Showing posts with label XK SS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label XK SS. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Another cool variety of photos from a Tumbler site (these tumbler sites are only found by stumbling upon them I think)
Friday, April 2, 2010
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Steve and some of his cars
He collected so many speeding tickets in it that he had his drivers license suspended twice.On one occasion, when with his 6 months pregnant wife Neile in the passenger seat, he was pulled over for speeding, he came up with the false excuse that she was in labour. The police dutifully raced them to the hospital, where a nurse rushed out to help Neile.
After the police had departed Steve informed the nurse that it was a 'False Alarm', and led Neile back to the Jag. Writer William Nolan quotes Steve on the incident: Neile was pissed. She didn't speak to me for the rest of the day. But, by God, it worked. I didn't get the ticket!
Information source (but not the photos) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=397594&page=156
The above and below shots can be found in several places, the Getty collection, and the LIFE archives, LIFE had bigger photos
That's Carroll and Steve at the Cobra shop, notice that the Ford van has the letters Cobra on the back door
Above, this is the same Cobra as the second photo
for a recent shot of the XK SS :http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/steve-mcqueen.htmlVia: http://farbror-sid.blogspot.com/ and http://hotwheels.tumblr.com/ and http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/ and http://42ndblackwatch1881.wordpress.com/
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Here is the only unrestored '57 Jag XKSS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/automobiles/collectibles/19RESTO.html?_r=1&ref=collectibles&oref=slogin
The car, which was displayed at the 1957 Chicago Motor Show, had been all but given up for lost. In fact, it was hiding in plain sight, still in a garage, still in Chicago and in the hands of the second owner who had bought it in 1960.
Sloppy handwriting had resulted in the misreading of the owner’s last name and sent searchers on wild goose chases over the years.
The car, which was displayed at the 1957 Chicago Motor Show, had been all but given up for lost. In fact, it was hiding in plain sight, still in a garage, still in Chicago and in the hands of the second owner who had bought it in 1960.
Sloppy handwriting had resulted in the misreading of the owner’s last name and sent searchers on wild goose chases over the years.
