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

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

Steve and some of his cars

He collected so many speeding tickets in it that he had his drivers license suspended twice.

On one occasion, when with his 6 months pregnant wife Neile in the passenger seat, he was pulled over for speeding, he came up with the false excuse that she was in labour. The police dutifully raced them to the hospital, where a nurse rushed out to help Neile.

After the police had departed Steve informed the nurse that it was a 'False Alarm', and led Neile back to the Jag. Writer William Nolan quotes Steve on the incident: Neile was pissed. She didn't speak to me for the rest of the day. But, by God, it worked. I didn't get the ticket!

Information source (but not the photos) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=397594&page=156

The above and below shots can be found in several places, the Getty collection, and the LIFE archives, LIFE had bigger photos

That's Carroll and Steve at the Cobra shop, notice that the Ford van has the letters Cobra on the back door

Above, this is the same Cobra as the second photo

for a recent shot of the XK SS :http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/steve-mcqueen.html
Via: http://farbror-sid.blogspot.com/ and http://hotwheels.tumblr.com/ and http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/ and http://42ndblackwatch1881.wordpress.com/

Steve McQueen, what a life, what a guy

Above via: http://burstsausages.com/

Via: http://churchofchoppers.blogspot.com/ and http://customsickles.blogspot.com/

Here is the only unrestored '57 Jag XKSS

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/automobiles/collectibles/19RESTO.html?_r=1&ref=collectibles&oref=slogin

The car, which was displayed at the 1957 Chicago Motor Show, had been all but given up for lost. In fact, it was hiding in plain sight, still in a garage, still in Chicago and in the hands of the second owner who had bought it in 1960.
Sloppy handwriting had resulted in the misreading of the owner’s last name and sent searchers on wild goose chases over the years.

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.