IN THE HEADLIGHTS-DEAD CELEBRITIES AND THE CARS THAT KILLED THEM

James Dean was a moderately talented actor whose best career move was death by Porsche. He managed to parlay this move into a “live fast-die young” legend which reached well beyond his brief career.

Many theories circulated about his death including a very popular Christine theory which postulated that Dean’s Porsche was possessed by a negative spirit which wreaked havoc on the lives of people who had contact with the car, or any parted-out post wreckage components of the car.

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YET ANOTHER CAR HORROR STORY: BAKED ‘VETTE...LOWLIFE CHEFS

There are a lot of car stories out there that have nightmare written all over them. The story behind Kevin Eliuk’s 1980 Corvette falls well within that category. Kevin purchased the car after a short test drive five years ago.

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ONE MAN'S CAR HORROR STORY: A VEGA’S UNTIMELY DEATH

Doug Kind likes the unusual. So it was no surprise that he saw the possibilities in a tubbed 1971 Chevrolet Vega when he purchased it about twenty years ago. It took Doug two years to shoehorn a 355 Chevy small block into the little econo-box. Vegas of this vintage had short lives as a cheap on gas 4-banger designed to answer the bell as Detroit’s weapon against the small import invasion.

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