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The Meyers Manx that Steve McQueen drove in The Thomas Crown Affair<\/em> will be offered at the Bonhams Amelia Island 2020 auction. The very car McQueen took Faye Dunaway on a beach ride in the 1968 movie will headline Bonhams’ 6th annual Amelia Island Concours Week event.<\/p>\n

The Meyers Manx, developed by Southern California native Bruce Meyers, was the embodiment of the California lifestyle, all in a compact, open-air, go-anywhere funmobile. McQueen\u2019s love for cars and bikes was already well established and it was his influence that brought this distinctly American vehicle into the film directed by Norman Jewison.<\/p>\n

Unlike any other Manx, however, McQueen enlisted the help of Pete Condos of Con-Ferr fame to build a completely customized vehicle. In a period documentary about the movie, McQueen said, \u201cCrown lives at the beach and he has a dune buggy. I helped them design it, so I\u2019m kinda proud of that. It\u2019s set on a Volkswagen chassis with big ol\u2019 wide weenies — big wide tires on mag wheels, Corvair engine stuffed in the back … It\u2019s very light, you know (because of the fiberglass body). It\u2019s pulling about 230 horses and weighs about a thousand pounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\r\n Steve McQueen with Faye Dunaway (photo: MGM Studios)\r\n <\/div><\/figure>
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\r\n The Meyers Manx that Steve McQueen drove in The Thomas Crown Affair (photo: Pawel Litwinski)\r\n <\/div><\/figure>\n

For more information, visit Bonhams.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Source: Bonhams; photos: MGM Studios; Pawel Litwinski]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Meyers Manx that Steve McQueen drove in The Thomas Crown Affair will be offered at the Bonhams Amelia Island 2020 auction. The very car McQueen took Faye Dunaway on a beach ride in the 1968 movie will headline Bonhams’ 6th annual Amelia Island Concours Week event. The Meyers Manx, developed by Southern California native Bruce Meyers, was the embodiment of the California lifestyle, all in a compact, open-air, go-anywhere funmobile. 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