Jame Dean's Death Car

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First of all, I can't print the second part of the name of the car name , due to "profanity issues" but it starts with a "B" and ends with a "d", "Little" is the first word which probably won't get too many folks jerked about. So back to Dean. His fame as an actor was cut short in a fatal auto accident in September, 1955. He once said he believed he would die in an automobile accident, even predestined, according to some of his quotes. Some friends of Dean believed and/or said openly that there was a "curse" on the car and considering what happened to other that obtained various parts from the "LB", there might be something to it. Dean loved fast cars, raced in several races, and showed the world he was more than "just a pretty face" but a darn good race car driver, a view not held by the head of Warner Brothers who put a stop to his race car driving until the filming of his most recent movie, "GIANT" and as long as he was under contract to "W.B.". Well, James was returning from location shooting in Texas, when on returning to L.A., his eyes were caught by silver-gray 1955 PORSCHE SPYDER, partially due to just its "appeal" but also there was a race upcoming Salinas and apparently he intended to drive in it, once the car was race ready. Among James friends, Ursula Andress, Alec Guiness, Nick Adams, and George Barris, a car designer who worked on other of James car, expressed everything from "feeling uncomfortable" around the car, to absolute "fear" or "dread" of it. None of Deans' close friends would ride in it, most simply stayed far away from it because it "just felt like it hated people". Apparently James never got the same vibes as his friends from the "LB". The wreck was a head-on with another car around 5:59 P.M., I'll omit who was at fault, and the particulars but the impact broke Dean's neck,his passanger was thrown free and though seriously injured, managed to survive the accident. The driver of the other car, had only minor scratches and walked away for the wreck that almost torn Dean's car in half. Now we get to "parts and curses", as if the car still had some punishment to dish out to any mortal "messin" with it. The engine and drivetrain was not damaged and was sold to two other race car drivers. The one driver who got the engine was killed when his car went out of control and struck a tree. The other driver, was seriously injured when his car mysteriously rolled over several times, going into a curve, at another race. Two tires were saleable and were bought with little thought, until they both blew-out simultaneously, causing the car to nearly run into a tree. Where the car was kept, was a site of souvenir-hunters wanting parts from the car, were almost always injured trying to steal anything they could from the car. The car was moved inside at the "junkyard" just to prevent such things to keep on happening. Wherever the "L.B." went, death and or destruction seemed to follow it or maybe 'it" brought "it" with 'it". On display at a highscchool, it fell off its pedestal, breaking a student's hip. While being transportated, the car fell off the truck carrying it and crushed the truck driver to death. Sometime later, it was on display in New Orleans, fell off its platform, and broke into 11 pieces. No cause of the breakage was ever determined. As if it has enough, its final apperance, anywhere, was on route to Florida as requested by the Florida Highway Patrol. It was crated, placed on a truck, and sent on its way, after an uneventful stay in Florida. It NEVER ARRIVED back in California. The truck also apparently vanished, along with the driver, somehwere, but there were no clues after an extensive investigation. There have been stories of a "Posche Spyder", though most who have seen it can't be positive of the mode/make/year driving down the same road , at high speeds, vanishing from sight, almost at the sametime tires and brakes are heard, then the impact of metal hitting metal is heard, then nothing.
 

kcwildman

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damn good find there dude this is the very kind of stuff that drives me nuts. its almost as if the car was alive hey is this where they got the idea for the movie christine bout the car the kid fixed up
 

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Sorry if the story was a little rought but point 1.was it curses,2.was Dean cursed or live a dangerously life style3. what happened to it and to the truck on the last ride and 4. what is it that folks are saying they see in the vicinity of thhe fatal accident?
 

kcwildman

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all good questions
1.. no curses don't go on things only people... while there are some storys of cursed things like dimonds and the like they always prove to be a case of bad timing and not the craft persay.
2.. I would say dean was extreamly dumb and very dangerously living
3..now thats a good question not so much the truck or the car but what the hell happened to the driver???he never was heard of again not by friends or fam. thats just wierd
4..must bee swamp gas or weather baloons or just some one wanting to see somethin so they did weather it was there or not they saw what they expected to see.ya know one person says I saw and then everyone and there brother goes to check it out..
 

DEATH OMEN

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First of all, I can't print the second part of the name of the car name , due to "profanity issues" but it starts with a "B" and ends with a "d", "Little" is the first word which probably won't get too many folks jerked about. So back to Dean. His fame as an actor was cut short in a fatal auto accident in September, 1955. He once said he believed he would die in an automobile accident, even predestined, according to some of his quotes. Some friends of Dean believed and/or said openly that there was a "curse" on the car and considering what happened to other that obtained various parts from the "LB", there might be something to it. Dean loved fast cars, raced in several races, and showed the world he was more than "just a pretty face" but a darn good race car driver, a view not held by the head of Warner Brothers who put a stop to his race car driving until the filming of his most recent movie, "GIANT" and as long as he was under contract to "W.B.". Well, James was returning from location shooting in Texas, when on returning to L.A., his eyes were caught by silver-gray 1955 PORSCHE SPYDER, partially due to just its "appeal" but also there was a race upcoming Salinas and apparently he intended to drive in it, once the car was race ready. Among James friends, Ursula Andress, Alec Guiness, Nick Adams, and George Barris, a car designer who worked on other of James car, expressed everything from "feeling uncomfortable" around the car, to absolute "fear" or "dread" of it. None of Deans' close friends would ride in it, most simply stayed far away from it because it "just felt like it hated people". Apparently James never got the same vibes as his friends from the "LB". The wreck was a head-on with another car around 5:59 P.M., I'll omit who was at fault, and the particulars but the impact broke Dean's neck,his passanger was thrown free and though seriously injured, managed to survive the accident. The driver of the other car, had only minor scratches and walked away for the wreck that almost torn Dean's car in half. Now we get to "parts and curses", as if the car still had some punishment to dish out to any mortal "messin" with it. The engine and drivetrain was not damaged and was sold to two other race car drivers. The one driver who got the engine was killed when his car went out of control and struck a tree. The other driver, was seriously injured when his car mysteriously rolled over several times, going into a curve, at another race. Two tires were saleable and were bought with little thought, until they both blew-out simultaneously, causing the car to nearly run into a tree. Where the car was kept, was a site of souvenir-hunters wanting parts from the car, were almost always injured trying to steal anything they could from the car. The car was moved inside at the "junkyard" just to prevent such things to keep on happening. Wherever the "L.B." went, death and or destruction seemed to follow it or maybe 'it" brought "it" with 'it". On display at a highscchool, it fell off its pedestal, breaking a student's hip. While being transportated, the car fell off the truck carrying it and crushed the truck driver to death. Sometime later, it was on display in New Orleans, fell off its platform, and broke into 11 pieces. No cause of the breakage was ever determined. As if it has enough, its final apperance, anywhere, was on route to Florida as requested by the Florida Highway Patrol. It was crated, placed on a truck, and sent on its way, after an uneventful stay in Florida. It NEVER ARRIVED back in California. The truck also apparently vanished, along with the driver, somehwere, but there were no clues after an extensive investigation. There have been stories of a "Posche Spyder", though most who have seen it can't be positive of the mode/make/year driving down the same road , at high speeds, vanishing from sight, almost at the sametime tires and brakes are heard, then the impact of metal hitting metal is heard, then nothing.

WOW!!! Did I say that? I forget which personality I have. Hard to keep myself "straight" and no, that is NOT a sexual/gender identity orientation comment.
 

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