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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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1963 Luxury: Ford Thunderbird vs. Buick Riviera

Posted May 04, 2011 8:30 AM by dstrohl

In the personal luxury category, there are no two heavier heavyweights than the four-seater Thunderbird and the Buick Riviera, so it would stand to reason that a comparison between the two is inevitable. Josiah Work took on that task, choosing to pit the 1963 versions of each against each other. Whether you agree or disagree with the results, one thing is certain: They're both fine pieces of American iron, and most enthusiasts would have a hard time deciding between them.

From the article:

"The comparison in suspension frankly surprised us. Based on our experience with earlier Buicks, we rather expected that the Riviera - with its coil springs at all four corners - would feel "mushy", compared with the Thunderbird. But it doesn't. To the contrary, the Riv corners somewhat flatter than the T-Bird and is a litter easier to control on winding roads."

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