Joplin was one of the greatest female rock singers of the 1960s. She died of an accidental drug overdose in 1970
Rock legend Janis Joplin's 1964 Porsche 356 Cabriolet that she bought from a used car dealership in Beverly Hills in 1968 is to go under the hammer at an auction next week.
After buying the second-hand vehicle in dove grey, Joplin asked her roadie, Dave Richards, to spruce up it up.
He returned it with a psychedelic period-inspired work that he called 'History of the Universe'.
Not a square inch of the Porsche's bodywork was left untouched with such images as Joplin's Capricorn astrological sign on one side, a verdant Northern California valley below a mountain on another, and portraits of Joplin's band members in another section.
Ian Kelleher, RM Sotheby's West Coast managing director, said: "This isn't just an art car. It's an art car that's made with love, made with heart, you know. She asked a friend to do it. He did it and this is what it was and she drove it, you know.
"It was kind of a humbling exchange in a lot of ways. It isn't about who painted it necessarily, it's just that somebody else reflected her personality in it and she was obviously quite proud of it."
Since her death, the car has been owned by Joplin's younger brother and sister and for the last 20 years has been on display at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
The vehicle will be auctioned at a sale organised by RM Sotheby's, the classic car partnership of the global auction house, in New York on 10 December.
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