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Elvis sold more records the year he died than he had in the previous seven.

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The King's Last Limousine | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

Now anything associated with Elvis has an aura to it. Graceland could practically be a national park for all the people who go through it. His last limousine is now a travelling exhibit. It tours the country, loaded on a trailer, and draws more people than any other automotive mausoleum...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The King's Last Limousine | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

The man who's running the exhibit is Glen Gadlock. He used to be one of Elvis's bodyguards. Some people hate him for making money off of a dead man. Some people think it's a public service. There are no fewer than two hundred people at any given...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The King's Last Limousine | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

Elvis Presley came out of the South, came out, as a truck driver once told me, "singing the pants off songs," but still, he came out of the South. If the furthest south you tend to get is D.C., then Elvis might not make a lot of sense, except as...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The King's Last Limousine | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

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 It is a Lincoln Continental and it was originally made for the movie...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The King's Last Limousine | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

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