Steve McQueen's owner's manual for his 1970 Porsche 911 S

That car sold at auction a few years back. I'm sure the new owner would dearly love to have the books that accompany the car. Sports car Market database should have the auction report. The auction house would have the buyer's information and could put you in touch.

 

Hopefully the owner of the ex-McQueen S will catch wind of it.

 

I know the new owner sent the car to Porsche to be restored! Hopefully this documentation will be reunited with the car

 

As I should be. Cool.

 

The best place for items like this are with the current owner and his car.

 

No altruism here, the owner is clearly promoting the set in the hope of realizing a spectacular result in the auction. There are two groups of potential bidders: the owner of the car, who may or may not value it highly; and McQueen fanatics who would pay $$$ for his dirty socks.

Any predictions on price? Euro 10,000?

 

Three groups of potential bidders: parasitic speculators looking to make a fast buck by extorting the car's owner.

 

I have a Maserati Bora. Someone on Ebay had the original manual for my car (no provenance to my car at all). I offered to swap him for a manual in better shape. He declined, cancelled the listing and re-ebayed it for 3X the price. Needless to say I never got to reunite the manual with the car.

I have a particular distain for this stuff.

 

Do they have proof that somebody did not just steal it?

 

or that its REAL?

 

Why would you say that? Buying low and selling high is what is commonly known as capitalism. What would you want the manual owner to do, give it away?

 

I can't imagine why ANYONE would have ANY interest in these items knowing the the car exists with someone who does not have these items, but ought to have them. But that's just me.

 

The interest someone would and should have...profit! The law of supply and demand sets the price. If the car owner does not want to pay the price, he is not compelled to buy. What exactly is wrong with that? If reunification is so important, why doesn't the car owner give away the car to reunite it with the manual owner?

 

Understood.

However, there are exceptions to every rule. I have in fact uncovered docs to very historical cars and re-united them with the car's owner, for nothing! I thought it was the right thing to do. Years later, that gentleman, a prominent collector, became one of my best clients.

Sometimes you have to look beyond immediate profit. That's my position, and for those that think differently, make yourself happy.

 

can I steal the wheels from your car and sell them back to you?

 

LMAO. Now that's capitalism!

BTW Joe is right.

M

 

^^^^This.

Plus - this: We still have not satisfactorily answered how these documents got separated from the car, and how they are just now coming to market.

 

...but this topic is intriguing since it was also discussed on Pelican a few months ago, with the last post by fg1227, who was the previous owner of the car. After fg1227's post, there was no follow up on the docs authenticity or why they got separated from the car.

Link: Steve McQueen service record page - Page 2 - Pelican Parts Technical BBS

Once my '79 930 comes in I'll make a more worthy second post.

JB

 

Two questions:

1. Are you the Seller of these items?

2. Why are these items surfacing now as opposed to when the car was auctioned?

 

Thanks, and good luck to you.