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Monday, December 31, 2018

[7] Elvis Bmw 507 In This Week Gossip

After joining the Army in 1958, Elvis Presley was stationed in Germany for two years. While there, he bought one of the few BMW 507s ever produced to use as a daily driver. It was originally white, but according to legend, swooning fans would regularly kiss it, leaving lipstick prints all over the car. Out of frustration, Presley had the car painted red.

Nearly 50 years later, in 2006, Klaus Kutscher, a Restoration Expert at BMW Classic, found the car in a California barn. It was in rough shape, but with only about 250 BMW 507s ever made, he thought it was worth restoring even before he knew it had belonged to Elvis.

"The dashboard was cut and they had other instruments also in the car. They cut the frame. The car was painted twice, then black, and then after that again in red. Then the car [had] . . . a big accident," says Kutscher in the latest Petrolicious video.

But with the resources of BMW Classic at his disposal, Kutscher was able to restore Elvis' old 507 to its original glory. We covered part of the story ahead of its appearance at Pebble Beach this year, but check out the video below for even more details from Kutscher himself.

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