- Elvis Presley’s custom Cadillac Guitar Car was recently listed for sale in France.
- Built by Hollywood legend Jay Ohrberg, the Cadillac stretched a massive 41 feet.
- Ohrberg created cars like Knight Rider’s KITT and Back To The Future’s DeLorean.
If you ever needed proof that car culture and pop culture can collide in spectacularly weird ways, here it is. Believe it or not, this unusual creation, known simply as the Guitar Car, is a 1970 Cadillac Eldorado built specifically for none other than Elvis Presley.
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At the peak of the legendary singer’s fame, he drove the bright-pink Caddy to a show in Las Vegas before the car largely disappeared from the public eye. Now, decades later, it has resurfaced, listed for sale on eBay, and, for reasons no one can quite explain, it is in France.
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While Elvis is the name most associated with the Guitar Car, it was actually built by Jay Ohrberg. Ohrberg is the legendary car builder responsible for a laundry list of Hollywood’s most recognizable vehicles, including the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard, KITT from Knight Rider 2000, several versions of the Batmobile, the DeLorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future, and even the gloriously absurd Panthermobile from The Pink Panther Show.
To create this one-off Cadillac, he took a 1970 Eldorado and cut it in half, crafted a bespoke extended chassis mimicking the shape of a guitar’s fretboard, and then used it to connect the front and rear. He then crafted a bespoke rear section for the Eldorado to replicate the shape of a guitar, before painting it in a bright shade of pink.
There’s no word on how the car ended up in France, or why the original fretboard is missing, but the listing notes it doesn’t currently run. It was originally built with an 8.2-liter V8 engine, and there’s a good chance it needs a good service to get back up and running. It’s also 41 feet or 12.5 meters long, meaning it would have to be partly disassembled to fit in a standard 40-foot shipping container if the eventual buyer is from outside mainland Europe.
The seller is asking €10,000 in the ebay listing that you can check out here, which comes out to roughly $11,300. Given that there is exactly one of these in existence, it is hard to put a definitive value on it.
Whether that price is a bargain or a money pit waiting to happen depends entirely on how badly someone wants to own one of the stranger slices of Elvis history. With any luck, someone will rescue it and restore it to its former, slightly ridiculous glory.
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