John Lennon's Psychedelic 1965 Rolls Royce

a better gallery of it can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21109658@N00/106322715

The inspiration for the design came from Marijke Koger, one of the design collective �The Fool� who were responsible for numerous seminal pieces of the period and were very influential in the psychedelic art movement. Marjke states in an email to me �I was staying at John�s house in 68 [she miss-states the date!] to paint his piano and he had a painted gypsy wagon in is garden. I suggested to him that he paint the Rolls like the gypsy wagon, which he thought was a great idea...�

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It sold for a record sum of $3,006,385 at a Sotheby's auction in New York in 1985 to Jim Pattison, a Canadian. Later, as an act of kindness, Pattison offered the car to the queen of England. Today, it can be found on display at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. http://obviousmag.org/en/archives/2008/07/john_lennons_psychedelic_rolls_royce.html#ixzz0fNz8kmVa