Loved Elvis, but...

Elvis Presley
was
crazy










for guns and cars.








He shot this yellow Pantera during a temperamental outburst
when the car would not start.

Bad Pantera!

The car took several hits - one in the tire, one in the driver-side door and the last bullet went through the steering wheel.

The car started immediately on the second try.

When a buyer saw this car in the collection of the owner in
Riverside, California,
the bullet holes had been repaired
- only a wound in the steering wheel remained.


Elvis was also known to punish TV sets if either Robert Goulet or Mel Torme appeared on the screen.
Here's one such TV which he his uncle Earl Pritchard removed and later sold (!)



At the time of Elvis' death in 1977 he owned 37 guns,
rifles and one machine gun.

Good thing they were in such capable hands.