Just bought my second Riviera-- kind of. Update: Pictures.

Grab some popcorn.

Well, the story goes like this-- I bought a 1995 Buick Riviera in 2005 for $3,500. It was green with the tan interior. It was going to be my daily driver while I built my 2000 GTP up.

I did a water pump, and a few other things to it and found out some bad news. This bad news was that I could not lower the car. It already had one strike against it with the tan interior. I ended up finding a 1999 GTP for $2,800. I sold the Riv for what I paid for her, and moved on.

Fast forward to June of last year. I blew the tranny out of the 1999, (how weird) and had to quit on the build of the 2000 so I could start driving it again.

Blah, blah, blah, and we're up to now and I can't afford the car payment on the GTP while I'm still in school. So I start looking around for a cheap DD. Low and behold my old Riviera is for sale. I bought it back for $800! 90,XXX miles on her now.

I sold the GTP yesterday, *tear*.

But now on to what I'm going to be doing with the Riviera. So far I have sanded it down, got the metal straight and have it in primer.

Tomorrow I will be shooting her in flat black. The stock wheels are already flat black.

I'm tinting the windows with 15%, spray tinting the taillight and all of the marker lamps.

Throwing a new down pipe on it, (exhaust leak) and putting a single muffler into a y at the end with two slashed tips behind the rear wheels.

Then throwing the intrax STS springs on her, and calling it quits.

I'll have pictures up as progress is made.

Welcome! Here's a link you may find interesting:

https://rivperformance.editboard.com/exterior-f12/write-up-paint-job-t707.htm#7110

Should be interesting to see.

Post some pictures when you can.

Ooh, flat black body and wheels? Tell PalermoCorey90 about this, he'd love to see some pics of that when you do it!!!

Welcome to the Forum
Good luck with the paint job, I know mine was FUN!

I am a painter/fabricator so it won't be my first time spraying. Ha.

On a side note, does anyone have any pictures of a slammed Riv? I couldn't seem to find one. Thanks.

GM Head wrote:

On a side note, does anyone have any pictures of a slammed Riv?

Chicken wrote:

I do like the way you lowered it....what are you riding on? 10's?

sorry, couldn't help myself

Haha, it's so low-- yet still has a ton of wheelgap.

Here's a few pictures:

I only have one picture so far, I still need to throw a few more coats on . I was going to paint it black with a flat clear for a nice deep flat black, but I am just single stage flat blacking it for right now as I have to buy the paint. I'll be able to shoot it for free when I go back to school in a month.


^These two are from when I first owned the car, after I did a 10 hour scuff and buff on her.

^Here's the ugly tan interior, I took everything out and steamed the carpets, and cleaned every square inch of the interior.


^And here's my 2000 GTP I just sold.

nice man im digging the flat black

now thats a murdered out riv