Steve McQueen 911s to be sold

"An invoice dated June 1, 1970 shows 911S chassis number 9110301502 being billed to McQueen and Solar Productions," as stated in Excellence, December 2007. Michael Keyser's definitive book about the film, A French Kiss With Death states that, "Principal photography on The 24 Hours of Le Mans, later shortened to just Le Mans, was set to begin on June 7, a week prior to the actual race." The actual movie was shot in July and August of 1970, after the race, so it sounds like McQueen owned the car all along. As Matt Stone wrote in Excellence, "While it's clear that Porsche KG was supportive of the filming of Le Mans (Stuttgart had just notched its first overall victory, after all), no freebie cars were supplied to Steve McQueen and company." -- David

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Originally Posted by varunan123

. . . for me i would rather own the 69S that chad currently owns . . .

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I'd rather have his Speedie --- the one McQueen pestered Bruce Meyer about, and bought back.

The first car McQueen bought new, the first car he raced . . . and the first car he won a race in.

Rick Kreiskott

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Originally Posted by varunan123

This is a very complex issue to value this car,there is the movie,there is the short ownership and the fact that steve owned both the 69S and this car at the same time but chose to keep the 69S.For me part of the allure in his choice of rides, what he collected and what he chose to drive they were not always the same.

Here is another ride to ponder and for me it's "qintessential Mcqueen"-collecting his cars are quite a complex issue.

raj

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Absolutely spot on...

I understand that if Steve McQueen chose to keep the 1969 car, it makes it very valuable (and a one "star" owner car!), but it isn't as famous, popular, and iconic as his Le Mans car. It is most often mentioned as the "other" 911 that didn't feature in Le Mans.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to own the 1969 car and I'm sure that it would fetch a huge premium, but the present car has a more "public" fame that the RM marketing dept will maximize to target a much bigger audience.

Milou: +1!

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In my archives , since 3 june 1970 owner is MC QUEEN and the insurance for car 911 030 1502 is available from 3 june to 02 december 1970.

Gotta agree with Curt on this one. I think we will see a very large number for this car.

Lets hope Mr LI/Seinfeld does not get bothered with about this sale this year at the Lit show. He may need two baseball caps.


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Originally Posted by Nine17

. . . According to Matt Stone's research, McQueen sent the film-prop '70 S back to Zuffenhausen for re-gearing and an LSD . . .

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. . . There goes the CoA.

Original non-LSD cars should have a transmission number recorded. Ya think the CoA trans is still in that car?

Rick Kreiskott

I believe so. That car most certainly has some type of racing gearbox ratio set in it. I ran behind Frank a few years ago when put together a non formal Steve McQueen 911S Saturday mornoing drive. It was a nice 40 mile cruise around the Lime Rock country scene. Midway through the ride Frank made a pitstop and my father who was riding with me hopped in the 70S with Frank for the remainder of the drive. The car sounded and ran beautifully. You could tell first and second gears were much taller than stock.