BACKFIRE

RIV REDISCOVERED

I just received my January 2021 issue and read about Andy Starr and his 1965 Buick Riviera GS. My father worked at Lammert’s Buick Cadillac for 25 years. On Tuesday nights you could bring your own car in to work on, which was quite a treat because you could use a shop lift to get under it. One day, I was walking around the body shop and saw a Riviera being repaired. As soon as I saw the pictures of the car and the color in this magazine, I immediately recognized it as the same car that was sitting in that body shop so many years ago. I always loved looking at the engine with its two four-barrel carbs. My father always said that you could never pass a gas station driving this car! When the dealership closed, sometime in the early Eighties, I always wondered what happened to that beautiful car.

Sincerely

Jeff Wilson Niagara Falls, New York

IMPERFECT AND PROUD

We sure do think alike, Terry. My ’65 Corvette has some chips and flaws that I won’t fix because I want to drive it, even if I compete