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James Dean's Wrecked Porsche
James Dean's Wrecked Porsche
The mangled remains of "Little Bastard," the Porsche Spyder in which James Dean died during a high-speed crash on September 30, 1955, near Cholame, California.
Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1955