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Hey and welcome into the short stuff Joshhere, Chuckhere, Jerryhere.
Let's go shortstuff. That'sright.
This one is about James DeanScar.
And James Deantoo, he plays a part init.
It's it amounts in hisdeath.
That'sright. The result's in hisdeath.
Yeah, that's when he drove that little silver Porsche 550spider.
Man. One of thefastest, it was like a little race carbasically.
One of the fastest cars in the world at thetime.
Had a top speed of about 143 miles anhour.
Sat how high off theground?
Like 42 inches orsomething?
Yeah, like that wasreally, really low to theground.
I saw that you could go right under a railroadarm.
Yeah, if you werecrazy.
Soyeah, and James Dean was known to be a littlecrazy.
The studios that he worked for werelike, you cannot race your car while you're under contract with us or while you're filming amovie, you have to wait until it's in betweenmovies.
And it just so happened that I ticket it was in betweenmovies.
I think it was after he had filmedgiant, which turned out to be his lastmovie, that he was heading towards Salinas to race at a sports car club of Americarace.
And he had his mechanic RalphWetheridge.
Yeah, in the seat besidehim.
And he was going about 85 and came upon an intersection that's known today to still be prettydeadly.
It's the intersection of Route 46 and41.
And there was a guy named with the improbable name of Donald turn-up speed who turned in front ofhim.
And that was that for JamesDean.
Yeah, I've never heard of that namebefore.
I had noteither. Not turned upspeed.
Right, that's what I thought it was amisspelling, butno.
Not turn-ipspeed.Right.
Literally turn-upspeed.
Yeah, that was the last name of the guy who got in the fatal wreck with JamesDean.
Isn't thatcrazy? It's prettycrazy.
And it was very sad and people have gone back since then and saidlike, youknow, thatintersection, the sun hits really bright where James Dean would have been at thattime.
He would have been very low to theground, being in thatcar.
85 miles anhour, clearly toofast.
And when the guyturned, they think that James Dean maynot, path of the sun may not have even seen this car taking a left and it was just lights out forhim.
There's another thread or another camp that says that Ralph Wetheridge later said that James Dean's last wordswere, he's got tostop.
I think he sees me and thenKabooh.
And apparently when theycollided, Donald turn-up speed was driving a Fordsedan.
And when you put an aluminum race car that's I think 39 inches of meter off the ground up against the Ford in a T-bonecollision, the Fordwins.
And that littlePorsche, but James Dean's still init.
Ralph Wetheridge got ejected fromit, which is what saved hislife.
James Dean was still in the car when it startedcartwheeling.
Just end over end over end into aditch.
And he broke his neck while he was doingthat.
And that's ultimately what killedhim.
That in a skullfracture, theysay.
Did you see the car after thewreck?
Allright,well, I just texted toyou.
So sorry aboutthat. That'sokay.
Take another look atit.
It's crazy that anyone survived thiscrash, but he was the onlyfatality.
And I guess we should take a break a little early here because the story about what happened to that car gets a little bit strange from this pointon.
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Okay,Chuck. So James Cine isdead.
But the death of James Cine is just like the the preface to this story because James Cine'scar, even though it was considered atotal, it wastotaled, had a strangeafterlife, and it ended up taking more lives if you go in for this kind ofstuff.
That'sright. It was sent to a salvage yard atfirst, ofcourse.
Then there was a guy who knew James Dean from the car racingcircuit.
His name was WilliamS.Rich.
He was looking for thiscar.
I don't think we said the nickname of the car was a littlebastard.
Found the car inBurbank, took out theengine, kind of stripped it forparts, or some of the parts atleast.
He got theengine, put it in his own racecar, it was a Lotus9, and gave the transmission and some of the suspension to a friend named Troy LeeMcKinney, another carracer.
Eleven monthslater, both of them crashedtheir, each of them crashed their car in the same race at the 56 Pomona RoadRaces, which killedMcKinney.
S Richsurvived, but both of them had parts from James Dean's car and thus began this idea that this car wascursed.
Right. The car itself was pretty much cherry-picked by thispoint, but even after Troy Lee McKinneydied, his widow gave some of his racing car parts to otherracers, friends ofhis, and among them were some of the ones from James Dean'scar.
Put a pin inthat, because that's kind of one direction that these thingswent.
There is another direction that a man named George Barris came along andsaid, here's where the story really begins if you listen to GeorgeBarris.
We'll just go ahead and caveat this with not everybody believes what George Barris has tosay.
Much like ChuckBarris.
Yeah. Forsure. Barris was a pretty famousguy.
He designed theBatmobile.
He designed the Munster's car from that TVshow.
He's a Hollywood movie TV and movie carguy.
I believe he has a museum if not he donated some cars to one of the movie carmuseums.
But it was pretty famous in entertainment circles for doing stuff likethat.
He says that he bought the frame and the body from James Dean's family sold two of the original tiresaway, which apparently those tires were blown at the same time in anothercar.
He had verifiedthat. I just take that for what it'sworth.
Right. And then he lent the car frame to the LA National SafetyCouncil.
They had like a travelingdisplay.
Youknow, when they'll show like a mangled car from a a DUI or something and as a warningsignal.
Supposedly that was what James Dean's car was used as in this thingreportedly, which you're saying all these qualifierwords.
But reportedly fell off its display on severaloccasions.
One time injuringsomeone, another time killing a guy named GeorgeBarcus.
Yeah. He was a truck driver who was transporting that car around from place to place for the National SafetyCouncil.
So James Dean's car has now claimed at least one more life and injured multipleothers.
It's getting more efficient at it because it's now been taken into pieces and spreadout.
So now it can become a kill machine moreefficiently.
So that car that the National Safety Council had touring around was supposedly put into storage in1960.
And it wasagain, allegedly in storage with other cars when it caught onfire.
No other car in this storage facility caught onfire.
Just James Dean'scar. It melted to like a tire andsinged, Ithink, some of theinterior.
And then afterthat, it supposedlydisappeared.
And George Barus continued on and waslike,Hey, I've got the chassisstill.
Can you believeit? Like these things just keep coming out ofnowhere.
Like I'm a magnet for James Dean carparts.
And he toured itaround.
And it was around thistime, I think that people really started to belike, this Barusfellas.
He'stalented, but he's really playing up to James Dean death carlegend.
Yeah. In hisbook, he claimed that a guy tried to steal the steering wheel and broke his arms trying to steal the steeringwheel.
Right. Pretty goodstory.
So now we can go back to the otherpath,right?
Yes. Because at thatpoint, the Barus car is suddenlydisappeared.
And then we don't know what had like if it if the Barus car was not the James Deancar, we don't know what happened to the originalone.
Right. But you told that story about the car being in storage and catchingfire.
And2015, it appeared that they found the frame because a guy got in touch with the museum director for the Volo AutoMuseum.
VoloIllinois, his name was BrianGraham's.
And he said that this guy told me that when he was akid, he saw his father and some friends of his hiding the body of that Porsche in a building and a false wall in the building when he was just six yearsold.
And it looked like that story checkedout.
Yeah. Imean, Brian Graham's who directed themuseum.
Like yousaid, he would he believes it enough to ask the guy to submit to apolygraph.
And he said that there's been tons of stories over the years because the Volo Auto Museum put out a $1 million offer for James Dean's original car thatagain, it disappeared back in1960.
And he said that all of the other stories just never checked out except forone.
And he was referring to that one from the guy who said that he saw his father hideit.
And you said that his dad did it with somefriends.
Among thosefriends, according to thisguy, was GeorgeBarris.
So all this would have checked out because this would have been the time that the car disappeared around1960.
And even though he he passed the polygraphtest, this anonymous man who was trying to collect this million dollars of fuel forhim, he couldn't get his hands on thecar.
I'm not sure at firstwhy.
Buteventually, they found that the building that it was hidden in was no longerthere.
It had beendemolished.
That'sright. And so they don't really know whathappened.
It could have been just a part of the overall demolition of that building since it was supposedly hidden in a false wall and gone down like the telltaleheart.
But no one really knows what happened to the rest of a littlebastard.
Supposedly, there was a transaxle in March of 2020 that I don't thinksupposedly.
I think this was actually confirmed to have been a part of the car because it came from McKinney'swidow.
And McKinney was the one who bought those original parts and died in thewreck.
Right. Thattransaxle, I guess it combines thedifferential, the transmission and theaxle, all into onecompartment.
If you know what those three thingsare, then you'll know what a transaxleis.
It wentfor, I think almost $400,000 atauction.
I think it was bought by ZachBaggins, the ghostguy, who probably has it in his Las Vegas Museumnow.
I guessso. 400 grand for atransaxle.
I know it's a famouscar, but I don'tknow.
That seems alittle... I don'tknow, it's just not the sexiestpart.
A cursedtransaxle.Yeah, and it was the whole point that it was hiscar.
I getit, but I don'tknow.
But Imean, this is coming from the guy who had the sheriff's door from JackieGleason's, sheriff's cruiser from smoking the bandit in my garage for years andyears.
Wow. What happened toit?
I've told this storybefore.
Whoknows? It hit mydad.
It hit my dad's wall at achickfulay.
My dad somehow gotit. He had achickfulay.
It was just an garageforever, and I think it was eventuallylike, just get that thing out ofhere.
Wow. I wish I hadit,man.
That thing would be a coffee table orsomething.
Yeah, or a great Halloweencostume.
Yeah. Or you me would be cursing me because I would have gifted you that coffee table made out of acardboard.
That's prettyawesome.
That would make a great coffee tablechuck.
Yeah. And a good weddinggift.
Yeah, forsure. Thank you for thethought.
It's the thought thatcounts.
So I appreciate the smoky in the bandit sheriff's car door coffee table that you thought about giving you me and I for ourwedding.
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