As this legend goes, parts from James Dean’s crashed Porsche Spyder were re-used in other automobiles, with disastrous results.
Parts from James Dean’s crashed Porsche Spyder were re-used in other automobiles, with disastrous results.At 5:45 p.m. on 30 September 1955, film icon James Dean was killed in a car accident when his new Porsche Spyder crashed head-on into another car. Rolf Wutherich, Dean’s friend and mechanic was thrown from the Spyder and survived the wreck, but Dean was pinned inside, his neck broken. Donald Turnupseed, the driver of the other car, suffered only relatively minor injuries.
I won’t go into all the James Dean as a cult idol stuff except to say his mystique has staying power. For example, his tombstone was stolen twice in 1983, and in 1985 had to be replaced because of damage done to it by fans. Seems he was still the popular fella despite having been dead for three decades.
Car designer George Barris next bought the car and planned to sell it for parts. When the car was delivered to his yard, it rolled back off the truck and broke a mechanic’s legs. An unnamed New Yorker bought two of the Dean tires. His car crashed when both tires mysteriously blew out at the same time.
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