In the automotive dark days of the 1970s, convertibles were an endangered species. The concurrent rise of air pollution and air conditioning, together with the looming specter of government safety regulations, caused a plummeting supply of, and demand for, droptops, to the point that by 1975, General Motors was the lone domestic producer still in the game. With GM planning to drop its whale-like full-size convertibles?the Chevrolet Caprice, Pontiac Grand Ville, Buick LeSabre, and Oldsmobile Delta 88?the following year, the Cadillac Eldorado would be the sole surviving U.S. convertible come 1976. And 1976 would in turn be the Eldo convertible’s final year. What better way to relive those days where doom and excess stood hand in hand than with this Bicentennial Edition ?76 Eldorado convertible" With even the mainstream media awakening to the story of The Last American Convertible, GM would have been foolish to let the occasion pass without some special edition to pad its profits?and GM was not foolish, not about that kind of stuff at least. Thus the final 200 1976 Eldorado convertibles produced were Bicentennial Edition cars?identically equipped (save for the California-emissions equipment further choking the 500-cubic-inch V-8 in the cars headed for the Golden State), they were all triple white: Cotillion White exterior, a white top, and a white leather interior with the seat piping, dash, seatbelts, and carpet in red. Blue-and-red pinstriping adorned the hood, w...