Showing posts with label Steve McQueen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve McQueen. Show all posts

Monday, July 26, 2010

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

Thursday, July 22, 2010

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/

Friday, December 4, 2009

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/

Thursday, December 3, 2009

I think you've never heard about Steve McQueen's mugshot! Arrested in Alaska of all places

http://stvmcqueen.tripod.com/mugshot.html for the full story about doing somersaults instead of walking the line during the sobriety test... who would have guessed? Found via Hooniverse

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

"Celebrities of the past and their rides" post has been added too substantially

Above via: Ottonero
Via: http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/ this image has Coburn, Garner, and McQueen

For the updated post of dozens of celebs of the past http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/celebrities-of-past-days-and-their.html

Sidebar, Coburn and McQueen were pallbearers for Bruce Lee
Coburn's Ferrari went for a record high for a car at auction http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/james-coburn-ferrari-sets-record.html

Friday, October 30, 2009

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.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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)

Monday, July 6, 2009

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

Sunday, May 31, 2009

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

Celebrities of past days and their rides... before every star required a chauffer


Leonard Nimoy and a Buick Riviera.. early one I think, 64 or 65

Gary Cooper, 1950 Mercury

Clark Gable, Duesenburg

Rita Hayworth, 1941 Lincoln Continental

Cary Grant in a custom Hollywood movie car, a Cord, in the movie Topper

Errol Flynn, 1935 Auburn Speedster

Gary Cooper, 1950 Mercury

Joan Crawford, 1938 Licoln Model K

Marlene Dietrich, 1935 Cadillac

Johnny Weissmuller, 1932 Chevy... little known I suppose, but as the guy whose Tarzan yell is still instantly recognizeable, you might be interested to know he was a 5 gold medalist in the Olympics, (1924 and 1928) and one bronze, won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven world records. He was the first to break Duke Kahanamoku's world record on the 100-meters freestyle

Steve McQueen

Clark Gable

Marlon Brando

James Dean

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Jerry Lee Lewis and his 13 yr old wife

John Lennon

Pau McCartney

David Crosby

Elvis Presley

John Lennon and his Rolls



Honor Blackman

Ann Margaret


Raquel Welch

Jayne Mansfield

Audrey Hepburn

James Garner

Charleton Heston