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1972 Buick Riviera

1972 Buick Riviera in Due South, TV Series, 1994-1999 Ep. 3.01

Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin:

1972 Buick Riviera

Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time

Comments about this vehicle

Author	Message
winger ◊ 2004-12-18 06:43	1972.
Hecubus ◊ 2006-08-15 04:55	It should be a '71, as it's mentioned often on the show.
philr ◊ 2006-08-17 06:42	It really is a 1972. The 1971 model has a different grille with horizontal bars, different bumpers without rubber impact strips and different taillights with an horizontal divider (this car lacks it) The trunk door of the 1971 has louvers for the ventilation and this one also lacks them. The side mouldings that were standard on the '72 were not available on the 1971.
antp ◊ 2009-05-17 10:53	stronghold wrote This car is used alot throughout the series (..but in this particular eps 1.03 ..it is shown only very briefly.!)..I think it's better to wait for a better 'main' picture of it. Hecubus wrote Should we just use the picture (/vehicle_7282-Buick-Riviera-1971.html) from the second run of the series for now, given that it is the same car and all (or, mostly the same, two were blown up, to be replaced by identical Rivieras). BTW, even if we don't use that picture, might as well make this a '71. philr wrote It's a 1972 Riviera, not a 1971. Cycolac Fan wrote Apparently it is a 1972 Riveria that was sometimes referred to as a different year, such as a 1971, by the characters, officially there were three cars but having watched the stunts the cars went through on the show and the need for stunt vehicles, nice shiny ones and doubles I wouldn't be surprised to find they went through 20 or more during the series. Pictures exist of three together on set though. In the pilot episode Ray drives a late 60s or early 70s black stacked headlight Mercedes coupe, probably a 300SE with later model 5 spoke alloys.
CRAFT372 ◊ 2009-12-02 08:57	The Damn *** wrecked about 3 1972 Buick Rivieras fore no good reason Edit: Watch your language, boy! -Ax- -- Last edit: 2009-12-02 12:23:16 (Animatronixx)
Ingo ◊ 2009-12-02 09:56	The series was made 10 years ago. There 1972-made cars were rather junk than untouchable classics. As 1982' cars today.
CRAFT372 ◊ 2009-12-03 10:03	Sorry i was just so mad about what happned to those classic cars
philr ◊ 2012-07-20 00:01	ingo wrote The series was made 10 years ago. There 1972-made cars were rather junk than untouchable classics. As 1982' cars today. Well, they were about as inexpensive to buy as they are today... But in 1990, there was already a feature on the 1971-73 Rivieras in Collectible Automobile (the first issue I have bought at a grocery store when I was 13!) and while it wasn't a high value car, it was already a special interest car that turned heads and had decent performance for a full size car. Most cars of 1982 will never be like those of 1972... In 1982, many cars (including the Riviera) had switched to FWD and they had poor performance and not too distinctive styling. A friend of mine could tell you about as he used to have a Riviera from the early eighties and he still has a 1972 Riviera GS which is a whole different car. Sandie wrote Three stars. Only appears in the first episode of this spin off where it is destroyed for the last time. It did appear in many Due South episodes and was seen often (in car chases too). And here it is, listed as a '71 again... /vehicle_517308-Buick-Riviera-1971.html -- Last edit: 2012-07-20 00:02:35
Sleepwalk ◊ 2012-08-12 02:17	After the show went off the air I saw one of the Rivieras used in the series at a movie car company located just north of Toronto. I considered offering to purchase it but it was in such rough shape the restoration would have been cost prohibitive.
blue_thunder ◊ 2013-01-23 20:02	Ep 3.01
mike962 ◊ 2018-02-12 14:28	this shouldn't have ep number as was used in S1 thru 3 and blown up on a few occassions here 1.14 -- Last edit: 2018-02-12 14:30:39
mike962 ◊ 2018-02-12 15:04	think it should get 5 stars
Gamer ◊ 2018-02-12 15:05	CRAFT372 wrote Edit: Watch your language, boy! -Ax- Why don't any of the other admins do that?
antp ◊ 2018-02-16 15:49	mike962 wrote think it should get 5 stars Why?
mike962 ◊ 2018-02-16 19:06	antp wrote Why? intensive use during Seasons 1 to 3 , some plot points were revaulving around this car , like it being stolen or destroyed and then repaired or replaced with an identical one...
antp ◊ 2018-02-16 19:18	The kind of thing that occurs in a lot of series/movies, 4-star seems enough for that.
mike962 ◊ 2018-02-16 19:21	at least the eps number should be 1.*
antp ◊ 2018-02-16 21:09	Episode number is the one of the picture. There are comments to indicate in what other episodes it appears.
SixtiesSwing ◊ 2025-01-10 22:12	philr wrote Well, they were about as inexpensive to buy as they are today... But in 1990, there was already a feature on the 1971-73 Rivieras in Collectible Automobile (the first issue I have bought at a grocery store when I was 13!) and while it wasn't a high value car, it was already a special interest car that turned heads and had decent performance for a full size car. Most cars of 1982 will never be like those of 1972... In 1982, many cars (including the Riviera) had switched to FWD and they had poor performance and not too distinctive styling. A friend of mine could tell you about as he used to have a Riviera from the early eighties and he still has a 1972 Riviera GS which is a whole different car. Indeed...1972 and 1982 really is "apples and oranges" in a sense. Ten years separated the model years, though except for the B-Body two year only '77 / '78 model that was essentially a placeholder until the '79 FWD models were introduced, this '79-based '82 model was the pretty much the successor to this generation of the '71 to '76 model. Emissions and fuel economy requirements did not take complete hold yet, and it was just starting to have the malaise set in. GM was starting to decline by this model year, but it still was in the driver's seat, if not necessarily the catbird seat as it had been a few years earlier, less than a decade back (I think 1965 as a landmark year). CEO leadership of Frederic Donner gradually diluted product by cutting costs, while Roger Smith took focus off product and toward corporate acquisition / diversifying. That, and the costs of meeting regulatory and market needs required a huge product shift, and exactly, '82 and '72 are respectively night and day in terms of quality and durability. Unlike many European and Japanese cars of the times, the '82 is like a lot of American cars of its period with mediocre a mediocre level of collectability. It doesn't even have its styling as a factor going for it, and certainly not performance and driving experience. The only one that seems worthy of being collectible is the Convertible by virtue of being just that. I forgot how old the show "Due South" is! Only a 20-year old or so car then, but over 50 now!!! A '72 seemed like an anachronism at that time mainly due to size and fuel consumption. Cars had evolved drastically in that period, so except for people who could afford holding on and wisely were not into planned obsolescence, convinced that the latest IS the greatest, only those in the know or who understood / appreciated classic design held on to these rather than junked them, sold for peanuts to be turned into donks and lowriders, etc., and kept them original and pristine. It did appear in many Due South episodes and was seen often (in car chases too). And here it is, listed as a '71 again... /vehicle_517308-Buick-Riviera-1971.html

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