Harley transmission plate
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The car carried no special badging other than a gold-colored "Eldorado" nameplate in the center of the dash. Convertible tops were available in either black or white Orlon.
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Available in four unique colors (Aztec red, Alpine white, azure blue and artisan ochre - the last is a yellow hue, although it was shown erroneously as black in the color folder issued on this rare model).
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The expansive frontal glass and distinctive dip in the sheet metal at the bottom of the side windows (featured on one or both of GM's other 1953 specialty convertibles) were especially beloved by General Motors' styling chief Harley Earl and subsequently widely copied by other marques.
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Along with borrowing bumper bullets from the 1951 GM Le Sabre show car, it featured a full assortment of deluxe accessories and introduced the wraparound windshield and a cut-down beltline to Cadillac standard production. A special-bodied, low-production convertible (532 units in total), it was the production version of the 1952 El Dorado "Golden Anniversary" concept car.
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The Cadillac Series 62 Eldorado joined the Oldsmobile 98 Fiesta, and Buick Roadmaster Skylark as top-of-the-line, limited-production specialty convertibles introduced in 1953 by General Motors to promote its design leadership. 'Biarritz' returned as an up level trim package for the Eldorado for 1976. Beginning in 1965, the Eldorado became the 'Fleetwood Eldorado'. The "Seville" name was dropped when the hardtop was initially discontinued (1961), but the Biarritz name continued through 1964. Ĭhosen in an internal competition for a 1952 concept vehicle celebrating Cadillac's golden anniversary, the name Eldorado was subsequently adopted for a limited-edition convertible for model year 1953.Ĭadillac began using the nameplates "Eldorado Seville" and "Eldorado Biarritz" to distinguish between the hardtop and convertible models (respectively) while both were offered, from 1956 through 1960 inclusively. The nameplate Eldorado is a contraction of two Spanish words that translate as "the gilded (i.e., golden) one" - and also refers to El Dorado, the mythical Colombian "Lost City of Gold" that fascinated Spanish explorers.