Not Exactly Cheap Thrills: Janis Joplin’s Porsche 356 Going on the Block
What do you do after the Summer of Love? If you’re Janis Joplin in 1968, you buy an Oyster White ’65 Porsche 356C convertible and have a pal paint it up in grand psychedelic style. With apologies to the 1970 917 Langheck that competed at Le Mans, this little bathtub earned the title of Original Porsche Hippie Car. Joplin’s band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, had left its initial mark the previous year, at the Monterey Pop Festival—an event also notable for having borne
1955 Porsche 356 Speedster found in a rusty barn sells for $153G on Ebay
Rust may be free, but it can still be worth a lot. The decaying husk of a 1955 Porsche 356 Speedster that was left to rot for 41 years was sold this week on Ebay for over $152,701. According to the seller, the car was #212 of 1,700 built that year, and was parked by its previous owners in 1974 when it started making “ugly noises.” The 356 Speedster was originally created for the U.S. market at the behest of famed car importer Max Hoffman, but its chopped windscreen, Spartan t
