This high-roller car is located in the very definition of a high-roller city: Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s a perfect setting for this car, and the seller took some good photos, other than sadly not bothering to pop the hood to show us the larger-than-life (like Vegas itself) 500-cu.in. V8 engine. That’s always a drag (as opposed to a drag show), but they have this formal beauty listed here on eBay. There is no reserve, and the current bid price is just $5,300.
Sable Black over Antique Dark Firethorn (red)? Yes, please, even in hot Las Vegas. The sun must have worked its wicked ways on the top. It’s shown topless here (hey, this is a family show!) and the seller says it needs a new top. If there’s a more foreboding front end than this sweet black Eldorado, looking all jagged and mean, like it’s been on a three-day bender and is looking to cause trouble, I can’t think of one. Jim Brolin could have just used this car in the movie by the same name (The Car); this one is almost as mean-looking, but also in an elegant Cadillac way.
Truthfully, the seller mentions several times that this car needs some tinkering on the cosmetic aspects of it (like Wayne Newton), but for $5,300, this is a lot of car for the money. Despite not being, gasp, a black Escalade, I think you’d get front-row parking with most valet pros in this car. It’s something you want to be seen in, and all for less than $6,000. A show of hands for all of you who have gone to Las Vegas and spent less than $6,000. I thought so.
The ninth-generation Eldorado is really the last one for serious Cadillac connoisseurs, or at least a lot of them. We know that 1976 was the last year for factory production convertibles for American cars, at least for a half-dozen years, and these last of the really big Eldorados were made from 1971 through 1978, the last two years being hardtops only. I think these seats would have been Antique Dark Firethorn Leather. I also believe these seats have been recovered, as they don’t look like leather. They look too perfect, and they don’t appear to have the original pattern. They also don’t match the door panels, and yeah, they just look new. That’s a bummer. The Dark Firethorn carpet looks perfect, so that’s good.
The back seat really looks new and fresh, sort of like how you feel on the second day of being home after an extended visit to Las Vegas. The unseen engine is Cadillac’s 500-cu.in. OHV V8. 1976 was the last year for that engine before it was kicked to the curb (the one filled with all of those little cards that sidewalk barkers try to hand out as you walk between casinos) to the tune of losing 75 cubic inches. I’m assuming this isn’t the fuel-injected version, and if not, it would have had 190 horsepower and 360 lb-ft of torque when new. The THM-425 three-speed automatic sends power to the front wheels, and the seller says the drivetrain works fine. Hagerty is at $7,100 for a #4 fair-condition example: how much is this one worth?
Definitely a stylish ride 😎 👌 the front end looks like it wants to eat something or someone 😋 and I’d love to hear the stories that interior could tell, especially the original leather seat upholstery! I’m going to leave it at that. A good “gamble” for someone adventurous
Those six bumper guards on the front bumper are certainly unique!
Best not to raise those thin, non centered headrests! – how did the feds miss those! The steering wheel has sure seen better days.
First thing I thought of when I saw this and Vegas was mentioned, “Elvis Impersonators’ car!” These were the last of the great big Cadillacs. So big you got there before you got there. The price is pretty good if the thing runs good, and I’d be interested in buying it if only the neighbor didn’t mind sharing half his parking spot.