Elvis Presley?s 1957 BMW 507 Heading To Pebble Beach
If you?re a classic car fan and you?re heading to Monterey this August for the Pebble Beach Concours d?Elegance, prepare to get all shook up. Elvis Presley?s 1957 BMW 507 Series I Roadster is heading to this year?s event as part of BMW?s Centennial Display. The King?s love affair with cars is almost as well […]The post Elvis Presley?s 1957 BMW 507 Heading To Pebble Beach appeared first on Pursuitist.
If you?re a classic car fan and you?re heading to Monterey this August for the Pebble Beach Concours d?Elegance, prepare to get all shook up.Elvis Presley?s 1957 BMW 507 Series I Roadster is heading to this year?s event as part of BMW?s Centennial Display.The King?s love affair with cars is almost as well documented as his life in music. And while he?s most famous for an obsession with Cadillac and for shooting his De Tomaso Pantera ? such was his frustration at the car?s complete lack of reliability ? his first automotive crush was on the Albert Graf Goertz-designed 3.3-liter V8-powered roadster.The story goes that while completing his national service in Germany, Presley traveled to France where he saw the 507 race at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry. It was love at first sight and in December 1958 he leased the actual car.Unfortunately the car was finished in feather white, meaning that every time he parked it, its color made it easy for fans to cover it in phone numbers, pledges of devotion and lipstick kisses.To counter this issue and to hide the marks, Elvis had the...
If you?re a classic car fan and you?re heading to Monterey this August for the Pebble Beach Concours d?Elegance, prepare to get all shook up.Elvis Presley?s 1957 BMW 507 Series I Roadster is heading to this year?s event as part of BMW?s Centennial Display.The King?s love affair with cars is almost as well documented as his life in music. And while he?s most famous for an obsession with Cadillac and for shooting his De Tomaso Pantera ? such was his frustration at the car?s complete lack of reliability ? his first automotive crush was on the Albert Graf Goertz-designed 3.3-liter V8-powered roadster.The story goes that while completing his national service in Germany, Presley traveled to France where he saw the 507 race at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry. It was love at first sight and in December 1958 he leased the actual car.Unfortunately the car was finished in feather white, meaning that every time he parked it, its color made it easy for fans to cover it in phone numbers, pledges of devotion and lipstick kisses.To counter this issue and to hide the marks, Elvis had the...
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