After Dean bought the car, he showed it to his friend, fellow actor Sir Alec Guinness, who wrote in his diary,"The sports car looked sinister to me...exhausted, hungry, feeling a little ill-tempered in spite of Dean’s kindness. I heard myself saying in a voice I could hardly recognize as my own, ‘Please never get in it. If you get in that car, you will be found dead in it by this time next week.
The vehicle with the engine crashed, and the driver walked away, but the vehicle with the transmission hit a tree, killing the driver. The car was then taken on a tour with the National Safety Council, where it mysteriously burst into flames in storage. The car survived with only two melted tires. The other two were sold and simultaneously burst on the road leading to a driver running off the road.