The 24 Hours Of Steve Mcqueen
June, 1971
it takes mucho machismo to put $7,000,000--and your life--on the line for a long-shot movieThe blue Car, a 215-mph Porsche 917, is real, but the dirt on its sides and the bug splotches on its windshield are fake. The fireproof white driving suit is real and so is its dirt, but the name sewn on it--Michael Delaney--is phony. The driver inside the suit, unrecognizable behind his dirty gray fire mask, sunglasses and visored Bell helmet, is real. The race in which he is driving is an illusion, but t...
