New member - McQueen911
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2019 8:44 pm
Hello everyone,
Back in 1981 my first car was a 1972 VW Beetle and in one thing or another, I’ve been a rear engined air cooled guy ever since.
Bought my first Porsche in California in 1990, a 1962 356B S coupe, a solid original car which I still own. I bought a 1964 356C that year too, with delusions of putting a 500 bhp turbo Subaru/VW hybrid Autocavan engine in the back, which never happened. But I’ve still got that too so we’re not done yet.
The jewel in the crown of my collection is my 1969 911E which I bought in California 1991. It was purchased new by Steve McQueen and is the first of the four 911’s he owned. Any McQueen fans out there can find it in his wife Barbara’s book, ‘The Last Mile’ (2006). Repainted silver by McQueen when she took that photo in 1979, it’s his signature slate grey underneath and I’ve got a registration for it in his name.
It’s also in the first edition of Matt Stone’s book ‘McQueen’s Machines’ (2007), described as “this mongrel 911 is a mystery”. After new research and with the help of McQueen’s best biographer Marshall Terrill, the mystery’s been solved now.
It’s been sleeping since 1998, when further use in our weather became incapable with conserving it in ‘as owned’ condition. As it turns 50 in August, the age McQueen was when he died, it seemed the appropriate time to bring it back into the light. Classic Cars magazine are doing a piece about it in their August issue, following up on a letter and photo they published about it in September 1992.
I’m better with spanners and sockets than keyboards and computers but will post some photos of it here soon. Soon as I can get my teenage son off his X-box to help me out.
Cheers
Dan Parker
Back in 1981 my first car was a 1972 VW Beetle and in one thing or another, I’ve been a rear engined air cooled guy ever since.
Bought my first Porsche in California in 1990, a 1962 356B S coupe, a solid original car which I still own. I bought a 1964 356C that year too, with delusions of putting a 500 bhp turbo Subaru/VW hybrid Autocavan engine in the back, which never happened. But I’ve still got that too so we’re not done yet.
The jewel in the crown of my collection is my 1969 911E which I bought in California 1991. It was purchased new by Steve McQueen and is the first of the four 911’s he owned. Any McQueen fans out there can find it in his wife Barbara’s book, ‘The Last Mile’ (2006). Repainted silver by McQueen when she took that photo in 1979, it’s his signature slate grey underneath and I’ve got a registration for it in his name.
It’s also in the first edition of Matt Stone’s book ‘McQueen’s Machines’ (2007), described as “this mongrel 911 is a mystery”. After new research and with the help of McQueen’s best biographer Marshall Terrill, the mystery’s been solved now.
It’s been sleeping since 1998, when further use in our weather became incapable with conserving it in ‘as owned’ condition. As it turns 50 in August, the age McQueen was when he died, it seemed the appropriate time to bring it back into the light. Classic Cars magazine are doing a piece about it in their August issue, following up on a letter and photo they published about it in September 1992.
I’m better with spanners and sockets than keyboards and computers but will post some photos of it here soon. Soon as I can get my teenage son off his X-box to help me out.
Cheers
Dan Parker
