James Dean's last autograph

KGET (Bakersfield CA) ^ | 09/29/2012

[Kid Shelleen]

This Sunday, it will be 57 years since the world lost its rebel without a cause.

James Dean died after driving through Kern County on September 30, 1955. While it's a date his fans will always remember, it's also an important date for a local man, who all those years ago, didn't know he had a brush with fame.

[a fool in paradise]

On a speeding ticket?

[Salamander]

*ouch*

[Lancey Howard]

lol

[Salamander]

Alone came a Spyder, picked up a rider and took him down the road to eternity;

http://www.hauntedvehicles.com/jamesdeanspyder.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lqAgINXiKY

[bandleader]

I know that part of California very well.I grew up in Malibu and I had an uncle(farmer)in Tulare(about 100-miles north of Bakersfield).We used to drive up”Old 99”at least once a year.

[count-your-change]

I always liked his sausage products.

[maine-iac7]

the crash was in San Louis Obispo county, just outside of Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County -

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for those links. Whew... I guess.
That’s some spooky stuff right there.

[RegulatorCountry]

Here’s a well done recreation of the crash, with interviews of policemen who were actually at the scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oChd0FjNC5k

There are a couple of nice replicas around here, I see them periodically on their way up to VIR for a race, most often trailered but sometimes on the road.

They’re small. Sound good, though. I understand Beck, the company that builds these replicas in Indiana, uses a flat four “boxer” engine by Subaru in them, a stage II turbo 2.0 liter. I’d imagine they’re a blast to drive.

[presently no screen name]

That’s Jimmie Dean, not ‘the’ James Dean.

[Kid Shelleen]

too fast to live,, too young to die...

[count-your-change]

Just having a bit of a go at you there.

[sheana]

It was in Cholame. Not much there but a burger joint.

[Fiji Hill]

Cholame, in San Luis Obispo County, is west--not south--of Kern County.

[Fiji Hill]

I always liked his sausage products.

I think that was a different James Dean.

[count-your-change]

You're right. I was being faceti...fesatios...I was joking.

[353FMG]

Egad, man doesn’t live on sausage alone.

Think of brisket, think of pulled pork, think of jerky.

[Fiji Hill]

Think of brisket, think of pulled pork, think of jerky.

That doesn't sound halal.

[presently no screen name]

uses a flat four “boxer” engine by Subaru in them

Is there something special about that engine? I'm thinking of getting a Subaru.