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...
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But it was owned by Elvis.
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Had no engines and the avionics gone.
Vegas Elvis jet.
Bet Elvis shagged quite a few babes in that mile high club vehicle!!
Salute!!
I’ll be darned——I thought that it would for more because it belonged to Elvis.
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See post 4. Without those items, it’s going to be a costly restoration.
PLAYA..!!!
OMG,no engines?—Didn’t know that.
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“Had no engines and the avionics gone.”
...and sitting for 30 years. It will cost a fortune to make that plane airworthy again.
Sale confirms....”There’s a sucker born every day”.
“I thought that it would for more because it belonged to Elvis.
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It’s a rolling wreck!
I remember that.
LOL! Looks like French brothel.
They paid too much.
If it hadn’t belonged to Elvis, it would have sold for it’s scrap value.
BYE BYE AMERICAN PIE
Since so many singers died from airplane crashes,
Elvis had his airplane engines removed.
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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!
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