The Detroit Free Press has an interesting story about famous classic cars that were stolen or have otherwise gone missing.. One of them is the Porsche that Indiana native James Dean was driving ...

The death of Batmobile creator George Barris has thrown a wrench into the search for another famous car connected to him. A few months after actor James Dean died in a highway accident in 1955 ...

German luxury sportscar maker Porsche is mulling a reissue of the iconic 550 Spyder model owned by US actor James Dean, boss Matthias Mueller said in the business daily Handelsblatt.

JAMES Dean’s famous Porsche has a haunting history. Dean was an American superstar, starring in Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, and Giant. He received an Academy Award posthumously for h… ...

Dean showed up in Palm Springs, then Bakersfield and then Santa Barbara racing his 356 Porsche Speedster. He was good. No. He was great. "That really got him a lot of respect from veteran race car ...

Everyone knows how Hollywood legend James Dean died—young and badly, crashing his Porsche 550 Spyder on Sept. 30, 1955. More than half a century later Dean, his image and the few movies he made ...

The transaxel from James Dean’s 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder now belongs to Zak Bagans and ... Bagans called the last remaining piece of the doomed car “the most famous cursed item in the world ...

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 (who ...

Dean needed to fill up the gas tank for the 345-mile drive to Salinas. He pulled into the gas station on Ventura at Beverly Glen, near his house, at approximately 2 p.m. He hoisted himself out of the ...

Twenty-four-year-old Dean and his crew were originally planning on towing the Porsche behind a station wagon driven by Dean’s famous stuntman and best friend Bill Hickman.

Edna Ferber did not want James Dean to play ... At least someone more famous! Dean was a 24-year-old angel-faced ... on Sept. 30, 1955, he got his 550 Porsche Spider, crashed and died. The ...

The death of Batmobile creator George Barris has thrown a wrench into the search for another famous car connected to him. A few months after actor James Dean died in a highway accident in 1955 ...