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Hollywood actor James Dean was killed at the age of 24 in an auto accident on September 30, 1955, near Cholame, California.He had previously competed in several auto racing events, and was traveling to a sports car racing competition when he was involved in a car crash at the junction of U.S. Route 466 (US 466, now State Route 46 [SR 46]) and SR 41.
James Dean died on Sept. 30, 1955, when his Porsche Spyder collided with a pickup truck on Highway 46 East. It has long been the key missing piece in years of upgrades to widen the highway that ...
The Porsche factory sent Wütherich to the United States as a field engineer for Johnny von Neumann's Competition Motors in Los Angeles, where the new 550 Spyder racing cars were being distributed. He arrived in April 1955 and met actor James Dean, a Porsche Speedster racer, at the Bakersfield races. He befriended Dean and began to work on Dean ...
On Sept. 30, 1955, Dean — described by The Times as "one of Hollywood's brightest new motion-picture stars" — sped through rural Kern County in a silver Porsche 550 Spyder nicknamed Little ...
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor. ... Dean and his Porsche Super Speedster 23F at Palm Springs Races March 1955.
Rare Part From James Dean's 'Cursed' Porsche 550 Spyder Sold For $382,000 Pier Angeli married Vic Damone in 1954, to James Dean's dismay. "Being ready for marriage was probably something she was ...
Dean treated the Roths as adoptive parents. Poignantly, Sanford Roth was in James Dean's Ford station wagon driving behind Dean's new Porsche Spyder on the way to the Salinas Road Races on September 30, 1955, when Dean died in a late afternoon traffic accident. Roth took the now famous post-accident photographs.
Porsche 911 GT3: Chester County, Pennsylvania: Collided with tree. Was twice over the drink-drive limit. [133] Junior Durkin: 1915 1935 19 years American actor car (passenger) San Diego, California While returning home from a hunting trip in Mexico, the driver swerved to avoid a collision and crashed at the side of the road.