DPC is not Steve McQueen and that is a gift to Humanity

If I was to make a list of my all time favorite movies, which I have debated before as a proper former Blockbuster employee, Le Mans and Bullitt would be somewhere in the Top-20. I'm not sure where exactly but likely in the bottom 10.

This isn't a knock on McQueen. This has more to do with my love of Wes Anderson flicks and how my Top 10 would be littered with the Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic and possibly Rushmore.

With that said, I am a McQueen fan. This isn't exactly a bold statement. The dude has admirers by the millions and I am part of that clique. My fandom is why I wear a Gulf gas station attendant jacket and a Gulf Racing shirt.

A few folks probably assumed I was some type of hipster doofus and dressing like I pump petrol for a living but I was trying paying homage to McQueen and Gulf Racing.

The appeal of McQueen, at least to me, is that his coolness is unobtainable. It's out of my realm to be a handsome actor that is a racecar driver on the weekends. I can never be the King of Cool and that is a good thing.

Stanley Kowalksi wearing a bucket

What I mean is that McQueen and McQueen only should be the archetype for Cool.

Like a James Dean or Marilyn Monroe he died at relatively young age and never aged. We never had to deal with memories of an old McQueen like Marlon Brando in the Island of Dr. Moreau.

Tragically McQueen died fairly young and in doing so became timeless. There are no photos of him wearing a bucket in his later years