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The Selvedge Yard: Steve McQueen Le Mans Beyond Gratuitous 1970s Racing Goodness
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Nice photos to be sure, but where does the legend come from that the #20 Gulf car in the 1970 Le Mans race was McQueen's 917K? The internet keeps revising history... Especially when the cult of McQueen gets stirred into the mix...
The 1970 Le Mans DNF Siffert-Redman #20 917-004/017 was a JWE-owned car... McQueen later painted his Solar Productions 917-023 car to imitate it for the movie... Seinfeld has 917-023, which is the film version of #20, not the race version of #20... McQueen and Solar did enter McQueen's Sebring-podium 908/01-022 at Le Mans in 1970 as a camera car driven by Williams and Linge...
these photos are a nice little reminder that michael delaney wore a heuer monaco, but steve mcqueen wore a rolex submariner.
The forth pic makes me smile.
I started watching Frank Monise race about 8 years later realiziing I was watching one THE toughest, hard-nose competitors on the West Coast. Think A.J. Foyt with glasses and a mustache in a Lotus 23B... :eek:
Through the years we ALL had Frank stories..... even I have a pretty good one.... ;)
Frank ran Monise Motors, a British auto repair shop, in Pasadena with his 2 sons (who were almost the same age as me) The joke was, you couldn't stand too long on Frank's shop floor because you'd start sinking in the old grease..... :D
Man, that old bastard could drive..... ;)
- Frank, when he raced for Brock in the '60's