[zeestephen]

[Paladin2]

That’s not her first one or at least not the first psychedelic paint job.

[rightwingcrazy]

Looks like a completely ordinary car to me.

[Larry Lucido]

Does the top come off?

[raybbr]

Is it a Carrera?

[1Old Pro]

Nice

[Jolla]

A chance for my favorite TRIVA question: In her high school year book (Port Arthur TX) who was in the photo next to her their senior year -

Jimmy Johnson

[PIF]

These are the guys I remember seeing ... it was a magical time ... just before going overseas ...

[PROCON]

Wait a minute...I thought she sang "O Lord won't you buy me a Mercedez Benz...my friends all drive Porshes, I must make amens...."

Just askin...

[Secret Agent Man]

Those seats are either “brownfields” or otherwise biohazards.

[Covenantor]

Old Janis Joplin tune,

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends,

Worked hard all my lifetime...

[Carthego delenda est]

“Oh lawd, won’t ya buy me a mercedes....errr, a Porsche?”

[LiveFree99]

That’s the car I saw two years ago at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

[W.]

Reminds me of my old Kawasaki 350 triple. I started sanding the tank, and it must have been repainted a dozen times, the different colors looked like the rings on a tree stump. It was originally orange. It finally ended up 1968-69 Ford’s Candy Apple Red...along with several others and 2 cars, over time.

[pgkdan]

Yeah, but are the tires new?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

To try and be one of the “common people”, she sure lived high on the hog.

[Albion Wilde]

I saw her perform at the Electric Factory. She was a mess, drunk, pathetic.

[SampleMan]

True stupidity.

Within 60 years it will have less value than the standard model.

[mumblypeg]

The Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur had what was purportedly Janis Joplin’s original psychedelic Porche, when I visited there several years ago. And IIRC it didn’t look like any of these LOL! So there must have been multiple Porches or at least paint jobs!

While there, I bought a giant woven cloth tapestry showing Janis sitting on the hood (of the same Porche that was on display in the Museum) posed similar to posts 13 and 21, but I’m pretty sure she was dressed differently, too. I still have the tapestry, in a trunk or box in my attic. Not gonna dig it out.

The Museum had some other cool stuff, including Big Bopper’s sheet music for Chantilly Lace.

[dfwgator]

I thought she wanted a Mercedes Benz.

[Jack Hammer]

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz,

My friends all have Porsches, I must make amends.

Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,

So, oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz!

Guess she never managed to come up with the purchase price.