<VV> Dune Buggy of Steve McQueen

[Bryan Blackwell]

CGI?  Not back then it wasn't.  There were 90 real horses off camera where you can't see them :-)

I'm sure the 230 HP was a number they got on the (uncalibrated) dyno for about 5 seconds, or maybe they just added up all the claimed numbers for each part - Add 25 HP!  Add 15 HP!  Pretty soon you get 90.  In any case, that's what Ted Trevor told him, so that's what he said.

--Bryan

On Jan 31, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:

> It's a 140HP motor. The other 90 HP was generated by CGI! -  Seth
> 
> 
> In a message dated 1/31/2012 6:27:26 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
> corvair at serenska.com writes:
> 
>> Here's a clip of Steve McQueen checking out his Corvair-powered dune  
> buggy
>> featured in his GREAT 1968 film "The Thomas Crown  Affair"
>> 
>> And how did he get 230 hp out of it? 
>> 
>> dp
> At 0:25 of the video he clearly puts some 230 hp sauce in the  
> passenger-side carb with his fingers.  I checked, Clarks is out of  stock 
> on it.