Pink Cadillacs in Popular Culture
While no manufacturer of the time offered pink as a standard color, after the public attention to Elvis' car many individual car owners in the 1950s began to paint their cars various shades of pink.
Although the original car was a four-door sedan, the more replicated version in popular culture is a pink 1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible, which have been sold as miniature replicas by many companies including Franklin Mint, and featured in songs and videos about the pink Cadillac.
Pink Cadillacs have also been the automobiles of recognition for their top sales people by Mary Kay Cosmetics.
Elvis Presley appears in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams—he is depicted as driving a pink spaceship.
Elvis' Pink Cadillac was the inspiration for Robert Dunn's musical novel Pink Cadillac (2002). In the novel Elvis makes a cameo appearance, giving the heroine, Daisy Holliday, one of his pink Cadillacs as a gift after she helps him get it running.
Elvis' Pink Cadillac was featured in the CBS miniseries Elvis, where it shows him first buying the car for his mother.
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