---
title: "James Dean’s Rebel Without a Cause Jacket Up for Auction"
description: "This is the most valuable piece that belonged to the American rebel and heartthrob."
date: "2018-03-02"
modified: "2018-03-02"
authors:
  - name: "Hayley Lind"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/hayley-lind"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/18908/james-deans-rebel-without-a-cause-jacket-up-for-auction"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "For Sale"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "cars"
  - "celebrity"
  - "Culture"
  - "James Dean"
  - "mercury"
  - "Spyder"
---

# James Dean’s Rebel Without a Cause Jacket Up for Auction

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James Dean’s red bomber jacket from the 1955 film *Rebel Without a Cause* will be auctioned off this weekend at Palm Beach Modern Auctions in Florida.

Dean played troubled teen Jim Stark in the film, and wore this jacket while [driving](<https://www.streetmachine.com.au/features/1603/rebel-without-a-cause-(1955)-%E2%80%93-ripper-car-movies>) a 1949 Mercury Coupe. The film helped cement his status as an American heartthrob and a major influence in the rock and roll community. Dean, who died in a car crash a month before the film’s release, loved his cars in real life.

He drove in the Palm Springs Road Races, Bakersfield and [Santa Barbara](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/16736/i-almost-got-my-ass-kicked-taking-this-photo-of-a-mercedes>) and owned a Porsche 356, a Triumph Tiger T110m and a Porsche 550 Spyder. Dean’s untimely death resulted from speeding in his Spyder and crashing into a 1950 Ford Tudor.

The jacket is expected to rake in $400,000-$600,000, according to Rico Baca, who works for the auction company. Michael Scott, who obtained the jacket from a friend with connections in the movie’s wardrobe department, donated the garment.

The auction, which will also include antique furniture and works from Picasso, takes place Saturday, March 3 in West Palm Beach. Participants can bid in person, by phone or online.

This isn’t the first auction of James Dean memorabilia. The white t-shirt Dean wore in Rebel was recently sold for $6,000 and the shirt and pants he wore in *East of Eden* were sold for a total of $23,000. The Rebel jacket is the most valuable remnant of the actor. But, if the [mysterious](<https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/3185/the-seven-greatest-missing-car-mysteries>)

[Porsche Spyder](<https://www.thedrive.com/porsche/8863/did-george-barris-fabricate-the-curse-of-james-deans-spyder>), nicknamed “Little Bastard,” is ever found or sold, it would rake in some major cash.

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