And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, January 21, 2023
I wonder how you'd replace that back window if it ever broke?
1st ANGLICO sez, work of art outta Flint Michigan. Visit the city today and you’ll see a parking lot where there was a factory that employed thousands. Think NAFTA/ Clinton. Destroyed the city, left a ghost town and scattered thousands of folks elsewhere seeking work. FJB
Boattail Rivs are still some of the most identifiable cars ever made. No mistaking them for something else. I remember riding in the package tray as a small child.
Same as if you need the same for a 64 to 67 Corvette, you find a factory replacement or a reproduction. Most all auto glass is available (not saying it always cheap!) Bubbarust
Rivieras are a sled of a car. Got to drive my friend's dad's '76 quite often while living outside Philly in '76. Hard to believe he trusted us with it.
if broken, take all the broken pieces out. It cracked, pull the stainless off and cut the rubber gasket with a boxcutter because new glass gets a new gasket
Vents to cool the motor. The '72 had a transaxle in the back with a sideways sitting 455 big block. The motor had to be slightly tilted to fit, therefore the oil pan had a grade in it so the sump would be centered with the oil pump. '73s moved the motor back to the front.
Also, with the motor-transaxle in the back it left an enormous amount of room under the near seven food long hood for luggage or several illegal aliens to cross the border with. You could stuff a half dozen illegals under the hood, kind of like a pan of tamales. Or more commonly, bales of marijuana could be inserted for illegal importation from across the border. "Half bales" as they were known were effectively the same size as a rectangular bale of alfalfa, except cut lengthwise, so they would fit under the hood of the '72 Buick. There was an entire business model set up using stolen combines from The Netherlands. Vietnamese gangs from the famous coffee district would disassemble these combines and ship them piecemeal to Mexico hidden within cargo holds full of fresh cut flowers. Alice-Chalmers and New Holland (bit of irony there) combines were the ones most often stolen as many of the parts between the two were interchangeable. Large fields of marijuana were grown in the Chihuaua region and if you saw one of these interloper mixed assembly machines of green and orange working in the fields, you knew they were reassembled from stolen parts. These large fields were grown with a knock off of California Sensimillan which was semi potent, as I am told. The combines would cut the entire marijuana plant, grind it up and spit out these odd shaped bales of higher grade ditch weed that would fit into the front of a '72 Buick. I say ditch weed because it was leaves, stems, seeds and all. One of my friends from way back used to call it "firecracker weed" because with so many seeds it would often pop off when you took a hard drag....Back to the drug trade business model: In short, the '72 Buick was the perfect vehicle to sneak this lower grade pot into cities like Killdeer Mountain ND and any town in Minnesota where cheap beer was King and a new recreational item could be introduced through local imported Samoli gangs. I did not mean to digress this much, but the question about the vents on the rear deck of the Buick was asked, and I just filled in all the blanks. As Paul Harvey would have said, now you have the rest of the story. -Nick Badway
My Dad had a '74, burgundy with a white vinyl roof and white interior...too bright for my tastes, and no clam shell headlights....not a real good year for Riviera....
safelite had it in stock. took an hour to renew it.
ReplyDeleteWAY ahead of it's time, and still had good power before that 455 was de-tuned...
ReplyDeleteThe 430 in my Electra was no slouch either.
Delete1st ANGLICO sez, work of art outta Flint Michigan. Visit the city today and you’ll see a parking lot where there was a factory that employed thousands. Think NAFTA/ Clinton. Destroyed the city, left a ghost town and scattered thousands of folks elsewhere seeking work. FJB
DeleteHow do you replace it?
ReplyDeleteAt a high rate of dollars, I would suspect
Boattail Rivs are still some of the most identifiable cars ever made. No mistaking them for something else. I remember riding in the package tray as a small child.
ReplyDeleteMy auto- mechanics shop teacher had one. Swivel seats and all. We rebuilt the motor and got it mechanically sound
DeleteI had a 72,Awsome
ReplyDeleteBoat Tail!!
ReplyDeleteKlaus
Same as if you need the same for a 64 to 67 Corvette, you find a factory
ReplyDeletereplacement or a reproduction. Most all auto glass is available (not saying
it always cheap!)
Bubbarust
they bring it to your house and install it.
DeleteThey do not make rear glass for 77 caprice 2 door. Used only if you can find. Good luck.
DeleteThe early to mid 60s Plymouth Barracuda had a humongous rear window too.
ReplyDeleteA buddy had a 66 Cuda. The rear window got broken. He had to buy a junker that had a good window to get it replaced.
ReplyDeleteThere are certain car parts places called Junk Yards.
ReplyDeleteoh, those days...
ReplyDeleteMake a casting mold of it... , fill with plastic and polish the "result".
ReplyDeletewhy the vents in the trunk lid? i'm old and stupid.
ReplyDeleteSo all the people going to the drive-in movie can breath, silly.
DeleteWinner!
DeleteGM tried something called flow through ventilation. Discontinued in 72 (I believe).
DeleteRivieras are a sled of a car. Got to drive my friend's dad's '76 quite often while living outside Philly in '76. Hard to believe he trusted us with it.
ReplyDeleteif broken, take all the broken pieces out. It cracked, pull the stainless off and cut the rubber gasket with a boxcutter because new glass gets a new gasket
ReplyDeleteVents to cool the motor. The '72 had a transaxle in the back with a sideways sitting 455 big block. The motor had to be slightly tilted to fit, therefore the oil pan had a grade in it so the sump would be centered with the oil pump. '73s moved the motor back to the front.
ReplyDelete?
Delete72 was rear wheel drive
Olds Toronado , Eldorado was FWD
there was no FWD Riviera
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DeleteAlso, with the motor-transaxle in the back it left an enormous amount of room under the near seven food long hood for luggage or several illegal aliens to cross the border with. You could stuff a half dozen illegals under the hood, kind of like a pan of tamales. Or more commonly, bales of marijuana could be inserted for illegal importation from across the border. "Half bales" as they were known were effectively the same size as a rectangular bale of alfalfa, except cut lengthwise, so they would fit under the hood of the '72 Buick. There was an entire business model set up using stolen combines from The Netherlands. Vietnamese gangs from the famous coffee district would disassemble these combines and ship them piecemeal to Mexico hidden within cargo holds full of fresh cut flowers. Alice-Chalmers and New Holland (bit of irony there) combines were the ones most often stolen as many of the parts between the two were interchangeable. Large fields of marijuana were grown in the Chihuaua region and if you saw one of these interloper mixed assembly machines of green and orange working in the fields, you knew they were reassembled from stolen parts. These large fields were grown with a knock off of California Sensimillan which was semi potent, as I am told. The combines would cut the entire marijuana plant, grind it up and spit out these odd shaped bales of higher grade ditch weed that would fit into the front of a '72 Buick. I say ditch weed because it was leaves, stems, seeds and all. One of my friends from way back used to call it "firecracker weed" because with so many seeds it would often pop off when you took a hard drag....Back to the drug trade business model: In short, the '72 Buick was the perfect vehicle to sneak this lower grade pot into cities like Killdeer Mountain ND and any town in Minnesota where cheap beer was King and a new recreational item could be introduced through local imported Samoli gangs. I did not mean to digress this much, but the question about the vents on the rear deck of the Buick was asked, and I just filled in all the blanks. As Paul Harvey would have said, now you have the rest of the story.
Delete-Nick Badway
My high school English teacher had one. I rode in it a couple of times. Her son was a friend of mine.
ReplyDeleteHer husband collected cars and had a number of Corvettes.
My Dad had a '74, burgundy with a white vinyl roof and white interior...too bright for my tastes, and no clam shell headlights....not a real good year for Riviera....
ReplyDelete