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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
Hm. Very strange. We know that American cars began sprouting quad headlamps like some kind of weird mitosis in 1957, then the following year they were just about universally standard, and we know that...
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Four-Links – cross-country Caddy, Kaija Kalevala, Fuel Tank, The Green Book
* With snow covering half the country, it’s the perfect time for a road trip story, no? Iver Peterson took a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz most of the way along Route 50 this past summer and wrote...
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Make Mine a Biarritz
Twenty-somethings attempting to incite irony by wearing a mid-Eighties polyester leisure suit and white loafers salvaged from that last holiday trip to see the folks down in Florida can complete the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1984 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
Multiplying our ongoing and inexplicable attraction to burgundy exponentially is this double burgundy 1984 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible. Beyond the plush luxury of burgundy bordering on wine...
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Four-Links – Packard out of vault, Hillman Hustler, submarine bus fleet, Ron...
* Reader Larry Stookey sent us this story from the Toledo Blade last month regarding Jerry Brummett and the 1940 Packard Super Eight formal sedan he bought in the early 1960s. What makes the story...
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Four-Links – One Austin’s role in history, Eldorado photo shoot, New York’s...
* Over at Hooniverse this week, Robby DeGraff shared the tale of one particular Austin, the monk that it carried, and his stumbling across is, still in Vietnam, largely forgotten. * Lou over at the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
Cadillac only built 1,320 Eldorado Biarritzes in 1959, so they’re still quite desirable even if they’re disassembled for restoration and not wearing the original color paint, as is the case with this...
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1956 Cadillac Series 62 convertible sells for nearly $300,000 at Staluppi sale
Photos by Teddy Pieper, courtesy RM Auctions. Saturday was a good day to own a late 1950s Cadillac. No less than three of them sold for more than $200,000 at RM’s no-reserve John Staluppi sale, led by...
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First 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz to cross the block
Photos courtesy Mike Flynn, Hollywood Wheels. Vehicle identification numbers are, of course, not the sole reason to buy a car; its equipment, condition, and provenance of course figure into its...
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Four-Links – the Corvette as Batmobile, Henney station wagon, Solid Gold...
* Apparently, as Silodrome excerpted from Randy Leffingwell’s recent book on Corvettes, the producers of the Batman TV series asked GM to propose a design for a Batmobile. It looks like GM took the...
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First 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz sells for $649,000
Photos courtesy Mike Flynn, Hollywood Wheels. One may indeed be the loneliest number, but being number one certainly has its advantages – up to half a million of them, if this past weekend’s sale of...
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More random photos from the archive box: mid-year brake, flower car, lowrider...
The archive box (see the blue Canadian fire truck, Alex Drier bubbletop custom and sixwheelrabbitamino) proves useful yet again, as I discovered four interesting cars that went up for grabs in the...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1979 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
Though the market for low-mileage, carefully preserved, late-1970s Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz models is still likely years away from reaching its peak, sometimes opportunity presents itself...
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Second-generation Camaro Z/28 sells for $52,000 in Carlisle
1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 with the RS package. Photos courtesy Auctions America. Second-generation Camaros don’t generally command the same pricing enjoyed by first-generation models, but there are...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Cadillac Eldorado Seville and Biarritz
What to do with this twofer 1956 Cadillac Eldorado Seville and Biarritz package for sale on Hemmings.com? Both need work, but that’s only because the seller appropriated parts from the Seville to use...
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Quarter-mil Caddy – 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz sells for $255,000
1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. Photos courtesy Auctions America. Are tailfins on the rise again? Surely not on production cars, which haven’t featured the jet-age influences since the 1960s, but...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1964 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
Okay, so this 1964 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz for sale on Hemmings.com is in pretty good shape, with just a few cosmetic blemishes on the bumpers. It’s been repainted, but the interior is original,...
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1958 De Soto Firedome convertible sells for $192,500, cracking Auburn top-10
1958 De Soto Firedome convertible. Photos courtesy Auctions America. In 1958, the De Soto Firedome was the company’s mid-line offering, above the entry-level Firesweep, but below the better-equipped...
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One of two remaining, Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz “Raindrop” prototype heads...
1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Raindrop prototype. Photos by Darin Schnable, courtesy RM Sotheby’s. In 1958, five Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertibles were pulled from production and sent to GM’s...
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What lies beneath? In this case, Harley Earl’s Cadillac
The “Raindrop” Cadillac, beneath the barn overhang. Photos courtesy Robin Barry. In 1983, Medway, Ohio, residents Robin and Mike Barry purchased the property adjoining theirs for a single reason: Long...
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