What happened to Elvis’ old 507, the BMW wanted to restore? A hell of a nice car – like the first pictures after the restoration.
Munich – This car story sounds like a Hollywood script. Not because Elvis Presley plays a major role in it. 21. August 2016 is belonged to BMW at the Concours d’elegance in Pebble Beach, the restored Version of the BMW 507 exhibit that was once the King.
The history of his car, however, is so peppered with curious Details and twists and turns that it just acts as a driving force for the Story: repainting due to lipstick on white paint, a wild investigative journalist, decades-long Wait in the pumpkin warehouse of a retired aerospace engineer. The 507 has made in his life more than some people.
In the possession of the mountain champion Hans Stuck
2014 BMW presented for the first time, proud of the catcher from the USA: Elvis’ 507, the real one. He looked at the time, for many, only like a pile of scrap metal. Red, repainted, no engine, gearbox and dashboard. Of the 507 with the chassis number 70079 should be restored. Many wondered at the time how BMW wants to do it and whether you should try it at all. Because the look was, after all, the unique story of Elvis 507.
Born in the 507 was white with a paint pen, a 150-HP aluminum V8, black-and-white interior and a Becker Mexico Radio. In this state, the racing driver Hans Stuck won the race with the car several mountain. The car also considered as the IAA-exhibition piece, press and test the vehicle and got a role in the feature film “Hula-Hopp, Conny” with Cornelia Froboess, Rudolf Vogel. Phew – alone the kling, after a lot of excitement for a car.
Jack Castor in front of the stored 507 – he did not know for a long time that it is Elvis’ car. Jack Castor in front of the stored 507 – he did not know for a long time that it is Elvis’ car.
Source: BMW-But then, in 1958, bought the then 23-year-old Elvis Presley, the car of a Frankfurt merchant. He had the 507, a little later, red paint, because female Fans painted constantly in love with the lipstick on the white paint.
As Elvis, in 1960, he returned to the USA, he took the BMW, just a little later, a Chrysler dealer sold him for $ 4,500 to the radio host Tommy Charles. To the left of the front frame saw, a Chevy engine to accommodate, and race. Two more owners later, the 507 ended up in 1968 with the Oldies-collectors and Ex-aerospace engineer Jack Castor. The kept him for decades in a pumpkin warehouse in California – and didn’t even know that it was Elvis’ 507.
Parts from the 3D printer for Elvis’ 507
Castor believed only in the possession of the stucco to be 507. For a long time, no document was known, showed that Elvis had bought the 507 with the chassis number 70079. The American journalist Jackie this Undertaking proved in laborious Research, that stuck’s 507 was later to Elvis’ 507, and brought together Castor with the BMW Classic Department.
A reminder of bad times – A place shows how the 507 before his restoration looked like a reminder of bad times – A place shows how the 507 looked like before its restoration
Source: BMW of What has made in the past two years, from the pile of scrap metal, see – also, if the barn Fund-charm is now gone. A 3.2-litre V8 from the old and new parts completely rebuilt. The engine number is missing. The dashboard was re-poured, window cranks and door openers were manufactured from the 3D printer new for 507 parts are even in the BMW camp rar. To Cushion the seats, however, the traditional materials and the old steel springs were used. The once-cut out the Frame support was made in the Original Geometry downstream of the paint, not with modern technology, but similar to 60 years ago, applied.
BMW’s goal was to make the car as revival, as was the case with Hans Stuck, Elvis bought and Jack Castor wanted. The last owner died in the year 2014. How the car looked like at the time, remembered today only a small unrestaurierte body below a door hinge.
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