<P> Hickman was an extra in Dean's 1951 feature movie debut, Fixed Bayonets! . A rare personal quote from Bill on his friendship with Dean: "In those final days, racing was what he cared about most . I had been teaching him things like how to put a car in a four - wheel drift, but he had plenty of skill of his own . If he had lived he might have become a champion driver . We had a running joke, I'd call him Little Bastard and he'd call me Big Bastard . I never stop thinking of those memories ." </P> <P> In another interview with James Dean expert Warren Beath, Hickman is quoted as saying, "We were about two or three minutes behind him . I pulled him out of the car, and he was in my arms when he died, his head fell over . I heard the air coming out of his lungs the last time . Didn't sleep for five or six nights after that, just the sound of the air coming out of his lungs ." </P> <P> While Hickman had many small acting (mainly driving) parts throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he mostly paid his bills with his stuntman work . He sustained a couple of significant injuries during this time, including breaking several ribs in a bad trick - fall in the film How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965). However, it was the landmark car chase alongside Steve McQueen in the now classic 1968 film Bullitt for which he is usually remembered . Hickman was to do all his own driving; portraying one of two hit men, he drove an all black 1968 Dodge Charger 440 Magnum R / T through the streets of San Francisco, using the hills as jumps . </P> <P> In a nice professional driver's touch (before compulsory restraints were introduced in California), Hickman's character buckles his seat belt before flooring it at the beginning of the pursuit by the Highland Green Ford Mustang 390 GT, driven by Steve McQueen, thereby indicating to the audience that we are about to go on a truly wild ride . If you drove a MOPAR in those days, unlike slack and loose seatbelts of today, the seatbelts bolted you to the vehicle . If you had a manual trans, one could focus on driving and shifting, keeping the car under control, instead of worrying about sliding around in your seat . As reported in the Denver Post, while filming, the brakes on the Charger went out during the chase segment . </P>

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