SALE PENDING to Georgia!! For more details call Harry Clark at
+1.602.245.7200 or email us at
[email protected]. Up for
sale is a 1978 Cadillac Eldorado Custom Biarritz Coup�! This is an
incredible find with only 28,000 original miles since new. This
Cadillac has had one prior owner since new and has been garaged in
California its entire life. Look closely at the detailed photos to
see how clean this car is. This Eldorado is loaded with factory
options. We love the factory AM/FM 8-track tape with the optional
installed Clarion cassette player! Seen in this car, are signature
interior features, which include sumptuous button-tufted contoured
pillow-style seating with glove-soft red leather and 50/50 dual
comfort front seats. The factory 'dark carmine' red exterior is
equally as distinctive. The exclusive Cabriolet Roof is tailored in
a richly textured red elk grain vinyl with French seams. The heavy
padding is designed to change the lines of the car; it changes the
shape and size of the rear quarter windows. It has a stylish
'limousine-esque' rear window treatment. Special accent striping,
stainless-steel moldings, color-keyed wheel discs and "Biarritz"
scripts affixed to the rear sail panels distinctly mark it as a
Cadillac special edition. The Custom Biarritz is unique, even among
other Cadillacs. The present owner has spent considerable monies
making this road worthy. It is ready for the next owner to enjoy.
In 1978, this car had a base price of $11,921.00 and once it was
equipped with the Custom Biarritz package, a further $1,865.00
would have been added to the sticker price. The optional Astroroof
would have cost an extra $2,946.00 for a grand total of $16,732.00
when this car was new. This '78 Eldorado is a magnificently
equipped luxury coup�. Standard equipment includes: Automatic
Climate Control with economy setting, power windows and door locks,
six-way power seat, Soft-Ray tinted safety glass, AM/FM
Signal-Seeking Stereo Radio with power antenna, quartz digital
clock, and lamp monitors. This "El-Dog" is powered by Cadillac's
7.0 litre 16-valve, 425 CID V8 engine equipped with a Rochester
4-bbl downdraft Quadrajet carburetor. This engine produced a
whopping 180 hp @ 4,000 rpm with 434 Nm (320 ft-lbs) of peak torque
@ 2,000 rpm. It uses GM's Turbo Hydra-Matic THM-425 3-speed
automatic transmission driving the front wheels. In its day,
acceleration was rated as: 0-60 mph at a blistering 13.4 seconds,
0-100 mph in 47.1 seconds with a top speed in the 112mph range. It
could do the � mile @ 74 mph in 19.6 seconds. It is safe to say
that an Eldorado is not built for speed, but these figures are
excellent for an automobile as large and solidly built as the 1978
Eldorados. Eldorados are specifically tuned to be more powerful
than standard Cadillac models. The Eldorado Custom Biarritz is one
of the most refined Cadillacs in the history of the brand ---
virtually the definition of extravagance. A Bit of History... The
Cadillac Eldorado is a personal luxury car that was manufactured
and marketed by Cadillac from 1952 - 2002 over ten generations. The
title Eldorado was actually chosen through an internal competition
to find a name for a 1952 concept vehicle which was made to
commemorate Cadillac's golden anniversary. Eldorado was proposed by
Mary-Ann Marini (n�e Zukosky), a secretary in Cadillac's
merchandising department� and was subsequently adopted for a
limited-edition convertible for model year 1953. The nameplate
Eldorado is a contraction of two Spanish words that translate as
"the gilded (i.e., golden) one" � and also refers to El Dorado, the
mythical South American "Lost City of Gold" that fascinated Spanish
explorers so many years ago. Cadillac began using the nameplates
"Eldorado Seville" and "Eldorado Biarritz" to distinguish between
the hardtop and convertible models (respectively) while both were
offered, from 1956 through 1960 inclusively. The "Seville" name was
dropped when the hardtop was initially discontinued (in 1961), but
the Biarritz name continued through 1964. Beginning in 1965, the
Eldorado became the 'Fleetwood Eldorado'.
