Janis Joplin 356 Cab: should sell today

[HistoryBuff]

It's scheduled to be sold today at Sotheby sale.
One newspaper says it's valued at $500,000.
I was wondering what the SN is and if it still has the same engine listed for that SN?
Not that it matters...

I wonder if you get a CD player with her greatest hits with the car....

PS What city was it recovered in when it was stolen while she was giving a concert? Was the surrealistic paint job entirely covered with primer or only part of it? Never heard the story on either of those two questions...

[Linderpat]

Sold for $1.6M plus buyer's premium. I was fortunate to be up close to this car last summer, as we (our local PCA Club, Allegheny Region) brought it for display at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. Cool car and kudos to whomever bought it.

[Risingson]

Janis Joplin's 1964 Porsche sells for $1.76 million


Janis Joplin's Porsche sells for $1.76 million - Dec. 10, 2015

[HistoryBuff]

Janis Joplin's Porsche sells for $1.76 million - Dec. 10, 2015

Seems like I also read that for years there was a similar painted one at a museum in Texas and everyone thought that was the car, so I hope the one that sold in NYC was vetted six ways to Sunday...

[Reiver]

I know, artifact (?)....but that is the ugliest damn 356 extant.

[Les Paul]

What is a Parfer doing hanging out here? Obviously plenty of people like the car.

[HistoryBuff]

the stories on the net seem to be confusing
OK it was stolen
painted over with primer
then repainted once recovered by the roadie who painted it in the first place
BUT
one story on the net says "Janis’ family finally took back the car in 1975 and restored it, but the original paintwork was in such bad shape and couldn’t be saved."
Yet I thought I read since it had a coat of clear coat on it it was possible to save that original painting or at least the re-creation of it by the same artist.
An artist myself, I say if it was the same artist and it had to be repainted in ''75 it's the same but still would like the story better if the original paint job of the Sixties had been able to be saved intact.

By the way in an eerily similar story, this friend of the Beatles, young aristo, The Right Honorable Charles Brown, had a Cobra painted in the same surrealistic style and was on his way to see it be honored at a gallery and was killed when he ran a light in another car . They wrote the song A Day in the Life about him. The surreal paint job was painted over in dark blue or purple, I say that unless they could get the two original artists who painted it in the Sixties to do it over, it's not the same car as it was back then (but probably still worth $1 million as a small block Cobra....