Tonight’s mystery artist has a car going on the auction block later this year that rumor has it our star drove everywhere and lost constantly.  Any guess who our absent minded rocker might be??

We’ll start with who is telling tales, that would be former San Francisco radio personality Raechel Donohue who says the Janis Joplin would call her radio station constantly asking them to put out an APB on her psychedelic Porche.

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News today is that the 1965 Porche, 356c 1600 Cabriolet is being sold by RM Sotheby’s in December at an auction in New York and is expected to bring in upwards to 400 thousand dollars.

The story behind the car is that Janis bought it back in 1968. There were only 16,674 of these cars ever made. When purchased the car was off-white, but she hated the paint job. So as only Janis would she decided to have her roadie, Dave Richards paint it while she was on tour. The paint job is a psychedelic scroll of artwork he called, “the history of the universe” and it covers the auto from top to bottom. Two things strike me here...1) how do you lose a psychedelic painted car and 2) all this time I figured she owned a Mercedes Benz.

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In case you need to hear it, this video about the car starts with 'Mercedes Benz'

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