If you’re looking for a beautiful design from the William Mitchell era of General Motors styling, you have an abundance of riches, and one such peak was the E-Body triumvirate of the Buick Riviera, Oldsmobile Toronado, and Cadillac Eldorado. I’ll take one of each, but if you had to choose one, few could fault you for choosing the 1968 edition of Cadillac’s Fleetwood Eldorado. It still had the original 1967 model’s hidden headlights, but it also had Cadillac’s big new 472-cubic-inch V8. A lot of work has been done on this example that Tony Primo found on craigslist in Cathedral City, California, and the seller has receipts for all of it. Considering all that, the asking price of $24,995 doesn’t seem too bad.

Using the same front-wheel-drive architecture as the Toronado, the Eldorado has the same flat floor, and all that room is the first thing you notice upon opening the door. The next, in this case, is the immaculate condition; the upholstery has the original patterns (they have been “rebuilt with new foam and new fabric”), and there are no cracks that I can see in the dashboard. The Eldorado was certainly the sportiest Cadillac in 1968, but it still had an oblong speedometer, sparse instrumentation, and a bench seat up front, in addition to standard features that would be optional in almost every other new car at the time.

Unfortunately, the seller of this Chestnut Brown Eldorado hasn’t included any pictures of the engine compartment, although they mention that the 375-horsepower 472 has been rebuilt, as has the transaxle. It has a new water pump, alternator, battery, and exhaust system (with Flowmaster mufflers).

That’s not all—the seller mentions that the following work has also been done:

• “Brakes, [including] rotors, calipers, hoses, master cylinder”
• “Front end, including ball joints, bushings, tie rod ends, CV joints, hub bearings, wheel bearings, [and] pitman arm”
• “[New] shocks: Front coilovers, Rear Air”
• Door and roof rail weatherstrips
• New vinyl top

Even though I don’t ever follow this advice, it’s often said that collectors should buy the best example that they could afford, and this Eldorado certainly falls into that category. Of course, it should be inspected like anything you’re paying twenty-five grand for, but if it all checks out, you’ll have one of the most beautiful Cadillacs built at a price that is certainly lower than the cost of all the work done.