Midnight Blue Pearl

I took these after cleaning her up a bit for making 250,000 miles. Since I first posted to the showroom I have changed the wheels to 7 spoke chrome from 12 spoke silver.

Beautiful

Looks reeally nice , I forgot, how nice the pin stripe looks!

Does look sharp.

What color is the interior?

The wifes car(see signature) has the light grey interior....yours looks like a darker color.

Bert

GORGEOUS

Also curious what color your interior is.

My interior is medium blue. I will take a few pics tomorrow. Since the plastic wood on the console started breaking up I have been thinking of doing a wood grain dash. However I have not been able to decide on what type/color of wood would look good with blue. However the other day I was looking at Riv pictures and saw these of a 65 Riv. It has matte aluminum but I think I will go with brushed. It looks very familiar to me for a couple of reasons. If you notice the general layout it is very similar to the 8th generation. I also learned to drive in a white 63 LeSabre with blue interior with an interior that looked almost identical to this one. The main difference is the LeSabre did not have a console.

sburch23 wrote:

If you notice the general layout it is very similar to the 8th generation.

Yes, I always felt that our interior is a great modernized version of the '65

Here is my interior. Note the signs of having 250,000 miles. Wear mark on upper right spoke of steering wheel, hole in floormat where my heel rests, and the console.

The woodgrain around the shifter on the wifes car recently split and peeled just like yours has. The heat this summer has been tough...I used some packing tape to "fix it" where it is not real noticeable though.
I need to replace that piece but have not got around to ordering the piece to replace it with. I wonder if that piece can be purchased by itself?

Thanks for any tips or info.


Bert

sburch23 wrote:

Here is my interior. Note the signs of having 250,000 miles. Wear mark on upper right spoke of steering wheel, hole in floormat where my heel rests, and the console.

Strange, it appears your radio and shifter wood-trim are mismatched, as are mine and many other blue interior rivieras. I have always wondered what the deal is with that

Mine:

Hopefully, that's not how your steering wheel sits,with the wheels strait?

flyineagle96 wrote:

Hopefully, that's not how your steering wheel sits,with the wheels strait?

Not after my latest alignment just kidding of course, the wheels were turned in that picture.

Mine are not mismatched. It is just the difference between sun and shade.

sburch23 wrote:

Mine are not mismatched. It is just the difference between sun and shade.

Oh alright. Well I have seen this instance in some others, my bad

No problem. Mine cracked and I started playing with it as I was driving. I thought that i would glue the pieces down later but I lost them first. Besides, I figured I needed an excuse to add the wood (now metal) dash.