Cars & Concepts

The last American convertible of an era, a Cadillac, comes off the line in 1976

The last 200 Fleetwood Eldorado convertibles produced in 1976 were identical: white with white tops, white wheel covers, white leather seat trim with red piping, red carpeting and matching instrument panel, and red and blue hood accent stripes to mark America's bicentennial. (GM ARCHIVES)
April 21, 2020 03:56 PM

A white Fleetwood Eldorado convertible, the last American-made soft-top car at the time, rolled off the assembly line at GM's Cadillac assembly plant in Detroit on April 21, 1976, ending a tradition that began in 1916.

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