Elvis' Harley-Davidson featured in new museum in Milwaukee:

 

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Milwaukee's new Harley-Davidson Museum opens this Saturday. Among the motorcycles is the oldest Harley: Serial Number One. It's a pedal bike with a small engine, built by company founders William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson inside a 10-by-15-foot wooden shed that had the words "Harley-Davidson Motor Company" scrawled on the door.

Also featured is Elvis Presley's red and white 1956 Model KH, along with its January 1956 paperwork, which notes he bought it from a Memphis dealer, his payments were $50.15 a month and lists his occupation as a "vocalist-self-employed."

His reason for buying: "pleasure and business." Elvis bought it just a few months before his breakthrough single "Heartbreak Hotel" hit the top of the charts

"It was like he knew he was on his way and he wasn't going to Disneyland," Bortner said. "He was going to the dealership."

Elvis was on the cover of Harley-Davidson's magazine, The Enthusiast, in May 1956 -- an artefact also at the museum.

A video screen features classic Harley moments in television and movies. Harleys have appeared in classics such as "Easy Rider," and "Pulp Fiction" and there are animated versions in "The Simpsons" TV show and movie. This year, Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf rode one in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

Ten motorcycles from throughout the years give museumgoers a chance to feel a Harley beneath them.

 

Go here for more details. http://www.harley-davidson.com/wcm/Content...sp?locale=en_US

 

(News, Source;EIN/SanjaM)

I have a picture on my wall of Elvis in his leathers, standing next to a Harley