1971 Oldsmobile Toronado: There’s Style, and Then There’s STYLE
1971 Chrysler Town & Country: 8 Barrels for Everybody!
They All Float Down Here
This is the Buick Riviera version 3. Maybe I should call it Stage 3, because it’s like a cancer. It followed the familiar path of Thunderbird and Cougar. Start with a sporty/GT car of various levels of effort. Get slinkier, but also larger. Coalesce with other models (if you didn’t start as a knockoff to begin with). Then give up any pretense of sporty, in favor of “luxury.” Have a renaissance, then veer off on increasingly inexplicable courses with no real connection to the original concept, then die quietly, as the accountants piss on you and what could have been if you stayed true.
Nirvana on Wheels
Arizona Auction week kicks off with the first ever Arizona Concours d’Elegance. We’re overloaded with images to sort through, but here are some early returns.
Speaking of Uncle Bob
1971 Cadillac Coupe deVille at the Vegas Cars and Coffee show.
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