Do you remember your first time in a Lowrider?
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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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Greg Dawson isn't bashful when discussing why he decided to customize his 1965 Riviera: "I really thought I could better Mr. Mitchell's design," he says.
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If all goes well, just when R&C readers get their first eyeful of this month's Dream Car, spectators at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, California, will be seeing the finished version of this stunning custom.
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Check out this fire red hot 1965 Buick Riviera with a Chevy 350 engine rolling in the streets of Dallas in this month's issue of Lowrider Magazine.
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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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Out of the fog came a Buick for the ages.
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Steel Is RealSteel is real, and when it's prewar and built on one of Henry's assembly lines, it can be worth real green. In the right hands, it can also approach art. Bruce Rossmeyer of Florida brought the boys of Hot Rods & Hobbies a '36 Ford five-window co
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From the beginning, Buick's Riviera was a bit of a throwback. Relying as much, if not more, on style than performance, it swam upstream as the horsepower-focused musclecar wars took off in the mid-1960s. Still, the marque's unique blend of crisp, European-infl
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For cars that many consider to be factory customs, 1963-'65 Buick Rivieras still get a lot of attention from customizers. A few attempts at improving or enhancing the factory's crisp, clean lines actually succeed. Others ... well, let's just say they're not so
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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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Sometimes, subtlety speaks volumes. In the case of Mike O'Brien's Buick Riviera from Burbank, California, it's making its point loud and clear thanks to a vibrant coating of candy pagan gold. Other than a simple shave and cleanup (plus the addition of airbags,
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An Awesome Example of a Contemporary '60s Custom is Don Russo's 1963 Buick Riviera.
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Model car builder Albert Galaviz of Phoenix, Arizona, was first featured in Lowrider Bicycle Magazine back in the Winter '97 issue. At that time, Albert's latest and greatest model was his replica of Joe Ray's '73 Buick Riviera, "Dressed to Kill." Albert's low
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It was a great day for a model car show, and what better place to hold such an event than in Victorville, California? That was the site of the VIPMC (Vehicles In Plastic Model Club) and Victorville Parks, Recreation and Community Service Department's eighth an
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Check out this classic 1963 Buick Riviera.
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Okay. . .you're right, it's a lowrider-all right? Now I'll be the first to admit that CRM doesn't generally follow lowirding, as it's yet another subgenre of the hot rodding hobby, just as are pro-street Camaros and Mustangs. However, when we find one this superbly crafted, with the only thing actua
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Today’s kids, man, they just don’t get it. They have it all wrong. They have it better than we did when we were their age, and they don’t know what to do with it. They’ve got no taste. They have no interest in building good stuff—just
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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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Looking like a rolling California sunset, this chopped peach Riviera is a delight from nose to tail. Owned and built by Sal Vega in San Jose, California, this Buick is the summation of his wish to build a great Sixties kustom. Sal has been into kustoms sin
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