32 Years Ago Today

[Slowhand]

Steve McQueen bit the dust in slightly less glorious fashion than his life of badassery would suggest.

[HarrisonTX]

Did all his own motorcylce stunts in The Great Escape

Real bad ass

[Scott Mc]

Damn, crazy story on his death. I can't believe I never looked that up. Nerd trivia, in the popular Great Escape poster the license plate on the bike says 1337 AKA (leet) lol.

[Scott Mc]

[threefortytwo]

Did all his own motorcylce stunts in The Great Escape

Real bad ass

Another example of the legend occasionally overshadowing reality was the famed "barbed wire jump" in the 1962 film "The Great Escape"—a stunt performed by McQueen's good friend and champion motorcycle racer Bud Ekins.

-wikipedia