Just once you thought General Motors had peaked with the Buick Riviera, alongside got here Oldsmobile in 1966 with the Toronado, a brand new personal-luxury coupe that additionally featured front-wheel drive and idea automotive styling. And then, the following 12 months, Cadillac launched the Fleetwood Eldorado, a front-wheel drive personal-luxury coupe with sporty-yet-formal styling. Our Pick of the Day is a low-mileage instance of the 1967 Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado listed on the market on ClassicCars.com by a dealership in Long Island, New York.
Before 1967, the Fleetwood Eldorado was the sportiest of full-size Cadillacs in the upscale Fleetwood sub-series. As the Nineteen Sixties progressed, the exclusivity of the Eldorado gave the impression to be misplaced, however the all-new 1967 mannequin rectified this to the nth diploma. Though the 340-horsepower 429 V8 was standard Cadillac fare, the mixture of the engine with the Toronado’s Turbo-Hydramatic 425 made for a unified powertrain bundle not seen on rear-wheel drive GM merchandise save the Corvair.
Standard for the $6,277 Fleetwood Eldorado was Darien material and vinyl Strato bench (with armrest), one of eighteen completely different inside choices that additionally included Dalmatian (houndstooth) material Strato bench and perforated leather-based Strato bench; leather-based contoured bucket seats with console have been additionally accessible. The distinctive padded dashboard could be mainstreamed into the relaxation of GM’s portfolio by 1969. Outside, hidden headlights, intelligent, refined taillights and cornering lights distinguished the Fleetwood Eldorado from each different automotive on the street.
The vendor of this 1967 Fleetwood Eldorado claims this instance is one of 43 constructed with leather-based buckets. There’s no on-line database to show or disprove this however, contemplating the quantity of mixtures accessible for the Eldorado, there’s probability of many being unusual. As an all numbers-matching automobile, “this Fleetwood Eldorado hardtop coupe is in distinctive situation from prime to backside … the physique panels, inside, chrome, trim and undercarriage are all unique,” provides the vendor. “Chrome and trim are like new, [and] it has by no means been in an accident and by no means seen rust.” As a documented two-owner California automotive, this Eldorado comes with GM Heritage paperwork, gasoline logs, receipts, earlier California title, copy of the proprietor’s handbook and extra. It has been repainted in its unique Atlantis Blue Firemist, one of these non-obligatory ($132) hues accessible with the larger metalflake.
The 1967 Fleetwood Eldorado was half of a troika of GM fashions that featured styling pretty much as good as something that had come from the firm, although all of them are typically fairly reasonably priced in comparison with contemporaries like the GTO and Camaro. As such, the asking value appears a bit wealthy at $62,900, however with solely 24,250 miles, the place are you going to search out one other one with the bucket seats, Firemist paint and low mileage?
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