Raised From the Dead Once More, but Can It Be Worth $204,000?
The story of the 2011 Porsche 911 Speedster goes back well over a half century, although the legend took only a matter of months to establish.
Conceived in 1954 by Max Hoffman, Porsche’s distributor in the U.S., as a stripped-down, bargain-price version of the Porsche 356, one of the first examples was purchased shortly after the car’s debut on September 1 for $4,000 by James Dean, an aspiring young actor. He went racing with it, and when he died in a traffic accident only a year later in a Porsche 550 Spyder, the Speedster achieved mythic proportions in the popular consciousness … Details & Pictures
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