While riding the bus to work every morning for the past two months, I’ve noticed this fine specimen…
parked in a lot alongside other “Luxury Cars”; one member in an otherwise homogeneous collection. There she stares gloomily at Lake City traffic passing callously by. The florescent green numbers on her windshield proclaim she could be yours for a mere $7998.
I almost bought one of these a long time ago. When I learned that one had to disconnect the battery after shutting the car off (to keep it from blowing fuses), it put me off.
Now, $7998.00 strikes me as a ridiculous sum for a ’76 Cadillac Eldorado, so this morning I did some research.
First off, I mistakenly believed this was the year and model of Boss Hogg’s vehicle in the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard. It wasn’t. That was a white ’70 Cadillac Coupe De Ville convertible. Though, it is Boss Hogg’s car in that craptastic Dukes of Hazzard movie that came out a few years ago. That car, coincidently, Warner Bros. studios is attempting to sell.
Secondly, I tried to look up its Kelley Blue book value. Unfortunately, the online version only lists values from cars born in 1989 or later. No luck there.
Finally, I found AutoMedia.com recently selected the ’76 Eldo as a Modern Classic. I retrieved the following except from article text woven about penis enlargement ads:
Predictably, the Fleetwood Eldorado, America’s biggest front-wheel-drive car, wallowed, rolled, pitched and dove under cornering and braking. On smooth pavement, the ride could be likened to a mattress. Motor Trend reported, “maneuvering the Eldo in
traffic was like docking the Enterprise in a 30-foot slip.”
That, coupled with its gas-guzzling-yet-meek 8.2 liter engine, I’ve decided to get out my checkbook to embrace the extravagence that is/was the 1976 Cadillac Eldorado.
