Driving Janis Joplin's psychedelic Porsche

Joplin's beloved 1965 Porsche 356C Cabriolet was with her until the end -- it was parked at the hotel where she died. For the first time, the rocker's car is being offered at auction.

[Katrinayou]

In 1969 my aunt came to our house to visit my dad she had a friend with her and it was Janis. To this day I still have the picture of my aunt & Janis and myself as a 6 year old sitting on our couch. Priceless memories

[screamingtima]

Wow!!! What I wouldn't do to own this car!! Love and miss you Pearl. The world hasn't been the same since you left.

[mjarboesdf]

If Janis was alive today, I could just imagine here looking almost the same but with grey hair and a shabby fufu blowing in the wind, wearing her big colorful circle sunglasses and mood rings holding the wheel while cruising, bolting out one of her masterpieces! 🌈✌☮

[constantreader]

Wait. When Janis died, her brother inherited the car and repainted it. This is a fact. Then when the SF Museum of Modern Art did a retrospective, they recreated the original artist David Richards' work. So which is this one?

[mannygonyer]

My wife and I visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and it was there. Incredible car and lots of personality!!!

[canadagirl]

Too bad it’s not in a museum somewhere people could go see it!

[jaysimmons]

A year ago Janis’s Porsche was sold at auction. Her car became the expensive car ever to be sold at auction

[eldiablo]

Leave it to CNN to get it all wrong. ¨ Completely original ¨ it was completely repainted.

[Charleybones]

The only thing about this car that is still original from when janis owned it is the vin number. After she died, the car was driven in snow and salt, and parked wet. The car's famous paint job eventually cracked and broke off over the years, and the was badivpcally trashed. Eventually janis family paid to have the car restored including a complete repaint copying the famous paint job janis roadie gave it. After all that, how much of Janis is really left of it?

[mikedtw]

Why didn't you include some pertinent information, like who you are and how you came to drive it? Where are you while driving it? As mentioned below, the car has been redone specifically the paint job. Not a good reporting job bro.

[piercebales]

Janis had an apartment at 22nd and Noe in Frisco and I used to see her all the time in the Porsche only the car had pictures of the guys in the band painted on the hood. This car is a fraud.

[skyluna]

That's her alright love it really showed the love she had to offer but no one gave that 2 her they she was 2 wild and she was. Acting out n hurt I love you

[wndowpayne]

If thats the original steering wheel, it would be amazing to drive that car,

[screamingtima]

Was just sold yesterday for 1.76 million. :(

[qygqwjh]

The car was repainted dolphin gray after Janice death by her brother..so the original artwork was lost. This is a reproduction based on old photos. Also, the mirror is not correct - the original car had a Talbot mirror. So whoever bought this car at $1.7m should've done some homework.

[WvhKerkhof]

the car should be driven by a girl, not by a grandfather.

[GK]

...humbly I did not realize PEARL, drove it daily almost two years...
How would you like to have a sighting, back then, Wow!

[jeffcory]

Hi performance? At 1.6 liter, I don't think so. I had a car like this. It was gorgeous, SO much character, but it waren't no hi performance.

[bizzjoe]

I have the same artwork on my Toyota Yaris

[jameskohn]

you drive such a car you might just get pulled over a time or two...or twenty.