Steve McQueen may have been the headline actor of the motorsport cult classic film Le Mans, but we all know who the real star was.Or rather, what: the Porsche 917.More specifically, it was the ...

The car, chassis 917-022, has led quite the life ... The post Le Mans Hero Porsche 917K Owned by Steve McQueen, Jerry ...

The Porsche was the movie’s hero car, which Steve McQueen piloted to a second-place ... Porsche developed the 917 in the late 1960s, putting a 4.5-liter flat-12 engine in it that’d eventually ...

I’m not going to dwell on the Steve McQueen angle other than ... Faced with this and an unfounded fear that Porsche was about to put a 16-cylinder engine in the 917 for 1971, he turned the ...

a 1972 Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6.3 that Steve McQueen bought new and owned until his death sold for $148,400. The story goes that McQueen had been driving his Porsche 911S on the German autobahn ...

In addition to being one of Hollywood's coolest actors, Steve McQueen was also ... of the Bullitt Mustangs, plus the Porsche 917 and 911S from Le Mans. And McQueen was also fond of Ferraris.