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To: Army Air Corps
Mine was a 1969 Buick Riviera with a 430 3-bbl carb. It was pretty unreliable. Power window contacts destroyed due to pitting from arcing when you turned them off. Would get window stuck down and could not get it to go up more times than I care to remember. It destroyed hydraulic lifters. The headlights flipped down or up using engine vacuum pressure. The hoses leaked so badly and lost seal so fast that it often did not work when you turned the headlights on. Often the headlights would only start to flip down and would be shining up in the air. My high school friends nicknamed it "the raccoon hunter".
35 posted on 11/10/2017 6:40:48 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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It wasn't my first car, but had a '67 Riveria Gran
Sport that looked like this one.  That thing got
9 miles to the gallon (12 on the highway).  It
had been an executive's car at Buick, and still
had the executive ID sticker on it.  Co-workers
thought I was in the Mafia or something, being
able to afford such a car.  LOL

162 posted on 11/10/2017 10:03:50 PM PST by sparklite2 (-)
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