Janis Joplin’s 1965 Porsche 356c

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 10/07/2013 at 10:30 • Filed to: None

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After hitting it big with Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1966, and despite her !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to the Lord to buy her a Mercedes Benz, Janis Joplin plunked down about $3500 for a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . After all, it's what all her friends were driving, according to her hit song. With the Porsche originally sporting a simple coat of white paint, Joplin asked Big Brother roadie and friend Dave Richards to give it a custom paint job more appropriate for Haight-Ashbury. Once, the car was stolen and rattle-canned gray, but Joplin recovered it and had a body shop restore Richards' original artwork. Several replicas have been built since those heady days, but the original resides in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

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timateo81 > ttyymmnn 10/07/2013 at 10:34

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You can see this car at the North Carolina Museum of Art starting next week through January 2014, along with some other Prosches. Just sayin'

http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibition/por…

ttyymmnn > timateo81 10/07/2013 at 10:35

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