My first car was a 55 buick special riviera in tri-tone green, like this-
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"riviera" meant that it was a post-less hardtop instead of a sedan.
264 nailhead with a 2 speed trans that had a factory variable pitch stator/converter.
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Could never find a fuel pump so I rigged that glass washer bottle to feed into the carb.
Got me half way to HS, where I'd put a quart or so in at a gas station.
Never could find a master cylinder either, so vise-grips on the parking brake kind of did the job.
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