1995 Buick Riviera Supercharged

1995 Buick Riviera  The Riviera name first appeared on a special 1949 Roadmaster that made the history books as the first hardtop coupe, providing an open greenhouse with no B-pillar.  Still, most old-car fans consider the Riviera to have been born in 1963.  The 1963 version Riviera was designed to compete in the hot new personal luxury segment launched by the 1958 Ford Thunderbird four-seater.  These powerful, intimate, well-appointed cars were selling well-92,798 T-Birds in 1960, a big jump over the 21,380 two-seaters sold in 1957.  Style and flair sold cars in this market, so Buick design chief Bill Mitchell specified a Ferrari-Rolls-Royce look with a long hood and a short deck-aggressive, yet elegant.  Thx to Csaba Csere from CnD for his help on this script! For consignment, a low mileage, (30,545), supercharged, European emulated aero design 1995 Buick Riviera.  There are a few faults on the cosmetic front, and it may be in our dancing noodle section of Classic Auto Mall, however the design and supercharger lends this luxury coupe merit to occupy our Hallowed Halls. Exterior It's an adventurous design in both profile and detail.  The overall shape is relentlessly curvaceous, with hardly a flat panel to be found.  Both ends of the body are strongly tapered, particularly in front where you can see just as much of the nose of the car from the side as you can from head on. The rear end also tucks in, though somewhat more modestly, to firmly grasp the full-width tail light assembly.  From the side, the Riviera looks to have a touch of cab-forward design, with the greenhouse set substantially forward on the body.  It also has the downward curving trunk line that Buick employs on the LeSabre/Park Avenue and that appears in more exaggerated form on the Infiniti J30 and several other models.  The long, smooth curves of the Riviera's body are unusually free of cut lines and extraneous chrome trim.  There's some brightwork around the grille, the taillights, and the side windows, but otherwise, there's only a neat body-colored trimming set into the sides. The full length character line that runs atop the fender breaks up the smooth flanks nicely.  Platinum Beige Metallic bathes the panels which have well minded gaps.  The body does contain some overall scratches and dings, as well as on the rocker there is an ouchie of pulled away plastic.  The mid section 3 dimensional trimming has peeling paint, The wheel hubs look like the Weather Channel hurricane logo on the radar, and these wheels are a bit rough with some peeling paint on the edges and they have been curbed.  Interior Buick designers continued on the same adventurous path when they styled the Riviera's interior.  The only traditional touch is the large cowl that extends from door to door and overhangs the entire instrument panel.  On the other hand, the new-look dashboard is flat, simple, and decorated far less than any other Buicks.  Visual interest centers on the large, round, white-on-black instrument dials, the round warning-light clusters, and the round air vents.  In fact, the theme uses 16 such circular elements.  Except for a slight offset between the steering column and the main instrument cluster, the layout is symmetrical and coherent. The climate controls and the stereo system are easily reached in the center of the dash and everything is nicely accessible and easy to see.  Some of the vast, plastic surfaces may seem uninviting in a premium car, but Buick has applied plush materials judiciously, ( like large grain walnut appliqué peppering the dash and doors as well as the console), where they work to the best effect.  For example, as the dashboard wraps into the doors, the facing material switches from veneer to soft plastic, and the panels near your elbows are luxuriously padded.  The seats offer similar evidence of intelligent design.  Their padding and shape were developed after extensive research into seating-pressure d