Yet another Eldo up for auction this weekend at Mecum. Another good-looking car, but you have to like this greenish-yellow color called "Ivory" on the Mecum site. To me, it looks a little too green to be in the ivory family, but what do I know, and whoever said that car color names bore any resemblance to what the color actually was? https://www.mecum.com/lots/KM0318-338868/1976-cadillac-eldorado-convertible/
Last year for the land yachts. That green tint is a bit off to me also but still a big beautiful car .
Not for the Eldorado. The Eldorado and the Toronado, both GM E-bodies, continued with the large body size for two more model years. The B and C body cars (Delta 88, Caprice, Catalina, etc.) did get downsized for 1977. 1977 Eldorado. 1978 Eldorado. 1979 Eldorado. First down-sized year.
Ahh yes they did last for a couple more years. GM brought the down sizing in over a couple years. The Lincoln's made it to 79. Was 76 the last year for the convertible?
'79 was pretty much it for convertibles due to Federal laws that went into effect that year. I remember CBS News doing a story on it.
This is a myth. An urban legend. If they were outlawed, why did they reappear just a few years later? Why are new ones sold now? There were some proposed laws back in the '70s regarding rollover protection that would have made it impossible to sell convertibles, but they never went into effect. Convertibles died out in the mid-70s because of changing consumer tastes and the belief by the automakers that Americans didn't want them any more. But convertibles began being offered again in the early '80s because there always was a market for them, and they continue to offered to this day.
