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Raskin's 2005 book James Dean: At Speed states that the wrecked Spyder was declared as a total loss by the insurance company, which paid Dean's father Winton fair-market value as a settlement. The insurance company, through a salvage yard in Burbank, sold the Spyder to Dr. William F. Eschrich, who had competed against Dean in his own sports car ...
The Porsche Boxster S 550 Spyder is a modern mid-engined sports car that pays tribute to the 550; the Spyder name was effectively resurrected with the RS Spyder Le Mans Prototype. James Dean's 550 [ edit ]
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 ...
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 purchased his first Porsche, a 356 Super Speedster, in 1955. After competing in three California races, he bought a second Porsche, a 550 Spyder, later that year.
Longing to return to the "liberating prospects" of motor racing, Dean traded in his Speedster for a new, more powerful, and faster 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder and entered the upcoming Salinas Road Race event scheduled for October 1–2, 1955. [89]
Sure, the '55 Porsche 550 Spyder was renowned for its futuristic appearance, but what cemented it in car history was the part it played in the death of actor James Dean — he infamously crashed ...