My good friend Jeffrey Jampol just took over administering JJ's estate for the purpose of marketing her name and catalogue, etc... I''ll ask him what's up with the car these days. Here is the FB page he runs for her:
Janis Joplin | Facebook
The photo on top of thread is a beautiful car, (and definitely not a replica), it looks a lot like one of a series of art-cars done by a famous Japanese painter whose name escapes me at the moment. Pretty sure there was a 356 in his series as well as a Mercedes 220se, etc...