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Jet owned by Elvis auctioned after sitting 30 years on New Mexico runway
AP via Los Angeles Daily News ^ | May 27, 2017

Posted on 05/27/2017 4:16:27 PM PDT by EveningStar

A private jet once owned by Elvis Presley has been auctioned after sitting on a runway in New Mexico for 30 years.

The plane sold for $430,000 on Saturday at an Agoura Hills event featuring celebrity memorabilia, GWS Auctions Inc. said...

The auction house says Elvis designed the interior that has gold-tone woodwork, red velvet seats and red shag carpet. But the red 1962 Lockheed Jetstar has no engine and needs a restoration of its cockpit...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; History; Society
KEYWORDS: airplane; auction; aviation; elvis; elvispresley; presley
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1 posted on 05/27/2017 4:16:28 PM PDT by EveningStar
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But it was owned by Elvis.


2 posted on 05/27/2017 4:17:39 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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3 posted on 05/27/2017 4:17:50 PM PDT by EveningStar
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Had no engines and the avionics gone.


4 posted on 05/27/2017 4:22:14 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: EveningStar
gold-tone woodwork, red velvet seats and red shag carpet

Vegas Elvis jet.

5 posted on 05/27/2017 4:25:46 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: virgil

Bet Elvis shagged quite a few babes in that mile high club vehicle!!
Salute!!


6 posted on 05/27/2017 4:26:29 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: EveningStar

I’ll be darned——I thought that it would for more because it belonged to Elvis.

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7 posted on 05/27/2017 4:27:20 PM PDT by Mears ("It takes a lot of clout to be a victim."---Joe Sobran)
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To: Mears

See post 4. Without those items, it’s going to be a costly restoration.


8 posted on 05/27/2017 4:31:54 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

PLAYA..!!!

9 posted on 05/27/2017 4:33:08 PM PDT by gaijin
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OMG,no engines?—Didn’t know that.

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10 posted on 05/27/2017 4:35:59 PM PDT by Mears ("It takes a lot of clout to be a victim."---Joe Sobran)
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To: virgil

“Had no engines and the avionics gone.”

...and sitting for 30 years. It will cost a fortune to make that plane airworthy again.


11 posted on 05/27/2017 4:40:51 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: EveningStar

Sale confirms....”There’s a sucker born every day”.


12 posted on 05/27/2017 4:41:09 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Mears

“I thought that it would for more because it belonged to Elvis.

It’s a rolling wreck!


13 posted on 05/27/2017 4:49:34 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: EveningStar

Elvis’s coat!!!

https://vimeo.com/30869244


14 posted on 05/27/2017 4:52:33 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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I remember that.


15 posted on 05/27/2017 4:53:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: gaijin

LOL! Looks like French brothel.


16 posted on 05/27/2017 5:00:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Mears

They paid too much.


17 posted on 05/27/2017 5:19:24 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Mears

If it hadn’t belonged to Elvis, it would have sold for it’s scrap value.


18 posted on 05/27/2017 5:21:24 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Parley Baer

BYE BYE AMERICAN PIE

Since so many singers died from airplane crashes,
Elvis had his airplane engines removed.

/s


19 posted on 05/27/2017 5:22:35 PM PDT by TheNext (Just Build the Wall!)
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-—Jet owned by Elvis auctioned after sitting 30 years on New Mexico runway-—

If it’s been sitting on a runway for 30 years, it must have been quite the headache for takeoffs and landings!


20 posted on 05/27/2017 5:29:42 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017,,,The end of an error.)
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