James Dean and the Porsche 356 Speedster

Love at First Sight-Rediscovering James Dean's First Race Car

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by Lee Raskin

Type

Stories

Subject

Actor > James Dean

Keywords

James Dean, cars

Publishing date

2025 (September 11, 2025)

Publisher

Stance & Speed

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 190 pages
8 ½ x 8 ½ inches (21.5 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-7327255-5-3

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Book Presentation:
James Dean was associated with two iconic Porsche cars during his brief but spectacular life. The second was a newly purchased 550 Spyder in which he crashed and died on September 30, 1955. But his first Porsche was a1955 Speedster—a car he used to compete in Southern California’s emerging sports car racing scene, and that raised the German automaker’s profile with enthusiast drivers in the United States.

The whereabouts of both cars have long been shrouded in mystery, and the crashed Spyder is considered lost to time. Now, after years of Sherlock Holmes-like detective work and research, author and James Dean expert Lee Raskin has tracked down the actor’s long-lost Speedster.

In James Dean and the Porsche 356 Speedster, Raskin details Dean’s complete exploits with his Speedster, including his racing results, and then traces its path over the subsequent decades through to its rediscovery and restoration.

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