[TwoStangWmn]

I watched it twice as it didn't stay on each picture long enough to read the captions and then look at the pic! Thanks for posting it Bret!

 

[SteveNYC]

What a GREAT video! :clap: :clap: :clap:

Thanks for posting it, Bret! There sure are some great pics in it of the Bullittheads who helped make the event a success.

And I LOVE the one of Jacqueline Bisset being driven away from the event!

Say Mike (JcodeBullitt), do you have any stories to tell about driving Ms. Bisset home? I'd love to hear any thoughts she shared with you about the evening!



Steve

 

[SteveNYC]

L.A. City Council's Resolution honoring Steve

The Jules Verne Festival just posted the complete text of the L.A. City Council's Resolution honoring Steve on their Facebook page.

Here's what it says:

WHEREAS, Steve McQueen has been widely acknowledged as a legendary screen star, bringing us the pleasure of his company in such iconic films as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Love With the Proper Stranger, The Cincinnati Kid, The Sand Pebbles (for which he earned an Academy Award Best Actor nomination), The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, Junior Bonner, The Getaway, and Papillon; and

WHEREAS, Mr. McQueen, while giving cinematic life to the mythic American adventurer, was also an adventurer in real life: an avid, professional-level auto and motorcycle racer; an amateur flyer; and a United States Marine who saved the lives of five fellow Marines during an Arctic exercise and served as part of a Marine honor guard assigned to protect President Harry Truman; and

WHEREAS, Mr. McQueen, consigned as an adolescent “incorrigible” to the California Junior Boys Republic in Chino, soon became a member of the institution’s Boys Council and, throughout his years of celebrity, maintained a close relationship with Boys Republic, donating time and money, returning to provide conversation and advice, and answering every letter he received from the boys; and

WHEREAS, Mr. McQueen, a Los Angeles resident from the 1940s, was a well-known and beloved figure in the Brentwood neighborhood where he lived for many years, and a man who brought international fame to the Los Angeles lifestyle; and

WHEREAS, Mr. McQueen is a genuine icon of our popular culture, one whose fame endures three decades after his passing; and

WHEREAS, Mr. McQueen is being honored, on the 30th anniversary of his death, with the Jules Verne Film Festival’s “Legendaire” Award for Outstanding Contribution to Motion Pictures and to the American Myth, at a ceremony to be held November 11th in Hollywood;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that by the adoption of this resolution, the Los Angeles City Council does hereby commend Steve McQueen as a renaissance man of the arts, as a significant representative of American culture, and as a citizen devoted to the welfare of our young people."

Those sure are some fine words honoring a great man!



Steve

 

['Have BULLITT will travel']

BULLITT Thank You from Marie Bobin

Ok here's e-mail from Marie Bobin
asked her for 11 free t-shirts for BULLITT Drivers.

-----Original Message-----
From: MARIE BOBIN [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:19 PM
To: O'Donnell Mr Michael J
Subject: Steve McQueen Tribute

Hi Michael,

Thank you so much for your email and your wonderful support for the event! You and your team were true troopers and we couldn't have done it without you!

Sending a package for you and the drivers to your address. Unfortunately the tshirts and design don't belong to us so I don't have any to send but definitely will send the posters as we wanted to give them to your crew on the night but didn't get to it.

Will send you the last photo album when it's ready too!

See you at the next Bullitt gathering!

Best,

Marie


Yes we did and outstanding job one and all !

on your six ... DHG 1005

 

[ETicket]

You're The Man

'Have BULLITT will travel' aka "michael" That's really cool of Marie. Again Thank You for all your time and effort in this and ALL the things you put together for us Bullittheads, because you are THE MAN !!

Again Thank You. :clap2:

 

[Bret08]

Yes indeed Great Job Michael!

Speaking of those cool T-Shirts? Did anybody see that Jules Vern Festival selling them on their website?

They're askin' $50 each! :shock:

Then another $20 for shipping from France!

 

['Have BULLITT will travel']

SoCal BULLITT Regional Team # 1 for sure !

rocky aka Rocky, it's not just one person it's
the SoCal BULLITT Regional Team !

I thank all of you for going the distance to make
all our SoCal BULLITT Adventures second to none !

June 4th 2011 will be our next BIG Adventure
Friends of Steve McQueen @ Boy Republic, Chino Hills,CA
last count of 'BULLITT Road Warriors' was 22 need more !

*** How about 50+ BULLITTHEADS ... we can do it right ?

on your six ... DHG 1005

 

[ETicket]

'Have BULLITT will travel' aka "michael" 50 Bullitts, YES we can do it. :toocool:

 

[JcodeBullitt]

Steve NYC,
During the drive home, Miss Bisset seemed very happy with the outcome of the event. She mentioned about how long it had been since seeing her co-stars, and was glad to see them all together again. She also told me that Peter Yates was very ill, and in the hospital in the U.K. I asked her about the Porsche she drove in the movie. She said it belonged to the Asst. Director, and that she really enjoyed driving the car. So all in all, a great time, and good memories for all involved.

 

[tigerhonaker]

Steve NYC,
During the drive home, Miss Bisset seemed very happy with the outcome of the event. She mentioned about how long it had been since seeing her co-stars, and was glad to see them all together again. She also told me that Peter Yates was very ill, and in the hospital in the U.K. I asked her about the Porsche she drove in the movie. She said it belonged to the Asst. Director, and that she really enjoyed driving the car. So all in all, a great time, and good memories for all involved.

Very Cool.

What a Lady indeed.


tigerhonaker

 

['Have BULLITT will travel']

Chad's thank you to imboc SoCal BULITTs / Drivers

OK Bernie send you SoCal BULLITTHEADS a BIG Chad Thank You.

From: Friends of Steve McQueen [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 10:07 AM
To: O'Donnell Mr Michael J
Subject: Re: BIG Thank You !

Michael,

Thank you for the kind words. It's very nice of you to send me a note,
but it was YOU that really did the tough work, and it could not have happened without you.
I enlisted the right guy for the job, that much I know for certain.
I think I understand what went awry, but what is important is that the event all went smooth--even
with all those technical issues that caused the film to begin way later than scheduled.

I must say, that I and most everyone that was fortunate enough to be in the audience, felt especially lucky to be able to experience an event that was,
as Jacqueline Bissett so eloquently said, "An event that was long overdue."

Chad called me to express his deep and sincere appreciation to the IMBOC guys, and for showing such tremendous love and respect for his dad. After the parade, he asked me how the cars sounded and I told him I became emotional hearing the engines echo on Hollywood Blvd. It was such an incredible experience that it brought tears to my eyes. It was a whole week of Bullitt excitement -- a once in a lifetime BLAST to honor the King of Cool. I just loved every minute of it and will never forget it, and the guys of IMBOC that made it all happen. You guys are the BEST!

Please send my gratitude to all the guys, and my hopes of seeing you all at Friends of Steve McQueen, June 4, 2011 in Chino Hills.

Bernie


OK you SoCal BULLITTHEADS you can see Chad wants us BULLITTHEADS
(I'm saying like 50) to be at the 2011 Friends of Steve McQueen Event.

Let's make it happen SoCal BULLITT Regional Team !

on your six ... DHG 1005

 

[Bullitt_Babe_01]

LOL Good Job Mike!

Yeah!! Ben Macabe's died. For once it wasn't MY car that broke!! I drove up the sidewalk right in front of the doors and we eventually got her up and running!!

Good Times!! Not exactly how it was suposed to go down!! But Thats HOLLYWOOD!!
Everyones Got a Dream! Whats Your Dream??!!

Hey, did you get the pics I sent to you?????

 

[Bullitt_Babe_01]

Like Mike, it will be a night long remembered!.

My VIP was Don Gordon aka Sgt. Delgetti. Steve was Don’s best friend and that he still missed him very much. After picking him up at his house and as we were leaving his gorgeous house he ask me how long I have been driving (He thought I was a Chauffer) I explained that I was with IMBOC and that he was riding in Bullitt Mustang, all could say was cool man. As we were driving down Sunset He began to tell stories about Steve and himself would ride their Triumph motorcycles down Sunset and through the Hollywood hills also as we would get to intersections he would recall stories about himself and Steve.

Along the way I got a phone call from the Jules Verne people that they were running behind and to go to the W hotel to meet up with everyone else as I told Don about the change he said Steve would not put up with these #@%! and Hollywood has changed so much over the past years and this was Don's first red carpet in a very long time.

After Bullitt and on the way back to his house Don told me that it was the first time he had watch Bullitt on the big screen. Don began telling stories about the making of Bullitt and how Steve and him would sneak away and ride their motorcycles because they were not allowed to ride during the filming (insurance reason) during one of these ride Steve got about 4 feet of air over one of the bumps after they stopped he turns to Don and says would it be great to jump a car over that bump like we did, Don looks at Steve and says you mean like you did there’s no way I could do that and that is how the jump scene become part of the movie. Don went on to say that Steve was a great rider and he was good at best. Don says that Steve did all the driveing himself in the movie except the scene when the Mustang goes into the ditch only because the Insurance guys where on set that day and Steve made a point to show them that was not driving.

Don is a very warm and charming gentleman and misses Steve very much, truly a great man.

It was great to meet SteveNYC aka Steve wish we could have gone to dinner and to see mayFiebl again. and of course ALL of the other SoCal guy's and Terri. <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("postmenu_2095981", true); </script>

PS - After I got home and was cleaning out the B I found a tip from Don in one of the cup holders.

Hey Rocky, as always it was GREAT to see you too!
Great story............. precious memories & stories to tell for years to come!
Good job BULLITT Heads!!!!
Teri

 

[Bullitt_Babe_01]

You know I will be there with you!

rocky aka Rocky, it's not just one person it's
the SoCal BULLITT Regional Team !

I thank all of you for going the distance to make
all our SoCal BULLITT Adventures second to none !

June 4th 2011 will be our next BIG Adventure
Friends of Steve McQueen @ Boy Republic, Chino Hills,CA
last count of 'BULLITT Road Warriors' was 22 need more !

*** How about 50+ BULLITTHEADS ... we can do it right ?

on your six ... DHG 1005

This is one of my favorite BULLITT events - only exception to top it was of course the 2006 BULLITT Nat's. in San Francisco!

 

[SteveNYC]

Jacqueline Bisset

Steve NYC,
During the drive home, Miss Bisset seemed very happy with the outcome of the event. She mentioned about how long it had been since seeing her co-stars, and was glad to see them all together again. She also told me that Peter Yates was very ill, and in the hospital in the U.K. I asked her about the Porsche she drove in the movie. She said it belonged to the Asst. Director, and that she really enjoyed driving the car. So all in all, a great time, and good memories for all involved.

Mike -

Thanks VERY much for adding this story to the evening's memories.

I'm sorry to hear Peter Yates is ill. I'll have to see if there's any news of his condition online.

That aside, I can only imagine how great you must feel for having had this unique opportunity to drive a very special lady to and from the event. Congratulations!



Steve

 

[DicksCar]

Here’s a new Video from the Jules Vern folks!

Look close - some of your fellow Bullittheads can be seen throughout the video!

Bret, THANKS for posting this clip also !
Very Exciting to see the cast from Bullitt now. I can not believe the incredible opportunites you So. CAL guys have to be there for such great times remembering what so many of us boomers feel is part of our very core !!

The closest I have come on the East Coast to being close to anyone involved with Bullitt was meeting and speaking with Sen Chalmers / Robert Vaughan, in my capacity as Chief of Detectives at the time, as he did a promo for a security company.

 

[Bret08]

Bret, THANKS for posting this clip also !
Very Exciting to see the cast from Bullitt now. I can not believe the incredible opportunites you So. CAL guys have to be there for such great times remembering what so many of us boomers feel is part of our very core !!

The closest I have come on the East Coast to being close to anyone involved with Bullitt was meeting and speaking with Sen Chalmers / Robert Vaughan, in my capacity as Chief of Detectives at the time, as he did a promo for a security company.

Thanks Dick,

Yes it was a cool event - one that we'll be talking about for some time to come.

As for Robert Vaughan - for me he was one of the highlights of the event. Great stories and I got the feeling he could've gone on all night long. Really looking forward to getting his book.

 

['Have BULLITT will travel']

Special Holiday Pricing ... NOW

Asked Marie Bobin's were we could get Jules Verne McQueen Festival stuff

http://www.julesverne.org/en/Shop/pack.html#

on your six ... DHG 1005

 

[Bret08]

Yay me! I finally got my Jules Verne T-shirt this weekend!

 

[ETicket]

WOW

Look'n Good Bret. Have a Merry Christmas