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His had fabric seats, a five-speed gearbox and a clutch pedal, and was coated with dog hair; mine was the Sport version, with leather and the....
Silvio Calabi: Turning pages, not wheels: new car books
Remember books?
If you’re reading this in a newspaper, you probably do.
Silvio Calabi has been reviewing cars since Ronald Reagan removed the solar panels from the White House.
For the rest of you: words (and even pictures) are still being put on paper, so we can keep them and look at them when the WiFi goes down or the cloud explodes. Amazing!
“Steve McQueen: Full Throttle Cool” (Dwight Jon Zimmerman, Greg Scott; Motorbooks, $19.99) Steve McQueen was the Patrick Dempsey of his day—a leading-man actor who discovered he could credibly drive a race car.
Or was he a racer who found out he could act? Even McQueen couldn’t say which, but by 1968, when “Bullitt” came out, he was Hollywood’s King of Cool and top earner. Lung cancer killed him in 1980, when he was just 50, but his legend has only grown.
(His last Porsche, a 1976 930 with, among other add-ons, a switch to douse the taillights if he was being chased by the cops at night, brought a staggering $1.95 million at auction in July.) Naturally, there was much more to his life t