Check out These Sleek Rides up for a Sotheby’s Auction
Sotheby’s is auctioning off luxury cars, including a psychedelically painted Porsche once owned by Janis Joplin.
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Sotheby’s is offering several ground-breaking luxury cars at auction in December that include a psychedelically painted Porsche once owned by singer Janis Joplin.
There’s also a 1956 Ferrari 290 MM - one of the most valuable automobiles ever offered at public auction.
The Janis Joplin 1964 Porsche 356 C 1600 SC Cabriolet is estimated to sell for between USD 400,000 - 600,000.
Originally dove grey, Joplin asked one of her roadies to “go wild and paint it,” according to Sotheby’s car specialist, Ian Kelleher.
“It came back with this psychedelic paint scheme. There is imagery of magic mushrooms on it, Big Brother and the Holding Company on one corner. It’s really a work of art but it’s something that makes you smile,” Kelleher said.
The 1956 Ferrari 290 MM by Scaglietti is expected to sell for more than USD 28 million.
Kelleher called it Sotheby’s “highlight car.”
“It is in the very upper echelon of sport racing Ferrari’s,” Kelleher said, “It retains the original chassis. The original engine. The original body work.”
The so-called ‘Driven by Disruption’ sale at Sotheby’s Manhattan headquarters in New York will represent ground-breaking engineering and automotive design.