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Two bits of automotive movie history at a Profiles in History auction held earlier this month have drawn massive bids from collectors. As you may recall, Steve McQueen’s racing suit costume from Le Mans was poised to go under the gavel with the auction house estimating the Gulf Oil suit would fetch between 0,000 and 0,000. Hemmings says that by the time the last bid came in, the suit had fetched a staggering 4,000, thereby proving that when it comes to celebrity auctions, few names can draw dollar bills quite like McQueen. The actor’s Porsche 911, which he drove in the film, recently sold for .25 million.
McQueen’s Le Mans suit wasn’t the only big draw, however. The same auction also saw a DeLorean DMC-12 used in the filming of Back to the Future III pull sizable bids of its own. The flux-capacitor-equipped gullwing met the auction house’s estimates with a towering final bid of 1,200. Great Scot, indeed.
Steve McQueen’s Le Mans suit fetches nearly M, BTTF DeLorean 1k originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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