James Dean washing his Porsche 356 Speedster. Credit:Rentaclassiccar. Tempted though we were by the other sports cars on offer, including a red Alfa Romeo Spider Giulia, ...

View James Dean with His Porsche 356 Speedster and at the Race Track (8 works) (24) By Worth Frank; Gelatin silver prints, ferrotyped; 8 x 11 inches (20.3 x 27.9 cm) (; Edition. Access more artwork ...

In May 1956, Bracker bought a new Porsche 356 1600 Speedster and drove it to Fairmount to spend time with the Winslows, Dean’s paternal relatives. The family’s farmhouse is just down the road from ...

Porsche Speedster 50th Anniversary ... It would have been a road James Dean would have loved to ... being a Speedster-only event, even late-model 356 coupes and convertibles were sent across ...

Among them was Hollywood icon James Dean, who of course would die the following year in a Porsche 550 Spyder while en route to a race in Salinas, California. 1955 Porsche 356 Speedster ...

That affair began in March 1955 when he bought a Porsche 356 1500cc Super Speedster convertible, which he traded for the silver 550 Spyder the following September. ... Porsche and James Dean ...

Dean had owned a Porsche Speedster, a 356 roadster with a distinctive low windshield, that he raced. During the filming of “Rebel Without a Cause,” he traded his Speedster for the 550, one of ...

The concept was a hit—thank you, James Dean—and since the late 1980s, Porsche has sporadically used the Speedster name on special droptop 911s. 0:00 / 0:00 One version of the 911 that didn’t ...