What a car. 1958. Buick Century Riviera two-door hardtop. 8,110 of these cars were manufactured. All Buicks in this year featured the division’s 364 cubic inch V-8 as standard equipment. Three hundred horsepower rating. Seductive trim. This car’s original paint job has faded in a rustic sense that makes it even more photographic. Roadside sights are all around on this stretch of highway with a proverbial crossroads in the distance.
As Neil Young once wrote, rust never sleeps. But hell, I’d drive this car in the shape it’s in as long as it ran. Car freaks are just as intense as guitar freaks. It’s all coded language for the trained experts in these two fields where compression ratios and humbuckers operate as part of the lexicon.
Excerpt from Ghostland America…