UPDATE : This historic Porsche sold for $1.76 million, nearly three times the auction house’s high-end estimate of $600,000. The car is estimated to sell for somewhere in the neighborhood of $400K, which seems low to us, given its status as perhaps the best-known example of the 356, in an era when 356 prices have gone absolutely bananas. Porsche Full Coverage: News, Photos, Specs, Reviews, and More Porsche 356 C Cabriolet Janis Joplin 1965 1/43 Truescale TSM144349.Porsche! Porsche! Porsche! Tour the Second Annual Werks Reunion!.Class War: Rolls-Royce Wraith Inspired by Music Attempts to Kill Rock ’n’ Roll.After restoration, it was loaned to the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland for a lengthy stay, and now, finally, it’s up for auction at RM Sotheby’s “Driven by Distruption” auction, which is a terrible name for any auction of important stuff and Sotheby’s should be stiffly fined for using it. In the interim, it had been used by musicians at Grossman’s Bearsville Studios as a commuter car-leading to rumors that it had been purchased by either Robbie Robertson or the late Levon Helm of The Band, then driven by Joplin’s younger siblings, Laura and Michael. After a period in the wilderness-where it was left in the custody of manager Albert Grossman after Joplin’s death in 1970, then returned to her family in the mid-1970s and resprayed gray-the car was restored to its Owsley-spec glory in the late-’90s/early aughts. And now, like many long-held air-cooled Porsches and important rock ’n’ roll totems of rebellion, it’s for sale.
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