The Car That Lied

Everyone knows Elvis shot his Pantera. Almost everything else you’ve been told about it is wrong — and the truth is stranger.

By Daniel J. Voelker

Go down into the Vault beneath the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, past Saddam Hussein’s armored Mercedes and the Round Door Rolls-Royce, and a guide will stop you at a custard-yellow wedge and point at the steering wheel.

There it is. The mark. The King’s temper, preserved in a plastic rim under fluorescent light.
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