Steve McQueen may have been the headline actor of the motorsport cult classic film Le Mans, but we all know who the real star was.Or rather, what: the Porsche 917.More specifically, it was the ...

There are cars, and then there are legends. Vehicles that draft into the zeitgeist to define an era, going on to be lusted ...

Actor Steve McQueen, right, talks with a movie technician on June 23, 1970, as he prepares to drive a Porsche 917 car in a scene of the film “The 24 Hours of Le Mans,” now being made by the ...

Built in 1969, chassis No. 917-022 was delivered the following year, not to a race team, but to Steve McQueen’s Solar Productions company in Hollywood. Since 2001, Seinfeld has shown the Porsche at ...

Steve McQueen’s Porsche 917K from “Le Mans,” owned by comedian Jerry Seinfeld since 2001, will be sold through Mecum Auctions ...

that brought $3.74 million because it was the Bullitt car and driven by Steve McQueen. The 917 from Le Mans is in a whole different league.” Another factor is that the car is being sold by comedian ...

To buttress their claims, they cite several sports cars that sold at enormous prices because of their association with Steve McQueen: a 1970 Porsche 917K featured in “Le Mans” sold for $14 million in ...