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Fifty years ago today, Steve McQueen's Le Mans had its premiere. McQueen apparently didn't attend, as the production of the film devolved into chaos quickly, and the actor was forced to hand over ...
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Steve McQueen's No. 20 Porsche 917 featured in the movie "Le Mans" has been restored as is expected to bring $15 million in an auction at Pebble Beach in California.
917-022 passed through some pretty prominent racing hands, as McQueen sold the car to Reinhold Joest after production of the film ended. Brian Redman and Richard Attwood, each Le Mans winners ...
The legendary Porsche 917K that Steve McQueen, Hollywood’s “King of Cool,” owned and drove in his 1971 movie Le Mans, is coming to Mecum’s Kissimmee auction on January 18, and it’s ...
Steve McQueen started filming Le Mans — his 1971 racecar movie to end all racecar movies — with a broken foot. By the end of the on-location, way-over-budget shoot, he had broken friendships ...
After Le Mans, Weston worked for McLaren and was part of an Indy 500 team in 1971. Weston eventually sold the watch to a private collector and passionate motorsports fan in 2010.
The film opens with McQueen driving a gray Porsche around the city of Le Mans. This is the scene that "cemented the Porsche 911 as one of cinema's all-time classic cars," according to the listing.
A blue-dialed Heuer Monaco worn by Steve McQueen during filming of the 1971 classic film Le Mans is hitting the block at Sotheby's on December 11 at its Important Watches a u c t i o n in New York.
For instance, in 2021, RM Sotheby's Monterey Auction offered a 1970 917K that raced in Le Mans and appeared in the movie Le Mans, saying 917-031/026 was "Immortalised as the winning car in Steve ...
That car, 917-022, was run in short-tail or " kurzheck "spec for filming during the 1970 event. It was owned at the time by Le Mans star Steve McQueen himself as part of the production, and it's ...