Elvis Presley STAR License Plate and Frame From 1977 Lincoln Continental Mark V Purchased for Ginger Alden - This is the STAR license plate and license plate frame from the 1977 Lincoln Continental Mark V purchased by Elvis Presley from Star Lincoln Mercury Sales in Glendale, California in December of 1976. Elvis Purchased the vehicle while performing at the Hilton International Hotel in Las Vegas, and sent his longtime chauffeur Gerald Peters to pick it up from Glendale and then paid two men to drive it from Las Vegas to Memphis. Elvis Presley and his fiance Ginger Alden often drove the car, and were pictured using it to attend Alden's grandfather's funeral in Arkansas in January, 1977. This vehicle purchased for Alden was one of the last vehicles Elvis purchased before he passed in August, 1977. The license plate comes with a January, 1977 newspaper article picturing Elvis in the vehicle traveling for the funeral with Ginger.