The art of being cool

[Curly3]

As was Keenan Wynn, they all loved their bikes and in particular their desert racing, just imagine their stories from around the campfire.
This guy was the king of cool for me when I was a kid, despite the dunny seat.

[Curly3]

My nomination for the Queen of cool.

[firko]

Keenen Wynn and Lee Marvin....Mojave desert races 1955.
                                                 
Keenen Wynn, 1957 Catalina GP
                                                

[Matador107]

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.

[firko]

Tin hats....that's cool
                                                            
                                                                    

[09.0]

My nomination for the Queen of cool.

That's hot. So where does the girl stop and the bike start?  Is that some kind of monocoque design? 

[D project]

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

[Curly3]

Kiera Knightley, Brad.
Not a lot of meat on her bones but I have to agree, that photo is red hot.

[Matador107]

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.!!

[firko]

Kiera Knightley, Brad. 

I don't reckon that's Keira Knightly on the Ducati Steve, she's too fat for a start .
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.mustangmonthly.com/featuredvehicles/mump_0707_1968_ford_mustang_bullitt/viewall.html

[Lozza]

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/General-news/2011/March/mar2511-keira-knightley-ducati-chanel-ad-in-full/

Sure beats Steve McQueen

[firko]

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.
                                                              
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[jerry]

Looks like Kathleen better stay off the Chinese foot pegs! J

[Curly3]

Plenty of meat on her bones now, that's scary.

[smed]

She must have got married,that does it every time