“It was the most beautiful car I had ever seen, the day I bought it I parked it outside at my hotel and stayed up all night just looking at it”
Elvis Presley.
Elvis bought his first car as soon as his artistic career began to take off, at a used car dealer. There, he fell completely in love with a pink Cadillac with a white roof, which they had for sale, and that purchase would mark the beginning of a great obsession and passion for cars, although he had always loved them and his dream was always to have a beautiful and elegant car.
In early March 1955, Elvis purchased this first pink 1954 Cadillac. It was pink and white, and was used as transportation for Elvis, Scotty, and Billy for about three months to get around on their concert tours. But on June 7, 1955, after giving a show in Hope, Arkansas, at the Fair Park Coliseum, Elvis was on his way to Texarkana with a young woman from town, while Billy and Scotty were traveling in another car with some friends.
And unfortunately, halfway there, Elvis’s pink and white Cadillac caught fire and burned to the ground, when a brake lining ignited, on the highway between Hope and Texarkana. Elvis was devastated.
On July 7, 1955, Elvis bought his second Cadillac, a new 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood Series 60. It was a nice blue color with a black roof, to replace the Cadillac that burned out. With great enthusiasm, he had his neighbor paint the car and design a very special pink color for him. He had him called ‘Elvis Rose’. This was the car that Elvis gave to his mother. Gladys would always proudly say that “this was her car”, even though she never had a driving license.
The roof of the car would later be painted again, white, after another accident that the boys had during the tours.
The rest of the Cadillacs and cars that Elvis owned and bought throughout his life would be history… The name of Elvis will always be attached to this legendary brand of cars…
