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06/02/2021 11:05 pm
Yat Ming did a fine 1/18 version of the stylish "boat-tail" Buick Riviera from 1971.
07/02/2021 10:17 am
Mike, I appreciate your creative talents... neat pics.
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15/02/2021 7:51 pm
Great pics Mike! Not sure why these things got so expensive all of a sudden...
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16/02/2021 12:22 am
Thanks ! I am not sure whether Yat Ming's apparent "successor" company Lucky Diecast has re-done this one or not. If only the YM one's are out there, perhaps these could be in short supply.
16/02/2021 9:59 am
Great pictures as always Mike. I have this model in gold with a black vinyl roof and just bought the 1972 model in 1/43 scale in the same colors.
16/02/2021 10:07 am
The model is very well done for the original price point. Comparing the 1:1 with the first two generations, I just found this design to bloated and garish. That added on hump of a boat tail just seemed gimmicky.
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16/02/2021 6:00 pm
Great pictures as always Mike. I have this model in gold with a black vinyl roof and just bought the 1972 model in 1/43 scale in the same colors.
Thanks, Bob. Those colors would look superb on a Riviera ! My 1/43 Riv is an inexpensive YM version in green.
The model is very well done for the original price point. Comparing the 1:1 with the first two generations, I just found this design to bloated and garish. That added on hump of a boat tail just seemed gimmicky.
I really liked all the Buick Rivieras in their own way until they increasingly began to overly downsize, de-engine and un-platform the car into extinction. Basically, the original formula was the right idea.
16/02/2021 6:25 pm
The model is very well done for the original price point. Comparing the 1:1 with the first two generations, I just found this design to bloated and garish. That added on hump of a boat tail just seemed gimmicky.
I think you're right there were elements around that time: the '68 Thunderbird Landau, the '71 'Stutz' that reminisced for a past glamour with superfluous bolt-on junk. And the '71 Riviera may be included in this fashion. But I'm always struck by how successfully the boat-tail/fastback, flows into the lowered belt-line before shooting forward into the tapering bonnet. It all seems so orderly and controlled, plus there are now decorative irons.
The sublimely elegant Lincoln Continental III also reached back into a previous, more glamorous past and I like to bag the Riviera in with that. But this is my personal view.