To get your hands on a piece of rock 'n' roll memorabilia that even the Elvis Presley fan club couldn't manage to secure, visit Mercedes-Benz World, Weybridge, on Monday December 6.
Originally published in Surrey Life magazine October 2010
To get your hands on a piece of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia that even the Elvis Presley fan club couldn’t manage to secure, visit Mercedes-Benz World, Weybridge, on Monday December 6.
A Mercedes-Benz 600, one of only a handful of cars that The King registered to himself, is to be sold by Bonhams as part of its traditional end of year sale.
Presley owned the car for two years before he gave it to one of his Mafia friends, James Leroy Robertson. It was purchased by the vendor in 2005 from Robertson Motors Memphis, although the Elvis Presley fan club attempted to get the car quarantined, as they considered it a national treasure that should not leave the USA.
The vendor swiftly exported the car and it is now in the UK. Restored to a very high standard, this rare piece of Elvis Presley history has attracted a pre-sale estimate of �100,000 to �150,000.
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