2002 CADILLAC ELDORADO COLLECTORS SERIES 955 OF 1596

In 2001, GM announced that the Eldorado's 50th model year (2002) would be its last. To mark the end of the nameplate, a limited production run of 1,596 cars in red or white—the colors available on the original 1953 convertible—were produced in three batches of 532, signifying the Eldorado's first year of production. These last cars featured specially tuned exhaust notes imitating their forerunners from a half-century earlier, and a dash-mounted plaque indicating each car's sequence in production. Eldorado production ended on April 22, 2002⁶⁷ with the Lansing Craft Center retooled to build the Chevrolet SSR. The last Cadillac Eldorado assembled was donated to the Cadillac Museum in honor of Cadillac dealer Don Massey.