Used Riva Super Florida for sale

All about Riva Super Florida version

Riva appeals, in the collective unconscious, to the outdated images of 1960s/70s cruisers, featuring mahogany hulls with twenty coats of varnish and thundering V8 engines of American origin that cut through the waves of the Saint-Tropez peninsula or the great Italian lakes....
With a tradition dating back to the middle of the 19th century, Riva has become a hall of fame brand in the yachting industry, to the point where it was bought out by what was then the world leader in superyacht construction, the Italian company Ferretti. Riva is the European Chris Craft.
The Riva Super Florida is a mahogany runabout launched by the Riva shipyard in the late 1960s measuring 5.90 m in length and 1.91 m in width.
The U.S. industry was in full swing at the time, supplying GM and Chrysler engines to every shipyard in the world.
This splendid machine still deserves the appellation of motorboat, as the proximity of the two worlds becomes apparent as soon as you look at the Riva Super Florida.
The front cockpit of the Super Florida accommodates three passengers, while the rear has only a huge sundeck.
To take a Riva Super Florida out on the Riviera or on a large lake is to take an immediate trip back in time.
With all its varnish, the thin vertical steering wheel rim, the small windscreen acting more as protection from the wind, and synthetic garnet leather seats, you might think you were still in the '60s...
Only the audience has changed as well as the men who owned them, those gangly but elegant men who used to help their companions in kerchiefs and summer dresses aboard these dream machines... You see just how much has changed now that it is reality TV stars aboard massive motor yachts... Some people call that progress!