AUTOCAR REGENERATION: Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen biography, graphic novel style format

Steve McQueen: Full Throttle Cool by Dwight Jon Zimmerman (author) and Greg Scott (artist) is a graphic novel of the life of a man that once said "I'm not sure whether I'm an actor who races or a racer who acts." Fortunately for us, he was the best of both and this book brings his passion to life for the first time in graphic format. It's really cool.

Steve McQueen left an indelible imprint as one of Hollywood's sexiest leading men. His masterful film roles in Bullitt, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Papillion have been often imitated but never repeated.

An actor, motorcycle and automobile racer, and all-around gearhead, McQueen also epitomized the American dream, rising from hardscrabble circumstances to become one of the most famous movie stars in the world.

Steve McQueen: Full-Throttle Cool presents McQueen's life story in an artistic, graphic-novel format. It covers his entire life, from his earliest years growing up in a suburb of Indianapolis to his death from mesothelioma. Learn all about his stunning movie career, in which he defined the antihero archetype. The cool panache he brought to the screen was perhaps only matched by his adrenaline-pumping racing exploits. Get the full measure of both from this book.

7 chapters, 50 pages, and available through Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Steve-McQueen-Full-Throttle-Dwight-Zimmerman/dp/076034745X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434656241&sr=8-1&keywords=STEVE+MCQUEEN+FULL+THROTTLE+COOL

the yellow Winton Flyer made by Von Dutch for Steve McQueen's early movie, the Reivers

The Reivers, based on William Faulkner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, was a departure from Steve McQueen's typical action/adventure films. In some markets, in fact, the movie is titled Yellow Winton Flyer.

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Steve McQueen, whose Solar Productions was instrumental in the production of The Reivers, turned to his friend Von Dutch to construct the movie car.

The Winton Flyer had to combine four-passenger capacity and 1904 appearance with the practical requirements of strength and reliability that the shooting schedule demanded. It was an assignment particularly appropriate to the whimsical Dutch, who applied his peculiar brand of tongue-in-cheek style with his highly developed skill at creating functional mechanical gizmos. The resulting Yellow Winton Flyer looks, acts, rides and shakes like the 18 horsepower 1904 touring car it's supposed to be.

It sold with Bonhams for $100,000 http://www.mcqueenonline.com/yellowwintonflyer.htm in 2006 at the Petersen Museum auction of the Brucker collection

it was built using a car called a Flanders

Most recently, the car was at a car show in Michigan, the Eyes On Design, June 15, 2014 car show at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford estate in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan.