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According to Lee Raskin, Porsche historian and author of James Dean: At Speed, Dean asked custom car painter and pinstriper Dean Jeffries to paint "Little Bastard" on the car: Dean Jeffries, who had a paint shop next to [George] Barris, did the customizing work which consisted of: painting '130' in black non-permanent paint on the front hood ...
James Dean – Kleiner Prinz, Little Bastard aka James Dean – Little Prince, Little Bastard (2005), German television biography, includes interviews with William Bast, Marcus Winslow Jr, Robert Heller. James Dean: Forever Young (2005), narrated by Martin Sheen.
Actor James Dean was one of his early customers, and Jeffries painted "Little Bastard" on Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder. Jeffries recalled the day in September, 1955: "Jimmy knew that I was a pinstriper and had met me through Lance Reventlow and Bruce Kessler. He drove to my Lynwood shop in his new 550 and asked me to paint a temporary number 130 ...
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 ...
On this day in 1955, Hollywood icon, James Dean, had passed away.
Rudolf Karl "Rolf" Wütherich (German: [ˈvyːtaʁɪç] ⓘ; August 5, 1927 – July 22, 1981) was a Luftwaffe mechanic and pilot, and later an automotive engineer and racer. . He was the passenger in James Dean's Porsche at the time of Dean's death in a car crash in 19
The $171 million project to reconfigure the Highway 46 East Cholame Y into a four-lane expressway is ready to begin.
Hickman spent some of these earlier days as driver and friend to James Dean, driving Dean's Ford station wagon towing Dean's famed 550 Spyder nicknamed "Little Bastard", and often helping and advising him with his driving technique. He was driving the Ford station wagon and trailer following Dean on the day of Dean's fatal accident and was the ...