Photo from Elvis Information Network website Book Review: “Elvis Presley’s GOLD Cadillac Tour of AUSTRALASIA 1968-69” by Nigel Patterson December 2011
Glenn Reimer is working with Bob Hayden on the new Cadillac book and provided details on the photo…” image taken in Australia at Albury, New South Wales. The photographer was David Willis who took a series of wonderful colour photographs. The Caddy was displayed there between 1 March to 4 March 1968.”
Interior visual showing:
- Gold TV
- 8-Track tapes (in case originally used to house the refreshment bar utensils)
- Record player (directly below 8-Track tapes)
- Records
- 8-Track player (to right of records)
Only tapes I can make out; P8S-1244, P8S-1169 and P8S-1057.
Colonel Parker convinced RCA to buy Elvis’ Gold Cadillac for $24,000 and put it on tour as a promotional tool from 1965-68.
March ’66, photos taken at Dodgers Stadium’s parking lot in Los Angeles, during the filming of ‘Spinout’. Men with Elvis are from RCA, one on the right is Grelun Landon who helped get the Cadillac into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977.
Postcards of Elvis’ Gold Car On Tour for RCA Victor Records usually the back is blank, but some have an Ad for Elvis’ New Album.
Newspaper articles from Corpus Christi Times Sun Aug 21, 1966, The Kansas City Times Mon Sep 19, 1966, Springfield Leader and Press Wed Sep 21, 1966, and Chicago Tribune Mon Sep 26, 1966.
After the Australian & New Zealand tour, Elvis’ Gold Cadillac was returned to the US & later went on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, and you can still see it there today.
Special thanks go to the following people who helped with newspaper articles, photos and photo information; Daryl Restly, Glenn Reimer, Joe Tunzi and Frankie Vacanti.
Go to Homepage’s shortcut to “Elvis’ Gold Car On Tour” in RCA Menu: Ad Photos.
