Elvis presley biography 1960s cars

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(first posted 3/16/2014)     How many of us would like to call the local Cadillac dealer at midnight, order a Fleetwood or two, and pick them after waking up at about 3:30 in the afternoon or so? Well, one person did just that.  By all accounts, Elvis was smitten by the same bug that haunts all of us: He couldn’t stop thinking about those darn horseless carriages. Unlike most of us, he could literally drive anything he wanted.

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It wasn’t always that way, though, as he grew up in public housing, and his first car was a 1941 Lincoln that he had in the early fifties. I’ve seen a B&W scan of it, and it was indeed black as his trademark hair (fun fact: Elvis’s natural color was more of a dirty blonde–just look at Lisa Marie).

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His first record, That’s All Right, was more of a local hit, but i