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Re: more driving movies (little audi content)
Yea,
Too Bad....
Then he could of met you two.... :-)
(I say this much sorrow of course, just being sarcastic)
Todd Phenneger
1984 4000s quattro / modified/ awaiting Turbo Transplant.
1985 4000 quattro / Silver / Fixing it Up.
1987 4000cs quattro / Saphire Metallic Blue/ Girlfriend's
1996 A6q / Volcano / Dads Car
*****1985 5kt / PARTING OUT!
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Romeo Shayne Pavlic' wrote:
> 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
> ----------
> >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.
> >
>