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One of the reasons that Garner was so appealing to viewers was that he had no idea why he was appealing to viewers. Garner with Al Unser and Parnelli Jones the morning after Unser's first Indy triumph for Parnelli's team in 1970.
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In terms of principles, albeit at the other end of the scale of importance, in the final two seasons of The Rockford Files, he stopped accepting Pontiac’s offer of a new Firebird for each series he simply didn’t like the front-end styling of the post-1978 models, and I have to admit, despite the fact (or because of the fact) I’m a Pontiac fan, I’m 100 percent with him on that one.
He paid for people’s hospital bills, their cancer treatments, their apartments…” I’ve heard so many stories from people who he did things for but which he never told anyone about, not even us. “Steve was always good to me because I was good friends with his daughter, and I’d spend the night over there all the time, and his wife was friends with my mother, so I never saw the other side of Steve, but… I know it happened.”Īfter a couple of off-the-record observations, Gigi sighs, “Look, if people want to see McQueen as ‘The King of Cool’ then that’s fine, but I think of Dad as ‘The King of Class’ because he had integrity and morals that he lived by. Our neighbor, Steve McQueen, felt the need to compete – maybe because Dad was tall, dark and handsome! Steve had been talking to John Frankenheimer about Grand Prix but he couldn’t get along with him, which made way for my Dad, and which led to Steve making Le Mans. “He treated people very well and always stuck up for the underdog,” confirms Gigi. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, and who fought for this country in Korea. It’s hard not to admire a guy who wouldn’t allow himself to get fleeced by studio executives, who joined the march on Washington in 1963 and was near the front of the crowd for Dr.
Including standing up for his principles. He was just all-in about everything he did.” If he had time to be at the racetrack, he’d be there. We’d go to Indy car races at Riverside Raceway and Ontario Motor Speedway, and actually he’d attend much smaller events there as well.
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He was very competitive – mainly with himself! He was really into all sports but there was something about motor racing that he was infatuated with, and he learned how to be a real driver. He attended the Indy 500 many years before Grand Prix, but making that movie really ignited his passion for competition. “They respected him for actually getting out there and doing it, coming second in the Baja 1000, and he of course respected them, and got to know very many of them. “Yeah, he knew all the drivers,” says Gigi.
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Sportscar ace Bob Bondurant, who schooled Garner, assured the film producers they wouldn’t need a stunt double or ‘special effects’ for his student Garner could pass for a professional driver.īondurant was one of several motorsport stars who took an immediate liking to Garner for being zero-BS and 100 percent-enthusiast whenever he was in the proximity of a racetrack. His co-stars in Grand Prix were Yves Montand and Brian Bedford, and they were famously wary of racing scenes – Bedford didn’t even drive a street car – and so a great deal of ‘green-screen’ was needed. Ignorance is bliss! Even later, I used to hear about him going to work and just think, ‘That’s dad, he does things that are make believe,’ and it wouldn’t occur to me that he might be going off to do things that are super-dangerous.” “I was there for quite a bit of the filming of Grand Prix, but to your point, no, I don’t think I quite realized how much risk Dad was taking to make that movie. They just put a thin strip of leather in to look like a Formula 1 seat of the time, but there was no padding.
They had to take everything out of those cars so he could fit. And that’s why he enjoyed those ’60s Formula 1 cars. He just went all-out in everything, especially sports. “I didn’t realize how fearless my dad was, but he was, absolutely. I was so little at the time, I really thought he was drowning and I started screaming in the theater and had to be removed. “But I do remember one of my biggest frights was in a movie called The Thrill of it All, when he drives into a swimming pool and it looks like he’s drowning. “I was eight when Dad was making Grand Prix, but I wasn’t aware how dangerous it was for him to be doing what he was doing,” she told.
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