Any 550 parts at all are basically gold. I'd expect major dollars for a serviceable transaxle regardless of whether James Dean had been associated with it or not.
I'd heard about the recovery of that part, and the wild legends about the doomed car. Similar ones have already circulated about the car in which the Fast and Furious star was fatally killed.
Eerily similar career paths in any event, much like Bruce Lee and his own son both dying mysteriously during filming.
Your question about the morbid curiosity regarding such relics is not wasted on me, I must confess.
I mentioned before I knew the 911 terrorists. I had at that time a training CD-Rom. about taking off and landing a plane for student pilots (my nephew was going for his license). I loaned it to one of the two 911 pilots training nearby. He said he wanted to get a small plane license to start a crop dusting business. After the Anthrax attacks hit close to home (the last reporter who interviewed me contracted it when a package arrived at her newspaper) the FBI sent specialists to teach us how to safely handle incoming mail and packages. I showed them the software and related my suspicions they may have had a dual plan to spread a biotoxin but they didn't seem terribly interested.
Anyway, I hung on to it. Probably will fetch something at auction one day. Like all that Nazi memorabilia. I remember when Tim-Life did all those huge sets of books on the Nazis. One critic wagged they will be coming out soon with a 12 volume series on official Nazi underwear.
I first read about James Dean’s Porsche Spyder in Richard Winer’s book Haunted Houses, one of those classic 70s woo paperbacks that were everywhere then.
Made me laughing: "... that Porsche had manufactured the car with steel used in the Double Phaeton that had carried the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife to their doom in 1914, sparking World War I."
Any 550 parts at all are basically gold. I'd expect major dollars for a serviceable transaxle regardless of whether James Dean had been associated with it or not.
I'd heard about the recovery of that part, and the wild legends about the doomed car. Similar ones have already circulated about the car in which the Fast and Furious star was fatally killed.
Eerily similar career paths in any event, much like Bruce Lee and his own son both dying mysteriously during filming.
Your question about the morbid curiosity regarding such relics is not wasted on me, I must confess.
I mentioned before I knew the 911 terrorists. I had at that time a training CD-Rom. about taking off and landing a plane for student pilots (my nephew was going for his license). I loaned it to one of the two 911 pilots training nearby. He said he wanted to get a small plane license to start a crop dusting business. After the Anthrax attacks hit close to home (the last reporter who interviewed me contracted it when a package arrived at her newspaper) the FBI sent specialists to teach us how to safely handle incoming mail and packages. I showed them the software and related my suspicions they may have had a dual plan to spread a biotoxin but they didn't seem terribly interested.
Anyway, I hung on to it. Probably will fetch something at auction one day. Like all that Nazi memorabilia. I remember when Tim-Life did all those huge sets of books on the Nazis. One critic wagged they will be coming out soon with a 12 volume series on official Nazi underwear.
I first read about James Dean’s Porsche Spyder in Richard Winer’s book Haunted Houses, one of those classic 70s woo paperbacks that were everywhere then.
Made me laughing: "... that Porsche had manufactured the car with steel used in the Double Phaeton that had carried the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife to their doom in 1914, sparking World War I."