{"id":2939,"date":"2011-08-20T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T18:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2012-04-30T05:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T12:48:38","slug":"steve-mcqueens-911s-sells-for-more-than-1-3-million-at-rm-monterey-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"Steve McQueen&#8217;s 911S sells for more than $1.3-million at RM Monterey auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/RM-Auction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2940\" title=\"RM Auction\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/RM-Auction.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>The iconic <strong><em>1970 Porsche 911s <\/em><\/strong>formerly owned by the \u2018King of Cool\u2019 Steve McQueen and featured in his epic Hollywood film <em>Le Mans<\/em><strong> <\/strong>sold for an impressive $1,375,000 before a packed house at RM\u2019s Monterey, California sale this month, setting a new world record for a 911 sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>Built to the highest 1970 specification and with a full complement of factory options, the Slate Grey 911s stars in the film\u2019s legendary opening sequence as McQueen\u2019s character, hotshot Porsche driver, Michael Delaney, drives through the French countryside, reflecting on life, death, and racing. In addition to its starring role in the film, the Porsche 911s was used as McQueen\u2019s personal transport during the movie\u2019s production, later joining his own stable of extraordinary motor cars in California.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of the 911s represents RM\u2019s 200th million-dollar-plus automobile sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>Also entering the history books at Friday\u2019s sale was a c.1899 Columbia Electric Landaulet, which more than doubled its pre-sale estimate, selling for $550,000\u2014a record price for an electric car sold at auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic 1970 Porsche 911s formerly owned by the \u2018King of Cool\u2019 Steve McQueen and featured in his epic Hollywood film Le Mans sold for an impressive $1,375,000 before a packed house at RM\u2019s Monterey, California sale this month, setting a new world record for a 911 sold at auction. Built to the highest 1970<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=2939\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}