What was special about the 1967 Eldorado?
Quick Answer
The 1967 Eldorado reinvented the model as a front-wheel-drive personal-luxury coupe, sharing its E-body with the Oldsmobile Toronado. Its crisp razor-edge styling with hidden headlamps is a high point of 1960s design, and front-wheel drive in a big American luxury car was a bold engineering move for the time.
1967 was a clean break for the Eldorado.
Why it mattered
It moved to front-wheel drive (with the Toronado), wore sharp, formal styling with hidden headlamps, and repositioned the Eldorado as a personal-luxury coupe rather than a limited convertible. The 1968 cars gained the 472 V8 and 1970 the 500.