Down-town Austin:
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Our new 1966 Buick Riviera:

And of course we had to go to San Antonio to visit the Alamo:

Photos from last Saturday, Austin area Buick Club picnic:
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The owner of the store, this lovely lady from Canada named Rebecca, was very interested in our Road Trip story and also in the Riviera. She told me that her first car was a 1969 Wildcat. Here she is, posing together with the Riviera: You should visit this place if you ever come down the I-35, it's ...

As promised in an earlier post, here are a few photos from the ''Styling Station'', a wonderful little shop with an amazing history, out on I-35, a few miles before Waco, TX.
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This post is typed in a little town in the San Diego, CA area. Last Saturday we arrived in Austin to hand the Riviera over to Frank, and to attend the picnic he organised in this park in the Austin area. More about that in a later post, but here are two photos from last Saturday: We had to drive the...

After spending many hours at the CTC Auto Ranch, we discovered that we left the Riviera's lights on, maybe we were a wee bit over-excited when we saw al the cars in the yard when we arrived there. So all the power from the battery was gone, but we got help from a CTC mechanic in his ''Jeep yard-veh...

Here's my report from Friday December 5th: We left Gainsville, TX and headed for Denton, TX where this huge scrap yard is located, called CTC Auto Ranch. This place is so big that I was worried about the question if my memory cards could handle such a large number of cars... Here are a few photos fr...

On Friday December 5th we visited this big scrap yard along the I-35, somewhere between Gainsville and Dallas. Here are a two ''teaser photos'': And later that day we stopped at this amazing place at I-35, just before Waco It's called ''Style Station'' and it's owned by this lovely lady from Canada:...

We also found this Buick dealer in the same area, we went in for a cup of coffee and all the new Buick brochures we could find in that building, of course we had to take a few photos with the Riviera in front of the showroom: Later that afternoon we crossed the state border to Texas and stayed over...

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This post (Thursday Dec 4th) is coming to you from the great state of Texas, so yes: The Riviera is finally in it's new home-state !!! A few miles before we entered Texas on I-35, the odometer showed 08565 Miles, and we left NY state last Friday with a reading of 06565 Miles. So that's 2000 Miles wi...