For Sale at Auction: 1965 Buick Riviera in Punta Gorda, Florida

1965 Buick Riviera Gran Sport Coupe

Matching Number 425 CI Super Wildcat V-8 Engine with Factory Dual 4-Barrel Carburetors
Automatic Transmission
Green Exterior over Black Interior
21 Factory Options
Power Sunroof Installed by ASC in 1967
1 of 3,354 Gran Sports Produced
California Car until 2018
Ownership History to 2013 Documented 3 Owners over 48 Years
Sold by Max Balchowsky (Hollywood Motors) in 1965
Balchowsky was the Builder of the Famous "Old Yeller" Buick Powered Race Cars
Copy of Original Window Sticker
In the Collection of Noted Automotive Historian Ron Kellogg until 2013
Photo of Prior Owner and Noted Automotive Historian Ron Kellogg with this Riviera
15,600 Miles
One of the Finest Unrestored Examples Remaining

History:
A very original California car with an interesting history and loaded with options. Sold new in Burbank California and remained in Southern California until 2018. It retains its original matching number dual quad 425 cubic inch V8 engine. The desirable "ride and handling package" is among the 21 options documented by a copy of the original window sticker. A copy of a cancelled check dating 1965 indicates the seller as legendary race car builder and owner of Hollywood Motors Max Balchowksy - famous for his "Old Yeller" Buick Nailhead powered race cars that beat some of the finest sportscars from Europe. On a side note, Max Balchowsky did the prep work on the 2 Mustangs used in the film Bullitt, he was also best man at Steve McQueens wedding. Don McKinney purchased the Buick in 1965 from Balchowsky. In 1967 McKinney had a power sunroof installed by American Sunroof Corporation (that's about the time ASC began installing power sunroofs for major manufacturers as a factory option). It's not clear when the Buick traded hands to its third owner - noted automotive historian Ron Kellogg - but it remained in Kellogg's collection until 2013 marking 3 owners over 48 years. Most of the paint, interior and trunk compartment are original. The odometer indicates 14,997 miles, the title states "odometer exempt" because of age. Overall an exceptional unrestored '65 Gran Sport.

Excerpt from article by Chad Glass when he visited Ron Kellogg in 2011:
"Easing into the center of the space, we chatted a while among his collections and then he flipped on a light switch. Something lit up on a wall behind a partially pulled-back dark yellow curtain, a glass wall. I didn't quite understand the spatial relationship as the area was strange to me. But what lit up was apparently a garage alcove with a perfect, sea-foam-green-metallic, 1965 Buick Riviera sitting in there. Was the Buick in his house? In a garage? We made our way into the Buick's stall and he said it was an unrestored original. The paint (which I touched with the non-oily back of my finger) felt as new as a baby's ass. He said the Riviera was "a keeper" in light of his having owned hundreds of other makes."

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