James Dean

Coming home from Salinas, CA, we have to travel east on CA46 and CA41. This is a 2 lane highway between the 101 freeway and Interstate 5. We pass through an intersection called "James Dean Memorial Junction". I looked it up on Wikipedia, and this is where he died on Sept 30, 1955. He was driving a Porsche 550 Spyder nicknamed "Little Bastard", on his way to a race in Salinas. He was hit head-on by a 23 year old Cal Poly student at this intersection. There are rumors that the car is cursed. Alec Guiness warned James that he would be found dead in that car within a week. That was 7 days before James' death. Read the article on Wikipedia. It is fascinating.