Acme - Buick® Riviera® Hardtop (1963, 1/18 scale diecast model car, Spruce Green) A1806304

The Buick Riviera is a personal luxury car produced by Buick from 1963 to 1999.  GM's first entry into that prestige niche, the Riviera was highly praised by automotive journalists upon its high-profile debut. While early models stayed close to the original form, eight subsequent generations varied substantially over the Riviera's thirty-year lifespan. In all, 1,127,261 were produced.

Riviera's crisply-styled, ground-up design debuted in 1963.  It was Buick's first unique Riviera model, and pioneered the GM "E" platform.  

Unlike other GM "E" platforms, (the Oldsmobile Toronado and Cadillac Eldorado), the Riviera was initially a standard front engine/rear-wheel drive platform, only becoming front wheel drive starting in 1979 as part of a sweeping move in that direction by the American automobile industry.

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