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VINTAGE: McQueen Motorcycles At Auction
The widow of the late actor, Barbara McQueen, will appear at the MidAmerica Auctions’ Pebble Beach event to meet with fans and sign copies of her book.
A 1938 Triumph Speed Twin formerly owned by the late actor Steve McQueen will be among the offerings at MidAmerica Auctions' motorcycle sale at Pebble Beach. (Photo: MidAmerica Auctions)
Barbara McQueen, widow of the late film actor Steve McQueen, will make a rare guest appearance to commence the opening of MidAmerica Auctions' fourth annual Antique Motorcycle MarketPlace at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance from Aug. 17 through 19.
During the event, she will share memories of her famous husband with fans and sign copies of her book: Steve McQueen: The Last Mile…revisited.
MidAmerica’s select group of motorcycles at the Pebble Beach Concours includes a 1940 Indian four cylinder and a 1938 Triumph Speed Twin formerly owned by McQueen, who was well-known as a serious motorcycle aficionado.
The all-motorcycle auction also includes a rare collection of six 1963-1967 Triumph Bonneville T120 TT Specials, a 1916 Harley Davidson 8-Valve Racer, 1953 Vincent Black Shadow Series C, 1939 Brough Superior 1150 V-Twin, and a 1912 Wagner Belt Drive Single.
The bidding will be available on site as well as online at MidAmericaAuctionsBid.com, where a full list of the bikes for sale can be found.
Barbara McQueen's account of shared adventures with Steve has been newly revised and includes never-before published photos and several new passages of her life and times with “The King of Cool.”
"My hundreds of pictures of him stayed tucked away in the closet for nearly 25 years,” Barbara McQueen said. “Then something happened inside me when I turned 50, the same age Steve was when he died. It was if a veil had been lifted and I could finally look back on our life together and examine it without fear. I know he would have been proud of it.”
In the new edition, Barbara dedicates a page of her book to asbestos education, discussing her late husband's December 1979 diagnosis and battle with Mesothelioma, the preventable asbestos-caused cancer that ultimately claimed the life of the screen icon.
"I want to bring awareness that asbestos is still legal in the U.S. and continues to kill,” she said in a recent address before the U.S. House of Representatives. “It can kill a movie star, a musician or a construction worker. It takes no prisoners."
During the event, she will share memories of her famous husband with fans and sign copies of her book: Steve McQueen: The Last Mile…revisited.
MidAmerica’s select group of motorcycles at the Pebble Beach Concours includes a 1940 Indian four cylinder and a 1938 Triumph Speed Twin formerly owned by McQueen, who was well-known as a serious motorcycle aficionado.
The all-motorcycle auction also includes a rare collection of six 1963-1967 Triumph Bonneville T120 TT Specials, a 1916 Harley Davidson 8-Valve Racer, 1953 Vincent Black Shadow Series C, 1939 Brough Superior 1150 V-Twin, and a 1912 Wagner Belt Drive Single.
The bidding will be available on site as well as online at MidAmericaAuctionsBid.com, where a full list of the bikes for sale can be found.
Barbara McQueen's account of shared adventures with Steve has been newly revised and includes never-before published photos and several new passages of her life and times with “The King of Cool.”
"My hundreds of pictures of him stayed tucked away in the closet for nearly 25 years,” Barbara McQueen said. “Then something happened inside me when I turned 50, the same age Steve was when he died. It was if a veil had been lifted and I could finally look back on our life together and examine it without fear. I know he would have been proud of it.”
In the new edition, Barbara dedicates a page of her book to asbestos education, discussing her late husband's December 1979 diagnosis and battle with Mesothelioma, the preventable asbestos-caused cancer that ultimately claimed the life of the screen icon.
"I want to bring awareness that asbestos is still legal in the U.S. and continues to kill,” she said in a recent address before the U.S. House of Representatives. “It can kill a movie star, a musician or a construction worker. It takes no prisoners."
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