Fans of legendary rock ’n roll artist Elvis Presley can get a little closer to The King with a winning bid for this 1967 GMC pickup, which is now headed to auction.
This particular vehicle was one of three 1967 GMC pickup trucks that Elvis purchased on February 8th, 1967, for use on his Circle G Ranch in Mississippi. The vehicles were purchased new from Guy Caldwell Motors in Senatobia, Mississippi, with the other two pickups finished in Red and Blue, respectively. The model featured here was finished in Green.
The truck was used for about a year on the Circle G Ranch before it was sold to Haynes Motors in Maryland. According to the vehicle listing, the truck was used by Circle G employees to pick up a horse Elvis had bought, when mechanical troubles prompted the truck’s sale.
As the story goes, this 1967 GMC pickup was repaired and driven by the dealership’s head mechanic before it was sold to a new owner in Florida, then sold again for display in an Elvis Presley Museum. Apparently, the truck has been on display at various museums around the country, then restored to its current condition roughly four years ago.
The restoration included removal of the bed and engine, but not the cab. “While working on the paint, we discovered a few different colors so I feel the truck has had about three paint jobs prior,” the listing states. “Original Green, then red, then back to green (poor quality paint) then this last high-quality paint job that it has now.”
It’s also worth noting that the truck no longer has the same side mirrors shown in previous vintage photos.
The sale includes “a large portion” of the original parts no longer installed on the vehicle, while the dash was signed by Jay Leno and Blake Shelton after it was featured on an episode of Jay Leno’s Garage.
Under the hood, we find an inline six-cylinder engine connecting to the rear wheels by way of a manual transmission with a column-mounted shifter. The seller states that the GMC pickup has 83,000 miles on it.
Now, Elvis’ 1967 GMC pickup is listed for auction by GAA Classic Cars as Lot ST0071, and will be up for grabs Saturday, February 27th, alongside an additional 184 collectible vehicles.
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You would have thought the truck would have received a 100 point correct restoration considering who it’s original owner was. Seat, steering wheel, and hub caps are wrong. And who knows what else. Still, it looks nice enough.
Looks like a total cheapy heater and keys truck
Sorry, “Once owned by Elvis” doesn’t mean much to me.
This was 1of the 3 trucks he bought one day for use on the Circle G.
Nowhere does the ad copy say Elvis even saw it, much less used it.
Used by employees on the ranch for about 1 year, then sold. How many of the claimed 83,000 miles in the 54 years since February 8, 1967 could have been driven while Elvis owned it?
It seems that anything Elvis might have touched has been “restored” out of it.
Exactly what does “ ‘a large portion’ of the original parts no longer installed on the vehicle” mean?
Jay Leno and Blake Shelton are significant figures, each in his own field. But what do their autographs have to do with anything?
To me, this is merely a poorly “restored” — if you can even call it that — old truck.
Any Elvis connection it might maybe possibly have had is long gone.
I would be very interested in this truck if it were recently discovered, rusting away in a ditch on a side road in Mississippi, with a pair of Elvis’s sunglasses on the dashboard, a pair of his work gloves on the seat, and a couple of bullet holes into the engine where he shot it for breaking down.
I think I once read, on an Elvis site, that there was (or still is) on the premises at Graceland, an old truck he used when he wanted to get out unrecognized. I don’t know anything about the validity of that claim, or even my memory of it. (I can’t blame early onset anything, I’m just stupid).
Wonder if there were any empty Dunkin boxes found under the seat? If so, the value would skyrocket.
FWIW, there are pictures of Elvis around this particular truck on his ranch. This truck was a big topic on the 67-72 Chevy Trucks website a few years back. Lots of comments about the ‘restoration’! Ironically, the green 1969 steering wheel is a lot more valuable than the ’67-’68 black steering wheel that truck is supposed to have, and the correct wheel is still available brand new.
I have no clue why Blake Shelton autographed it.
I am no authority on 67-72 Chevy trucks, although I owned two of them (a ’72 and a ’69 in that order).
I used to consider them the best trucks GM made…until I owned a GMT-800 series truck.
With that said, I do love these trucks. I am particularly fond of the small window cabs of the 1967 year.
Did all ’67’s come with the small rear window, or was it an option (or standard feature for that matter)?
The small back window was ‘standard’ on pickups in 1967, the large panoramic window was optional. In 1968 the large back widow became standard on pickups, but the small window continued on 40/4500 and larger cab and chassis trucks.
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