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| James Dean's last car, the Spyder pictured above, holds a place in every fan's mind for a few reasons. The main reason is because Jimmy died in that car...none of us can ever forget that, but another reason is because many injuries and deaths other than Jimmy's have been traced back to this car. Case 1: Car designer George Barris 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. Case 2: 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 October 22nd, 1956 during a automobile race at the Pomona Fairground near Los Angeles. He was driving a Porsche Spyder, but no one is sure yet if Dean's engine was in that car.) Case 3: Another un-named doctor bought the Dean transmission. He too was seriously injured in a car crash. Case 4: An un-named New Yorker bought two of the Dean tires. His car crashed when both tires mysteriously blew out at the same time. Case 5: 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. Whether or not this means Dean is trying to tell us something, we don't know. In my opinion, five stories all with the same ending means something more than just an accident. Maybe it disturbes Jimmy every time part of his car is touched or bothered, and he is trying to let us know. But this is not the only reason why Dean's Spyder is still a mystery. 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 October 30th, 1989. George Barris (the guy who sold the car for parts in case 1) 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 it's destination, the car wasn't there. No mention of an accident. ~Most of this information came from: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Automobiles (Spyder Web) |
| If anybody has any information on this subject, please E-Mail me at JamesBDeanChick@yahoo.com |
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