É considerada a 'Rainha do Rock and Roll', 1 2 'a maior cantora de rock dos anos 1960' 3 e 'a maior cantora de blues e soul da sua geração'. The auction will also feature a 1956 Ferrari 290 MM (which may top $35 million U.S.), an Aston Martin DB4 GT Zatao ($16.8 million U.S.) and a one-of-a-kind Lamborghini Concept S ($3 million U.S.). Janis Lyn Joplin (Port Arthur, 19 de janeiro de 1943 Los Angeles, 4 de outubro de 1970) foi uma cantora, compositora e multi-instrumentista norte-americana. The Porsche is expected to fetch more than $400,000 (U.S.). 10 as part of the RM Sotheby's Driven by Disruption auction in New York City. It was loaned to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland in 1995, where it remained on display for most of the past two decades. In the early 1990s, the Joplin Family had the car repainted exactly like Richards' original work using stacks of old photos. A few years later, they restored it with a grey coat of paint. Joplin's manager then drove the car for a few years in New York before Joplin's brother and sister took it back in 1973 and had the engine rebuilt. Her lawyer managed to take the car and get it safely to a garage in the hours after her death before the press spectacle. It was Joplin's daily driver and she could be seen cruising in it up and down the west coast. On the car, Richards painted members from Joplin’s band Big Brother and the Holding Company, Joplin's astrological sign, jellyfish, butterflies, California's central valley and the "eye of God". a genuine big block Cobra stolen and dumped in the Erie Canal after a fatal accident a mailman in France buys a Ferrari that he cant afford. He initially painted the grey car candy apple red and then began etching what he referred to as "The History of the Universe," according to RM Sotheby's. Joplin gave Richards $500 and not a lot of direction. She bought the 1964 Porsche 356 SC Cabriolet in California in 1968 for $3,500 and handed it over to her band's roadie, Dave Richards. ![]() ![]() Joplin's Porsche wasn't just any Porsche, at least it wasn't by the time she was done with it. So maybe Janis Joplin was one of the friends she was talking about in the next line - "My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends." When the queen of rock n' roll famously sang 'Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz', she was actually driving a Porsche.
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