Why not join up with other passionate Porsche-fans and find out more about The Porsche club of GB. If you have a classic Porsche, protect your pride and joy with our classic car insurance policies. That’s because experts have valued the mind-bending motor at over £260,000. He says this “fantastic” machine cuts across all pop culture, art and social movements and is on a par with Joplin herself as a “stunning” ground-breakerīut be advised: you’ll need pockets as deep as your love for classic Porsches and psychedelic soul and blues rock. What the expert says: Ian Kelleher, RM Sotheby managing director, says Joplin’s classic is undeniably among history’s most significant Porsches. The place: RM Sotheby’s 10th-storey galleries in New York, 1334 York Avenue, New York 10021 US The date: The evening of Thursday, December 10 1971: her single Me and Bobby McGee posthumously gets her to No.1 in the US Hot 100.1966-68: sings with Big Brother and the Holding Company, a psychedelic rock group, with whom she enjoys the smash hit Piece of My Heart in the final year of their collaboration.1943: born in the Texan city of Port Arthur.

Start of the 1990s: the Porsche enjoys a restoration with painstaking attention to detail, leaving it in exactly the same condition as when Joplin first customised it.

Albert Grossman, her manager, is one of the beneficiaries, driving it and lending it out to visiting friends and relatives. Highlights include Janis Joplin’s psychedelic Porsche and a 1956 Ferrari 290.

1970: the Porsche remains in Joplin’s family ownership after her premature death. Ground breaking luxury cars hit the auction block at Sotheby’s later this month.

She always returns to find one or more notes penned by followers under her windscreen wipers.

The motor becomes a magnet for her legions of fans. But first she asks roadie and friend Dave Richards to radically alter the existing simple, plain white paint scheme. Joplin later buys it second-hand and it ferries her around the Californian city on a daily basis. History: the Porsche became synonymous with its equally surreal owner in 1960s San Francisco. Joplin got her used car customised to depict the universe’s life story, including pictures of jellyfish, butterflies and even the singing star herself.

Individuality: Even in a decade where distinctiveness seemed the norm, this vibrant motor stands out from the crowd. That’s why experts expect the 1600 Cabriolet to be in big demand when it comes up for auction later this year. The Porsche has since belonged to Joplin's family, which lent it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland where it was on display from 1995 until this week after the family decided to sell it.You might well expect a legendary 1960s psychedelic soul singer’s classic car to be, well, psychedelic.īut a first glimpse of Janis Joplin’s Porsche 356C is guaranteed to raise even the most grounded of eyebrows. The car was parked outside the Hollywood hotel where Joplin died of an overdose in 1970. 'It's a fantastic automobile that transcends art, pop culture and social movements, and is as groundbreaking and stunning as the renowned singer was herself.' 'Janis Joplin's 356C is without question one of the most important Porsches of all time,' said Sotheby's Ian Kelleher. She had it painted red with a mural that included images of butterflies and jellyfish, as well as of Joplin and her band. Joplin, who sang 'Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz' in one of her best-known songs, had instead bought another German luxury car but found the 1965 Porsche's original white finish too dull. The famous psychedelic Porsche convertible driven by late singing legend Janis Joplin is going up for sale.Īuction house RM Sotheby's said the Porsche 356C 1600 Cabriolet would go on the block on December 10 in New York and estimated the sale would generate more than $US400,000. Driving Janis Joplins psychedelic Porsche CNN 14.

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