• Marlon

• Marlon Brando - "The Wild One" (1953) --- IMDb

• Triumph

• Up 'til 1953, all Triumph Thunderbirds were blue. Americans wanted them in black, though, so the factory complied, creating a tougher-looking, U.S. only version known as the Blackbird.

• Marlon

• Left : Peggy Maley + Marlon Brando + Yvonne Doughty on the Triumph Thunderbird from film "The Wild One" (1953)

• Right : Marlon Brando astride a British Matchless twin cylinder motorcycle
( it's 'M' logo badge is actually upside-down to resemble a 'W', which makes sense since it belonged to stunt rider "Wally" Allbright )

• bonneville

• 1954 Bonneville, Salt Flats • Chrisman Bros. chopped coupe


• 1948 Bonneville, Salt Flats • Roland Free world's speed record

• Steve

1970 • Steve McQueen with Triumph Bonneville


1970 • Steve McQueen at Sebring 12-Hour Race


• Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen

• great escape

1963 • James Coburn - James Garner - Steve McQueen - John Sturges

• art deco

>> BMW R7 1934

• wartime

• BMW R12 1939

• wartime

• WWII soldiers on Harley-Davidson with Thompson sub-machine guns

• B M W

• Germany 1954 • Photograph by Dmitri Kessel