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Buick Riviera 1974
Production year: 1974
No. of produced cars: Information not available at the moment.
Although carrying over the same platform, mechanicals, and some body panels seen on the “Third Generation“, the fourth generation Buick Riviera saw a replacement of its distinctive ‘boat tail’ roofline with a more conventional-looking “Colonnade” treatment. This turned the car from a hardtop coupe into a pillared coupe. A landau half-vinyl roof option was available. It did retain its forward-jutting grille, although in slightly modified form. Thus modified, the car looked far less distinctive than its predecessors, and even its platform mates, the Oldsmobile Toronado and Cadillac Eldorado.