1966 Buick Riviera - Jay Leno's Garage 

Lulu Absolutely agree .

Auto Designers of the day were artists in their own right. Today most cars are designed by computers for practicality and efficiency, thus no real styling at all! There are a few exceptions, yes, but most people are not buying Buggattis and Teslas!

Art + Industry = 1966 Riviera...

Always been one of my favorite cars! Along with the original Dodge Challenger!

Yes it is,

Candy apple red was a very popular custom paint back in the 60s.

Truth! Car is soooooooooo cool!!

Wow

But why does he keep calling it a sports car?

w0lf65 Absolutely beautiful car something to look at .

Jbog07 He shore does know .

I do not think it is a low rider because it is not a cruising looking car. It has a really cool sports look.

It definitely has a Lowrider paint job I remember seeing in Lowrider magazine a Riviera that looked exactly like this one or I believe it had a rainbow paint Job but this is definitely Lowrider 100%. Only Lowrider people spend 20 grand on a paint job Lol

Definitely lowrider, im picking up one tomorrow. Gonna need lots of work but its gonna be worth it.

@@ChoneyPony Good luck, Lowriders are a great alternative to going fast but with class!

Keith Morgan this design was originally for Cadillac but they turned it down and then Buick picked it up and made it.

Maybe for the ElDorado?

Keith Morgan So all you looked for throughout the video was a hint of a smile? Creepy.....🤔

AKorigami this isnt mr.grubb aka, 1970s weed man though

do you hear yourself? how is a 1500+ hour paintjob that costs over a grand "Ghetto"? You clearly have no clue where that style originated from.

Slow Python v1 what paintjob doesn't cost over a grand lol. i was expecting a mexican when jay said come on out. its an amazing paintjob but it does look a bit ghetto

Deezy from philly i never said it was, did you even read?

vxsr33 you do know people have been doing that style of work for 50+ years right? Thats just ignorant expecting a mexican to come in.

Slow Python v1 well i live in australia so we dont see many old school american muscle cars. its a beautiful car with amazing detail but to me it looks like a low rider. i think its the flake in the paint

A stock 350 is more than what most need.

Indeed.....indeed!

Jon Minnella I can see that wow .

Tom Jones USA They were beautiful cars to look at not those plastic lunch boxes of today .

Right, when's the last time someone twisted their head off to look at a passing Toyota, Nissan, or Hyundai? LOL.

Ron Schlorff Never but for this beauty everyone would.

I had a 66 Belair in 76; great car.

Vince L He is true craftsman .

It's just a pity his dentures don't fit. Listen to the 'clicking'!!!

Lol. I heard the clicking and knew I had to come straight to the comments.

I might know you are from Connecticut

David Caruso He is great.

My friend, Al, is an old motorhead who now resides in FL. He wanted to shoot a two tone look to my 93 C1500 a few years ago so we went out one day to pick out a color to compliment the OE quasar blue GM used back then. I chose deep water blue which Plymouth used on a lot of cars. While prepping the truck, Al cut out and welded in patches behind the front wheels where he saw some rust bubbling. I didn't know he was going to do it and I would have liked to have watched him do it. He was real quite about things until he had to open his mouth. I paid for tools to do the work he did at times. I also know where to shop online for things he couldn't find; that can go a long way.

I found myself listening 4 more of those friggin mouth noises lol. Cringe but satisfying

The speech is always the first to go.

Tobacco should be removed b4 applying the mic!

Haarrrr

So distracting

Right. Bring it back to stock. Like I said in an earlier post, these babies were rolling works of art already and didn't need anything extra. But, each to his own.

Bingo!! On all counts!!

3000 hours at $100 per hr shop time is $300,000 plus parts. Then consider the irreplaceable paint job. Too risky to ever drive on the street.

Dale Andrews ... Absolutely agree with you on that one. I had one in the early to mid seventies. It was the lower tier version with the bench seat and column shift. Steel wheels with covers that resembled the wheels on this car. The nailhead 425 was called a Wildcat 465, referring to the torque at 2800 RPM. Horsepower was rated at 340. It was a good performer for the size and weight. It's two favorite highway speeds were 95 and 105 as shown on the super cool roll up speedometer. When I got the car, it had a set of fairly worn bias ply tires on it. Right at that time, Atlas tires came out with 70 series steel belted radial ply tires, so I ordered a set for the car. It made a huge difference in stability and traction. The previous owner made a little change that made a big difference in stance and driveability. He installed load booster rear shock absorbers which were equipped with coil springs on their bodies, adding lift to the rear end, negating the tail dragger stance. As time went on, a guy who turned out to be a rat borrowed the car and took it far from the area. A collision occurred when a drunk woman turned in front of him, thoroughly wrecking the right front fender and bumper. I managed to collect a small amount of money from her insurance and had a shop cut the fender off the tire, making it driveable, but terrible to see. I plucked out the engine and transmission and transplanted them into my '56 Chevy 210 4dr sedan, creating a monster.

@@reasonablespeculation3893 Yet he does.

SIMKINETICS Til the Grand National. Not an old man's anything

right, when it came out I said, "this is a Buick"? But I bought a Mercury!

Ron Schlorff Mercury? Lol. The ultimate old man’s car. In 1999 I sold Chrysler’s and a man about 65 years old came in with a Mercury Marquis he traded it in for a loaded New Yorker. He said the Merc was an old man’s car. Me, I drove a Cougar

@@dontellgucci1117 lol. Obviously you know nothing about the muscle cars of the sixties, the exact same time era as Jay's Buick here. Mine was a '67 Mercury Cyclone GT390! (google it to learn more). Was the "twin" of the Ford Fairlane of the same year. And "wicked fast", or "goes like a raped ape", as we used to say back in the day!! Yes, it was a "man's car" (was even in their ads that way) but not an old man's car. Cougar, yes, nice; my friend's sister got one same time I bought the Cyclone. A "woman's car", maybe, just sayin' but I have only one data point of a person I know getting one!! Might also be a perfect car for a "cougar", you know, an old woman of about 50, who thinks she is still hot!! LOL. :D

+Josh K ?

MrInfoUnderground59 oi*.

they can't build anything close to this ;)

I think they can, but why would they waste their time

Even when it's not to your personal taste, quality craftsmanship is easy to identify and appreciate. Fads come and go, but good taste never changes.

dafirnz the interior - good taste, the exterior - not so much

Recovering_Californian You have brain damage.

Nah, '63 thru '65, and '69. The '70's were hideous!

Funny you should mention that. Frank DeRosa built a '66 Rivvy called the Golden Piranha.

Just looked it up on Google image - very nice as well. Once I got past the million images of actual golden piranhas! ;-)

Lol.

Seriously underrated comment ! lol

Thank God I'm not the only one hearing that haha I was losing my mind

I had to go get some water.

So it wasn't just me then?

Seems like ill fitting dentures

And crash it into a wall

rarely do i see modified car and don't go style nazi on it. This is the exception.

It's a lowrider and needs that paint job.

Exactly. Leave the old man alone. He's a gem in himself. He could probably tell car stories all day, with experience to back them up!

Everyone just wants to be a youtube comedian. Id love to gain more knowlage of cars from that guy. We could talk about cars all day

QMoneyPatna I would love to visit his workshop for a day and watch him work.

Rich Gibson I can’t complain because l have only few teeth ,l can’t have implants because my jaws are thin ,scared to death to go see dentist .

@@Batman-wv5ng go to a dentist or dont go out at all

It's also clear he loves what he does. Respect to him.

I didn't even notice, he did great. He is not a television professional, he is a custom car professional! There IS a difference and this is about the cars!

+max the mans hands don't just talk, they sing opera.

Is it just me or did he start feeling nervous mostly after Jay mentioned how cars these days have so many regulations put on them?

Maybe dentures?

lol

Timothy Patten lol

I could not watch it with earbuds.

Ill fitting Dentures?

Most difficult interview to watch. Guy was dry chewing before every sentence

Yeah Dex ... and next to his Toronado as well!

@@sas6561 OMG all these years and I've been saying it wrong and spelling it wrong. Not that I had much opportunity to insert Toronado in my missives or comments. Even now saying it correctly sounds weird. TorOnado, yeh, still weird. As much as the Riviera is awesome the Toronado is the most beautiful cars from that era, or would you like to correct me on that as well.

Zeek Duff it's a drug money car. that's what the Mexicans ride in California. Fact.

Zeek Duff it's a drug money car. that's what the Mexicans ride in California. Fact.

+Radical AM = radical asinine muckraker- not worthy of notice

Radical AM I mean your not wrong kinda racist tho

Advection357 Did you mean the Lotus Elise

David Nelson ever time he does that it freaks me out. Lol looks like he’s going to hit other cars in some dude’s pride and joy 😂

I'm sure it has to do with cameras mounted on the car as well as the follow vehicle. But it freaks me out too.

@@storyteller1749 I would freak me out driving next to him. Next time I'm in his area (used to live around there when I was decades younger), I'm going to look for a mop of grey hair, denim shirt, and a classic car. I'll steer clear of him while I wave and say "Jay, my man! Cool wheels, yo!"

I've noticed that too lol. I've seen him over the double yellows, hogging two lanes, and I always wonder, is this the episode where he piles up someone else's priceless car? I'm just glad I wasn't "that guy" who brought it up lol, but I've wanted to on sooo many occasions.

Bra, I have a 1966 Buick Riviera, Other than the Chop Top and the White Walls This is the most Cleanest Original Buick other than the Paint I ever Seen. I'm Dying to keep my car this Original. It takes alot of money to keep it this Original. This I one Bad RIv.