"While I was driving a truck, every time a big shiny car drove by it started me sort of day-dreaming. I always felt that someday, somehow, something would happen to change everything for me. I would daydream about how it would be." - Elvis Presley
The 1970s Elvis's Cadillacs
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Elvis's Cadillac station wagon (VIN 6D49R2Q163176) is cream with a black vinyl top, leather interior and has a small gold plaque on the
passenger side door engraved with "TCB." It was auctioned by Guernseys on October 7th-8th 1999 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas for
$34,500. It has four regular doors and the fifth door on the back opens in two different ways
The new owner, who wished to resell it for $50,000, had a letter from Jack Soden (President of Elvis Enterprises) saying this car has a more colourful story than most of the cars Elvis owned and gave away. Apparently Colonel Parker's widow laughed with Jack when she saw the car at the Guernsey auction as Elvis owned the car, but gave it as a gift to Colonel Parker. The car was in Las Vegas and Elvis would "borrow" the car for trips to Los Angeles. Colonel Parker got tired of tracking the car down, so he told Elvis to take the car back, and he did, back to Graceland where it was used for hauling friends and groceries. Incredibly, in June 2005 the owners at the time changed the sale price to $75,000, however in September 2005 the vehicle was listed on eBay and sold for $29,972 to Ken Lucci of Belleair Beach, Florida, an avid Cadillac collector.
Some more info on the car from Ken:
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"This custom built Cadillac Estate Wagon was owned by Elvis Presley from 1972 until his death in 1977.
After that it remained at Graceland until auctioned off with other Elvis memorabilia in 1995. I have the title signed by Jack Soden
President of Elvis Enterprises, and a letter from them as well. The car is said to have been kept in Las Vegas at the home of Col. Tom Parker
Elvis’s Manager, and then at the Las Vegas Hilton where Elvis played engagements from 1972 thru 1976. After his final engagement on December
12, 1976 the car was sent back to Graceland where it remained in use by the staff until well after the King’s death. The car actually started
its life as a 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood sedan that was shipped from the factory in Detroit to the American Sunroof Company where it was
converted in to an Estate Wagon. The top is dark brown vinyl not black and it has 73,000 miles on it. It has chrome spoke rims (not caps) with
24kt gold plated spokes. The car also has 24kt gold finish emblems. It is a very unique car. In 1972 ASC built two of these custom vehicles,
one for Elvis and the other for singer Dean Martin. The whereabouts of Dean’s car is unknown."
(c) Ken Lucci
In January 2011 the car was sold through Mecum Auctions at Kissimmee Florida for $62,500. On 27th July 2013 the car again went to auction, this time by Mecum Auctions in Santa Monica California. The bidding reached $57,000 however did not sell.
The car again went to auction (on eBay) on 13th February 2015 with a buy it now price of $1,500,000. There is a new website for it at Elvis' Favorite Cadillac
On October 8, 2018, an Austrian auction site called Dorotheum was accepting bids for this custom Cadillac. Their estimate value was between $115,000 to $230,000.
(c) Dorotheum
