Car Guy Magazine Issue 315 | Page 25

and pickup trucks and Woodies. They represent something that is beyond just the engine. The pickups represent a life, the farms, and the sort of utility I love. Jeeps, the same utility and sensibility. They were so stripped down, but they were so cool,” he says. If James Dean were alive today he’d copy Lauren, who, of course, has a 1955 Porsche 550 RS Sypder--an edition of the iconic car in which James Dean died. “I never liked big cars,” he offers. “I never liked the old American cars with the beautiful shap