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Steve McQueen's Meyers Manx beach buggy - movie car from "Thomas Crown is unbelievable"

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Created on November 4, 2019

Reading time 3min

Written by:

Daniel Koch

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Pawel Litwinski - courtesy Bonhams

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Meyers Manx Buggy (1968) - Steve McQueen und Faye Dunaway

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Meyers Manx Buggy (1968) - Der Motor darf gezeigt werden

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Meyers Manx Buggy (1968) - Kamera am Buggy befestigt

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Meyers Manx Buggy (1968) - Berühmter, vierrädriger Darsteller

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Meyers Manx Buggy (1968) - Seltener Anblick

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Meyers Manx Buggy (1968) - Am Filmset

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Meyers Manx (1969) - amerikanischer "Strandwagen" für Fahrten auf dem Dünensand - den Begriff "Buggy" gebrauchte man damals noch nicht - Genfer Automobilsalon 1969

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Meyes Manx Buggy auf dem Cover von Hot Rod im August 1966

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Summary

Steve McQueen drove a modified Meyers Manx beach buggy with Faye Dunaway in the 1968 film "Thomas Crown is Unbelievable". This report goes into the brilliant movie use of the McQueen buggy and shows it in some photos.

This article contains the following chapters

Car in the movie
Icons at work
All-terrain
Sufficient power
To be auctioned soon
Further information

Estimated reading time: 3min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The Meyers Manx, developed at the time by Californian Bruce Meyers, stood for sun, sand and fun like almost no other vehicle and was the epitome of the Californian lifestyle of the late sixties. The simple design and use of a VW Beetle chassis and engine quickly became so popular that countless imitators flooded the market. And the buggy soon appeared in films too, even in James Bond. Here, however, we will focus on a converted Meyers Manx from the film "Thomas Crown is Unbelievable" (original title: "The Thomas Crown affair"), which became world-famous thanks to Hollywood. Steve McQueen was known to love cars and motorcycles, so it is not surprising that it was his idea to use a modified Meyers Manx buggy as a movie car.

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