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Originally posted by hardflex
I am amazed you even know who Steve McQueen is.... I had you pegged as younger, pondering Tattoos and all. Where did you become a fan of Steve McQueen?
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Steve McQueen is my hero. I've always aspired to one day be as good a driver as he was. I want to get good enough to where I can jump into any car, auto or manual, and be able to drive it without any problems.
I've been into McQueen since I was around 18 or so; I think I got into him when I read an article about him in Automobile Mag in June of 2002. It was thru him that I got into Porsches really. That, and my neighbor at the lake had a Porsche that he parked in our garage...and the rest, as they say, is history.
I had a high school English teacher who also was a McQueen fan and he gave me a list of movies I should see that were among the best...I'd seen Bullitt and I went out and got a copy of LeMans on the 4th of July in 2003...incidentally, that's when I saw my favorite car that I one day intend to own, a 1983 blue-gray 911 SC targa...the owner used to live in my neighborhood but he moved a few years ago. His was the first Porsche I ever rode in, several years ago when I was about 15 or 16 (didn't have a car then) and he picked me up from my house to babysit...I know he still lives in Charlotte, so if any fellow Charlotteans ever come across a blue 911SC targa with 'DAWS-1' on the license plate, that'd be the car.
Edited to add: Speaking of McQueen, I have a book of photos of him by William Claxton, as well as two issues of the Sports Illustrated back in '72 that featured him on the cover.
In addition to Porsches, Shelby Cobras, fastback Mustangs, and 1960s Jags, he also got me interested in dirt bikes and motocross, particularly vintage Triumph and Husqvarnas. I one day would like to own a 1968 Triumph TR6 dirt bike like the one he had...they are just soo cool!
If you want to see a cool motocross movie, watch "On Any Sunday"--McQueen features in it and it's a great look at the early days of dirt bike racing...