little bastard

Efter att James Dean körde ihjäl sig har bilen blivit legendary... it's said to be cursed... Efter att han dött köpte han som döpt bilen och målat dit namnet "little bastard" den för 2000dollar. Han hetter George Barris (som också gjorde batmobilen för övrigt).. sen blir det lite spöklikt...

As soon as the vehicle was delivered to Barris' garage, it slipped off its trailer and broke a mechanic's leg.

Shortly thereafter, Barris sold the engine to Troy McHenry and the drive train to William Eschrid. Both were physicians and racing hobbyists. While racing at the Pomona fairgrounds on October 24, 1956, McHenry was killed when his vehicle spun out of control and crashed into a tree. Eschrid's race car rolled several times while taking a curve, seriously injuring him. He later said that the vehicle 'just locked up' on him.

Two tires that Barris sold malfunctioned simultaneously, causing the car they were on to go off the road.

A young man who was attempting to steal the steering wheel had his arm gashed open on a piece of jagged metal.

Another man was hurt while trying to steal one of the bloodstained seats.

At this point, Barris decided that the car would be safer in storage. But before long, the California Highway Patrol persuaded him to loan them the car for a traveling exhibition.

The mangled remains of Little Bastard were taken to a garage in Fresno, and stored there. Then, in March 1959, a fire broke out in the garage. The garage itself, and everything stored within, were incinerated. All except for the wreckage of James Dean's car.

Further tragedy followed. At a display at Sacramento High School on the anniversary of Dean's accident, the bolts holding the car in place snapped. The car plowed off its display and broke the hip of a fifteen-year-old boy who had been looking at the wreckage.

En route to Salinas, the truck hauling the vehicle lost control, causing the driver to fall out of the cab. Although the fall from the vehicle didn't kill him, the Porsche fell off the truck bed and landed on top of him, ending his life.

Reportedly, while being displayed in New Orleans, the wreckage spontaneously broke apart in five separate pieces.

The car came off of a truck two other times. Once while on a freeway, and a second time in Oregon.

In 1960, the car's tour ended. Barris had the vehicle loaded onto a box car in Florida and sealed shut. Then it was transported via train back to California. When the train arrived in L.A., the seal was still intact, yet the car had vanished, and has not been seen since.