James Dean's Porsche
Discussion
vetteheadracer said:
Anyone want to make a $1M?
Hand over the mangled wreckage of the Porsche to collect.
www.jamesdean.com/about/viewheadline.php?id=3388
I think this is rather sick, but would be a big dilemma if I happened to own the wreckage.....
I take it youve got the day off,all these threads your starting
vetteheadracer said:
I take it youve got the day off,all these threads your starting
Nah! I rarely post when I'm not at work!
Doing report testing leaves me with a lot of idle time whilst things are running!
I cant believe your getting paid for this,you know that makes me a really sad person
vixpy1 said:
ZR1cliff said:
I cant believe your getting paid for this,you know that makes me a really sad person
Yep! Now get outside and fixed your electrics.....
Taxi
IME ON MY WAY!
And you young man can start practising strapping down rear ends,ime looking for around 630 this time out.
P.s Get some F
g coffee cups in Please 
ZR1cliff said:
IME ON MY WAY!
And you young man can start practising strapping down rear ends,ime looking for around 630 this time out.
P.s Get some F
Got cups : check
got extra straps : check
Got coffee :check:
>> Edited by vixpy1 on Thursday 29th September 19:26
vixpy1 said:
IME ON MY WAY!
And you young man can start practising strapping down rear ends,ime looking for around 630 this time out.
P.s Get some F
Got cups : check
got extra straps : check
Got coffee :check:
>> Edited by vixpy1 on Thursday 29th September 19:26
Just sorting electrics then car will be on its way loaded up with biscuits,do we have to retrieve cups from dustbin again
vixpy1 said:
Nope.. I got new ones! 
Is Richard going to be working his magic on it again?
Good to hear,ive just recieved all the chip tuning/burning gizmos plus an in car wideband air/fuel ratio meter so i should be able to do all my own tuning before i get to the dyno.
I Feel a right disrespectful SOB posting on a James Dean thread about tuning the feck out of a motor
www.snopes.com/autos/cursed/spyder.asp
Claim: Parts
from James Dean's crashed Porsche Spyder were re-used in other automobiles, with disastrous results.
Status: Undetermined.
Origins: James Dean was killed in a car crash on 30 September 1955 when his new Porsche Spyder crashed head on into another car. Dean's passenger was thrown from the car and survived, but Dean was pinned inside. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. After the accident, many fans refused to believe Dean was dead. A story circulated that he was still alive although terribly disfigured, and in true urban legend fashion this tale took on a life of its own.
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.
Back to the "haunted" Porsche. The following "information" comes from a newspaper article. Make of it what you will:
After the accident the Porsche was sold to a second-hand car dealer who put it on public view (supposedly in support of a campaign for road safety). He charged viewers twenty-five cents each to look at it.
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.
Troy McHenry, a Beverly Hills doctor, bought the Dean engine and used it to replace the engine in his Porsche. The doctor was killed in a crash the first time he took the car out.
(Troy McHenry died on 22 October 1956 during a automobile race at the Pomona Fairground near Los Angeles. He was driving a Porsche Spyder, but I've yet to determine if Dean's engine was in that car.)
Another unnamed doctor bought the Dean transmission. He too was later seriously injured in a car crash.
An unnamed New Yorker bought two of the Dean tires. His car crashed when both tires mysteriously blew out at the same time.
The shell of the Dean car was being transported to a road safety exhibition in Salinas when the truck skidded and crashed. The driver was killed.
Stolen from the scene of that fatal accident was the shell of James Dean's car. It's never been recovered.
Another version of the disappearance of the shell was reported in a Los Angeles Times article on 30 October 1989. George Barris (the guy who sold the car for parts) was quoted as saying the last time he saw the shell was when he exhibited it in Florida in 1958. The car was loaded on a truck afterwards, but eight days later when the truck arrived at its destination, the car wasn't there. No mention of an accident.
You decide.
Barbara "Dean nicknamed the car 'Little Bastard' -- maybe 'Christine' would have been more accurate" Mikkelson
Last updated: 1 June 1997
Claim: Parts
from James Dean's crashed Porsche Spyder were re-used in other automobiles, with disastrous results.
Status: Undetermined.
Origins: James Dean was killed in a car crash on 30 September 1955 when his new Porsche Spyder crashed head on into another car. Dean's passenger was thrown from the car and survived, but Dean was pinned inside. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. After the accident, many fans refused to believe Dean was dead. A story circulated that he was still alive although terribly disfigured, and in true urban legend fashion this tale took on a life of its own.
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.
Back to the "haunted" Porsche. The following "information" comes from a newspaper article. Make of it what you will:
After the accident the Porsche was sold to a second-hand car dealer who put it on public view (supposedly in support of a campaign for road safety). He charged viewers twenty-five cents each to look at it.
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.
Troy McHenry, a Beverly Hills doctor, bought the Dean engine and used it to replace the engine in his Porsche. The doctor was killed in a crash the first time he took the car out.
(Troy McHenry died on 22 October 1956 during a automobile race at the Pomona Fairground near Los Angeles. He was driving a Porsche Spyder, but I've yet to determine if Dean's engine was in that car.)
Another unnamed doctor bought the Dean transmission. He too was later seriously injured in a car crash.
An unnamed New Yorker bought two of the Dean tires. His car crashed when both tires mysteriously blew out at the same time.
The shell of the Dean car was being transported to a road safety exhibition in Salinas when the truck skidded and crashed. The driver was killed.
Stolen from the scene of that fatal accident was the shell of James Dean's car. It's never been recovered.
Another version of the disappearance of the shell was reported in a Los Angeles Times article on 30 October 1989. George Barris (the guy who sold the car for parts) was quoted as saying the last time he saw the shell was when he exhibited it in Florida in 1958. The car was loaded on a truck afterwards, but eight days later when the truck arrived at its destination, the car wasn't there. No mention of an accident.
You decide.
Barbara "Dean nicknamed the car 'Little Bastard' -- maybe 'Christine' would have been more accurate" Mikkelson
Last updated: 1 June 1997
vetteheadracer said:
Anyone want to make a $1M?
Hand over the mangled wreckage of the Porsche to collect.
www.jamesdean.com/about/viewheadline.php?id=3388
I think this is rather sick, but would be a big dilemma if I happened to own the wreckage.....
Not much left of it I reckon, here are some photos.
Look closely at the edge of the stretcher and you can see James Dean's head.
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