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Past Gas

S1 Ep113: Steve McQueen Was The O.G. Car Nerd

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.9 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Hi everybody I’m Nolan from Past Gas by Donut Media, we’re an automotive history show. Its kind of like hanging out in the garage with your friends, listening to them tell a story from automotive history! 

Fast cars and big movies are as American as Abraham Lincoln. From the Delorean to the Batmobile, superstar cars and the badasses who drive them have been woven into the fabric of American culture for over a century. What made Steve McQueen a legend in both film and autos? How did he come to love cars even more than movies, and what were his greatest moments, both on-screen and off? All that and more on today’s episode of Past Gas.

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Fast cars and big movies are as American as Abraham Lincoln. From the Delorean to the

1:40.4

Batmobile, superstar cars and the bad asses who drive them have been woven into the fabric

1:45.5

of American culture for over a century.

1:49.2

Steve McQueen might be the king of said bad asses. You'd think that being one of the

1:53.4

most successful, ultra cool film stars of the 60s and 70s would be enough. I mean, you

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