best caption I've read in a long time, "She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis"

Ann Margaret, if you aren't familiar with who she is, once a long time ago, she dated Elvis, had a Vegas act, and more recently, was the love interest in the movie "Grumpy Old Men" with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.. Trivia, she had a billboard top ten song at age 20, it reached #4, she was discovered by George Burns, starred with Elvis at age 23, invented the phrase "Sex Kitten" and was nominated for an Oscar at age 30 after starring opposite Jack Nicholson, Steve McQueen, and got her 2nd Oscar nom after starring with John Wayne and Anthony Hopkins, and was in the Who's rock opera "Tommy" and toured with the USO through Vietnam. Hellava career.

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Isettas on pour15minutesdamour.blogspot, a pop culture of the 40s-70's blog with great variety

http://pour15minutesdamour.blogspot.com/

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Elvis

Elvis had a couple jobs before his music career took off, the second job was as a trucker for 14 months at Crown Electric between 1953 and 1954 http://www.elvispresleynews.com/ElvisFirstJob.html


found on http://greasercreatures.tumblr.com/

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Elvis and the Wall of Death movie "Roustabout" had Norm Grabowski in it!

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Stars and their cars, post 1940's

No doubt you recognize James Garner

Here are Jack Benny, Rochester, and the Maxwell http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/jack-benny-and-pres-harry-truman.html

Why is Elvis messing with a Messerschmitt?

Yikes, those aren't good looking glasses

Sean Connery and a Sunbeam Alpine that was his to use during a movie he was making

I hope you recognize Roy Rodgers, I doubt anyone has an unkind word to say about Roy... and he went 107 in a Chrysler station wagon on Bonnevile! http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/roy-rodgers-was-bonneville-racer-107.html

North by Northwest, Cary Grant and below Eva Marie Saint

Mick Jagger

Ringo Starr and a Facel Vega

For more stars and their cars:

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/old-hollywood-some-stars-and-their-cars.html

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What is the Elvis connection with Ed Roth, and Gene Winfield?

 Elvis was driving an Ed Roth trike, and Ed made tops with his trikes, http://www.aeclassic.com/73rothtrike/ (to read about them). Well, back to the story... so you can bet that most of those tops never saw the road, and one was located in a backyard by Spider the pinstriper, and as you can see below, he pinstriped it, and brought it to a show and Gene is photographed sitting it it.

Thanks to Spider for the story, and let this be a lesson. Learn what you can from everyone you can, a lot of people have great story!

See a gallery of Roth's trikes: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/ed-roths-trikes.html

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Elvis

above photo via http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=927

Harley K model Via: http://nostalgiaonwheels.blogspot.com/2009/10/elvis-harley-k-model.html

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Elvis had a Pantera, and he shot it. It wouldn't start

Read a bit about it: http://www.concorso.com/broadcasts/JULY09-7.html

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1972 Cadillac Station Wagon, 1 of 2 Made, 1 for Elvis, one for Dean Martin

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 two different ways.

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.

http://elviscadillacs.tripod.com/ and http://www.classyauto.com/v/Cadillac+Custom/Elvis+Presley+ Via: http://stipistop.com/

Thanks to Jalopnik, I just learned that while the provenance needs verification, one of five custom 1969 Cadillac wagons used to transport VIPs at the Indianapolis 500 has turned up in Putnam NY via Ebay.

http://jalopnik.com/#!5792164/buy-this-custom-cadillac-wagon-in-british-racing-green/gallery/1

Reportedly, all five of the custom-built Indianapolis 500 cars were eventually sold by a Cadillac dealer in Dallas. Apparently it cost as much as a fully-loaded Corvette Stingray of the time ($6,500) just for the conversion.

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Elvis in an Isetta! Cary Grant too!

http://www.usautoparts.net/bmw/models/vintage/isetta.htm for Elvis, Pixdaus for Cary

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