James Dean was only 24 years old when he crashed his Porsche Spyder and died on a lonely stretch of highway outside Bakersfield, California. The tragedy occurred on September 30, 1955, scarcely a week before the opening of Rebel Without a Cause, the celebrated movie about juvenile delinquents, which would immortalize him as the archetype of the brooding adolescent. He is pictured here in his Porsche Spyder nick named “Little Bastard”