Celebs photographed in candid moments just riding bikes, cool tumblr site

Steve McQeen

Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly

Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis

Shirley Temple

W C Fields

Roy Rodgers giving Trigger the warning about getting replaced

And Bill Murray just steals the bike.

updated once or twice a week, see the whole gallery at http://ridesabike.tumblr.com/ I found this from looking through the cool stuff they post on Stipistop http://stipistop.com/

the choice selections from voiture-jaune.tumblr so far, James Dean scene from Hud, and Steve McQueen on the set of Great Escape before the bike jump

These two images are enduring.

I've read but can't recall the story with Dean Jefferies and the woman... maybe it was her car? Anyway, cool artists paint box, I've photographed all the pinstripers paint boxes that I've come across so far, and it's very interesting to me to see how each puts their name / logo on them with a bit of lettering and pinstripping

from http://voiture-jaune.tumblr.com/

cool images from "A Saucerful of Wheels"

Above, Carroll Shelby

Above, 1965 Steve McQueen

Good advertising for a helmet

Mercedes-Benz 150 Sports Roadster, 1935

Fangio and the Renntransporter 1955

from http://asaucerfulofwheels.tumblr.com/

Steve McQueen's 80th Birthday

If he were alive, he'd be 80 today. So let's celebrate by watching the ultimate Steve McQueen car moment: the chase scene from Bullitt.




For more on McQueen, the movie and the last-gen Ford Mustang Bullitt, go here.

Steve McQueen tests the new GT's of 1966 for Sports Illustrated

Via: http://42ndblackwatch1881.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/sports-illustrated-vintage-1966-steve-mcqueen-reviews-the-hottest-new-gts/

Cool photos

Above: simple bellytanker, no frills. Not sure what dry lake.. doesn't look like El Mirage to me.

Steve racing the Hurst Baja Boot http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/the-tsy-friday-fade-steve-mcqueens-dune-buggy-days/ for a gallery of Steve motorcycle racing across the Mojave http://www.motoblog.it/galleria/le-moto-di-steve-mcqueen/1

Johnny Cash and a train, cool setting!

Pike's Peak, and on the edge of that

Drag racing knows no car unworthy of competing

I believe these images are all from http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/

I think you've never heard about Steve McQueen's mugshot! Arrested in Alaska of all places

http://stvmcqueen.tripod.com/mugshot.html for the full story about doing somersaults instead of walking the line during the sobriety test... who would have guessed? Found via Hooniverse

"Celebrities of the past and their rides" post has been added too substantially

Above via: Ottonero

Via: http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/ this image has Coburn, Garner, and McQueen

For the updated post of dozens of celebs of the past http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/05/celebrities-of-past-days-and-their.html

Sidebar, Coburn and McQueen were pallbearers for Bruce Lee
Coburn's Ferrari went for a record high for a car at auction http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/james-coburn-ferrari-sets-record.html

Steve at the track

Via: http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/

Great tribute website to recommend

This is the rare XK-SS Jaguar that (I didn't know) Von Dutch made a glove box door for, because the open box was always spilling it's contents, and Steve was fed up with that

http://irishrichhomage.blogspot.com/ is a bike builders other website about the influential people from his formative years... like Von Dutch, Ed Roth, Steve McQueen, Robert Williams, and others that all are very interesting write ups, even when I didn't know of the people he's talking about.

Photos of Steve McQueen from MC Art Webzine

For the full text from this article see: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/snwvlly/bikes/steve.htm

This is a Meyers Lynx (yes, like the Meyers company that made the Manx dune buggy)

Via: http://motorcycleart.blogspot.com/

A new Steve McQueen photo, from Hot Wheels on tumbler

Via: http://hotwheels.tumblr.com/ it's one of the blogs I have on the right hand list of websites I recommend

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.html
Via: http://farbror-sid.blogspot.com/ and http://hotwheels.tumblr.com/ and http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/ and http://42ndblackwatch1881.wordpress.com/