What's on your wrist? / What are you wearing? (WRUW)

RockBurner

Sorry to boing an old comment, but I just realised we have more proof of this (if more were needed....)

I recently came across a rather nice print on glass of McQueen sitting by his bike mending his jacket, a rather nice wall decoration. I did a bit of research and it appears to be from the 1964 East German Internal 6-day trial event.

Here's the photo:


(my wall print is a bit cropped from that).

You can see that he's got his watch on his right wrist.

Now - the real reason for the post.... what's the watch? I'm not afficionado enough to be able to tell for certain - but someone might?


Further - this is worth a read... https://selvedgeyard.com/2013/11/08...t-1964-legendary-tales-as-told-by-dave-ekins/

and includes this little snippet about what kind of person McQueen was:

"...
McQueen, whose reflexes were showing signs of fatigue parted company with his Triumph in a pile of rocks. He scrambled back on his bike in an attempt to continue, but found he was down about twenty horsepower. The bash through the rocks had closed his exhaust pipe. Now luckily there were some woodcutters nearby and Steve, being a resourceful chap, borrowed an ax and vented his exhaust pipe.

But this untimely detour put the Matinee Idol well behind the last rider, and while he was making an honest effort to continue, the bystanders and the kids who had been quite good about staying off the trials naturally joined the game when all seemed clear. So here was Steve traveling South at a high speed on a narrow twisting trail in the woods and there was an unsuspecting lad riding North on the same path. The meeting was inevitable, but rather than crunch a kid and his moped, Steve pointed his bike off the path. A firmly planted tree did not give way to the forces of the high speed Coventry projectile that tried to uproot it. It was a straight-on crash that put the front wheel squarely between the exhaust pipes and left not a few scratches on Mr. McQueen’s valuable face."

RockBurner

Sorry to boing an old comment, but I just realised we have more proof of this (if more were needed....)

I recently came across a rather nice print on glass of McQueen sitting by his bike mending his jacket, a rather nice wall decoration. I did a bit of research and it appears to be from the 1964 East German Internal 6-day trial event.

Here's the photo:


(my wall print is a bit cropped from that).

You can see that he's got his watch on his right wrist.

Now - the real reason for the post.... what's the watch? I'm not afficionado enough to be able to tell for certain - but someone might?


Further - this is worth a read... https://selvedgeyard.com/2013/11/08...t-1964-legendary-tales-as-told-by-dave-ekins/

and includes this little snippet about what kind of person McQueen was:

"...
McQueen, whose reflexes were showing signs of fatigue parted company with his Triumph in a pile of rocks. He scrambled back on his bike in an attempt to continue, but found he was down about twenty horsepower. The bash through the rocks had closed his exhaust pipe. Now luckily there were some woodcutters nearby and Steve, being a resourceful chap, borrowed an ax and vented his exhaust pipe.

But this untimely detour put the Matinee Idol well behind the last rider, and while he was making an honest effort to continue, the bystanders and the kids who had been quite good about staying off the trials naturally joined the game when all seemed clear. So here was Steve traveling South at a high speed on a narrow twisting trail in the woods and there was an unsuspecting lad riding North on the same path. The meeting was inevitable, but rather than crunch a kid and his moped, Steve pointed his bike off the path. A firmly planted tree did not give way to the forces of the high speed Coventry projectile that tried to uproot it. It was a straight-on crash that put the front wheel squarely between the exhaust pipes and left not a few scratches on Mr. McQueen’s valuable face."

Hubert

^ Love the Carrera 300 SLR heritage! 👍

Jim Dollares

imagwai

Perfect