James Dean Porsche Speedster SN80126:the car he owned before the spyder

[HistoryBuff]

I recently became interested in what happened to James Dean's 1955 pre-A  Speedster, the white 1500 Super that he raced before he traded it in on the 550 spyder that he was killed in.

One website lists the Speedster as having SN80126. The owner after Dean traded it in was coincidentally his room-mate Lew Bracker (still alive and resident of Palm Springs).

I would like to hear if anybody remembers the name of any owners after that, figuring  it must have had at least five owners by now, since 60 years have passed.

The car is

white, black upohosltery with white piping

carpeting color is listed as brown though I would hardly expect it to have the same carpeiting 60 years later!

 

Thanks for any clues on a cold,cold trail

 

Some pics of it here:http://jakescarworld.blogspot.com/2012/11/james-dean.html

[Guest Fuhrmann]

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Edited October 8, 2017 by Fuhrmann (see edit history)