<VV> McQueen book - Corvair content

[Gary Swiatowy]

Film clip from the Thomas Crown Affair featuring the McQueen Dune Buggy.
http://www.mcqueenonline.com/tcadunebuggyvid.htm

http://www.mcqueenonline.com/tcadunebuggy.htm

http://danadkins.net/dunebuggy.aspx

And just about anything you would ever want to know about it.

I got my copy of The Thomas Crown Affair, new off Amazon.com for $6.99
Also seen copies in the $5 bin at Wally World...............

Gary Swiatowy

> From: "steven at sashimi.org"
> Subject: <VV> McQueen book - Corvair content
>
> Browsing this evening in a bookstore, I came across a book about the
> personal and movie automobiles of Steve McQueen.  I probably wouldn't have
> picked it up but I'd just noted a brief blurb about this book in the 
> latest
> Haggerty magazine.  I only had to read the dust jacket to find mention of 
> a
> Corvair powered dune buggy built and driven for "The Thomas Crown Affair".
> In the book there are a couple of pictures of the buggy (with Steve 
> McQueen
> driving and Faye Dunnaway riding shotgun) and a couple of paragraphs about
> it.  There's a photo of the buggy from the rear showing the engine, with
> the caption taking particular note of the stock Corvair 140 HP engine air
> cleaner. Interestingly, the buggy is indexed under "C" for Corvair, and 
> not
> under "D" (Dune) or "M" (Meyers-Manx).  I wasn't all that interested in 
> the
> book (though the picture of the SOLAR prepared Porsche 917 looked sweet)
> but I did come home and set up my DVR to record "The Thomas Crown Affair"
> the next time it's on TV.
>
> - Steve Brown
>
> National CORSA member
> Chapter memberships - PCA / Corvanatics / '69 Group
>
> '62 Rampside
> '69 Monza convertible 140/PG
>