{"id":29114,"date":"2016-08-19T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/restoring-the-classic-bmw-507-racecar-of-elvis-presley-using-3d-printing-technology"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:23:06","slug":"restoring-the-classic-bmw-507-racecar-of-elvis-presley-using-3d-printing-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/restoring-the-classic-bmw-507-racecar-of-elvis-presley-using-3d-printing-technology","title":{"rendered":"Restoring the Classic BMW 507 Racecar of Elvis Presley Using 3D Printing Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/restoring-the-classic-bmw-507-racecar-of-elvis-presley-using-3d-printing-technology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BMW is a German car manufacturer that has decided to make use of 3D printing technology in order to restore the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwgroup-classic.com\/en\/elvis-507\/elvis507-pebblebeach.html\" target=\"_blank\">BMW 507<\/a> racecar of Elvis Presley. Through additive manufacturing technology, they were able to reconstruct the window winders of the car as well as its door handles.<\/p>\n<p>For sure, Elvis never anticipated that his racecar which he purchased in 1958 will be restored after 60 years with the help of a 3D printer. Jack Castor owned the vehicle and was purchased by BMW Group Classic 2 years ago and kept it in the pumpkin factory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/restoring-the-classic-bmw-507-racecar-of-elvis-presley-using-3d-printing-technology2.jpg\" alt=\"Restoring the Classic BMW 507 Racecar of Elvis Presley Using 3D Printing Technology\" width=\"730\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/3dprintingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bmw-elvis-02.jpg 730w, http:\/\/3dprintingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bmw-elvis-02-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/3dprintingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bmw-elvis-02-600x427.jpg 600w, http:\/\/3dprintingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bmw-elvis-02-624x444.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px)  100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/3dprintingfromscratch.com\/2016\/08\/restoring-the-classic-bmw-507-racecar-of-elvis-presley-using-3d-printing-technology\/\">http:\/\/3dprintingfromscratch.com\/2016\/08\/restoring-the-class...echnology\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW is a German car manufacturer that has decided to make use of 3D printing technology in order to restore the BMW 507 racecar of Elvis Presley. Through additive manufacturing technology, they were able to reconstruct the window winders of the car as well as its door handles. For sure, Elvis never anticipated that his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66517,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29114\/revisions\/66517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}