When Hal Wallis visited Elvis in Bad Nauheim during the third week of August in 1959 some publicity shots were scheduled for GI Blues. However, when Elvis was late one day and drove too fast through the curly roads of Parkstrasse up to Johannisberg, he crashed the BMW and the photosession was cancelled.

There are rumours that is was Vernon who drove the 507 that day and that Elvis took the blame because Vernon had a bad track record of accidents in Germany, which could cause an insurance issue...