When Ragtops Were In Flower

When Ragtops were in FlowerAmong the footnotes to the great American Bicentennial, it will be noted that 1976 marked the end of the domestically produced convertible. The final expression of this special breed of automobile came in the form of the Cadillac Eldorado, a leviathan intended to sell for about $12,000 but whose desirability in the face of extinction escalated its black-market price to almost 20 grand. The demise of the Eldo convertible by no means ends the ragtop in the market place....