Automotive history — bucket seat (1969): Identify the part-time race car driver credited with designing a bucket seat in 1969. Context: A Hollywood star and amateur racer filed a design for a motorsports-style bucket seat during that year. Choose the correct name.

Given data

• The question asks who, as a part-time race car driver in 1969, is credited with a bucket seat design.

Concept / Approach
Trivia and patent-history sources commonly credit Steve McQueen with a 1969 bucket seat design (a design patent issued soon after). McQueen was both an actor and an amateur racer.

Step-by-step reasoning
• Among the listed names, only Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were well-known actor–racers.• The bucket seat design attribution for 1969 aligns with Steve McQueen rather than the others.

Common pitfalls

• Confusing the broader invention of bucket seats (which predate 1969) with McQueen's specific design credited in that year.

Final Answer
Steve McQueen.