Steve McQueen, loved to race

Steve McQueen commercials

A few years ago, about 4, Steve McQueen was digitally added to a commercial. He walked out of a cornfield, onto a freshly paved one lane race course through that cornfield, was handed a set of keys to the brand new design of the Mustang... and he went for a spin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZzXHq7gKN8&mode=related&search=

A similar kind of commecial was made for a different Ford car, the Puma... and Steve was digitally added to this one too, in a scenario that recalls the "Bullitt" street chase. No idea if the Puma (or this commercial) ever went into production overseas, but it never became a production model here in the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAlklV5TZrE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthehollywoodextra%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F

Steve McQueen

Steve even had this patent. Betcha didn't know that.


http://www.bonhams.com/mcqueen.html has had an auction Nov 11 2006, of a lot of Steve's things, motor bikes, etc. One of the items was a knife Von Dutch made for Steve.


Some of the auction items were at the Peterson Auto museum and had a video taken of them on you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNBbXJV7bR4 and http://youtube.com/watch?v=9XGaIldfSaE


Cheryl Crow's tribute song has a good video, nice Bullitt tribute car chase http://youtube.com/watch?v=UbjEbsd16qs

The original Bullitt chase scene http://youtube.com/watch?v=_cTU5DRfAuI

The cool 2005 Mustang commercial, corn field, build it and they will come, Steve takes the new stang for a drive http://youtube.com/watch?v=UZzXHq7gKN8

The daily driver was a Rolls-Royce and while the car was driven conservatively over the cobblestone streets of Boston's elegant Beacon Hill district, one gets the feeling he was enjoying that experience, too. By the way, McQueen's contract during the period when he was Hollywood's highest paid and most popular star called for him to be given the cars he drove in his movies. His Jaguar XKSS, one of few ever built, is a road-going version of the beautiful and charismatic racing D type.

Steve McQueen tests the new GT's of 1966 for Sports Illustrated

Via: http://42ndblackwatch1881.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/sports-illustrated-vintage-1966-steve-mcqueen-reviews-the-hottest-new-gts/

Photos of Steve McQueen from MC Art Webzine

For the full text from this article see: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/snwvlly/bikes/steve.htm

This is a Meyers Lynx (yes, like the Meyers company that made the Manx dune buggy)

Via: http://motorcycleart.blogspot.com/

An iconic moment from Bullitt

Via: http://burstsausages.com/

A new Steve McQueen photo, from Hot Wheels on tumbler

Via: http://hotwheels.tumblr.com/ it's one of the blogs I have on the right hand list of websites I recommend

McQueen and cool cars. Not like you'll see him with anything else here

http://www.savetheenzos.com/post/470725339/he-would-have-been-80-today-hotvvheels

1965 Riverside

Great tribute website to recommend

This is the rare XK-SS Jaguar that (I didn't know) Von Dutch made a glove box door for, because the open box was always spilling it's contents, and Steve was fed up with that

http://irishrichhomage.blogspot.com/ is a bike builders other website about the influential people from his formative years... like Von Dutch, Ed Roth, Steve McQueen, Robert Williams, and others that all are very interesting write ups, even when I didn't know of the people he's talking about.

cool images from "A Saucerful of Wheels"

Above, Carroll Shelby

Above, 1965 Steve McQueen

Good advertising for a helmet

Mercedes-Benz 150 Sports Roadster, 1935

Fangio and the Renntransporter 1955

from http://asaucerfulofwheels.tumblr.com/

At auction:1963 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, it was Steve Mcqueen's daily driver for 10 years

Expected to rake in as much as $1.2 million, experts are saying the Lusso is the finest example of its kind on the market today, which is saying quite a lot considering it served as McQueen's daily driver for 10 years

http://www.supertouchblog.com/?p=131

http://www.luxist.com/2011/04/30/mcqueens-ferrari-on-the-block/

"Racing is life, anything before or after is just waiting." Steve Mcqueen

Steve McQueen's things were auctioned in Nov '06 by a company named Bonhams
For the auction site: http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r

For the picture of Steve giving the 2 finger salute:

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3389797&iSaleNo=14037&sServer=http://images1.bonhams.com/&sPath=2006-10/02/94298108-4-1.jpg

the choice selections from voiture-jaune.tumblr so far, James Dean scene from Hud, and Steve McQueen on the set of Great Escape before the bike jump

These two images are enduring.

I've read but can't recall the story with Dean Jefferies and the woman... maybe it was her car? Anyway, cool artists paint box, I've photographed all the pinstripers paint boxes that I've come across so far, and it's very interesting to me to see how each puts their name / logo on them with a bit of lettering and pinstripping

from http://voiture-jaune.tumblr.com/

A varierty of cool photos from Endlessme.tumbler

via: http://endlessme.tumblr.com/

Another cool variety of photos from a Tumbler site (these tumbler sites are only found by stumbling upon them I think)

from http://envoituresimoneblog.tumblr.com

Awesome photos from Spritied Drive Tumbler

Burn baby burn, the devil's got your number via: http://spiriteddrive.tumblr.com/

Cool photos

Above: simple bellytanker, no frills. Not sure what dry lake.. doesn't look like El Mirage to me.

Steve racing the Hurst Baja Boot http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/the-tsy-friday-fade-steve-mcqueens-dune-buggy-days/ for a gallery of Steve motorcycle racing across the Mojave http://www.motoblog.it/galleria/le-moto-di-steve-mcqueen/1

Johnny Cash and a train, cool setting!

Pike's Peak, and on the edge of that

Drag racing knows no car unworthy of competing

I believe these images are all from http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/