Quote Originally Posted by Roger Dowding View Post
Poster - copy courtesy Mike Ryan in the USA - this is the event that James Dean was going to in his Porsche 550 that had replaced his 356 - October 1955.
By accounts I have read the car was supposed to have been trailered [ behind 1 1955 Ford Ranchwagon [ Station Wagon ] but in the end Dean and his mate drove the Porsche when that fatal accident occurred.
Dean called his car " The Little Bastard " and has that sign written on it.
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Dean and his German mechanic, Rolf Weutherich, decided to drive the new Porsche to Salinas to get more mileage on the engine and to give Dean more experience of the car's handling.

"Little Bastard" was the nickname given to Dean by his friend Bill Hickman. Hickman, quite a bit taller than Dean, was known as "Big Bastard"