Spirit of ’76: Celebrate America with this Bicentennial Edition Cadillac Eldorado

[Bruce Nunnally]

With even the mainstream media awakening to the story of The Last American Convertible, GM would have been foolish to let the occasion pass without some special edition to pad its profits—and GM was not foolish, not about that kind of stuff at least. Thus the final 200 1976 Eldorado convertibles produced were Bicentennial Edition cars—identically equipped (save for the California-emissions equipment further choking the 500-cubic-inch V-8 in the cars headed for the Golden State), they were all triple white: Cotillion White exterior, a white top, and a white leather interior with the seat piping, dash, seatbelts, and carpet in red. Blue-and-red pinstriping adorned the hood, with red pinstriping running down the sides. The wheel covers featured white centers, replacing the standard black. All came fully loaded with the raft of regular Eldo options, but the most important bit was the gold dash plaque stating: “This 1976 Fleetwood Eldorado is one of the last 200 identical U.S. production convertibles.

 

 

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