{"id":7101,"date":"2015-12-12T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T21:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7101"},"modified":"2016-01-09T14:29:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T21:29:33","slug":"joplins-porsche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/12\/joplins-porsche\/","title":{"rendered":"Joplin&#8217;s Porsche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/autos\/news\/janis-joplin-porsche-sells-record-1-76-million-article-1.2462733\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Daily News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Janis Joplin&#8217;s Porsche 356 sells for record $1.76 million at New York auction<\/h1>\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Jason-Bisnoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">JASON BISNOFF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2462781.1449850929!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_635\/image004.jpg\" alt=\"Pulling in $1.76 million at the &quot;Driven by Disruption&quot; sale, the Porsche thoroughly surpassed predictions but was dwarfed by a 1972 Lamborghini Miura which sold for $2.42 million.\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em><span class=\"a-credit\">SOTHEBY&#8217;S<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pulling in $1.76 million at the &#8220;Driven by Disruption&#8221; sale, the Porsche thoroughly surpassed predictions but was dwarfed by a 1972 Lamborghini Miura which sold for $2.42 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the RM Sotheby&#8217;s &#8220;Driven By Disruption&#8221; auction in Manhattan, a 1964 Porsche 356 C 1600 SC Cabriolet that was owned and customized by Janis Joplin sold for $1.76 million. As previously reported, the coupe was estimated to sell for roughly $500,000 but with seven bidders competing far surpassed those expectations.<\/p>\n<p>The staggering sale price sets a benchmark as the highest price ever paid for a Porsche 356 at public auction. Pearl, as Joplin was often called, bought the German auto at a used car lot in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/autos\/news\/janis-joplin-porsche-sells-record-1-76-million-article-1.2462733\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYDailyNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Daily News Janis Joplin&#8217;s Porsche 356 sells for record $1.76 million at New York auction BY\u00a0JASON BISNOFF SOTHEBY&#8217;S Pulling in $1.76 million at the &#8220;Driven by Disruption&#8221; sale, the Porsche thoroughly surpassed predictions but was dwarfed by a 1972 Lamborghini Miura which sold for $2.42 million. At the RM Sotheby&#8217;s &#8220;Driven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}