One additional note:Anyone who posts about auto racing and thinks that NASCAR is legitimate "racing" is to be ignored. NASCAR is not racing, it is sanctioned roundy round bumper cars surviving by advertising crap American beer and cancer causing chewing tobacco. It is nothing more than TV Wrestling with wheels, not a legitimate motor sport.
You Dirty SOB . There is not a thing wrong with auto racing or NASCAR. The only thing to be ignored here is you! I find your racist comments disgusting. People like you should be put in Prison.
@@chuckschillingvideos Whoa! I'm not sure who you line up as good or great actors and how emotions, natural emotions, make a picture. He never had to "act." He had the ability to pull you in. No matter how many were in the room or on the screen, you couldn't take your eyes off of him. Three movies are all we got to see of him and you don't see the gift he had? This man was handsome, photogenic, deep and sexy? Yes, indeed. R.I.P. James Dean
Anibal Babilonia: Get a life. He was no cooler than anyone else. but obviously, the brainwashing of publicists they do on actors has worked on you. He was just a guy, Anibal, just like any other guy and yes, it was a shame he died so young but it is just as bad a tragedy when any other young man or woman dies so young. Admire people if you want but please, don't put them up on a pedestal; they are just human beings just like you and me. The coolest guy that ever lived? really, really, REALLY? There are a lot of guys in this world and that's a strange thing to say as I doubt you have met or seen every guy in the world.
Jack Warner, the head of Warner Brother, forbid James from racing during filming, for fear of James not being able to film. Jack refered to James as "that little bastard".
Here's another Hollywood connection to this wreck, Bill Hickman, noted stunt driver probably best known as the driver of the black Dodge Charger in the classic Steve McQueen movie Bullitt was driving the station wagon behind Dean that was the support vehicle for Dean's racing efforts and was towing the trailer that the Porsche was on when they stopped to get gas when Dean decided to unload it and drive it to the race to get a feel for it instead of towing it to the race, Hickman met Dean when he was assigned as his dialogue coach for the movie Giant, Hickman came across the wreck moments after it happened and ran down and was holding onto Dean when people started to show up. Hickman went on to drive in some of Hollywood's greatest chase scenes including Bullitt, The Seven Up's, and The French Connection among others, he also had a small acting part in The French Connection.
Or that's what Dean's father called him and Dean satirically named his Porsche race car Little Bastard. Jack Warner was one of the old Hollywood kings and they ran everything with an iron fist. That included trying to control his actor employees lives whenever possible. Another theory put forth on the crash had Dean driving slower at the approach to the intersection and the closing speed of the two cars was 120-130. (eg, 60+60, 70+50, 70+60). But that could have been Warner spinning things to try and collect on his production delay/cancellation insurance.
@@dukecraig2402 Almost correct. It was Bob (Texas Bob) Hinkle that was the dialogue coach in Giant not Bill Hickman. But they have similar names so I understand the mix up. He was a stunt man in Rebel without a Cause so presumably that is how James and Bill met.
I live in it every day everything I own is the 1950s apart from this pc which is hidden away. My car, clothes House even tv im only 35 I hate today's world.
Excellent documentary. Great information about the history of the Porsche. More information, new people who were alive at the time he raced. Good narrative voice. Enjoyed this.
Glad you enjoyed this... Bob Varsha is one of the great commentators in automotive history. Reactions like yours are why I enjoy sharing these great programs on YT.
I am a more then a fan. I consider myself a Elvis and James Dean historian. Together these two men changed our culture forevet. Ironically though from the same era they never met they have very similar and very different traits and hobbies. To this day I don’t know any actor singer or performer who goes rite to your soul they can not be imitaded though many tried. You can’t recreate the mood and changes they created and that includes the Beatles and Michael Jackson. They come from a certain decade that gave birth to their persona that’s long gone and will never be again. So it’s not only their personalities but the era that their from that shaped them and gave way to the 60s. They also had a female counterpart named. Marilyn Monroe all died tragically but left legacies unmatched
That mercury he drove in "rebel without a cause" was George Barris's personal car. It wasn't supposed to be in the movie. But Dean saw it and insisted on using it for the movie.
As the Ambulance carrying Dean from the crash site T-Boned another vehicle it's quite feasible that this wrenched his severe neck injury beyond repair.
He was more than likely going to die from the severe skull fracture caused by the impact, when his face collided with the headlight of the Ford. Dean's face was cut with glass, but his Spyder's windscreen was made out of plexiglass, and because the glass on the Ford's windscreen was undamaged, the glass found imbedded in Dean's face had to have come from the headlight.
Yep that was unfortunate. He might have had a chance otherwise. But we'll never know. I hope he is at peace together in the afterlife with his Mother and Father.
I'm not a JD fan boy at all, but I bet after he became a racer, any car he drove would've been the car everybody had to have. I do wonder what 1960s cars he'd have driven. I could see him in a stingray
I have a Porsche 911 997. It is very very very difficult to drive those things slowly. And when I say slowly, I mean the speed limit, or even under 100 miles per hour. :) I mean they cruise at 110 (180km/h) fer chrissakes. And oh is he a good boy, handles like on Rails, accelerates like u r unleashing a monster. Words cannot describe the Joy of driving a Porsche. I can actually understand James Dean's addiction completely. Rest in peace my fellow Porsche Junkie ( by the way, wherever he is, he's thinking the worst thing is he can't drive his Porsche anymore. Haha)
James Dean's 'Drive' didn't 'change' history.... the car crash was noteworthy in what can be seen as an historic event. A culmination of both driver errors resulted in their collision and the death of Dean. Racing on the Highway - What would people really expect as a highly likely outcome?
it changed HIS STORY , fool , of course it changed history ! if it hadnt of happened things would of been very different in the movie world for one ,Elvis would of had to take a back seat also ,Wake up
I am, and will always be a "Deaner". However, I must sadly agree about driving that car on the highway. It was a stupid thing to do since the car was built for racetrack driving only. A more experienced driver would never have done such a thing. If Dean didn't know any better, his mechanic should have. But, I guess we have to remember that dean was young, and young people sometimes do stupid things. They are still of the "that happens to everyone else, not to me" mindset. Had he been 40, he probably would have had a different attitude and kept the Porsche on the back of the station wagon which he bought for that very purpose.
This is one of the great programs that were shown on the Speed Channel in the early 2000s. What a great channel that was! Then NASCAR bought the channel, and sucked all the life out of it.
They got the last photo info wrong. They say here in this video that the photo was taken at a roadside cafe , it was actually taken that morning at a gas station in Sherman Oaks on Ventura Blvd and Beverly Glen. They were filling up before they headed up north. They later stopped at a roadside market just shortly before the accident. There were no photos of that stop. The last photo of James Dean was earlier that morning in Sherman Oaks gasing up.
I doubt Dean was going ONE speed....I bet 70 was a kind of average. Anybody who's driven on those older two lane blacktops KNOWS that you get stuck behind a car ar 50 for a while then FLOOR it to pass and hit some high speeds Ultimately, turnupseed turned, with no blinker, moving kind of quick for taking a turn (in several vids they speak of 55 mph) and wasn't in his lane. I think Dean came down from his crazy speeds...but not enough speed limit was 50 there?? Still fatal
I saw a video about the crash. Dean was traveling west, and the time was five something in the afternoon. The sun could have been directly in his eyes, and when he finally saw the other car, it was too late.just a thought.
1955 cars were... HUGE.... here you have a young college boy headed home on a break from College there is a slower car in his way and most likely going to make the same sweeping turn to the left to head to Fresno there is no separate lane for a left turn and that turn is not at a sharp angle it is a sweeping turn that can be made at a high speed. So here is a College boy headed home maybe a date waiting. He sees his chance to pass the slower car that must also be blocking his view up the road ,and make the turn to get ahead of that car all at one time.Needless to say he is not looking closely for other traffic and surely not for a small silver Porsche that would have been nearly invisible to him on that road. ....he passes the slower car that has slowed even more to make the turn he swings out to pass then just a second before impact he sees the Porsche... BOOM ! Huge car wins James Dean is dead and his friend and Mechanic severely injured does not matter who was driving the Porsche the outcome would have been still in the College boys hands. His Father is well known in the area and powerful the boy made a mistake can't bring James Dean back to life anyways so why ruin the boys life too they must have reasoned....sadly so. He knew what he had done and why , he had to live with that and not well I believe. A Japanese Fan of James Dean had a memorial put near the crash site the, roads have been realigned and are not the same now as back in 1955 ....I live in the area.
I can tell you exactly where Guinness got the inside that Dean wouldn't have lived very much longer. He, like others , realized that Dean was dangerous.
It still makes me angry that (Donald Turnipseed) the driver of the other car wasn't charged and convicted. It's almost stereotypical of small police forces to blame the big city movie people for their own deaths. Since when does driving 10 mph over the speed limit carry a death sentence? The known facts are that Dean was going straight in his lane and the other driver turned into him head on. Regardless of all speculation the other driver impeded Dean's right of way and killed him.
He Probably couldn't see that 550 either as it blended into the color of the road way at that time of the day..would explain more about driving into the path of an oncoming vehicle. Not trying to defend the other drvr but after riding mtrcycles over 38yrs it makes a lot of sense as I've had drvrs do this to me umpteenth times even though they're looking right at me as I come dwn the road/street. R.I.P James Dean 'little Bastard' Gone but not forgotten.
Dean was speeding near 100 mph that and the color blended into near unseen. If anyone was at fought it was Dean speeding near 100 mph at the accident point.
I agree with you. Most of time I drive on the highways over 10 to 25 MPH over the speed limit (most people do too) and never had any accident. On James Dean accident seems like the cause of the accident was the Ford driver, according to the reports on how things happened.
Clint Eastwood has been there several times paying tribute. He told people Dean was a good friend. Damn, James Dean was a people magnet. He would cultivate friendships with so many who'd helped him along the way in his career. Unbelievable for someone simultaneously private and alone.
I read some comments here asking us to imagine what James Dean would be doing today if he was alive. Well it's rather obvious isn't it? ... He would be trying to get out of his coffin.
The computer crash forensic woman clearly got it wrong , the car flipped over and landed back on the wheels which is not shown in her reenactment. The other driver was completely at fault for turning left in front of on coming traffic , the speed of the on coming car is irrelevant.
There is so much misinformation in this program. SMH. Dean was not speeding well not 'balling the jack' at least according to experts of crash studies.
Combining force of each car at even 60mph -each....will give you exact equivilant of running into Stone Mountain at 120mph. . .And "crush - characteristics ..?? Plot the steel, ladder-framed 3000-lb Ford Businessman's Coupe against the 1500-lb aluminum, pressed-frame rear-engined Porsche . . in a near head-on..?? Bye, Félicia....
It is interesting that it was a Porsche that decapitated many spectators at Le Mans in 1955 and led to Porsche not fielding a F1 team for 40 years. Porsche also released the infamous 911 turbo know as 'the widow maker', because it killed so many people.
George barris did not paint anything on that car.that was one of the fibs barris pushed right to his end....dean did not say anything like he'll see us as per wutherichs testimony.
There will always be conflicting reports about this accident, but I believe he either died instantly or before the ambulance arrived. That photo of his being carried to ambulance, he is entirely covered. I don't see how they could cover his face and hinder his breathing.
OMG I have binge-watched everything on James Dean. It's all there thanks to RUclips. An amazing collection not available until the internet. I'm 67 and never even knew about Dean other than hearing his name! I cannot believe it because I even worked for HBO back in its early days, the 1980s.
If they’d known what these things would be worth today ? If had a time machine and could go back and buy a shitload of not just porcha But Ferrari and even the American muscle cars ! And some Rolex watches ! Who knew a hundred dollar watch would be worth millions today ?
If not for the speeding ticket wouldn't Dean have been further along on his journey thus Turnupseed and him would not have connected? Always wonder about that.
Officer Tripke did not know whom James Dean was. He mistook the name for a company that was founded 14 years later. ??? Also, Porsche did miserable in the CART series and they have never won the Indy 500. Maybe this is an early CNN report.
Porsche won races because the other cars would break down, & spend time in the pits. It was like the tortoise & the hare. I have owned Porsche cars, & they are not the fastest, but they are very dependable.
Jimmy Dean was already famous by 1954 for his radio program that featured Patsy Cline and Roy Clark. Officer Tripke would have indeed have heard the name Jimmy Dean, and not from his later sausage brand.
More like something from Faux News and your inability to understand why he referenced the sausage company is indicative of someone who's been conditioned not to think.
@@if6was929 Go back to your network, Fredo. This is a forgivable trivia error on Paul Straney's part - Officer Tripke was referring to the country singer, coincidentally later famous for his sausage company - but either notoriety attached to Jimmy Dean the country singer, is really old info. Officer Tripke was apparently not familiar with the young actor who in 1955 had made movies, as yet unreleased, that a rural cop would highly likely have seen. Anyone who is a partisan for CNN should never, ever, put down anyone else's reasoning skills. SMH.
1971 Cuda sold for $3 million dollars ,Garage kept but the original owner did drive the car, you could see the paint was Dull and ORIGINAL. Mecum auction. I’m 65 years old I saw them on the street back in the day. Just watching it I felt good. And the Porsche was more than he could handle, everyone said the same thing ”The Rebel without a Clue”. 🏎💨
Yes... East of Eden was the only movie Dean lived to see. Rebel without a Cause was released a few weeks after his death and Giant was released a year after his death.
I was thinking the same. I may add, an instant suicide thought probably and he took his chance, of course he must have had thoughts before that it was his time to go. So he steered the car to the path of the car estimating to get the full impact on his own body, but sort of knowing to leave every one else alive. It wasn't their time yet. He also described before that this kind of death would be one of the best ways to go. Quick and clean.
Pat, for James Dean's last film, "Giant", the characters in that film had to age towards the last scenes to be filmed. James' hair was shaved back to create the appearance of a receding hair line. His hair was also dyed grey for that scene. That is why he looked old at the time of his death. He got to grow into an old man on film, but not in reality. That may be why he looked "old" at age 24.
@@ELVISISKING1000 True, the necessary change of appearance to the older Jett Rink certainly aged him. But Dean also lived pretty hard, he lost a significant romance with Angeli, suffered from insomnia, smoked too much, allegedly enjoyed the booze and speed, and always gave his all, in his acting craft. Enough to take it's toll, on anyone's visage. Still, he looked damned good, right up till the end. A cool dude, with so much promise. Bummer.
You can also say they were driving race cars. Porshe Carrera gt might be available to the public but thats a racecar with license plates. Margin for error in that car is extremely small. And james Dean's porshe 950 spider. Well look at it. The thing looks like a death trap if you were to try ringing it out. No conspiracy, just really dangerously fast cars that lost control.
One additional note:Anyone who posts about auto racing and thinks that NASCAR is legitimate "racing" is to be ignored. NASCAR is not racing, it is sanctioned roundy round bumper cars surviving by advertising crap American beer and cancer causing chewing tobacco. It is nothing more than TV Wrestling with wheels, not a legitimate motor sport.
You Dirty SOB . There is not a thing wrong with auto racing or NASCAR. The only thing to be ignored here is you! I find your racist comments disgusting. People like you should be put in Prison.
bohemian46 lol someones a little salty
Google User lol hows that racist
Although all races enjoy Auto Racing it is overwhelming a White Tradition right down to the southern flag
Motor sport is not really sports. It is just amusement with large toys.
He will always be remembered and the question will always remain "what if the accident never happened?"
The question is...what is he remembered for? His acting is, to be quite generous, quite unremarkable.
@@chuckschillingvideos Whoa! I'm not sure who you line up as good or great actors and how emotions, natural emotions, make a picture. He never had to "act." He had the ability to pull you in. No matter how many were in the room or on the screen, you couldn't take your eyes off of him. Three movies are all we got to see of him and you don't see the gift he had? This man was handsome, photogenic, deep and sexy? Yes, indeed. R.I.P. James Dean
Then he would be a fat alcholic.
@@tombryan1 would have died in the aids epidemic
@@gregh7457 very true. Doesn’t seem like he would had a long life
James Dean, the coolest guy that ever lived! RIP🙏 TO THE LEGEND!
What does "cool" have to do with it? He had no wisdom. That killed him.
Anibal Babilonia: Get a life. He was no cooler than anyone else. but obviously, the brainwashing of publicists they do on actors has worked on you. He was just a guy, Anibal, just like any other guy and yes, it was a shame he died so young but it is just as bad a tragedy when any other young man or woman dies so young. Admire people if you want but please, don't put them up on a pedestal; they are just human beings just like you and me. The coolest guy that ever lived? really, really, REALLY? There are a lot of guys in this world and that's a strange thing to say as I doubt you have met or seen every guy in the world.
Make 2 and a half pictures and becomes a legend? Horse puckey, he was better when he didn’t speak……or have any lines
Jack Warner, the head of Warner Brother, forbid James from racing during filming, for fear of James not being able to film. Jack refered to James as "that little bastard".
Here's another Hollywood connection to this wreck, Bill Hickman, noted stunt driver probably best known as the driver of the black Dodge Charger in the classic Steve McQueen movie Bullitt was driving the station wagon behind Dean that was the support vehicle for Dean's racing efforts and was towing the trailer that the Porsche was on when they stopped to get gas when Dean decided to unload it and drive it to the race to get a feel for it instead of towing it to the race, Hickman met Dean when he was assigned as his dialogue coach for the movie Giant, Hickman came across the wreck moments after it happened and ran down and was holding onto Dean when people started to show up.
Hickman went on to drive in some of Hollywood's greatest chase scenes including Bullitt, The Seven Up's, and The French Connection among others, he also had a small acting part in The French Connection.
Or that's what Dean's father called him and Dean satirically named his Porsche race car Little Bastard. Jack Warner was one of the old Hollywood kings and they ran everything with an iron fist. That included trying to control his actor employees lives whenever possible. Another theory put forth on the crash had Dean driving slower at the approach to the intersection and the closing speed of the two cars was 120-130. (eg, 60+60, 70+50, 70+60). But that could have been Warner spinning things to try and collect on his production delay/cancellation insurance.
@@dukecraig2402 Almost correct. It was Bob (Texas Bob) Hinkle that was the dialogue coach in Giant not Bill Hickman. But they have similar names so I understand the mix up. He was a stunt man in Rebel without a Cause so presumably that is how James and Bill met.
That little epithet - bastard, is what Jimmy was sometimes referred to in Fairmont. It had nothing to do with Jack Warner.
@@frankpotter1982 Do you know who called him that in Fairmont and for what reason?
I live in it every day everything I own is the 1950s apart from this pc which is hidden away. My car, clothes House even tv im only 35 I hate today's world.
Seek help, buddy ..
what kind of car?
live in your own time before you regret it
I had a 356 way back, before radial tires. Still handled pretty well
Excellent documentary. Great information about the history of the Porsche. More information, new people who were alive at the time he raced. Good narrative voice. Enjoyed this.
Glad you enjoyed this... Bob Varsha is one of the great commentators in automotive history. Reactions like yours are why I enjoy sharing these great programs on YT.
I thank you very much, in turn. Keep up the good work!
Make sure you get the IMS bearing replaced…or get a 2009 and newer
It's really sad that James Dean died so early in his life. I can only imagine how far his career would have gone had he lived longer
I sure miss Bob Varsha’s commentary in Formula one these days! He and David Hobbs, along with the great John Bisignano, were my favorites!
This breakdown gives a different perspective .
Well Done
He grew up in fairmount Indiana we do James dean car show every year
"He got to see us" ...No! never trust people on the Road! Be careful and slow down.
I am a more then a fan. I consider myself a Elvis and James Dean historian. Together these two men changed our culture forevet. Ironically though from the same era they never met they have very similar and very different traits and hobbies. To this day I don’t know any actor singer or performer who goes rite to your soul they can not be imitaded though many tried. You can’t recreate the mood and changes they created and that includes the Beatles and Michael Jackson. They come from a certain decade that gave birth to their persona that’s long gone and will never be again. So it’s not only their personalities but the era that their from that shaped them and gave way to the 60s. They also had a female counterpart named. Marilyn Monroe all died tragically but left legacies unmatched
JAMES DEAN DID FIND IMORTALITY IN THE HEARTS OF HIS FAN'S
THE BEST LOOKING, COOLEST MAN WHO EVER EXISTED.
james jackson; Get a life James. Did you know him that well? or did you know him at all?
@@johnrobinson1020 I KNOW HIM BETTER THAN HE KNOWS ME MATE.
Thanks you so much for sharing this video I remember this back in my days when I was 10yearold
i've been looking for this for years! thanks!
Why ? It's bullshit by a slick, self serving presenter. Very little is factual and poorly researched. Next.
That mercury he drove in "rebel without a cause" was George
Barris's personal car. It wasn't supposed to be in the movie. But Dean saw it and insisted on using it for the movie.
Watched from Jamaica, very interesting
James Dean 4 ever ,😘
As the Ambulance carrying Dean from the crash site T-Boned another vehicle it's quite feasible that this wrenched his severe neck injury beyond repair.
He was more than likely going to die from the severe skull fracture caused by the impact, when his face collided with the headlight of the Ford. Dean's face was cut with glass, but his Spyder's windscreen was made out of plexiglass, and because the glass on the Ford's windscreen was undamaged, the glass found imbedded in Dean's face had to have come from the headlight.
Yep that was unfortunate. He might have had a chance otherwise. But we'll never know. I hope he is at peace together in the afterlife with his Mother and Father.
I'm not a JD fan boy at all, but I bet after he became a racer, any car he drove would've been the car everybody had to have. I do wonder what 1960s cars he'd have driven. I could see him in a stingray
I have a Porsche 911 997. It is very very very difficult to drive those things slowly. And when I say slowly, I mean the speed limit, or even under 100 miles per hour. :) I mean they cruise at 110 (180km/h) fer chrissakes. And oh is he a good boy, handles like on Rails, accelerates like u r unleashing a monster. Words cannot describe the Joy of driving a Porsche. I can actually understand James Dean's addiction completely. Rest in peace my fellow Porsche Junkie ( by the way, wherever he is, he's thinking the worst thing is he can't drive his Porsche anymore. Haha)
James Dean's 'Drive' didn't 'change' history.... the car crash was noteworthy in what can be seen as an historic event. A culmination of both driver errors resulted in their collision and the death of Dean. Racing on the Highway - What would people really expect as a highly likely outcome?
it changed HIS STORY , fool , of course it changed history ! if it hadnt of happened things would of been very different in the movie world for one ,Elvis would of had to take a back seat also ,Wake up
I am, and will always be a "Deaner". However, I must sadly agree about driving that car on the highway. It was a stupid thing to do since the car was built for racetrack driving only. A more experienced driver would never have done such a thing. If Dean didn't know any better, his mechanic should have. But, I guess we have to remember that dean was young, and young people sometimes do stupid things. They are still of the "that happens to everyone else, not to me" mindset. Had he been 40, he probably would have had a different attitude and kept the Porsche on the back of the station wagon which he bought for that very purpose.
To me the only success, the only greatness is immortality.
I'd say he got there,
It's hard to believe that JD would be 91 this year.
This was GREAT!!! And yes I am a James Dean fan
thanks for posting
This is one of the great programs that were shown on the Speed Channel in the early 2000s. What a great channel that was! Then NASCAR bought the channel, and sucked all the life out of it.
They got the last photo info wrong. They say here in this video that the photo was taken at a roadside cafe , it was actually taken that morning at a gas station in Sherman Oaks on Ventura Blvd and Beverly Glen. They were filling up before they headed up north. They later stopped at a roadside market just shortly before the accident. There were no photos of that stop. The last photo of James Dean was earlier that morning in Sherman Oaks gasing up.
35:46 Thats quite a catchy title. Rolls right off your tongue.
I doubt Dean was going ONE speed....I bet 70 was a kind of average.
Anybody who's driven on those older two lane blacktops KNOWS that you get stuck behind a car ar 50 for a while then FLOOR it to pass and hit some high speeds
Ultimately, turnupseed turned, with no blinker, moving kind of quick for taking a turn (in several vids they speak of 55 mph) and wasn't in his lane.
I think Dean came down from his crazy speeds...but not enough
speed limit was 50 there??
Still fatal
I saw a video about the crash. Dean was traveling west, and the time was five something in the afternoon. The sun could have been directly in his eyes, and when he finally saw the other car, it was too late.just a thought.
Dean did have the right of way
Not at 125mph,
1955 cars were... HUGE.... here you have a young college boy headed home on a break from College there is a slower car in his way and most likely going to make the same sweeping turn to the left to head to Fresno there is no separate lane for a left turn and that turn is not at a sharp angle it is a sweeping turn that can be made at a high speed. So here is a College boy headed home maybe a date waiting. He sees his chance to pass the slower car that must also be blocking his view up the road ,and make the turn to get ahead of that car all at one time.Needless to say he is not looking closely for other traffic and surely not for a small silver Porsche that would have been nearly invisible to him on that road. ....he passes the slower car that has slowed even more to make the turn he swings out to pass then just a second before impact he sees the Porsche... BOOM ! Huge car wins James Dean is dead and his friend and Mechanic severely injured does not matter who was driving the Porsche the outcome would have been still in the College boys hands. His Father is well known in the area and powerful the boy made a mistake can't bring James Dean back to life anyways so why ruin the boys life too they must have reasoned....sadly so. He knew what he had done and why , he had to live with that and not well I believe. A Japanese Fan of James Dean had a memorial put near the crash site the, roads have been realigned and are not the same now as back in 1955 ....I live in the area.
I can tell you exactly where Guinness got the inside that Dean wouldn't have lived very much longer. He, like others , realized that Dean was dangerous.
It still makes me angry that (Donald Turnipseed) the driver of the other car wasn't charged and convicted. It's almost stereotypical of small police forces to blame the big city movie people for their own deaths. Since when does driving 10 mph over the speed limit carry a death sentence? The known facts are that Dean was going straight in his lane and the other driver turned into him head on. Regardless of all speculation the other driver impeded Dean's right of way and killed him.
I saw a Mirage one day , it obscured the truth !
He Probably couldn't see that 550 either as it blended into the color of the road way at that time of the day..would explain more about driving into the path of an oncoming vehicle.
Not trying to defend the other drvr but after riding mtrcycles over 38yrs it makes a lot of sense as I've had drvrs do this to me umpteenth times even though they're looking right at me as I come dwn the road/street. R.I.P
James Dean 'little Bastard'
Gone but not forgotten.
Dean was speeding near 100 mph that and the color blended into near unseen. If anyone was at fought it was Dean speeding near 100 mph at the accident point.
I agree with you. Most of time I drive on the highways over 10 to 25 MPH over the speed limit (most people do too) and never had any accident. On James Dean accident seems like the cause of the accident was the Ford driver, according to the reports on how things happened.
The young people then thought James Dean was cooler then cool. A teenage idle.
His death, made him famous..He wasn't even known, until his movies debutted- After his death...
idol..not idle
I would love to know where they got the vintage film of the Porsches and Spyders.
Why would you take a car that someone died in on tour? How morbid.
America.. Anything to make a buck. I read that the car Bonnie & Clyde were killed in made $3000 per week on tour in the 1950's.
It was for a safety campaign.
I have been to that cafe that his fans gather Yearly East of Paso Robles, Ca.
Clint Eastwood has been there several times paying tribute. He told people Dean was a good friend. Damn, James Dean was a people magnet. He would cultivate friendships with so many who'd helped him along the way in his career. Unbelievable for someone simultaneously private and alone.
not closed captioned couldnt enjoy it thanks alot
Dean Jeffries did the numbers and lettering on the Porsche, not George Barris.
Nope
@@rockettcustoms6266 Yes
I would never let George Barris anywhere near a vehicle of mine. The only things George Barris ever produced were clown cars.
I read some comments here asking us to imagine what James Dean would be doing today if he was alive. Well it's rather obvious isn't it? ... He would be trying to get out of his coffin.
The computer crash forensic woman clearly got it wrong , the car flipped over and landed back on the wheels which is not shown in her reenactment. The other driver was completely at fault for turning left in front of on coming traffic , the speed of the on coming car is irrelevant.
I want to hear more about these creepy people he hung out with.
There is so much misinformation in this program. SMH. Dean was not speeding well not 'balling the jack' at least according to experts of crash studies.
He WAS speeding.you don't know your facts.
No.
No, you are stuck on old facts. I guess if you count 5 mph over the limit as speeding you are correct.
Combining force of each car at even 60mph -each....will give you exact equivilant of running into Stone Mountain at 120mph. . .And "crush - characteristics ..?? Plot the steel, ladder-framed 3000-lb Ford Businessman's Coupe against the 1500-lb aluminum, pressed-frame rear-engined Porsche . . in a near head-on..?? Bye, Félicia....
recordando siempre al gran James Dean
Trip down memory lane to when I was 9-10 years old watching this and the one they did on JFK after school.
It is interesting that it was a Porsche that decapitated many spectators at Le Mans in 1955 and led to Porsche not fielding a F1 team for 40 years. Porsche also released the infamous 911 turbo know as 'the widow maker', because it killed so many people.
George barris did not paint anything on that car.that was one of the fibs barris pushed right to his end....dean did not say anything like he'll see us as per wutherichs testimony.
the last picture of him in the petrol station is the same as the last picture of that actor in need for speed
Dean Jefferies painted the lettering & numbers on the Spyder, NOT George Barris!
💘you James Always Libra and Virgo always 💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘
2019 an iv picture James Dean on my sitting room wall 🙏🙏🙏💚💚💚
Paul walker have the same fate with porsche car...
That sure was a young Bob Varsha!
Forever
I'm...pretty sure James died in the Ambulance on the way to the hospital? Not instantly.
There will always be conflicting reports about this accident, but I believe he either died instantly or before the ambulance arrived. That photo of his being carried to ambulance, he is entirely covered. I don't see how they could cover his face and hinder his breathing.
He didn't die instantly
Just watched this and have at many times thought about James dean. I’m going to see if RUclips has any of his movies. 1st timer
OMG I have binge-watched everything on James Dean. It's all there thanks to RUclips. An amazing collection not available until the internet. I'm 67 and never even knew about Dean other than hearing his name! I cannot believe it because I even worked for HBO back in its early days, the 1980s.
If they’d known what these things would be worth today ? If had a time machine and could go back and buy a shitload of not just porcha But Ferrari and even the American muscle cars ! And some Rolex watches ! Who knew a hundred dollar watch would be worth millions today ?
Pat Backus , you should think more about how to save your immortal soul and be in Eternal Union with God .
my parents were there right after the crash which was in the middle of nowhere
32:41 lol The sausage maker.
I always thought Jimmy Dean was named after James Dean.
Why not have exit from the road on the right side instead of left side across of oncoming traffic?
It would have never happened.
What a 5 foot 5 inch 138 pound stud
Long intro. Skip to 5:00
9:20
"who uh... who were kind of satanists or something like that"
thatallredheadude 1 , satanists in Hollywood: C’mon, that can’t be true !
The tribe that runs Hollywood......
yeah, that guy was trying to Talk Around something
If not for the speeding ticket wouldn't Dean have been further along on his journey thus Turnupseed and him would not have connected? Always wonder about that.
"If not for the" could be traced all the way back to his first day of 9,000 that he lived on this planet tho.
Officer Tripke did not know whom James Dean was. He mistook the name for a company that was founded 14 years later. ??? Also, Porsche did miserable in the CART series and they have never won the Indy 500. Maybe this is an early CNN report.
Porsche won races because the other cars would break down, & spend time in the pits. It was like the tortoise & the hare. I have owned Porsche cars, & they are not the fastest, but they are very dependable.
Jimmy Dean was already famous by 1954 for his radio program that featured Patsy Cline and Roy Clark. Officer Tripke would have indeed have heard the name Jimmy Dean, and not from his later sausage brand.
More like something from Faux News and your inability to understand why he referenced the sausage company is indicative of someone who's been conditioned not to think.
@@if6was929 Go back to your network, Fredo. This is a forgivable trivia error on Paul Straney's part - Officer Tripke was referring to the country singer, coincidentally later famous for his sausage company - but either notoriety attached to Jimmy Dean the country singer, is really old info. Officer Tripke was apparently not familiar with the young actor who in 1955 had made movies, as yet unreleased, that a rural cop would highly likely have seen.
Anyone who is a partisan for CNN should never, ever, put down anyone else's reasoning skills. SMH.
Paul Straney
You are correct. He sounds like he has some dementia.
1971 Cuda sold for $3 million dollars ,Garage kept but the original owner did drive the car, you could see the paint was Dull and ORIGINAL. Mecum auction.
I’m 65 years old I saw them on the street back in the day.
Just watching it I felt good. And the Porsche was more than he could handle, everyone said the same thing ”The Rebel without a Clue”. 🏎💨
TPHVICTIMS
I had a 1973 Super Duty TA. 455 and 4 speed in 1990. I sold it for 3 grand. It’s probably worth 10 times that now.
I thinki my husabdnwould adamantly disagree. He has just restored his first Nascar Corvette or is it a Camaro?
FORD GT was a nice design..
i think jimmy wants his car back.find the car remains and bury it with him.
130 mph 4 or 5 speed? tire diameter - the mass of the porsche is 1/3 the mass of the ford mv=mv
i'm sorry but, wasn't james dean dead before any of his movies were released?
No.. East of Eden was released in March 1955. Dean died in September.
Yes... East of Eden was the only movie Dean lived to see. Rebel without a Cause was released a few weeks after his death and Giant was released a year after his death.
I think it's still around. It's just hid somewhere
Lil' Bastard was the car's name
I don't know why he didn't turn the other way to not hit it no turn in the path of the car
I was thinking the same. I may add, an instant suicide thought probably and he took his chance, of course he must have had thoughts before that it was his time to go. So he steered the car to the path of the car estimating to get the full impact on his own body, but sort of knowing to leave every one else alive. It wasn't their time yet. He also described before that this kind of death would be one of the best ways to go. Quick and clean.
24 he looked old for his age
That's what he thought as well
He was a child of the depression and World War II. It wasn't an easy time to grow up if your family was of modest means. People aged pretty damn fast.
Most people in the '50s looked more mature then nowdays.
Pat, for James Dean's last film, "Giant", the characters in that film had to age towards the last scenes to be filmed. James' hair was shaved back to create the appearance of a receding hair line. His hair was also dyed grey for that scene. That is why he looked old at the time of his death. He got to grow into an old man on film, but not in reality. That may be why he looked "old" at age 24.
@@ELVISISKING1000 True, the necessary change of appearance to the older Jett Rink certainly aged him. But Dean also lived pretty hard, he lost a significant romance with Angeli, suffered from insomnia, smoked too much, allegedly enjoyed the booze and speed, and always gave his all, in his acting craft. Enough to take it's toll, on anyone's visage. Still, he looked damned good, right up till the end. A cool dude, with so much promise. Bummer.
My obsession with speed lead me to the psych ward ..
Porsche bought the car to get rid of bad publicity?
Jay Leno has this car 😉
Please subtitles!
I just think all Porsches are cursed when it comes to actors. Paul Walker died in the Porsche Carrera GT.
i think i have found James Deans 550 Spider, @38:55 he admits he owns it...
Falta abrir a opção Legendas ???
This video rambles all over the place.
It is full is misinformation about Jimmie Dean.
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Aloha
I hate that guy who collide with james car he just killed beautiful talented guy
damn i agree ,there is a market though just don't call it racing
I remember Brock Yates he was a host with Steve Evans on American Sports cavalcade way back in the day
It's a death trap on the street
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Got a ticket doing 65 in a 55mph straight line highway? That cop killed him! ...like most...
Typical lib u r always blaming others
Dean sounds like a terrible driver, side swiping traffic in town, constantly getting into scrapes. Fast ? Yes...talented ? Yes, as an actor
Bob Varsha is the best.
That’s a bad thumbnail
... James Dean and Paul Walker both died in Porsches 😯😲
You can also say they were driving race cars. Porshe Carrera gt might be available to the public but thats a racecar with license plates. Margin for error in that car is extremely small. And james Dean's porshe 950 spider. Well look at it. The thing looks like a death trap if you were to try ringing it out. No conspiracy, just really dangerously fast cars that lost control.
@@thomasgreen1557 very well said! Totally agree.
he wasnt driving it also
dfcvda ...yes he was, the aftermath of the impact had him swung over a bit to the passenger side.