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For less than the price of a new Escalade (if Bonhams & Butterfields' estimate is correct) you could own a truck with a hell of a lot more history and a "cool factor" that's too high to register on any scale. The 1958 GMC Pickup you see above belonged to one Steve McQueen. Perhaps you've heard of him.

It'll be among a host of other former possessions of McQueen's going up for auction (http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3251558&iSaleNo=14037&sServer=http://images2.bonhams.com/&sPath=2006-05/17/7252704-8-1.jpg) later this week at the Petersen Automotive Museum in L.A. Said to be one of the late actor's favorite personal vehicles, the truck, powered by a 336 CID V8 was given some additional under-the-hood TLC to make it a bit of a sleeper. The "MQ3188" on the tag refers to the ID number assigned McQueen when he was sent to reform school as a boy (in fact, if you go through the different lots being offered, you'll see a few other old vanity tags of McQueen's bearing the same number).

Three (http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3251557&iSaleNo=14037&sServer=http://images2.bonhams.com/&sPath=2006-07/01/7252704-7-7.jpg#) vintage (http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=LotDetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3251553&iSaleNo=14037&sServer=http://images2.bonhams.com/&sPath=2006-07/01/7252704-3-7.jpg) motorcycles (http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=LotDetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3251556&iSaleNo=14037&sServer=http://images2.bonhams.com/&sPath=2006-07/01/7252704-6-7.jpg) owned by Steve are also up for grabs, as is the actual '67 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow (http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3354638&iSaleNo=14037&sServer=http://images2.bonhams.com/&sPath=2006-10/17/7319221-1-2.jpg) 2-door he drove in The Thomas Crown Affair.

[Source: Bonhams & Butterfields (http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=14037) via Luxist]
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