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Clubroom => Foto Forum => Topic started by: firko on February 20, 2013, 10:51:45 am
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What makes McQueen even cooler after seeing this photo is that he drank Lucky Lager, an extremely underrated budget supermarket beer when he could have been drinking Stella Artois.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/13-01-21-McQueen_zps40b2c49e.jpg)
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and drove a kick ass beat up pick up !
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He did have the art of being cool handled right down to the authentic grease under the fingernails
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Kicking the desert Trumpy over dressed in boardies.........cool.
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What makes McQueen even cooler after seeing this photo is that he drank Lucky Lager, an extremely underrated budget supermarket beer when he could have been drinking Stella Artois.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/13-01-21-McQueen_zps40b2c49e.jpg)
I'd like that poster!
She who is to be obeyed would probably tear it up!
cheers.
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He invented cool, I wonder if he's wearing thong's Firko?
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I picked up this at a little second hand shop somewhere whilst on holidays a few years back :)
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Of course he's wearing thongs Steve, and they'd be $2 single bungers too, no nancy boy Havianas for McQueen, Nosiree ::).
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/BarbourFeatures_Header_McQueen_02_0_zpsed5b3e9e.jpg)
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Yep Steve was so Cool............. i reckon he pissed Ice Cubes
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Steve's so cool, he uses chain for tie downs!
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(http://www.grandprix-originals.com/english/images/content/steve-pose.jpg)
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Always thought James Garner a cool dude, did all his own driving in the 1966 movie 'Grand Prix' was on a David Frost show once and blitzed the (at the time new) 'video game' Indy 500'.
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Bullitt is on late tonight on Gem 8) better stay up
Nob
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Cool, thanks Nob.
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I have seen the car chase in bullitt heaps of times never watched the movie all the way through, I worked for Ford PD at their proving ground for 19yrs and they used the car chase many times to motivate us at the monthly pep talk, all it did was make us go out and give the then current crop of cars a good thrashin who gets to do 260km/hr on a 5km oval track and get payed for it, I sometimes miss that place.
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Shit mavman, I'd miss it every time I got behind the steering wheel, it was called a proving ground, what better way to see what it'd take to kill one. :P :P :P
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Is Bullit the movie where the car makes 16 straight up-changes at the start? :-\
That's a serious question btw
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The best thing was they weren't mine, drove all sorts of cars from around the world aussie built ones were some of the best very under rated by us ozzies, people thought oversea's cars wrere better because they cost more, we did have some clangers but.
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Nothing rev's harder than someone elses car. ;D ;D
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God bless the test mule after the testings over
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Is Bullit the movie where the car makes 16 straight up-changes at the start?
Tony I first heard that same question about another not so well known early seventies drag racer film titled "Two Lane Blacktop" Worth a look if you come across it and the said car is a rough but yummy 55 Chevy in undercoat grey ;). It was different and yes you can see ideas, parts and scenes that were "pinched " and used in other films.
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Nothing rev's harder than someone else's car....
Yes there be! a hire car......My reasoning They rev harder as your paying for it! Someone else's car you have just bludged of em for free 8)...
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As a Triumph rider, Marlon Brando as Johnny in the Wild One must get a mention surely......... 8) 8) 8)
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Nothing rev's harder than someone else's car....
Yes there be! a hire car......My reasoning They rev harder as your paying for it! Someone else's car you have just bludged of em for free 8)...
I might dispute that claim I had access to a computer that could raise the rev limit.
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I might dispute that claim I had access to a computer that could raise the rev limit.
Neat idea,,, in my case I just push harder down with right foot ;) ;) ;)
If the speed don't make ya shit ya geriatrics incontinence pad ya not tryin....
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Is Bullit the movie where the car makes 16 straight up-changes at the start?
Tony I first heard that same question about another not so well known early seventies drag racer film titled "Two Lane Blacktop" Worth a look if you come across it and the said car is a rough but yummy 55 Chevy in undercoat grey ;). It was different and yes you can see ideas, parts and scenes that were "pinched " and used in other films.
the 55 Chevy used in Two Lane Blacktop was the same 55 Chevy used in American Graffiti, aparently...
i remember reading a story in an old Car Craft magazine where they tested the car.
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I've been reprimanded elsewhere on here for for showing double standards by slagging Darcy Ward the troubled speedway rider yet ignoring Steve McQueens bad behaviour with sex and drugs and ex wives. C'est la Vie, I still think he's cool, something little Darcy will probably never be...........Anyway I've got a book called McQueens Cars and when I saw his XJSS Jaguar I started dribbling. He might have had some personal shortcomings but he had exquisite tastes in cars, bikes and women....both of his wives were hot.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/steve-mcqueen-xk-ss-jaguar_zps275ff3a1.jpg)
Note the ever present gasper stuck to his lip. That unfortunately is what killed him in the end.
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What about the Fonzie ;D in happy days on the triumph
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You could be right Tim, I've been in renta Holden Gemini, valve bouncing in reverse and keeping up with the traffic across the Story Bridge in Brisbane.
We were in Briz for the Aus qualfying final in 79 - 80? and the original meeting was rained off so MA had to put us all up in a Motel for a couple of nights and provide transport.
I'm here to tell you that all hell broke loose over those few days.
The car was being driven by Syd Speedway identity, Mick Lillis, anyone that knows Mick will not be at all surprised.
Back on topic, Steve the hell raiser.
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Would love the car! but take the model all so.
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Gotta luv that 55 in primer with the sight coat, there is just something about it.When i was a kid there were so many EH and old torana's getting around like that.
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Firko's thong......?
In the UK a thong is something a woman wears. They resemble shoe laces ~ think of the girls on the beaches in Rio and are best suited to shapely young women!
I had to laugh out loud at the thought of Firko in a thong, starting the Triumph. Still what ever floats your boat!
(OZ Thongs = UK flip-flops)
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He invented cool, I wonder if he's wearing thong's Firko?
Trust me, the last thing you want to see is me in a thong Ben, however I think you've misread Slidey's post.......he's talking about Mr McQueen kicking over the Trumpy in thongs, not me. I've got a 3" radius semi circular scar and no feeling in my left instep obtained from kicking my 380 CZ over in flip flops when I was a younger and stupider man. For whatever it's worth, the Yanks call 'em flip flops too...I don't know how we got to call 'em thongs or why our ever amusing Kiwi friends call 'em Jandals. Note below shot of our handsome windblown hero wearing his thongs/flipflops/jandals while chilling out with his homies.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/stevejag1_zpse5492151.jpg)
DISCLAIMER:::The below photo is not Firko and never has been...trust me.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/fat_man_thong_stairs_zpsecc3c0dc.jpg)
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I'm glad you put him straight Firko because that was a mental image that doesn't bare thinking about. ;)
Now I'm worried about how & where you found that photo, please remove it immediately.
MOD's where are you when you're really needed?
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He invented cool, I wonder if he's wearing thong's Firko?
Trust me, the last thing you want to see is me in a thong Ben, however I think you've misread Slidey's post.......he's talking about Mr McQueen kicking over the Trumpy in thongs, not me. I've got a 3" radius semi circular scar and no feeling in my left instep obtained from kicking my 380 CZ over in flip flops when I was a younger and stupider man. For whatever it's worth, the Yanks call 'em flip flops too...I don't know how we got to call 'em thongs or why our ever amusing Kiwi friends call 'em Jandals. Note below shot of our handsome windblown hero wearing his thongs/flipflops/jandals while chilling out with his homies.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/stevejag1_zpse5492151.jpg)
DISCLAIMER:::The below photo is not Firko and never has been...trust me.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/fat_man_thong_stairs_zpsecc3c0dc.jpg) In the words of The Fonz
UNCOOL!! UNCOOL!!!
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http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/10/07/automobiles/wheels-fonz/wheels-fonz-blog480.jpg
Sad but true.........The Fonz was supposed to ride a Harley in Happy Days, however as he couldn't ride a motorcycle, Bud Ekins, the stunt rider in the Great Escape supplied a lighter '49 Triumph Scrambler which was easier for the crew to PUSH !!.......How UNCOOL !! :o :o
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George.C. Scott checking himself out in the mirror of his SL350. http://articles.superhunky.com/4/56 (http://articles.superhunky.com/4/56)
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Cool has no boundaries. This shot was taken nearly 70 years ago yet it could have been taken yesterday.
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Except today they would be swapping footwear ;D
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Easy to be cool if you look good in the first place. That's why I am not cool. J
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Hey Mark
They don't just look super cool but they look really happy
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Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S Thompson..........COOL.... 8) 8) 8)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson
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Cool has no boundaries. This shot was taken nearly 70 years ago yet it could have been taken yesterday.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/bob-magill-photograph_zps5c59b155.jpg)
That photo is almost identical to my favourite photos of my Mum and Dad from their youth. Fantastic and thankyou Firko
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He invented cool, I wonder if he's wearing thong's Firko?
Trust me, the last thing you want to see is me in a thong Ben, however I think you've misread Slidey's post.......he's talking about Mr McQueen kicking over the Trumpy in thongs, not me. I've got a 3" radius semi circular scar and no feeling in my left instep obtained from kicking my 380 CZ over in flip flops when I was a younger and stupider man. For whatever it's worth, the Yanks call 'em flip flops too...I don't know how we got to call 'em thongs or why our ever amusing Kiwi friends call 'em Jandals. Note below shot of our handsome windblown hero wearing his thongs/flipflops/jandals while chilling out with his homies.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/stevejag1_zpse5492151.jpg)
DISCLAIMER:::The below photo is not Firko and never has been...trust me.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/fat_man_thong_stairs_zpsecc3c0dc.jpg)
AHHHHHHH my eyes hurt. Please make it stop. (good sensible footwear though. I would have thought some nice little kitten heels would have gone better with that outfit!)
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Cool has no boundaries. This shot was taken nearly 70 years ago yet it could have been taken yesterday.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/bob-magill-photograph_zps5c59b155.jpg)
Now we are talking! Uber cool. Got the bike, but could do with one of those happy beautiful women on the back. My wife is beautiful and happy, just not around bikes.....!
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then my wife is max cool ,if i mope around the house
she says raid the piggy bank ,go buy yourself another
f**ken bike.now that is cool she even helped put up
the 2nd shed to fit them all them in and got the beer :D
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This little English rose might not be as gorgeous as the American babe on the Harley above but she's as cool as penguin piss to me. The sensible floral frock and school teacher spectacles hide the thrill seekin' party girl within.
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For Me , this guy was one very special cool dude . :)
My old man,.... got me into bikes ,.....I learnt a lot from him .
Regards,
Steve
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And here I was thinking that the cool people only rode Hodakas, like John Wayne, Mike Connors and Peter Graves!
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You cant mention cool without mentioning Lee marvin - A list actor , one of the original wild one's , both onscreen and off ! Desert racer (chequers club), Big game fisher,when asked to be in the jaws movie Lee said " what would i tell my fishing buddies about pulling in dummy sharks :D lee used to come over to cairns marlin fishing most years and talking to captain "brazzaka" wallace it was a blast 8)
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while Steve McQueen was cool, i think now people are confusing cool with photogenic.
guys like Marlon Brando, George C Scott and John Wayne were never cool, and to even mention Henry Winkler...... ::)
and that 'wild one' pic of Brando, well looks like he's got a broomstick up his date... :D
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Zakk......you weren't meant to take the John Wayne etc post seriously, I thought that was pretty obvious but apparently not.
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Zakk......you weren't meant to take the John Wayne etc post seriously, I thought that was pretty obvious but apparently not.
:D :D
sorry Ken, i didn't pic the sarcasim...
i've always found it best to use italic's when being sarcastic, like
nobody was cooler than Estrada in CHiPS ;D
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No worries Zakk - they are pretty funny shots I reckon! All three are trying to be cool.....but not quite getting there.
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I think many see McQueen as cool because he was a movie star version of us...a regular bloke who rode dirt bikes, liked fast cars, drank beer and chased pussy. He may well have been an arsehole in the real world but it's the perception of cool that lives on. Our old mate Marsh Runyon who visited here from the USA to race at the 93 Ravenswood Nats on his Harley 900 motocrosser knew McQueen through Bud Ekins and the desert racing scene. He always maintained that McQueen was a regular guy who enjoyed being with his motorcycle mates much more than strutting the Hollywood scene.
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I'll add a Roy Rogers and Clint Eastwood to the mix.............Clint's cool, Roy's not.
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And here I was thinking that the cool people only rode Hodakas, like John Wayne, Mike Connors and Peter Graves!
looks to me like some Hodaka dealer paid them to be photo'd sitting on the brand new bikes. the conversation went something like " no worry's guy's.. the engine's wont be running, just sit there and people will think you're hip dude's..."
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I think many see McQueen as cool because he was a movie star version of us...a regular bloke who rode dirt bikes, liked fast cars, drank beer and chased pussy. He may well have been an arsehole in the real world but it's the perception of cool that lives on. Our old mate Marsh Runyon who visited here from the USA to race at the 93 Ravenswood Nats on his Harley 900 motocrosser knew McQueen through Bud Ekins and the desert racing scene. He always maintained that McQueen was a regular guy who enjoyed being with his motorcycle mates much more than strutting the Hollywood scene.
Kelvin Franks use to tell me about the times Steve McQueen would ride at their MotoX meetings at Saddleback Pk. Kelvin knew Bud Ekins, and he would put entries in for McQueen under different names. most of the times he wouldn't make it to the meeting's, or he'd only be there for practice before some movie producer would send a helicopter in to fly McQueen away...
cool 8)
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Yeah McQueen was cool. If the people around him didn't like his behavior they could have left.
They didn't,....... James Coburn was real cool.
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As was Keenan Wynn, they all loved their bikes and in particular their desert racing, just imagine their stories from around the campfire. :o
This guy was the king of cool for me when I was a kid, despite the dunny seat.
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My nomination for the Queen of cool.
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Keenen Wynn and Lee Marvin....Mojave desert races 1955.
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Keenen Wynn, 1957 Catalina GP
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Fair go Firko, I think I'm about your age and surely no one else would even remember Keenan Wynn.I used to rush home from school to watch The Troubleshooters, it was a show about the construction industry and he was the go to man when there was a problem.Bulldozers and tin hats, proper tv back in the day.maybe why I ended up in the industry.
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Tin hats....that's cool
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My nomination for the Queen of cool.
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That's hot. So where does the girl stop and the bike start? Is that some kind of monocoque design? ;D
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Is Bullit the movie where the car makes 16 straight up-changes at the start? :-\
That's a serious question btw
I read in a car mag that the Stang was dubbed over by the sound of a GT40 :-\
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Kiera Knightley, Brad.
Not a lot of meat on her bones but I have to agree, that photo is red hot. :P :P :P
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Bullitt the movie where the dodge loses a total of 6 hubcaps. The mustangs were 390's and had to be hotted up to stay with the Dodge. Originally the producers asked Ford for a couple of baddies cars as well, but they refused.
So McQueen and his mate Bud Ekins went down to the Dodge dealer and bought the cars personally.next time you see the movie nearly all the cars parked etc during the chase are Fords plus a VW from memory. Watched the DVD many times, section 14 the chase.
Three Mustangs were used, 1 was trashed, 1 was available for sale until the movie studio found out and because of "someone might get hurt" it was crushed. 1 remains, and the colour is highland green.
I'm off to the DVD machine crank up the sound and track 14, Woo hoo.!!
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Kiera Knightley, Brad.
I don't reckon that's Keira Knightly on the Ducati Steve, she's too fat for a start 8).
I read somewhere that McQueen picked the 390 big block engine option over the small block because it 1: Had a deeper, more grunty note that sounded better on screen and 2: because of the extra low down torque it laid rubber much easier and more 'violently' than the 289/302.
http://www.ponysite.de/barn5.htm (http://www.ponysite.de/barn5.htm)
http://www.mustangmonthly.com/featuredvehicles/mump_0707_1968_ford_mustang_bullitt/viewall.html
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http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/General-news/2011/March/mar2511-keira-knightley-ducati-chanel-ad-in-full/
Sure beats Steve McQueen
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I stand corrected gentlemen....she's got fat, that's what threw me off ::)
Speaking of babes, tonight I watched Prizzi's Honor starring Jack Nickolson and Kathleen Turner......how hot was Kathleen Turner back in the 80's? I'd forgotten how beautiful she was. She went off pretty quickly but in her day she was so flucking gorgeous.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/sex_symbols_before_and_now_01_zpsa0c6358e.jpg)
now then
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Looks like Kathleen better stay off the Chinese foot pegs! J
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Plenty of meat on her bones now, that's scary.
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She must have got married,that does it every time :D
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Steve again with yet another one of those bastard bunger's.
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That's an iconic shot of McQueen. DIRTTRUMPY off this forum once had a lifesize mural of this shot on the wall of his workplace.
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Looks like the ISDT?
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prefer this one from the photoshoper :'(
Or if you have photoshop and too much time on your hands you can have a colour version.
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Got a sat-phone call just before from a mate touring Central Russia * , Minus 58..... That really is cool >:(
*Touring Siberia on motorcycle sidecars in winter .. actually not cool just bloody insane ::)
Cannot get the pic link to work. >:( Will be here as soon as I nut out the problem.
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(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/steve-mcqueen-xk-ss-jaguar_zps275ff3a1.jpg)
Note the ever present gasper stuck to his lip. That unfortunately is what killed him in the end.
I don't think that the smokes were to blame for McQueen's death at the age of 50. He died from a mesothelioma related illness, which he suspected was caused by his exposure to asbestos in pipe lagging on troopships that he worked on when he was in the marines.
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:D
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Mick Sophia is a Goddess :-* :-*
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Let's face it, standing next to, sitting on or riding a Triumph is COOL !! 8) 8) ;D :D
(http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp45/triumph51/KGrHqVhcE6boO-qU4BOw2kSQ60_12_zpsb207546e.jpg)
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Superbike Race School Eastern Creek 2005 :P
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Please ::)......Marlon will never be cool. He never got out of first gear when filming the Wild One.
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Gold.......but where is the ciggy?
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going by a few of the recent pictures, maybe this topic should be renamed "the lost art of being cool"
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Please ::)......Marlon will never be cool. He never got out of first gear when filming the Wild One.
"Johnny" was very cool to all of us post pubescent, rebellious, wannabe Milk Bar Cowboys who hung around the Ponderosa in Caringbah, particularly to this one, in his 1962 working clobber,
(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab106/JAP454/Cronulla62_zps833bf215.jpg)
The Ponderosa put a television in especially for us to watch a screening of The Wild One, not every home had a TV in the '60s, I still reckon Lee Marvin was an ultra cool dude, on screen and off.
Foss
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That death stare and oh so cool skinny tie must have had the chicks at Cronulla dropping their dacks that day Foss, you old bodgie ;D. If you'd have turned up at my beloved Maroubra with that well Brylcreemed hair and those black pegged polyester slacks you'd have copped a bit of a slap and thrown on the next 399 bus out of there ::).
Happy belated birthday Foss ;D ;D.
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Yeah, well Firko, we didn't have to go too far for a bit of a stoush between us and the North Cronulla Lemon Droppers !!
Foss
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Purple Dave in the 70's being COOL as THE FONZ at a dress up party at my place in South Strathfield.... :D
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and hang'n with THE GANG.........This was our Reschs DA period !!!....... :P :P :P
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This is Alvin being totally UNCOOL at a Change of Sex party at the same address........this was during my PERMED HAIR period......What were we thinking !!! :o :o :o
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(complete with beauty spot on cheek !!)
and being TOUCHED UP by a good friend and ex work mate of mine, Kerry.....Tony Mundine's wife ( it's not her fault, Anthony is a wanker......I blame Tony )
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Aunty Jack going for a fondle.
You look strangely familliar there Dave, did you double as porn star at all?
Or were you in the Village People cover band, the Village Idiots? :D
What did Tony go as by the way?
Foss, I thought it was Bandstand promo shot with Brian Henderson there for a minute. ;)
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Tony only mixed with us when he couldn't avoid us Steve.........I think,to him, we were just a rowdy bunch of PissPots....Just like Anthony, he doesn't drink.......Kerry used to come to our parties because we HAD FUN !!!.......Tony's idea of fun is a workout at the gym........Kerry is Anthony's stepmother.
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I went to school with one of Tony's " Brothers ", his name escapes me, Mick maybe? how hopeless is that?
I'm talking 1976 and Tony turned up in a huge Yank Tank to take a few of us to our Rugby League grand final at Erskinville oval, Kingsgrove Nth V's Dulwich Hill High, the same grand final match up for the previous 3 years, former 1st grade Ref, Jack Danzey was DHH Sports Master and reff'd all our GF's and we still won em all.
I sat in the back seat right behind Tony, from Kingsgrove to Erko and my biggest memorry is, the size of Tony's head.
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Tijuana leather jacket, red polo neck, flared jeans and you can bet a pair of platform clogs......oh so cool Firko and the former Mrs Firko during my Studmuffin period....circa 1976.
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Elvis Presley....desert sled rider ::)
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Elvis might have been a phony but like McQueen, Keenen Wynn was the real deal
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I have to agree with you Firko......according to the late Richard Harris and the current Russell Crowe........ANYONE CAN BE AN ACTOR, but it takes more to PUT IT ON THE LINE......with no script........Steve, Keenan and Paul ( in cars Newman ) will always BE COOL !! 8) 8) 8)
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Hey Purple dave, after seeing you in that photo at south strathfield, i reckon i seen you in a porno once upon a time called Backdoor betty and her barnyard buddies?
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TOO SCARY !!!! :o :o :o
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Captain Kirk is cool, he rides a Monty..
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Paul Newman aboard a CZ but he doesn't look race ready for some reason
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* the quote was attributed to McQueen but has been changed from Volvo to Prius so the mobile phone generation would understand.
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* the quote was attributed to McQueen but has been changed from Volvo to Prius so the mobile phone generation would understand.
AND EXHAUST PIPES WITHOUT MUFFLERS IS COOL.........Reverse cone megas would even be COOLER !!
Noise pollution does not disturb the OZONE LAYER........ 8) 8) 8)
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Ewan McGregor is the real deal too. He was doing a movie at Fox Studios in Sydney a couple of years ago and I spotted him a couple of times on the same weekend riding around on a Deus ex Machina W650 Kwaka street tracker.
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Ewan humph cashed up poser charlie was the driving force, Dakar or bust, top to bottom bottom, side ways left to right, by any means,Charlie was a winger in the first one, not as bad in the second after he ditched Ewan (and wife( the spoiler)all good after that he came good trekking like he did was A OK by me, I'm jealous would've been great fun, his good mate the producer from the others stuff and him paid adventure trip of a life time several times over. Ewan openly admits he hates the dirt.
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Paul Newman aboard a CZ but he doesn't look race ready for some reason
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he has got that 'broomstick up the arse look' for some reason.... another publicity shot maybe, like the JohnWayne one?
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.....very cool....
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If you need a fix of cool go to www.theselvedgeyard Icecool I reckon. J
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Ewan humph cashed up poser charlie was the driving force
Don't think Charley is some poor working class pleb who made good, he's probably richer that Ewan thanks to his Hollywood director/producer dad. It's doubtful he's ever had to work in Macca's. I give 'em both brownie points for just doing what they do. Ewan might not prefer the dirt but he's still a motorcyclist and not a sometime rider like Brad Pitt.
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Ewan might not prefer the dirt but he's still a motorcyclist and not a sometime rider like Brad Pitt.
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Lol .. if you had to ride that thing you'd also only do it occassionally ;D
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True Firko Ewan does like his bikes I have to give him that.
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.....very cool....
way cool~Germany 64 ISDT ;D
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Star Treks Mr William Shatner
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Check out post #104 Ali :o
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Check out post #104 Ali :o
Way two too cool ;D ;)
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Steve McQueen feeling very uncool, being treated for blistered hands after a long distance race.........this brings back memories to me of a 6 hour dirt track at Nepean around 1978.......my SOFT office clerk hands, blistered and taped up and PAIN !!........Me.....UNCOOL :(........Steve McQueen......COOL 8)
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Cool AS
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Cool AS
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Great picture! This shot captures what riding motorbikes is all about for me. Check out the bling on that ride! The smile on the dial and the white knuckles :D
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Hey Purple, what bike were you riding at the 6hr?
Brett
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What's that kid doing up late after his bedtime having fun :D Most of us only dreamed about doing laps around the house in the dark.....but this kid was doing it. Looks like he got sprung by a hidden speed camera though ;D ;D ;D
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backing it in...........
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Thats a fantastic pic Smed, to have any child in a bike slide portrait photograph.
Dont get them like that anymore 8) 8)
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takes a bit of skill to 'power slid' one of those Victa lawn mower powered rides!!
The only time I would have looked like that riding mine was when the thing was about to throw me off!
2MT
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Just been sitting back with a couple of beers & enjoying these pages, great pics & comments all of them, keep them coming!!, love it. Thought i was 'cool' a while back when someone left a 'free' "60 rear projection tv at the end of our road, [stampede, but i won--first mistake] bought it home & cleaned the "algie" build up out of the [whata ya callits]3 color pods, plus changed [strained] the anti freeze--long story actually & involved a 'turkey baster' [true], then sat back in the car halfway out the driveway & watched 'Steve McQueen' in 'Bullitt' with said tv playing back in the car shed. Never got to see the end as tv blew up. Found the fuse but blew replacement so bridge it with a 5mm bolt, that Fkd it totally. I'll swear it lifted off the floor with th explosion. Anyway, i was cool parked in the driveway while it went [or not]. The Bullitt dvd i have is a two disc one & shows the making of the film to some extent, can't remember it all so must [play it again 'sam']--all good stuff. Cheers.
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I enjoyed looking through all those photos, there is some rippers there.
Cheers Mick.
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My cool 'clock', [i said clock] came with our yz80g by memory. [kids 43 now] Importer had some to give away with the first [so many] sold. Still hold good time but pretty sure i gave it some crc once [bit of a service & oil change]Looks like it went so fast after that--that one of the number bars has dropped off.
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To my story about the turkey baster above--found some pics, last one should be watching 'Bullitt' in my [Shirriffs Road Drive In](http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y476/gasgirlings/PIC_0150_zps4871428d.jpg)(http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y476/gasgirlings/PIC_0151_zps7f399c40.jpg)(http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y476/gasgirlings/PIC_0157_zps0a7a8b5b.jpg)
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story didn't come up but was just that these pics relate to the [not cool] tv & turkey baster story somewhere above yesterday of mine. One more [watching "bullitt"] just to show it worked--before it blew up.
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(http://i1276.photobucket.com/albums/y476/gasgirlings/Morley_Shirriffs_AJS_zpsf9bbc62e.jpg)Found this of my 350 AJ. Put it up in the Black n White topic but here it is again--cool--[or not]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUs_KZBHOLBU2ZeQ0dfb2Bcg&v=NIcUSEdHoPk&feature=player_detailpage Found this youtube link [if it works] which is from 'that' track & could be that particular year. Recon i could see myself in the dust at one stage.
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Cool pic representing 'back in the day', Stripped (almost) down Ajay, 'jet' helmet instead of the common place Cromwell, road tyres, footy jersey, probably leather pants, the ones that used to get the crutch hooked on the back of the dual seat over the jumps!,
plus looks like army surplus 'Don R' boots (probably been re-soled and heeled to many times!).
Brings back the real feel!
Top Shot!
cheers pancho
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just had a closer look & i have the 'gauntlet gloves' that come half way up the arm & i used too use pushbike handle grips which were a stretch to get over the throttle side [can just make them out in pic]. Reminds me of when my mates dad went to an auction of local 'ministry of works' vehicles & came home with a totally original "49 Matchy 500 for him, had candle sticks on the back that still damped & had a single seat plus pillion seat. Damn it i was jealous--just ran perfect & had been used by a meter reader guy or something. [still sulking].
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Sorry Brett for the late reply..........I was sponsored on a Yamaha 465 by Betric Racing and we represented our club Central MCC.....We were running a safe 2nd most of the race, before a rear puncture, but still managed 4th.......other team members were Kevin Flood and Scott Dolan.
Here's a shot of my 350 AJS at our practice track at Belfield in 1968........a '46 motor in a '59 frame.......complete with Stadium helmet, Omedies leather pants.....and of course........ex fireman's boots from Fairfield army disposals store !! Goodyear Grasshopper on the rear... 8)
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All the good gear Alvin!
cheers pancho
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Hey Purple, what bike were you riding at the 6hr?
Brett
Brett, I was looking through my late Dad's stuff and he had a progam from the 1978 Nepean 6hr. However, it says we rode a 400 Yamaha, but I'm pretty sure Gally and us were riding 465's. I know we were running in a SAFE 2nd, before our puncture, and we finished 4th, but I'm buggered if I can remember who won that year.
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Hey Alvin,
Pretty sure Gary O'Brian, Tony Lacey and Kevin Fraser won it. I was riding with team 36 and was right behind Lacey with 15 minutes to go and the bike nipped on one lap and then seized on the next lap (suspect no oil in the last fuel mix). Won it the next year though ;D
Pete.
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Brett, I was looking through my late Dad's stuff and he had a progam from the 1978 Nepean 6hr. However, it says we rode a 400 Yamaha, but I'm pretty sure Gally and us were riding 465's
I think it might have been a 400 in 1978 Dave, the 465 wasn't released until 1981.
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Brett, I was looking through my late Dad's stuff and he had a progam from the 1978 Nepean 6hr. However, it says we rode a 400 Yamaha, but I'm pretty sure Gally and us were riding 465's
I think it might have been a 400 in 1978 Dave, the 465 wasn't released until 1981.
It looks like the Alzheimers is acting up again Mark.........I retired in 1980 !! ??? ::) ???
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TH was too tight to sponsor his own team?
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Hey Alvin,
Pretty sure Gary O'Brian, Tony Lacey and Kevin Fraser won it. I was riding with team 36 and was right behind Lacey with 15 minutes to go and the bike nipped on one lap and then seized on the next lap (suspect no oil in the last fuel mix). Won it the next year though ;D
Pete.
Hi Pete......I'm still kicking myself.....it was my fault we had a puncture.......When we changed our practice tyres on Saturday night for new race tyres, I pinched the tube on the rear and PATCHED IT......WRONG !!...I never rode in the race again......at least you put your DEMONS to rest......As well as having badly blistered hands, I should have worn my nylon inner suit....I wore the skin off my tailbone from the rubbing of my leathers...I was off work for a week..........totally UNCOOL !!! :P
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TH was too tight to sponsor his own team?
TH is no dummie......He and Bucket would have Sweet Talked someone........I know JL was behind me that day...He! He! He! ;D
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Kevin Condron,L.Richards and G.Foster might have won that race .
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Bob's cool..........
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So's his Band...
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Cool? goosebumps tell me she's freezing....
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http://kodm.com/10-reasons-why-steve-mcqueen-is-still-cooler-than-us-and-always-will-be/
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Kieth
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That's not Keith,...... that's KEEF! ;D
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Read Keefs book, it's remarkable what he remembers J
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Bob's cool..........
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Bob's thinking,"if it don't start this time i'm gunna fugging burn it", fugging triumphs,ha ha jimbo G, ;D, :P
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mick i will be kool just sitting on it in the pits at nepean. so will you mick cus i KNOW you want to ride it.
its in the way now
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Bob's cool..........
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Bob's thinking,"if it don't start this time i'm gunna fugging burn it", fugging triumphs,ha ha jimbo G, ;D, :P
One of my fav KEEF quotes came from an interview were the guy kept going on and on about all the girls in the 60's Keef got the shits and told the guy I can barely remember the tops of their heads.