The coupe's 1985 Firemist metallic red Buick Riviera, ... had a 1971 Dodge Demon with a 225-cubic-inch slant six engine as his first car. His wife of 45 years, Mary, ...

The 1971 Riviera also featured GM's "Full-Flo" ventilation system with two, large, deck-lid louvers on the trunk lid. The system created an unfortunate vacuum effect under certain conditions that ...

The third-gen Riviera is also a bit rarer than its predecessors, with Buick having built some 34,000 units per year from 1971 to 1973. Some of them are still on the road today, but the large ...

The mystery of this roadside 1971 Buick Riviera has been solved. Then I dropped the ball, big time, missing a Feb. 7 email from Dan Baucco that arrived after the second column.