Re: more driving movies (little audi content)

["Romeo Shayne Pavlic'" <bcpi@arias.net>]

My Uncle back in the 60s and 70s road with him and said he was an extremely
good Motorcycle rider.  In most of the races they did, he said that usually
McQueen and Malcolm Smith were the top dogs when came to finishing.  

To bad he decided to get cancer, I sure would have liked to meet him.


Shayne
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>From: MCTXR4@aol.com
>To: johnc@together.net, phen9461@uidaho.edu
>Cc: chrisdyer@hotmail.com, quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: Re: more driving movies (little audi content)
>Date: Fri, Feb 26, 1999, 05:23
>

>In a message dated 2/26/99 0:32:04 AM EST, johnc@together.net writes:
>
><< I presume he means 'Bullit' (by Peter Yates I think).  Epic Steve McQueen
>car
> scenes, with motorcylist ditching and sliding off the road... Unlikely urban
> legend has it that the MC was a guy who ran the roadblock during the filming
> and ended up in the scene, they filmed it and kept it... >>
>
>
>In fact, that stunt was performed by McQueen himself. He was well known for
>his prowess on 2 wheels (par example, "The Great Escape" where rides cross
>country on a large mc yumping fences)and it's often been said he missed his
>true calling.
>