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Ich wünschte, Jack hätte den Abschluss der Restauration noch selbst miterlebt, bin aber froh, dass das allgemeine Interesse, das der 507 von Elvis erregte, auch ein wenig ihm galt, nachdem wir die Herkunft des Automobils geklärt und die Geschichte publiziert hatten.
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I wish Jack had lived long enough to see its restoration completed, but in the absence of that I'm glad he got to bask in a bit of the limelight thrown off by Elvis' 507, once we'd established its provenance and published the story. After that, BMW was able to officially verify the car as having belonged to Elvis, and we eventually corrected the provenance of 70192, as well. That car was sent straight from the factory to New York in late 1958, while Elvis was in Germany. It had indeed been given by Elvis to Ursula Andress in 1963, but Elvis probably never drove it. Fortunately, its current owner is more interested in its ex-Ursula provenance than any Elvis connection.
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