James Dean at the petrol station. This was one of the last pictures taken of him alive, 30 September 1955.
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Little Bastard
Legend 🙌
Why that Little Bastard.
I’m surprised he didn’t blow himself up at the gas pump with that cigarette hanging from his mouth.
That filling station was one of the stops on an early Lemons Rally, also the spot of the crash.
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They determined the time of death as 1:35 based on the hoods digital timepiece
Ventura Ave Sherman Oaks. The old pump stands were there until about 5 years ago. It was a car wash and a flower shop.
35 days before Doc invented time travel.
Is that the car he died in?
“YOU’RE TEARING ME APART!”
Old school wouldn’t be as cool without Kodachrome.
Dean’s close friend, stunt driver Bill Hickman, was on that trip and following closely behind Dean. He saw the accident and pulled Dean’s body from the wreck. Hickman was better known for his role in the film ‘Bullitt’ where he drove the Dodge Charger in the classic chase scene through San Francisco.
Rumor has it that Dean’s car, which he’d nicknamed the Little Bastard, was cursed. After the accident, the car rolled off the back of a truck and crushed the legs of a mechanic standing nearby. Later, after a used-car dealer sold its parts to buyers all over the country, the strange incidents multiplied: The car’s engine, transmission and tires were all transplanted into cars that were subsequently involved in deadly crashes, and a truck carrying the Spyder’s chassis to a highway-safety exhibition skidded off the road, killing its driver. The remains of the car vanished from the scene of that accident and haven’t been seen since.
Smoking at the petrol station. Ah, the good ol days.
This lot is across from our old vet. The footprint was visible – pumps were gone – but the building was a flower shop, sandwich stand, car lot sales office over the last 20 years or so until they raised the lot and turned it into a Whole Foods a few years ago.
Always like driving by it with this photo in mind.
Guy from my hometown is who killed him. My mom is friends with the guys grandson.
Don’t worry. That guy’s gotta see us. Don’t worry. That guy’s gotta see us…
These were the confident last words of the brilliant, young Hollywood star James Dean as he piloted his Porsche 550 Spyder race car toward a date with death along a lonely stretch of California two-lane blacktop Route 466…
Don’t worry that guy’s gotta see us.
The year… 1955. The day… September 30. The time… Now. The star of our show is Little Bastard. James Dean’s racing Porsche. He named it after himself and had his racing number – 130 – painted on it.
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I drove by the site of Dean’s crash recently. After all these years, people are still adding things as a memorial.
Good God, that car looks fun, but dangerous: no rollbar, no seatbelt, no rear wing or ground effects.
That car looks dangerous as hell.
was smoking at the gas station popular back then?