Don's purchase of a new car will be part of next week's episode "The Gold Violin".

Hi capice! I can't resist...Don should buy a Hummer....but, that is light years away!!

I'm betting it's some type of sports car. Don is on the verge of a mid-life crisis. Betty has her own car which can serve as the 'family' car.

Corvette?Mustang

A Cadillac Convertible!!!!!!!!!!

.....they have two Mercury Montereys now (or did before the crash)....

Chryslers were pretty stylish and sexy right then....

.....i can't get back to the thread about the Sterling Cooper clients, and can't remember if any automakers were among them....

anyone remember? would that have an influence on the new Draper car?

Did they make Buick Rivieras in 1962? Good choice, but I prefer a blue/white Corvette.

If memory serves the Buick Riviera emerged in 1963. My dad worked for Cavalier Buick in Asbury Pk, NJ and brought one home as a 'dealer' car. Light blue and gorgeous - made us the family on the block with the coolest car EVER! But for Don, it won't be a two seater. He is very provincial, after all. Maybe a Cadillac or as someone suggested, the Lincoln Continental convertible. Baby blue with white leather upolstery and those great old 'suicide doors'. Certainly not an import - not in the 60s.

Yep, The Riviera was introduced in October 1962 as a '63. We had a new one too and I still remember how many long looks and subsequent comments the car got when it first hit the streets!
It was silver/blue with the matching interior. Bucket seats in the rear and a big console that went from front to back. The coolest feature of the Riv was at night when the interior was lit with all the courtesy lights- under the dash, on the doors and flanking the rear seats. I still remember the elegant scripted "R"on the metal grille of the radio speaker that separated the tops of the rear bucket seats. Not a seat belt in sight and the car really flew when you hit the gas!

There was the Buick Wildcat, too. It was another cool convertible, enormous. My mom sat right up next to my dad and when he took a turn too fast both she and us kids in the back slid all the way to the opposite side of the car. Incredible! Like riding down the street in a king-sized sofa bed. Caprice, I'd forgotten those ultra lounge under the dash lights. (Probably because I rarely got to sit up front)! What a great bunch of cars. If DON were REALLY COOL (which he's not, merely a poseur) he wait two years and get one of the original Studebaker AVANTIs, Red with black interior. Did the Riviera have rear wheel drive? I seem to recall no drive shaft lump up as being an oddity?? or am I thinking of another car?

Dry Manhattan,
I looked up the blog and no there were not any car accounts.

Re: Elizabeth Omps:
The original Riviera was rear wheel drive- the interior transmission hump was perfect for the console placement. The '66 Oldsmobile Toronado was the first modern GM car to feature front wheel drive.
Rivs didn't become front wheel drive until the '80s.

My money is on the 63 Coupe de ville

The promo says that Don gets a new car that show's he's arrived. The Continental was a beauty, but the Coupe de ville was the ultimate "arrival" car. The GM lines in 1963 were beautiful.