“Unraveling the Enigma: Could James Dean’s Iconic Car Hold Dark Secrets of a Cursed Legacy?”

"Unraveling the Enigma: Could James Dean's Iconic Car Hold Dark Secrets of a Cursed Legacy?"

Actors James Dean and Sal Mineo with another actor in a scene from Rebel Without a Cause

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A man named Shawn Reilly, from Whatcom County, Washington called to report something very interesting. When he was six years old, his dad was a carpenter and had brought him along on a job one day. They met a few men at a building, which still stands today. The men wanted Reilly’s dad to hide a wrecked sports car behind a wall.

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Reilly feels certain that one of the people there that day was George Barris. The museum asked him to take a lie detector test about his memory of the events, and he passed it with flying colors. Pictured is James Dean from Rebel Without a Cause, 1955.

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Still A Mystery

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According to Volo Museum Director Brian Grams, he’s never been presented with physical proof of the missing car’s existence
or documents naming its
owner. Grams says that ownership needs to be sorted out before he can make good on that $1 million offer to buy the car.

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And that might take a while, considering that the “King Of The Kustomizers” George Barris is now deceased. In the meantime, the location of the fake wall that might conceal the wreckage of James Dean’s sports car has remained a secret.

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Barris Died Shortly After The Promising Tip Came In

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George Barris makes a call on the in-car telephone

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George Barris, who is considered by many to be the last legal owner of James Dean’s 550, did not weigh in on the matter when it hit the news in late 2015. And the building’s current owner claims to know nothing about what’s hidden behind the walls.

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