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  1. 12-10-2015, 08:37 PM #1
    raspy2point2
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    Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz

    On Thursday Janis Joplin's cabrio 356 sold at auction for 1.8 Mil in New York. If you remember it had one of those flower power psychodelic paint jobs.
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  2. 12-11-2015, 02:55 AM #2
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    I thought it was going across the block over the weekend. It sure beat the estimate of $400k - $600k pretty handily.

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  3. 12-11-2015, 04:09 AM #3
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    First comes the bubble than comes the bad!
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    I can't imagine the buyer if this car has any concerns about ROI

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    But this wasn't even the period paint job... so the value must be in the provenance? I get the McQueen bubble, to some extent, but never thought Joplin was quite there... maybe someone else can chime in to enlighten me!!!

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    On Thursday Janis Joplin's cabrio 356 sold at auction for 1.8 Mil in New York. If you remember it had one of those flower power psychodelic paint jobs.
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  6. 12-11-2015, 05:50 AM #6
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    Joplin's car crosses over several collecting groups- rock, female singers, pushrod cars, old folks...
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    If you grew up in that era Janis was the queen!
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