Paul and Erik Hansen are the owners of Resilience, this classic but contemporary '52 Buick custom, but they are just part of the team responsible for the creation of the car.....
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You know how it is; some people build a car every couple of years and move them on to make way for or finance (or both!) the next project. Then there are guys who will keep a car for years, improving it as funds and time allow. Andy Forget is very...
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Here's proof you don't need a recently completed project to snag a feature in R&C, just a neat car that we haven't spotted before. David Dickinson's '39 Buick 40 Series convertible has...
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Customizing cars has always been about standing out in a crowd-distinguishing your set of wheels from the pack. Check out Ron Kussin's 1956 Buick Special.
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Jeff GoldsteinWarwick, Rhode Island'64 Buick RivieraJeff Goldstein has always liked GM's offerings from the '60s, the '64 Riviera in particular, so when he found a 54,000-mile California car he bought it sight-unseen. Turns out it had a little more rust
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Mild customs are Bob Cardwell's thing. Always have been. When he was a kid in the '60s, his heroes were Bill Hines, George Barris, Gene Winfield, and a slew of other custom car builders. These were the guys who kept him going to auto shows and buying the lates
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Mild customs are Bob Cardwell's thing. Always have been. When he was a kid in the '60s, his heroes were Bill Hines...
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In Dennis Lee's neighborhood, not every kid has to climb into some vast and dull minivan when there are trips to be made and errands to be run. In fact, the kids at Dennis' house get to take those kinds of rides in the coolest car around.
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Leo Reyes' '54 Buick Convertible
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The Ayala brothers, Harry Westergard, Gene Winfield, Neil Emory, the Barris brothers, and other customizers of the postwar decade were masters at creating a timeless, classic style that has been influencing builders for more than half a century. In this case,
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In the early '60s when Bill Mitchell was styling the concept car that would become the Riviera, he didn't know that the car he was designing for Cadillac would ultimately become a Buick and would be such a favorite among customizers. The car's stunning good...
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An Awesome Example of a Contemporary '60s Custom is Don Russo's 1963 Buick Riviera.
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Bill Ross's '54 Buick, "Blue on Blue," is one of those cars that'd stop any custom connoisseur dead in his or her tracks.
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What do you get when you combine a dude from Minnesota, named Mark Moriarty, with the passion and imagination of the late Ed Roth? You get a homebuilt custom that looks like it came straight off the show circuit circa 1963. This time machine was built in 2001
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How long is the road from roach to righteous? About six months long, according to Dion Giuliano. That’s how long it took him and his cohorts to bring his ’64 Riv back from the brink. It’s one thing to find a clean, solid, original car an
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