McQueen's Machines
The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood Icon
He made movies best remembered for their wild car chases, mad motorcycle dashes, and hair-raising races, but no one forgets the man at the wheel--Steve McQueen, the King of Cool. No other Hollywood star has been so closely linked with cars and bikes. It is this connection that McQueens Machines explores, giving readers a close-up look at the cars and motorcycles McQueen drove in movies, those he owned, and others he raced.
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THE HISTORY OF
HARLEY BROUGHT TO GLEAMING LIFE
The Harley-Davidson Motor Co.
Archive Collection
By Randy Leffingwell and Darwin Holmstrom
In celebration of the grand opening of the Harley-Davidson Museum™ in Milwaukee, Motorbooks are releasing an unprecedented book that will take riders inside the world of Harley-Davidson® motorcycles. The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection showcases a century of bikes that have shaped motorcycle history and brings that history to gleaming life in page after page of stunning studio photography.
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Legendary Motorcycles
Forward by Jay Leno
Motorcycles are mythic, far more than mere transportation, but some are in a class of their own, truly legendary machines. There are the Triumphs: James Dean’s, Marlon Brando’s in The Wild Ones, the one Steve McQueen took over the fence in The Great Escape. There are Evel Knievel’s and Elvis’s Harleys, the Easy Rider Stars ‘n’ Stripes bike, and T. E. Lawrence’s Brough Superior SS100; Von Dutch’s Condor, Craig Vetter’s Mystery Ship, and Mike Hailwood’s Honda RC162. These are just some of the machines that have made motorcycle history, and that make this book a feast for the eyes and a fact-filled odyssey for the motorcycle aficionado. Illustrated with commissioned photographs and historical images, the book profiles the bikes--not just the models but the actual motorcycles--that have achieved legendary status in the last century. Their stories, told here in detail for the first time, make up the story of the motorcycle in American culture.
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