unfortunately though sometimes all the hot cars on hollywood panache in the world isn't enough to beat that terrible monster we call cancer in his pedal to the metal lifestyle mcqueen's death came quickly in late NUMBER_TOKEN he developed a nasty cough and was unusually fatigued after shooting the movie the hunter soon after doctors diagnosed him with mesothelioma a brutal form of lung cancer and mcqueen had spent much of the next year traveling back and forth to mexico trying a number of holistic cures after american doctors told him the metastasized cancer was too much for his heart to handle mcqueen died in juarez only NUMBER_TOKEN months after his diagnosis on november NUMBER_TOKENth NUMBER_TOKEN at the age of NUMBER_TOKEN. rest in peace king in the NUMBER_TOKEN years since his death the mystique around mcqueen and his connection to fast cars has only grown some people even have a name for it the mcqueen effect i've never heard of that now you know well then i guess it's not real auto week scribe blake wrong calls it call it that because all the cars he owned were eminently desirable call it that because they're all seemingly tripled in value since his passing and call it that because people still worship at the mcqueen altar today the unholy combination of the three elements makes for good auctioneering
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