Adrienne

I found these surfing, thought y'all might like to see them. What a beauty!!

Jase007

Cool artwork! I wonder what the pyschotropic drug induced theme was ... or wasn't.

Jason

Adrienne

Here's some info from the artist:

"She just gave me the car and said paint it," Richards remembers. "She pretty much left it up to me, but she wanted her sign on it somewhere." Janis was a Capricorn and very much identified with her astrological sign--she and a couple of her friends were known by their crowd as "the Capricorn ladies." Richards describes his design as "what was going on in all our heads at the time; influenced by a lot of LSD and lot of marijuana and the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement." Painted in rivers of orange, pink, yellow, and turquoise, the car's hood featured the gods-eye symbol identified with the band, and a '60s-style assortment of flowers and butterflies. On the front left fender was a portrait of the band. On the back, Richards painted a sun face with a Capricorn symbol on it. It was a traffic-stopping sight and Janis loved it immediately. "She was overjoyed," said Richards. His psychedelic artistry netted him about $500, a lot of money by the standards of the time.

Info on artist:
http://www.officialjanis.com/dave_richards.html
Another great pic of car:
http://www.officialjanis.com/porsche.html

hoffman912

stoddards did a hell of a job restoring that car. they have pics of the restoration and the details of it on display on one of the walls. (at least they did a few years back). very beautiful car i remeber being amazed by the detail of the paint work when i saw it at the rock and roll hall of fame.

fixnprsh

I wonder what designs I could think of while frying on acid.......well my high school days are over but i'm still somewhat of a nut case but I think my Carrera is better of along with myself. Think of what her car would be worth if she left it in factory condition.....BTW......did she ever buy her self that Mercedes Benz?

A Grabau

2 Fast, 2 furious 1960's style. There's too much contradiction in that car for me to take it seriously.

Steve Jensen

http://cisit.sfcc.edu/~sjensen/356/janis/

Here's a few I took when I saw the car at Peterson's in LA for the "Cars and Guitars of Rock and Roll" display.

Tony356993

smoke 'em if ya got 'em

Adrienne

Moogle

is there Anything from the 60s that you can take seriously

hoffman912

thats not jani's 356!!!!!!!! thats too early to be her car!!!! thats an A... she did not have an A....

(also on the rear left she had a mural of her and her band, big brother and the holding company!!!! this is not on the car above!)

sorry i just realized this.. and the trunk on the speedster above is a round trunk.. i believe janis had a C...

Robert... any thoughts here?? youre the expert here...

here is janis's car....

RJT

Good eye Harry! That is not Janis' car. The pics that Steve Jensen posted are of Janis' car. The first car pictured is a Speedster. Probably someone paying tribute to Janis............

Robert

hoffman912

yeah, thats the thing that caught me first.. the roof./window line. i was sayin to myself 'she had a cab.. not a speedster"

and another thing just rang true in my twisted mind..
they ruined a speedster to copy a C!???? they could have at least used a beater b or c instead or a speedster.. DOH!!

maybe not ruined.. but certainly a speedster would have been worth more with out that paint job..

Steve Jensen

I think (from what I remember from the Registry's VIN db) Janis' car is a 63 T6 B cab. Well, I know its a cab...

RJT

That's what we thought too. All the pcitures we've seen show it's a B Cab.
The dash in our '65 is identical to Janis' with the Inner/Outside Thermometer placed in the center of the dash at the factory. So far we have been told of only 4 with this rare factory installed option. A few folks have had dashes fabricated recently to look like this, but they do not have it on their kardex as we do.

JoAnne