Love the Starliners...real clever use of the tail light bezels for the headlights.. brilliant. My pal John did a clone of the A bros adonis 60 starliner over 20 years ago...
In photos, I can’t stand the front end of this car. It’s too square—too abrupt. It clashes with the clean, organic flow of the rest of the body. Feels like it was tacked on by committee, not sculpted as part of the whole. But in person? Whole different story. Standing in front of it, I was genuinely into it. Photos flatten everything—they don’t capture the depth of the grille, the way the round headlights are subtly tucked into that perforated steel panel, fading into the radiator opening like a slow dissolve. It works. Just not in two dimensions.
yup, a lot of cars are that way.... the Car Craft dream rod is kinda frumpy in pictures, but when you are standing next to it... man oh man is it cool
I dig everything about that car. The rear grill matching the front grill idea has been bouncing around my head for years after seeing a couple of cars that way. The stock decorative rear panel on my 63 already mimic the look of the grill. So many ideas, so little skill to make them real
Is it just me or does it seem odd that they had the windows up at that show? Hardtop should show that off.
From my archive, shot at the April '67 show at the Great Western hall in LA, using my trusty Instamatic.
Love those '60/ '61 Starliners. They look so good unaltered it's almost a sin to modify them......almost.
My Father had 2 of them and I never got over him selling them. A 61 Starliner is on my bucket list. Thank You
Funny that Tom took those photos of the rivi, believe there’s a similar one creeping around KC currently. 1: 18” holy shit I bet that looked insane lit up at night! 2: Totaly agree about cars looking/ reading different in photos vs real life.
I see what you did there. This Starliner is much simpler, but reminds me of @KIRK! 's "May Cause Dangerous".
My dad bought a brand new 60 Starliner. Red with a white top. I remember standing in the back seat with my fingers touching the chrome stars on the sail panel. It was pretty car.
This is the Bones Noteboom, Winfield painted Riviera. It currently looks similar to this and It’s for sale and going to auction soon with an estimated price of 200K
Yeah, I'm familiar with it... FANTASTIC car, but I can't imagine there is any way in hell it's gonna get anywhere close to $200k. Not in this day and age man...
I’m very familiar with the car, as I worked on all of Bones’s cars. I’ve even driven this one and it’s the car that created my love affair with Rivi’s but I seriously doubt it will go that high, I completely agree with you Ryan
maybe it’s different in person but the one thing I thought looked out of place were the long exaggerated sail panels
At the end of the day, the best Riv was Bill Mitchell’s prototype… no more or less should be done to them…
I’ve read that it was a completely hand formed body… Not a single dimension, other than wheelbase, matches that of the production car. Also, red wheel wells kick ass.
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