Groovy veilingvoer: the Porsche of Janis Joplin

Posted on 17-09-2015 20:05 by mauritsh – 23 Comments”

Apparently, given to our lord to her, despite repeatedly urging, no Mercedes-Benz.

But a Porsche, so it must Janis Joplin have thought of. For the young reader: Janis Joplin was a singer who in the crunchy ’60s, one after another mega-hit scored. Think of well-known tunes as ” Me and Bobby McGee’ and ‘Piece of my heart’. Unfortunately, mrs. a ‘problem’ with heroin, what her at the age of 27 killed. It belongs, together with, among others, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Housewine to the illustrious Club 27.

To the extent that the cultural upbringing, through to the Porker. It is a Porsche 365c 1600 Cabriolet from 1965 that was quite elaborately painted. We suspect that the painter a few zegeltjes LSD behind the choosing had, for he to this piece of art began.

Joplin bought the car second-hand in 1968, and had one Dave Richards car paint with the fascinating theme of ‘The history of the world’. After the singer of the temporary with the eternal stolen, ended up in the car in the hands of her manager, Albert Grossman. In the early ’90s was the Porsche 356 was reduced to his state in the sixties, and then for two decades in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, collecting dust.

Schôn cart. According to RM Auctions is the thing about 350.000 euro on 10 december in New York. Did you know already that Max Verstappen has a girlfriend? Clique!

UPDATE: the 1964 Porsche 356 C 1600 SC Cabriolet was sold for a bizarre 1,76 million dollars, which is well above the estimated value.

Gallery: Porsche 356c Janis Joplin auction

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