To Be OFFERED AT AUCTION WITHOUT RESERVE at RM Sothebys' The Hershey Auction event, 7 - 8 October 2026.

Offered Without Reserve | $150,000 - $200,000 USD One of the most memorable Buicks of the fiftiesA one-year-only top-of-the-line model; one of only 1,026 Riviera Coupes builtBeautifully kept concours-quality restorationAn icon of glitzy bechromed glamour For decades the mantra of General Motors’ legendary Design Chief Harley Earl had been, “Go all the way, then back off.” The 1958 Buick did not back off.

In an era when the American motoring public considered bigger to be better, and too much chrome to be just right, what was advertised as “The Air Born B-58 Buick” gave the people what they said they wanted.

No US-built automobile of its decade carried more brightwork, led—on the brochure cover and in reality—by a remarkable grille composed of 160 individual, faceted chrome squares.Alas, Detroit as a whole was caught unaware by the flash “Eisenhower Recession” of 1958, and sales of...