{"id":2861,"date":"2009-05-26T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T13:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2022-06-22T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:02:21","slug":"steve-mcqueen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/steve-mcqueen\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve McQueen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Steve McQueen was the coolest man that has ever lived. The fact is obvious, and is referenced constantly by the motoring press.<\/p>\n

But, until recently, I couldn’t really get my head around what was so cool about the man.<\/p>\n

This morning, here in Los Angeles, I stumbled upon one of the reasons. I saw a pretty cool dune buggy parked outside a mad mexican restaurant with a twenty foot fibreglass Mariachi on top (run of the mill here, worthy of a picture in my oh-so-english eyes).<\/p>\n

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Back in my office whilst doing some research on the things I came across this great clip from Bruce Brown’s 1971 film On Any Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In case you’ve never heard of the film, it’s a beautifully evocative documentary on American desert racing by Bruce Brown (who funnily enough given the California context made his name shooting seminal surf movies like The Endless Summer<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Watching the clip, the thing that stands out (apart from how good looking the man is), is that he refers to his dune buggy as his ‘ emotional outlet’.<\/p>\n

It’s obvious to anyone passionate about these things is displaying something more than a penchant for mechanical jiggery pokery. They are displaying the sort of lust for life that always was and always will be ‘cool’.<\/p>\n

Turns out that the coolest man in the universe was cool not just because he played cool people in cool films and looked the business.<\/p>\n

He was cool because he wasn’t afraid to stand up and say that his passion for racing, engineering and all things mechanical reached somewhere deep in his soul.<\/p>\n

If only more of our racing heroes could be so candid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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