17, 1961, when Barrasso was working as a car salesman in Memphis. There are a lot of Elvis stories in this town - everyone from his cook to his haberdasher has a tale to tell - but I know of no other quite like this one.
The man with the answers to such questions of Americana is 66-year-old Ernie Barrasso, who notes that this is the 40th anniversary of the story of Elvis and the Ford that did not quite make it to hall of fame at Graceland. Nor did they know what happened to the car that might have changed The King's image. While most Elvis fans knew he was a Cadillac man, what many didn't know is how close he came to being a Ford guy.
Whenever it happened, the lucky person not only wound up with a snazzy new set of wheels, he (she) became part of a legend that even then was growing larger than life - so large, in fact, that one day crowds from all over the world would make pilgrimages to his home to see where he'd lived and which cars he'd kept for himself, including the 1955 pink Cadillac that's so famous it's on T-shirts and coffee cups.
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