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Eldorado Coupe
This attractive front-wheel-drive coupe powered by an
8.2 liter engine
found 23,842 buyers who each paid $6,903 for their car
 
Left: upholstery shown here is Antique Dark Brown
leather, one of eight leather selections; there were also seven cloth and leather
combination offerings; center, Eldorado script and engine badge on front grille;
right: rear fender side marker light
This survivor belongs to a collector in Pennsylvania;
it was purchsed new, in 1970,
by Albert Lindquest, an operatic tenor and vocal teacher who coached with Caruso
The Sixty Special
Sedan
 
The luxurious Sixty Special sedan was largely outsold
by the even more luxurious Brougham (below; this one is finished in Spartacus Blue
Firemist and is upholstered (right) in rich, Dark Blue leather; six other full leather
interiors were offered as were also four Dumbarton [the town in Scotland where I finished
my college education!] cloth and leather combinations and four Divan all-cloth selections.
This Cadillac model is quite rare (about as rare, in fact, as the much sought after
Eldorado convertible models of 1959 and 1960), only 1,738 units having found buyers for
$6,953 each
The Brougham
The magnificent Fleetwood Brougham for 1970 is shown
here in Lucerne Aqua Firemist with a black padded vinyl roof covering;
it is upholstered
(below, left) in sumptuous Medium Turquoise Dumbarton cloth and leather selections, of
which there were four;
four Divan all-cloth combinations also were available as were seven
all-leather interiors; 19,913 units were sold at a cost of $7,284 each each
 
 
Interior amenities include fold-down footrests
(second from left), oriental tamo wood inserts on
instrument board and door panels, and individual quarter panel reading lights (far
right)
Splendid survivor (2013)
The
Seventy-Five Sedan and Limousine
[ the sedan has no division glass between the front and rear compartments ]
The Seventy-Five sedan, finished in Condor
Blue with Black padded vinyl roof covering; 875 of these spacious sedans were built and
sold for a
whopping $11,039 each; the equally sumptuous limousine, with division glass, cost
$11,178; 1,240 of them were built and sold
 
Rear passenger compartment, auxiliary seating, rear
controls for radio,
climate control, reading lights, division glass and rear door windows
 
 
Above three rows, some survivors; this car has a rare
cloth-covered front seat
Photos (above two rows): © and courtesy Jim and Rad (R. Tree)
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