Stumbled across this YouTube video of Janis Joplin's speedster. Now that's a paint job!
Original Post
Replies sorted oldest to newest
Stumbled across this YouTube video of Janis Joplin's speedster. Now that's a paint job!
Great paint!!!
Now a days they just wrap the car in a big decal rather than paint.
Back in the '60s and '70s there were companies that would paint beetles in wild advertising and pay you to drive it.
Now if Noodle World wants to wrap my Speedster to look like a bowl of noodles and pay me to drive it I am all for it!!!
Now a days they just wrap the car in a big decal rather than paint.
Back in the '60s and '70s there were companies that would paint beetles in wild advertising and pay you to drive it.
Now if Noodle World wants to wrap my Speedster to look like a bowl of noodles and pay me to drive it I am all for it!!!
That's not Joplin's car. She never owned a speedster.
Hi Tom, I embedded it....
You can as well. On the YouTube page you will see 2 codes. One is the same as you posted and it's a link. The other is an EMBED code which you can copy and paste on the YouTube box below the text box on where you type your SOC message.
Cheers
You can as well. On the YouTube page you will see 2 codes. One is the same as you posted and it's a link. The other is an EMBED code which you can copy and paste on the YouTube box below the text box on where you type your SOC message.
Cheers
Mike,
Thanks for tip.
Regarding whether or not this is Janis' speedster, I don't know squat, but I did a quick search and also found this link. http://www.flickr.com/photos/glynthomas/54633796/
From the other angle and further documentation, it appears that she had a cab painted like this, but the video is of a speedster replica that was painted to look like her cab and resides in the museum.
Thanks for tip.
Regarding whether or not this is Janis' speedster, I don't know squat, but I did a quick search and also found this link. http://www.flickr.com/photos/glynthomas/54633796/
From the other angle and further documentation, it appears that she had a cab painted like this, but the video is of a speedster replica that was painted to look like her cab and resides in the museum.
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all have Porsches
I must make amends!!
-Janis Joplin
My friends all have Porsches
I must make amends!!
-Janis Joplin
Yeah, I thought she had a B or C Coupe.
C Cab
After looking at that photo.... I ran out to the shop to hug and kiss my canvas.
Attachments
Images (1)
What Terry and Shuie said.
J.J. did NOT own a Speedster but a C Cab. One of our local 356CAR club members shot it "back in the day" in San Francisco outside of a bar. He gave a very cool print a year ago away as his "White Elephant" Christmas Gift that was highly sought after and yours truly did not get it.
J.J. did NOT own a Speedster but a C Cab. One of our local 356CAR club members shot it "back in the day" in San Francisco outside of a bar. He gave a very cool print a year ago away as his "White Elephant" Christmas Gift that was highly sought after and yours truly did not get it.
tom a good friend of mine locally, ownes this 356 along with a bunch of other 356s, he is a member of the 356 motor cities gruppe. bill
Good link to history -
http://www.rockhall.com/exhibitfeatured/janis-joplin-porsche
There are large size poster (and post cards) of her sitting on hood of it with NY Washington Sq as backdrop. Also even a cookie and a jewlery box ceramic available. The jewlery box ceramic even ahs a music box in base which plays "Lord, won't ya buy me ...." Oh and there is a throw blanket too.
http://www.rockhall.com/exhibitfeatured/janis-joplin-porsche
There are large size poster (and post cards) of her sitting on hood of it with NY Washington Sq as backdrop. Also even a cookie and a jewlery box ceramic available. The jewlery box ceramic even ahs a music box in base which plays "Lord, won't ya buy me ...." Oh and there is a throw blanket too.
Well, there you go. I'm glad that my ignorance could bring light to such an important topic :)
After all, you could be ....... "busted flat in Baton Rouge" .....
Moral guess is "Live Fast, Die young, Leave a beautiful corpse' - she was gone at ripe old age of 28. Heroine and alcohol aren't good mix obviously. Youth is obviously wasted on the young!
I dont have the link but there is a guy on samba who does paint jobs like Pearl's. Wouldn't I LOVE my car to look like hers!
I have the poster of her in the beads and such w/ her left (or is it her right) boob hanging out. Been a JJ fan for a very long time. Paradox: who and what she was gave her the music she did, and it was somethin' else. If she would have been different, and not into the drugs, and self-torture, so to say, she might be walking among us today -- but would the music have been the same? Likely not. Would anybody have cared? Just a cryin' shame, is all.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=818625
I am from Beaumont, TX and she was from Pt. Arthur. I knew hwe younger sister and my older brother knew her. I partied around their crowds, but they were a little (not) weird for me. I remember a story about when she went into a bmw/porsche dealer in Austin and paid cash for a new vehicle. The younger salesman dissed her, but the veteran sold her a car. One never knows.
All Good,
GG
All Good,
GG
Bill W wrote:
....Back in the '60s and '70s there were companies that would paint beetles in wild advertising and pay you to drive it.
I had one! A '73 Beetle wrapped in Kool Cigarette advertising..The company was called Beetle Boards out of the LA area. They paid to have your VW painted at MAACO a two tone green and silver, then they affixed the vinyl advertising. I got a whopping $60 a month as a stip end which kept the tank full and then some. After the one year contract was up you had to heat and remove the graphics.. Beetle Boards would then pay you $350 to have the car repainted.
They also had other advertising programs like A&W Root Beer etc.
Can you imagine what it might cost today to air brush a speedy to replicate Janis Joplin's ?
....Back in the '60s and '70s there were companies that would paint beetles in wild advertising and pay you to drive it.
I had one! A '73 Beetle wrapped in Kool Cigarette advertising..The company was called Beetle Boards out of the LA area. They paid to have your VW painted at MAACO a two tone green and silver, then they affixed the vinyl advertising. I got a whopping $60 a month as a stip end which kept the tank full and then some. After the one year contract was up you had to heat and remove the graphics.. Beetle Boards would then pay you $350 to have the car repainted.
They also had other advertising programs like A&W Root Beer etc.
Can you imagine what it might cost today to air brush a speedy to replicate Janis Joplin's ?
