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TIL the 550 Porsche Spyder that killed James Dean is believed to be cursed. Actor Alec Guinness told Dean he’d be “dead by this time next week if he got in that car.” Seven days later Dean would be killed by his beloved ‘Little Bastard’ Porsche. And he wasn’t the only life claimed by the cursed car.

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