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Nov 1, 1956
Elvis Presley purchases a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Memphis and goes for a ride with film star Natalie Wood, escorted by local police
Nov 5, 1956
Elvis Presley attends the opening of the Beginner Driver Range in Memphis, the first driving school in the nation sponsored by the police department
Dec 3, 1956
Elvis Presley buys a 1957 Cadillac Seville in Memphis for $8,400
Apr 15, 1957
Two weeks after Rick Hall lost his wife in a car accident, his father dies when a tractor overturns. Devastated, Hall gives up a steady job and starts playing music. Eventually, he establishes Fame Recording Studio in Florence, Alabama, becoming a producer for Bobbie Gentry, Jerry Reed and Mac Davis
Jul 4, 1957
Actress Judy Tyler dies in an automobile accident in Billy The Kid, Wyoming. She had worked with Elvis Presley just months earlier, playing his romantic interest during the filming of "Jailhouse Rock"
Dec 21, 1957
After giving Colonel Tom Parker a red sports car for Christmas, Elvis Presley goes to the Grand Ole Opry in a tuxedo. He takes pictures with Brenda Lee, Johnny Cash, Hank Snow, Ray Price and Faron Young, and goes on stage to wave to the audience
Dec 31, 1957
Ernest Tubb is fined $250 when he hits a tree, driving drunk, on Lynwood Terrace in Nashville with his 1957 Cadillac
May 30, 1958
The movie "High School Confidential" debuts, with Jerry Lee Lewis singing the title track from the back end of a flatbed truck
Jul 6, 1958
Elvis Presley picks up a speeding ticket in Fort Worth, Texas
Jul 10, 1958
"Johnny B. Goode" songwriter Chuck Berry, driving his pink Cadillac, is arrested for "careless and imprudent driving" in St. Louis, Missouri. He pays a $15 fine
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