this car burns my retinas just fine. And even if Sixty8 misused the word he still got the point across: body color bumpers and deleting exterior brightwork is an easy way to make a car look like &#036;h&#33;; very rarely do cars look good with things of that nature done. The 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass Rallye 350 comes to mind as one that does, but that was factory. Toss the same car to some toothless mouth-breathing backyard hack redneck and watch it quickly turn into ten pounds of &#036;h&#33; in a five-pound bag; a fate much like that of the '73 Riviera we see here. I wonder if he knows his sister still would have had sex with him in it before he destroyed it...

... But these ones go up to eleven. [/This is Spinal Tap]

I'd crack open my local want-ad and buy used GMs until the cows came home. I would finally have an excuse to make Farmer XP's Buick Ranch come to light!

That is quality

XP715- The GM code number for the Buick Riviera concept. I think the Riviera is overall one of the best nameplates GM ever had. I own one and am actively looking for more, my biggest want right now being a '71-'72 boattail. Ideally a GS with buckets and a console, but I'll take anything good.

All I can think about whenever I see anything about this movie is that episode of South Park where they had the independent film festival and Cartman explained independent film as being "black & white hippie movies about a bunch of gay cowboys eating pudding."

Such a shame. Even if it is a '73, no car of that nature deserves some bad 80's Miami Vice paint job. Interesting though, it looks very similar to the 1971 that Hot Wheels released this past year....

Hah, well since we're naming all of the ones we want, here's my list.... -'63 GS -'66 GS -'70 GS with fender skirts -'71 GS with buckets and a console -'72 GS with buckets, a console, factory sunroof, and Max-Trac so it's super weird -'73 GS Stage 1 (only year offered on a Riviera) -'74 GS (last year there WAS a Riviera GS) -'78 LXXV -'79 S-Type -'81 T-Type -'83 XX -'84 convertible -'88 Silver Anniversary -'96 Bright White Diamond Metallic with chrome turbine wheels (check!) -'97-'99 Light Jadestone Metallic, supercharged, all the toys -'99 Silver Arrow One down, fifteen to go!

Dude, you are speaking my language, totally. Right now I own a Bright White Diamond metallic over taupe '96 with chrome turbine wheels; it's on ice right now. I'm driving my 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille for the time being. But yeah, I'm definitely on the hunt for a '71 GS with buckets and a console; that's my top choice too, but I'd take any year of them with the exception of '86-'88, unless I could find some sort of super low miles '88 Silver Anniversary.

Since you mentioned wheels, I've always been a fan of the eight-lug wheels Pontiac tried for a little while back in the early 60's. I know some people with later cars convert them to the eight lug for cosmetic reasons; what does that entail exactly? I figure you'd know better than most people.

I go over to Sixty8's house and eat all his food and then he usually ropes me into going on some f@#ked up road trip. Other than that I've met nobody in person, but would look forward to it if any of you guys (or girls) ever find yourselves in ASSachusetts at some point for whatever reason.

I love Lady Liberty, and I think the Eiffel Tower is pretty neat too. Kinda sad that they were more advanced in the 1800's than they are now. Remember, this is the country where 85% of their 14,802 heat wave deaths can be attributed to the fact that nobody owns an air conditioner; not even most hospitals have them! Kind of ironic for a country that loves to toot its own horn about how f@#king sophisticated they are. Makes me want to rush right out and buy a Citroen... almost.

I stick by my decision. These botched abortions are another engineering triumph by the French, the people that brought you New Orleans! Leave it to the French to build a city twenty feet below sea level; we all see how well that turned out. All you Renault owners out there should be fearful of your lives if the French are twice as good at building cars as they are with city planning.

The 1949 Buick Roadmaster Riviera is the first pillarless two-door. I believe GM started in 1956 with pillarless four-doors, after people were so receptive of the Cadillac Orleans and Park Avenue concepts at the 1953 and 1954 Motoramas, again with the Roadmaster Riviera and also the Cadillac Sedan DeVille leading the charge. The last year Buick used the name Riviera to designate a pillarless body style was 1963, the same year Riviera became its own nameplate, on the 1963 Electra 225 Riviera (body designation #4829 for all the other Buick queers like myself on here). Buicks I know; I'm learning the other marques quite quickly though! The hardtop car that was denounced due to production numbers I have no clue about, but I can tell you that Hudson built the first completely enclosed car in 1913! Before then, cars still had open cabs and at most convertible roofs with side curtains. Last domestic hardtop? For GM it would be the 1976 Chevrolet Caprice/Pontiac Bonneville/Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight/Buick Electra/Cadillac Sedan DeVille. But last domestic hardtop produced overall would be the 1978 Chrysler New Yorker as far as I know.

Sixty8: I like you dude, but that is definitely a tad creepy. Satty gave a good example of why. Black and Blue: Way to f@#k up the thread from the word go! How did you expect ANY of us to be able to top that picture?! Can she be the cheersandgears official spokesmodel, pretty please?

You make it sound like I flew into her driveway right behind her and asked her to sell me the car the second her door opened when I merely hung back a few cars to see what street she turned down because I like her car. Is this to take attention off the fact that everybody, myself included, finds it a little creepy that you speed up to take pictures of girls asses on the highway perhaps? You really need to get out more, dude, before it escalates into doing upskirts at the mall or something. Check this thread to see what I'm talking about. http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...?showtopic=4882 Hide your bottoms, ladies; Sixty8's on a highway near you!

That is one sick fleet right there; my favorite is the '67 GTO. I've never owned a Pontiac but hope to soon; I'm always looking for something neat to play with. There's an old lady right around the corner from me still driving her '71 Catalina four door hardtop sedan with a 400 in it. I have already mentally prepared a spot for this car in my future fleet whenever she decides to stop driving it!

Hetero-flexible? So like what does that mean anyways, you're all about girls but stick your dink in a guy every now and then just to keep shit interesting? Where do you come up with this stuff anyways? Call me old-fashioned, but I'd say there's really no gray area between straight and bi or gay and bi. Any thoughts?

Agreed. I can't believe how bad this pretty pearl white '99 Riviera ate it. Some unlucky dude got a face full of A-pillar. :blink:

Well since we're on our ACTUAL wrecked cars.... Here's my first ride, a 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. Three weeks after I finished fixing it from its first wreck, I was cut off by a Mercury Sable and drove through a strip of woods. I tore the nose off the Mercury but the Cutlass was relatively unscathed. The car doesn't look too bad in the photo, but the engine cradle was buckled pretty good. Tends to happen when you hit a granite curbstone at 40. And here's what happens when you let Sixty8 try and negotiate an icy hill with your '79 Coupe Deville :lol: :lol: :lol:

On the highway the fastest I've gone is 112 in the egg; that's about all she's got. Thankfully that didn't end up with one of those pretty pink pieces of paper too :lol: