Folks Of Interest Conway Twitty's Riviera

No one?

 

Haha - me too.

 

I'm bringing this up again, the pictures are out there somewhere...

 

Now I know I,m OLD!

I know of Harold Lloyd!

Conway Twitty is a name you can,t forget.

And Conway city being in 'Yell' Ark. kinda goes with the subject.

But dont get what Spock has to do with it???

Why am I in this post? 'You brought this up again?'

gotta go it must be late

 

If you were listening to AM rock and roll radio and you didn't get chills when he sang "it's only make believe' you probably needed a blood transfusion. His music was certainly a big part of the teenage scene cruising on Saturday nights around here.

I never knew he was a car guy but I just really liked the way he could get you to feel the emotion in his songs even if he was covering a song. Rock and roll and hotrods, you can't have one without the other.

I'd love to see any pictures.

 

Spock looks like he's pissed in the picture. I'll bet he ran out of Dylithium Crystals. Nailheads never got that great of fuel mileage, anyway. He's a doctor, he should have known.

 

If Kitty Wells had married Conway Twitty, she'da been Kitty Twitty...

Is it possible that Harold LLoyd Jenkins was related to "Grumpy"? Or should he be Bill "Grumpy" Twitty?!

Well, Conway DID own a Pacer... http://www.amcpacer.com/famous/owners.asp

 

If it is not the Straddler(sp) Brothers, It is not singing.

 

Yup, after his death his children (all adults) all got in a big court battle over ownership of the Pacer - supposedly one of them was conceived in it.... no BS..

Used to live in Hendersonville TN, home of 'Twitty City' - it was big news there.

 

The Riviera kinda looks like Spock.

 

do you mean the STATTLER brothers? i.e. countin flowerson the wall,do you remember these, the class of 57
among a ton of others

 

I'll have to agree. Opryland ruled!

 

Right, Bob. Now, imagine if ol' Harold had been traveling toward Conway County via Perry County and crossed the bridge on Hwy 60....He might have called himself Toadsuck Twitty!

 

I only knew him from this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2hpnID8n1M

and now it turns out he was mister spock
and he drove a riviera

that earns extra points!

 

Supposedly Twitty's:



This WAS Twitty's:







Haven't found a Rivi yet, but he was a car collector soooooo

 

That is what I meant. Are they still alive? The class of 1957 have to be in their early 70's now. That song had had some true meaning in this town.

 

Sharkskin or Nudie suits? Because Nudie suits are bomb diggity ish!! Nudie also made cars for some of his clients.

The one on the bar back at Buck Owen's Crystal Palace was made for Elvis and won by Buck in a card game.............so the legend goes. Only 18 Nudie-mobiles were made and not even half of them survive.



Back to our regularly scheduled programming on Conway Twitty's Elusive Rivi

 

the stattler brothers are still around retired from preforming all of the original members are still alive except one he died in the mid 80's when his stomache exploded (supposedly i think) he was the high tinner in the group i think his name was don


conway was not ever mr spock


conway has alot of good songs but make believe was the big one that got him noticed and then hello darlin put him over the top

 

I have that same book. If I remember right its a black one right? Sitting stock on some factory spoke type wheel? Maybe 3/4s shot of the drivers side on some big country estate?

I am at work but ill double check when I get home if you thinks its the same one.

Sorry no dumb joke this time around. At least it kept getting bumped to the top.

 

Lew Dewitt, the original tenor, left the Statler Bros in early eighties, due to ill health from Crohn's disease. He was replaced by tenor Jimmy Fortune. Lew died in August, 1990 from heart and kidney disease due to complications of Crohn's, which is a horrible disease. His stomach did not explode.

 

Huh? I always thought the man swung the other way myself. That hair is a little suspicious. Always something to learn here on the hamb.

 

X2, Tommy, he was the man back then.

Bobbyd

 

He sure made the ladies swoon.

 

spock has '57 desoto ears...

 

this looks like roy orbison.???

 

Live long and prosper

 

That's Nudie Cohn.

 

The book is titled " CLASSIC AMERICAN CARS " by QUENTIN WILLSON and published by DK PUBLISHING,INC.


Page 120 and 121 feature a 1964 Buick Riviera owned by Conway Twitty.... complete with yellow and black plates that say "TWITTY".

I dont have a scanner but I could snap a couple of pictures if you need. Its black on black and has Buick wires.

I knew I had it but confused it with another book "MY DAD HAD ONE OF THOSE...." which also features a Riviera but its a 63 I believe.

Hope this helps.

I still dont have any jokes.

 

Duncan, somehow, I don't think he'd have had quite the success with a name like that!

 

thanks for straightening me out