Word: elvises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The limousine itself is impressive--for sheer size, to begin with. It is twenty-five feet long. It is white with a red interior of crushed velvet. The back seat is ridiculously far away from the driver. It is a Lincoln Continental and it was originally made for the movie...
Gadlock practically sneers when he talks about a rich man from Texas who wanted to buy the limousine right after Elvis died. "He offered somethin' like half a million dollars. As if that would do anythin' This was Elvis's," he says. "Half million. Bullshee-it."
The limousine now belongs to J. D. Southern--a member of the Stamps Quartet that backed Elvis for so many years--and one of the King's closest friends. "Elvis gave him a bunch of rings and coats and things," Gadlock says. "And this car too. This is the very...
Gadlock has the responsibility for the limousine. Gadlock used to be one of Elvis's bodyguards--a big deep-voiced beefy man with a Tennessee suntan. He is dressed garishly--silk shirt with palm trees and white bucks. On his finger is a huge gold ring. The ring is made...
"I still remember that night," says Gadlock. "We were backstage--and Elvis needed a new pair of glasses. I ran all over town and finally got this man to open up his shop to get them. It wasn't anything big. But you know," he says. "Elvis remembered. He was...