Without side rails there was no lateral-impact protection, but safety was not a major concern in the 1950s In 1953, General Motors wowed the automotive world with the introduction of a 50th Anniversary Buick, the Skylark, as well as the Oldsmobile Fiesta, the Cadillac Eldorado and a fiberglass sports car called...

In 1953 the Cadillac Motor Car Company introduced the Eldorado line of cars. Original sales brochures described the car as "dramatically styled by Fleetwood to capture the heart of all America." The standard equipment list read like a menu and it was far and away the most luxurious car America...

The car was used by Harley Earl in Florida, but it was not cut up for destruction or sectioned diagonally to repair collision damage as the myth goesIn 1958, Cadillac produced a total of 815 Biarritz convertibles. Five were taken straight from the assembly line to GM's super-secret Styling Center,...