[{"id": 1908950, "authorName": "Winograd", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/winograd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Dear Santa...", "likes": 30, "timestamp": 1513218085, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908953, "authorName": "LB1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lb1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Good goddd... I'm speechless", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1513218184, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908954, "authorName": "sir_mike", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sir_mike/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Oh my..love these,,,big money going to change hands....", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513218191, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908955, "authorName": "busboy9", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/busboy9/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Who wouldn't want a Stratos?", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513218192, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908963, "authorName": "LB1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lb1/", "bidAmount": 100000, "content": "$100,000 bid placed by LB1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513218438, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1908964, "authorName": "enzowho", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/enzowho/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Man O Man!!!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513218450, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908965, "authorName": "PWSchuh", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pwschuh/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well that escalated quickly.", "likes": 14, "timestamp": 1513218469, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908966, "authorName": "enzowho", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/enzowho/", "bidAmount": 150000, "content": "$150,000 bid placed by enzowho", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513218485, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1908967, "authorName": "TSterling", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tsterling/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wowww, what a score for BaT.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513218494, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908969, "authorName": "Turboray", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/turboray/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Bring a Brinks truck", "likes": 25, "timestamp": 1513218569, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908971, "authorName": "LB1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lb1/", "bidAmount": 200000, "content": "$200,000 bid placed by LB1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513218681, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1908974, "authorName": "Couperman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/couperman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I saw the thumbnail picture and a primordial moan came forth from deep inside of me.", "likes": 13, "timestamp": 1513218707, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908976, "authorName": "jamann", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jamann/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "And BaT still charges 100 dollars no matter the price of the car.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513218735, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908981, "authorName": "TSterling", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tsterling/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@jamann\nPlus the 5%/$5k buyer's fee, of course.", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513218815, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908982, "authorName": "JIMMY", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jimmy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This was the Stig's ride when the Saab 96 was to slow.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513218826, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908983, "authorName": "Gettin_old", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gettin_old/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "All I can say is.....HOLY COW! This thing is just screaming to be driven sideways!!", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513218848, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908989, "authorName": "jgc930", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jgc930/", "bidAmount": 300000, "content": "$300,000 bid placed by jgc930", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513219067, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1908990, "authorName": "Italia_227", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/italia_227/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "No idea where Spring, Texas is, but I'm moving there.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513219074, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908988, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Good lord n' butter! 0 to $300K in less than 4 hrs, now that's impressive acceleration! The seller's got all the GLWTA they need.\n\nHey @Stratos, check it out!", "likes": 18, "timestamp": 1513219197, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909002, "authorName": "rb1971", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rb1971/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "There's at least one Powerball drawing before this ends right? May have to break my rule and play for once...", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513219339, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1908998, "authorName": "ar1950", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ar1950/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Not a car you will see driving down the road everyday......or even every couple of years. Well, maybe if you live in Spring, Texas you may have seen it once.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513219351, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909004, "authorName": "Spridget_A_Series_Power", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/spridget_a_series_power/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I can afford the Volvo 240 or Wagoneer and these people are bidding in $50k increments with a week remaining.", "likes": 74, "timestamp": 1513219390, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909005, "authorName": "QYKSLVR", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/qykslvr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "OMG. My #1 all time favorite car. I bet we see a lot more money bid on this before it\u2019s all over. Wonder what the reserve is.....", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513219454, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909007, "authorName": "joeveto", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/joeveto/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Now that I won't have to itemize my taxes and can take that HUGE standard deduction...", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513219493, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909009, "authorName": "ar1950", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ar1950/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Me too, but, I still couldn't make the insurance payment.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513219543, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909012, "authorName": "AriasFco", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ariasfco/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It needs some love, but more than anything, a good owner.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513219642, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909014, "authorName": "WOPSpeed", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wopspeed/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "When sorted by top bid, the current top five cars are all excellent examples of cars that look stellar in red.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513219647, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909023, "authorName": "scoopyg", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scoopyg/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow, I must be \"out of the loop\", but I've never heard of this thing, and frankly it looks terrible. Reminds me of...say a Bradley GT crossed with an Opel GT and a Fiero. I don't care how fast it goes, it's hideous. There, I've said it.", "likes": 13, "timestamp": 1513219941, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909026, "authorName": "RWestW", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rwestw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Unicorn!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513220011, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909034, "authorName": "Dan_Patterson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dan_patterson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Beyoootiful.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513220410, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909041, "authorName": "Pablo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pablo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "But is it air cooled?", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1513220596, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909042, "authorName": "ctrevelyan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ctrevelyan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The ONLY reason I'm not bidding on this one is that I'm 6'4\" and don't fit.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513220830, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909056, "authorName": "hdw", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hdw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The fee for sales higher than $100,000 is capped at $5,000.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513221439, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909061, "authorName": "enieleni", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/enieleni/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Not knowing much about how much these are worth \u2013\u00a0I almost fell out of my chair when I saw the current bid.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513221586, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909055, "authorName": "jpstepancic", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jpstepancic/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "When I comment on BaT, I like to have smart, concise, well formulated opinions that read well and properly convey my feelings toward the car in question. With that said...\n\nOMG OMG STFU OMG!\n\nEdit: Can we all applaud the seller for taking the time to include an absolutely stellar photo shoot to show off the car. Every car ad should have quality photos like this.", "likes": 33, "timestamp": 1513221599, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909063, "authorName": "fiatman71", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fiatman71/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Dear Santa....\n\nCorrection-\n\nDear Powerball....", "likes": 15, "timestamp": 1513221756, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909066, "authorName": "Omnivore", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/omnivore/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What Gandini is capable of when not restrained by no-win design briefs of \u20182+2 mid-engine configuration\u2019 (Dino GT4, Urraco), or \u2018make it elegant and comply with headlight and bumper laws\u2019 (Countach). Purity and functionality unadulterated. As to the motor, the late Dick Guthrie told me when describing the 246 Dino: \u201cThe thing revs so quick you\u2019d better keep an eye on the tach or you\u2019re going to zing it.\u201d\nHelmet buckets anyone?", "likes": 17, "timestamp": 1513221788, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909071, "authorName": "Jaxter", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jaxter/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm wondering if I bid $301,000 would everybody think I'm cheap?", "likes": 19, "timestamp": 1513221921, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909088, "authorName": "bruce_m", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bruce_m/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Jaxter No, only if you bid $300,001", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1513222500, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909089, "authorName": "beNGK", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bengk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@enieleni :\n\nthis car sold for ~$413k USD in September of last year at auction in Europe (google the chassis number + stratos) so the current bid is still well below market value.\n\nis selling dealer the buyer from the auction last year, just now bringing to market after what sounds like a through refreshing ?\n\nas others have stated, these are sublime objects of knuckle-biting, loin-tingling desire. unobtainable for most of us unfortunately, but one of the few cars which I wouldn't be the tiniest bit shy of building and enjoying one of the near-perfect replica versions which are available for ~$50k IIRC.", "likes": 17, "timestamp": 1513222552, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909093, "authorName": "bruce_m", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bruce_m/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I mean this is nice and all, but there's an even nicer 2004 Lincoln Limo for sale on BaT, and from what I hear the seller is a super nice guy and really helpf.......\n\n........Oh dammit, who am I kidding??? I WANT THIS SO BAD!\n\nMUST HAVE!", "likes": 21, "timestamp": 1513222711, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909092, "authorName": "Blacktan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/blacktan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "2100 lbs. 190 horse, mid engine $300,000 in 4 hours. Man do I have a sweet deal for you! 2200lbs, 140 horse, mid engine and I will take $150,000 for my car. 2001 MR2 Spyder, offer only good for the next 7 days!", "likes": 23, "timestamp": 1513222778, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909107, "authorName": "velvet_fog", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/velvet_fog/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My pants feel funny.", "likes": 24, "timestamp": 1513223402, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909109, "authorName": "mettelman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mettelman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I can't decide, should I buy this ... or should I buy 30 Fiat X 1/9s?", "likes": 14, "timestamp": 1513223448, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909110, "authorName": "Frank_Barrett", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/frank_barrett/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Oh, Lord, this is just Incredible. Must be Lancia's best-ever car. Just enough patina. Love the period Michelin XWXs (and Pirelli CN36 spare). A wonderful yet rare combination of style and performance.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513223552, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909114, "authorName": "RxDuderino", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rxduderino/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Holy crap!!!! Uh, yeah, that's all I got.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513223792, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909119, "authorName": "off_camber", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/off_camber/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "words will not suffice\r\nhttps://youtu.be/BEhkB-GuCIY", "likes": 19, "timestamp": 1513224092, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909123, "authorName": "Enesset", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/enesset/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@jgc930 wow some very strong historical bidding on other auctions....this is going to bring out some big boy bank accounts! \r\n\r\nBeautiful car and should be fun to watch. Thanks BaT", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513224197, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909136, "authorName": "Jchack", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jchack/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Best description of the Stratos experience I can recall was 'It is like driving a full face helmet'. Think that was in the British 'Car' Magazine which I may still have somewhere.\n\n@mettelman In 1974 I bought an X1/9 because the Stratos was not certified for the North American market and I couldn't have afforded it anyway. I would say buy one or two X1/9's now and do some sort of engine transplant on one. You will never get your money back but it will be a lot of fun. \n\nOne magazine had their editors pick their five most favorite cars a few years back so I did the same and put the Stratos as number one. X1/9 and Miura also made my list. Made me want another mid-engined car but I don't fit in a friends Lotus Elise so maybe a Porsche Cayman or good MR2 would be nice. Nowadays it is not so important to have a mid-engined car as the performance of so many front engine cars is more than you can use on the street but this Stratos is a gorgeous piece of history.", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1513224786, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909141, "authorName": "Sightline", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sightline/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Absolutely jawdropping. I wish I had the guts to put an Alitalia wrap on it with WHEELJK plates.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513224908, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909156, "authorName": "Michael", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/michael/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@off camber, thanks for that video. Also briefly mentioned/shown in that video is this car: http://www.new-stratos.com/en/# Oh, if only...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513225703, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909157, "authorName": "Dan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yeah, based on power to weight, objective handling, performance, etc., it doesn't make sense. . It comes down to what gets your pants tingling.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513225868, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909173, "authorName": "TJP_77", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tjp_77/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "WOW. \n\nThat's all I got.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513226564, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909176, "authorName": "jezzer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jezzer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The miles this beauty is getting put on her. Wow. From Europe to the States probably get brokered for sale into a UAE collection. Banished to an underground parking garage. Oh, I am weeping at the thought. In '75 I thought I would never want another car EVER more than this .... & still.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513226648, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909182, "authorName": "Michael_H.", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/michael_h.-user/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Spring is basically an oversized suburb to Houston. \r\n\r\nIt's extremely upsetting that I've never seen this car around town.\r\n\r\nI even know the gravel road that the photos were taken on; I've ridden my bike down that way tons of times, in fact the entrance is just past a secluded driveway to a homeless shelter.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513226911, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909186, "authorName": "mckeelaw", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mckeelaw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Why do these fantastic cars seem so special and rare, yet they made almost 500 of them? They look and sound so bonkers, the mere existence of them is astonishing!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513227226, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909189, "authorName": "malex", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/malex/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Holy crap! I tune out for 8 hours to come back and see this. There have been some cool cars on BaT but this has to rank up there with the absolute coolest! Unreal. I'm at a loss for words. This, a F40, a 288GTO and a Miura are my \"gamble on Bitcoin or some other bs ether coin and make a gazillion $$$ so that I can afford them\" cars.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513227480, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909190, "authorName": "vintageair", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/vintageair/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If I\u2019m going to kill myself in an automobile I may as well look cool as hell doing it.\n\nhttp://www.listerbell.com/products/str", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1513227503, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909191, "authorName": "Wob", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wob/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well, its been fun, off to start a new job where I drink alone and sob. \n\nThank you seller for bringing this here. @bringtrailer thanks for the hard work to garner the interest to bring one here! \n\nBucket list car. My lord its gorgeous.", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1513227538, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909194, "authorName": "Chicanery", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chicanery/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Like many here, a true bucket list car for me. \n\n@Seller, does it earn me a discount because the moment this was posted I was wearing my Hunziker \u201cTipo 829\u201d t-shirt?", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513227847, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909198, "authorName": "Lolat324", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lolat324/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I've got a factory luggage rack for this car. Tell ya what, let me drive it just once, and I'll throw it in....great shape, only used once, on the back of a rusty 914 I cut up for parts....GLWTA", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513227908, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909206, "authorName": "Frank_Garcia", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/frank_garcia/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Any day BaT features a Lancia Stratos HF Stradale, \nis a good day for me.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513228448, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909208, "authorName": "Iamnotwearingpants", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/iamnotwearingpants/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I just had a crisis.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513228541, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909214, "authorName": "Lavaman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lavaman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"Driving a Stratos is like having invasive surgery.....everything about it is nuts.\" \n\n- You owe it to yourself to check out the Lancia videos on Petrolicious", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513228970, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909215, "authorName": "PaulSB", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/paulsb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What a beast! Why would anyone sell this car? Its missing the iconic Stratos Coffin wheels.... oh my god, what a car.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513229070, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909219, "authorName": "likestig", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/likestig/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As a young person who is trying to work a 996 or 997 Turbo into the 3 year plan, seeing my all-time bucket list car open at $300k makes me reconsider my expectations", "likes": 24, "timestamp": 1513229240, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909236, "authorName": "Italia_227", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/italia_227/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I can almost swing the 6.25% tax and license.", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1513229964, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909239, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The build sheets I have confirm all the dates, numbers and colors in the BaT description. Fun fact #1: the chassis numbers began 001001, but after 001008 they jumped to 001509 and ran to 001957 \u2013 Italian homologation... But that\u2019s why this is the 44th built, even though Lancia chassis serials always began 001001. \n\nThe stradale cars are 190bhp and 980 kg; the Group 4 cars were homologated at 888 kg and made 270 in 12-valve form, with closer to 300 for the 24-valve engines. Regardless of spec, this isn\u2019t an MR2.\n\nI've spent a little time climbing around a completely original Stratos, and the only things I can see that isn't completely original here (other than battery and tires...) are the seat backs; the 'Havana' seats were all tan. It\u2019s hardly surprising; the bolsters are notoriously fragile. The door-side bolsters always shred from being rubbed on entry and exit.\n\n@mckeelaw : at that time, 500 examples were required for Group 4 homologation. If a manufacturer wanted to play, they had to produce that many \u2013 more or less; 492 is the best current guess for Stratos HF production, including works cars. It took them over 4 years to sell them all.\n\nFun fact #2: the model name is \u201cStratos HF\u201d \u2013 sorta. The badging on the car uses an apostrophe, \u201cStrato\u2019s\u201d. The chassis plate lists it as \u201cStrato\u2019s H.F.\u201d, with the HF punctuated. The owner\u2019s manual cover reproduces the door badge \u201cStrato\u2019s\u201d with \u201cHF\u201d above it, but inside the manual it\u2019s just \u201cStratos\u201d \u2013 no apostrophe or HF.\n\ngoing out to buy lottery tickets", "likes": 45, "timestamp": 1513230028, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909244, "authorName": "benzog", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/benzog/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The wife came home from work today and asked me why there's a For Sale sign in front of the house. \nI'm having a hard time figuring out the best time to show her this particular auction.", "likes": 35, "timestamp": 1513230213, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909254, "authorName": "JAMMAN", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jamman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "When the last 3 zero's fall off the back of the current bid, i'll start bidding.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513231255, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909253, "authorName": "Trackside_Fab", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trackside_fab/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That is an extremely beautiful car. Pure sex on wheels.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513231255, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909255, "authorName": "Fulviadriver", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fulviadriver/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Anyone got a tissue? I have mess to clean up.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513231484, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909256, "authorName": "vintageair", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/vintageair/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "You guys know it\u2019s got a cracked windshield...right?", "likes": 17, "timestamp": 1513231603, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909263, "authorName": "RogerD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rogerd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Boutros boutros golly!", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1513232136, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909271, "authorName": "TechnoHippie", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/technohippie/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "yeah this is a 1/2 million dollar car here. I've bought a total of two lottery tickets my entire life. ...running to the store to buy my 3rd one right now then will be back to wipe all the spit off my keyboard from drooling all over it while I was looking at these pictures and squealing like a teenage girl. Everyone at the office probably thinks I was watchin porn or somethin lol", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513233273, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909273, "authorName": "SeattleCurmudgeon", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/seattlecurmudgeon/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Feh. Louvers on the frunk- just another squareback wannabe. Pass.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513233492, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909274, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It was the seats that finally jogged my memory. I was very impress that the BaT description had production numbers & dates that perfectIy matched my records. Then I realized I catalogued this car for RM Sotheby's last year, and put all that info in the catalogue entry. I called it \"an unmolested example of this rally icon.\" I knew it looked familiar... \n\n@vintageair : it's delaminating; the cracking is (only) the outer layer.", "likes": 16, "timestamp": 1513233499, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909277, "authorName": "shakingthrough", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/shakingthrough/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I fear Stratos' bids to the stratosphere.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513234102, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909306, "authorName": "Arash", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/arash/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"love what you've done to your X1/9!\"", "likes": 19, "timestamp": 1513239868, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909309, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"I must be \u201cout of the loop\u201d, but I\u2019ve never heard of this thing\"\n\nI'm going to go way out on a limb and guess that you're not a big rally fan.", "likes": 20, "timestamp": 1513240435, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909310, "authorName": "Mr._Hankypants", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mr._hankypants/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is it too late to bid $1,974?", "likes": 17, "timestamp": 1513240454, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909314, "authorName": "70sKid", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/70skid/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@TechnoHippie - \"Everyone at the office probably thinks I was watchin porn or somethin lol\" \r\n\r\nJust because it's Italian doesn't mean that it's not porn.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513241924, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909322, "authorName": "TX_Lotus", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tx_lotus/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sellers take note! Plenty of clear pictures, videos without music, and thorough documentation. THIS WILL SELL.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513244889, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909327, "authorName": "jas280z", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jas280z/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Another high dollar auction, where BaT has the chance to be of real value to the buyer and seller! This is where BaT shines, collecting only $5100 if this sells. If this sells for $500K, that is a 1% OVERALL commission. Barrett-Jackson would be charging 18% overall (10% buyer, 8% seller). That is 17% more money staying with the buyer and seller if this sells here compared to a big name auction house.\n\nI figured that the buyer of this car ( https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1972-maserati-ghibli-2/ ) saved $52k buying on BaT, assuming the seller got just what they needed in pocket out of it.\n\nAssuming a seller needs $450K in pocket out of this sale, it needs to hammer for $450,100, and the buyer will pay $455,100. For the seller to get $450K in pocket at Barrett-Jackson, it would need to hammer for $490K, and the seller would pay a total of $539K. That is an $84K difference for the buyer.\n\nHopefully bidders will have the time and resources to do their due diligence in order to be able to bid with confidence, since there is the opportunity to save a significant amount of money here, if you are in the market for a Stratos.\n\nGood luck to all!", "likes": 60, "timestamp": 1513247023, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909335, "authorName": "Sidepipes", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sidepipes/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Came up for air & saw the \"HF\" designation; reminded me of an old Civic HF I used to know, so thanks for that memory.\n\nOk, going back down to join the rest of the bottom-feeders....", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513249853, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909334, "authorName": "E30eric", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/e30eric/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have a friend in England who has one of these amongst his collection of rally cars. Although he always says \"it's the most terrifying car I own\" he curiously still manages to put miles on it!\n\nThis is something we don't see very often in America. It's also the reason why grown men everywhere will be glued to their phones over the next week. Man, this is awesome! GLWTS!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513249876, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909341, "authorName": "Forrester59", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/forrester59/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@RogerD - LOL...one of the best ever sitcom lines!", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513251500, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909345, "authorName": "no.radar", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/no.radar/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That \"STRATOS\" graphic on the doors is supremely cool.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513252538, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909350, "authorName": "montreal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/montreal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "GLWTS but I predict a RNM because the potential buyer of a Stratos sure knows about this car( and ''all'' Stratos for sale worldwide ) and certainly tried to buy it from seller/dealer in the last few months or weeks...", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513253490, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909358, "authorName": "mabrady", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mabrady/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The first dozen, or so, pictures in this listing are top notch -- worthy of gallery framing.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513254407, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909364, "authorName": "tista", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tista/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Win cars and coffee in perpetuity: $500,000. Drive right past because you own a freaking stratos: priceless.", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513255085, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909369, "authorName": "Rrrnkvld", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rrrnkvld/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Front sits a bit high .. maybe the window washer bag needs a refill?\n\nTruly one of the most awesome cars ever built!", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513255386, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909379, "authorName": "SvntSvn", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/svntsvn/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Morning constitutional taken care of after viewing this little gem! holy cow", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513255872, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909382, "authorName": "OLDYLR", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/oldylr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What's the black market on used organs these days?", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513255912, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909383, "authorName": "SlowNRusty", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/slownrusty/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Lancia...what happened to you? I could stare at this car for hours consuming many bottles of wine, the design from almost every angle is mesmerizing.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513255923, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909385, "authorName": "TorontoJeff", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/torontojeff/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This should be interesting. BAT is getting some VERY premium priced cars and has created a new venue for the auction of \"ultra collectable cars\". I was behind (of course) one of these in city driving this summer but expect it was a well done replica.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513255980, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909392, "authorName": "DrCrusher", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/drcrusher/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Can you put this on Turo, I will cash out the kids college fund to drive it for a day.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513256388, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909400, "authorName": "looselugnut", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/looselugnut/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This car has my head in the clouds! Sadly, I have Lancia Stratos taste living within a Chrysler Cirrus budget.", "likes": 13, "timestamp": 1513256732, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909402, "authorName": "Lavaman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lavaman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Dear Santa:\nI can explain.....", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513256879, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909409, "authorName": "Brian_S", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brian_s/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "We need another video with the engine at full- wail! I was so disappointed when it ended without winding it out.\r\n\r\nThis is one of my top 2 favorite cars of all time. Unfortunately this one will financially embarrass me, so I will have to build a kit some day. GLWTA, this one will get way up there...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513257297, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909414, "authorName": "RBBGroup", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rbbgroup/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Turboray\nhey... that's my line !!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513257627, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909424, "authorName": "RBBGroup", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rbbgroup/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As they say \" You miss a day - You miss a lot\" \nSo true here at BaT !!\nThanks for bringing this here.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513257923, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909433, "authorName": "lova", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lova/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I haven't read all of the comments so if someone already said this, sorry.\r\nThe video looks like it is straight out of Alan de Cadenet's series. Great stuff, simple & straight to the point.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513258277, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909444, "authorName": "doublefeature56", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/doublefeature56/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I looked at a Volvo Bertone in a dealership once.....$12,000! Like someone's going to pay that much for a new car. Finances allowed for a new Mercury Zepher instead.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513258724, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909445, "authorName": "jim_rosenthal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jim_rosenthal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My second favorite Lancia, after a D24, my all-time favorite since I was a little kid. These cars are for people more grown up than me to be driving. Make a 427 Cobra look tractable. \n\nWith the Mercedes 280SE coupe sold yesterday, the Ghibli, and this, I hope the folks who are tracking collector car auctions are including BaT in their database. (like hibid.com, Hagerty, etc) BaT has become a force in the marketplace. I also wonder when we're going to see BaT sales in SCM, which seems not to have paid a great deal of attention to BaT. Have to write to Publisher Martin about that.", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1513258731, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909450, "authorName": "Jockr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jockr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "cooler than cool. This is one of those cars (like a Cobra) that when you see it you assume its a replica, but oh no, it's the real deal. Just has a presence.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513258934, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909459, "authorName": "Merlyn_156", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/merlyn_156/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I think BAT just raised the BAR", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513259260, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909476, "authorName": "dml550", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dml550/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This car puts the fun in funky.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513259677, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909485, "authorName": "Marc_S", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/marc_s/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I need this...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513259796, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909486, "authorName": "SM_Minis", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sm_minis/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Now this is the way to avoid the $1,974 opening bid that has become de rigueur. Weapons grade bids for a weapons grade icon!", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513259874, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909488, "authorName": "Klasic01", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/klasic01/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The pictures in this listing have singled handedly doubled the amount of awesome Stratos pictures on the internet. Kudos to you Mr. Photographer guy.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513259914, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909495, "authorName": "Thaxted2bat", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/thaxted2bat/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If ever Sonic the Hedgehog owned a car, this would be it.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513260034, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909509, "authorName": "Mishe11", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mishe11/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This is the coolest museum piece I have seen on BaT!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513260386, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909515, "authorName": "Chris_H.", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chris_h.-user/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "One of the very first Matchbox cars I had was a red Stratos, even then, my 5 year old brain knew it was something special, what a car!!", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513260587, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909521, "authorName": "turbolover", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/turbolover/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "One of my all-time favorites!! Those pic are great *future sellers take notes!! I've added a ton of these pics to my po... err ... 'Auto-art collection' :)", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513260847, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909524, "authorName": "2doors", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/2doors/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Holy crap. 2161 lbs, 190 hp...what we have here is basically a 1974 Lotus Elise SC. No wonder it went out and killed everything.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513260922, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909525, "authorName": "Adnogal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/adnogal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I am a former owner of one of these ( although it had the wide fender flares and \"coffin\" style racing wheels.) a real pleasure to drive, very nimble and light in the front, and that sweet engine noise just out back...sold at Monterey before the prices really went thru the stratosphere.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513260960, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909531, "authorName": "Andyp", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/andyp/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@scoopyg\nOne of the most manly comments ever made on BaT. \nTo admit no knowledge and not to like the way the car looks during this drool-fest takes some guts.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513261115, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909551, "authorName": "Duncan_same_old", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/duncan_same_old/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ctrevelyan -- your height may not be that much of an issue (or have you already tried one on and found it impossible?) We'll eventually hear from Toly A. who used to race one. I've stood next to him and think he's at least 6'-2\".", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513261653, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909553, "authorName": "deichenb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/deichenb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Last sold RM Auctions London 2016 \u00a3308K all in.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513261681, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909562, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If you find yourself in a misty forest in the early morning and you suddenly hear a thundering, echoing burst of unearthly sound that gives the impression as if an initial note wants to explode into chaotic noise, it's either the Horn of Helm Hammerhand or a Lancia Stratos driven in anger.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujjz3rQAEUM\n\nTake any chance you get to go to a local historic rally and hear the Dino Trumpet live. Especially in a hilly forest where it can echo wildly, it will make your spine explode.", "likes": 15, "timestamp": 1513262089, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909572, "authorName": "wombatsauce", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wombatsauce/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow. I can't even words right now.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513262343, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909574, "authorName": "Italus2", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/italus2/", "bidAmount": 310000, "content": "$310,000 bid placed by Italus2", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513262406, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1909571, "authorName": "benzog", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/benzog/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@EdL. Question : it safe to assume that there are plenty of windshields out there since these cars had such a highly successful life as Rally winners? curious! Someone must have a little stash?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513262407, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909576, "authorName": "lightguy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lightguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The Stratos was the car that started it all for me reading Road and Tracks while in high school.\nI missed buying Ignacio Reina's Stratos over a $500 differance in negotiations at a time when I could have afforded it. I had been brought up tight fisted. Should have just said yes and gave him the $18,500 he wanted ;) I did end up with the Stratos's much bigger brother; a Ferrari 512BB.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513262483, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909578, "authorName": "WAGONBOYTD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wagonboytd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have been to Italy numerous times, and never moticed that even their gnat's are sexy.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513262536, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909586, "authorName": "jeff_steindler", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jeff_steindler/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is that a Fiat X1/9 trunk / engine cover combo-latch assembly beneath the left-side door striker?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513262684, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909588, "authorName": "TimSim", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/timsim/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Stratos: \"A European Greek God. Tends to use his \"european-ness\" to his advantage when wooing women. Not uncommon for a Stratos to display hairy chest, designer duds, and man bags. What he lacks in intelligence he more than makes up for in suave-ness.\" \r\n-urban dictionary", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513262700, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909595, "authorName": "J.B.2.1.", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/j.b.2.1.-user/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow, there's a real Stratos for sale. On BaT. Wow. I was once driven in one, I must have been 6 or 7 years old, in the late 70s, and my mind was completely blown away. And I had absolutely no idea what it meant. I wish I can go back there.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513262840, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909607, "authorName": "ugly_car_guy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ugly_car_guy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hey Santa, this better be under my tree this year or your getting gluten free cookies and soy milk!", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513263195, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909622, "authorName": "EJM", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ejm/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Everything is BIG in Texas but this. Very cool !", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513263796, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909626, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@benzog as the replica's need windscreens, they're easy to find and not even that expensive:\n\nhttp://www.heatedwindscreen.com/acatalog/lancia-stratos-clear-heated-windscreen.html\n\nOf course, it will not be an Original production run windscreen, but boo-hoo.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513263877, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909627, "authorName": "timmymac_79", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/timmymac_79/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "[sees picture] Please be real please be real please be real...[reads text] It's real!\n\nI can't afford any Stratos more real than a 1:8 model, but psyched to see this presented here for my oggling pleasure.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513263880, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909638, "authorName": "datsone", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/datsone/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well damn, I picked the wrong year to tell my wife I didn\u2019t want anything special for Christmas ?", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513264100, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909640, "authorName": "mrjirey", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mrjirey/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Seriously! A Lancia Stratos! Wow! I so wish money was no object for me. So amazingly cool!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513264114, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909639, "authorName": "Mike_K", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mike_k/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Only days before I had picked up the Mondial fresh from an oil change and some new suspension bushings, and in the corner of his shop it sat. An eerie shade of light blue that looked quite surreal cast amongst the sea of red prancing horses in various states of repair. It looked positively petite compared to the 80s 308 that was parked next to it, yet the visual depth of the design was larger than life. Had someone told me then that 72 hours later I would be riding as a passenger in that very same Stratos I would have laughed like a crazy person and stalked off to the CVS to have my medications refilled.\n\nEven if we can control our destiny, we cannot change our future....and it was with some reluctance when my friend called me at 6:30AM on a Saturday morning asking me if I wanted to go to the Greenwich concourse that I said yes and asked him what time I needed to be there. \"There\" he said was \"here\", at a garage in New Jersey, and hurry up because there was a convoy of priceless machinery headed out in about 30 minutes.\n\nThe silver Citroen CX was parked at the bottom of my driveway and there was not time to contemplate whether or not it was the right car to accompany the promise of this crew of classic exotics. Navigating through the tight streets of West New York, NJ I marveled at the CX's ability to soak up pavement irregularities, expansion joints and railway crossings, which seem to be about every 1/4 mile in certain parts of NJ. This would be a nice way to ride up to Greenwich I told myself, even if the CX wasn't anywhere near concourse quality.\n\nI made a left onto an even tighter street lined with cars parked on both sides searching for this illusive garage. I didn't need to look long. Reversing into the street in front of me was a Mercedes Cosworth Evo II, and I swear that the rear wing of that car almost swallowed me and the CX. I simply wasn't prepared for what was about to unfold in the next few minutes. But there, buried in the depths of this non-descript garage were several Lancias - 037, Delta and Stratos - as well as a BMW M1 and Porsche 924 Carrera GT. I quickly parked and asked if it would be OK to take a few photos, figuring I could look at the Evo 2 in more detail once we got up to the show. \"No need to rush pictures now, all of them are headed up\". The look of shock and awe did not remove itself quickly enough from face, and the guy holding a very proper looking camera asked me I was OK. \n\nOK did not begin to describe the feelings welling up inside of me. Then I heard a starter which made a sound like no other starter I've heard before, and after a few coughs, something small and frenetic had sprung to life. It was hard to describe the noise, but it sent goosebumps down the back of my neck, and then it got closer and decidedly more belligerent as the driver persuaded it with a little more throttle while letting out the clutch. Backing out of the garage was the same light blue Stratos I had laid eyes not more than 72 hours earlier.\n\nThere were a lot of us standing there, almost everyone holding professional looking photographic equipment. I quickly shoved my iPhone back in my pocket and waited for instructions. The good folks from Petrolicious would be helping to drive this convoy up to the show while also photographing the event. The driver who had just backed out the Stratos moments earlier was standing there. \"Who will be riding shotgun with me?\" he asked. The future had arrived.\n\nIf I told you that the inside of a Stratos was like sharing a single seat in coach class with a complete stranger, I would probably be exaggerating. A tiny bit. It is really, really tight inside, and the huge expanse of that windshield simply dominates, giving you fantastic visibility of everything around you. The engine whirs insistently behind, mere inches from your head and shoulders. As we eased through NJ back roads, the ultra short wheelbase made the suspension feel very fidgety. Extra care was taken to properly warm it up, so revs were kept below 3,500RPM initially. Even driven gingerly, that delightful little V6 makes a terrific sound accompanied by a high pitch gear whine. You would expect nothing less in a car that was homologated for rally racing.\n\nThe warm up period was over and he applied throttle and revs liberally to accelerate onto the highway. It is one of the few noises that I can claim to accurately reproduce in my mind, even 2 years later. The fidgety suspension now felt skittish at 80MPH, with every expansion joint almost sending the car into a another lane. I now understood why people called these terrifying to drive. I was terrified but thrilled as a passenger.\n\nThe smell of hot engine oil, gearbox oil and whatever else the Italians manage to mix into their automotive cocktail of perfection was wafting through the cabin, and the once chilly air outside now seemed welcome, although the Stratos offered little in the way of actual ventilation inside.\n\nWe arrived at the show all too soon and although the other machinery their dazzled, my head was in a fog simply unable to remove itself from the spell of the Stratos.\n\nThere are some cars that are embroiled in myth and legend - the Countach is great example of this. And there are some cars that are so far beyond the periphery of anything relatable to story and folklore that they simply elevate themselves into a different.... stratosphere. Well named, Lancia, well named.\n\nHere is a video I managed to take from the passenger seat:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/9BAyzmZDIB4", "likes": 54, "timestamp": 1513264193, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909649, "authorName": "Geoffrey_Isabelle", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/geoffrey_isabelle/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I just opened my email and now I'm having a serious personal crisis. Can I sell everything I own including a few organs to raise the funds?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513264364, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909660, "authorName": "benzog", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/benzog/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Nicolas, Thanks, good info. \nBTW, great link.\nFunny thing, my Scorpions' never drove like the 037's.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513264617, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909677, "authorName": "WheelerDlr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wheelerdlr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "THE DAY BRING A TRAILER BROKE THE INTERNET.... WATCH OUT KARDASHIANS!", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513264924, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909680, "authorName": "kens", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kens/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "In 1977, I woulda, coulda, shoulda bought several Stratos. Now I am relegated to pondering if I should punish myself by building a really good replica.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513265029, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909696, "authorName": "Stugotz99", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stugotz99/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm local if anyone needs me to... ahem... take it for a test drive. :)", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513265344, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909705, "authorName": "DBAOne", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dbaone/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "After much scientific research, I've determined that there is nothing boring about this.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513265564, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909714, "authorName": "AlfaZagato", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alfazagato/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Something's wrong. It seems to be pointed straight in every shot, not fishtailing gravel at an absurd angle.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513265834, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909728, "authorName": "carhillclimb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carhillclimb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Many years ago at a local shop in Peabody MA there was a Stratos and a TZ-2, both of which I had seen before on display at the Hunnewell vintage hillclimb in Wellesley MA. I asked the mechanics which they would choose. The first guy said the Stratos of course. The second guy said \"Stratos? a dime a dozen. The TZ-2\". And I leave out the Lime Rock Stratos story.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513266251, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909735, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@carhillclimb: well, they did build 500 Stratoses and only 10 TZ2, so in a very \"C&C d-bag\" way he had a point.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513266604, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909736, "authorName": "1600veloce", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/1600veloce/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I must have wrecked about a dozen Alitalia livery toy cars when I was a kid. What a cool car, someone will be very lucky to own this car.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513266633, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909747, "authorName": "provapilota", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/provapilota/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Mike K Pretty sure I saw the same blue Stratos in that NJ shop while either picking up or dropping off my 328!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513266960, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909749, "authorName": "seth_fisher", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/seth_fisher/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Way back , I had a chance to buy one of these but it wasn't a \"Matchbox\" , so I passed. Major regrets.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513267001, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909804, "authorName": "Vector", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/vector/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I wonder if I can sell the house without the wife finding out.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513268177, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909806, "authorName": "golfR", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/golfr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I think you'll find living in this car a bit cramped.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513268216, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909818, "authorName": "Michael_S", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/michael_s/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I saw this car at Concorso Italiano back in August. I think I managed to wipe all my drool off of it before the owner found out. Beautiful example of an amazing automobile!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513268326, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909836, "authorName": "BSer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bser/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Dear Santa... my garage needs a red doorstop.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513268641, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909842, "authorName": "MajorTomB", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/majortomb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Why is it I am in Dallas on business, the cars are near Houston and vice versa?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513268820, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909844, "authorName": "Scoopman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scoopman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have been living my life believing that the Lancia Stratos only existed in gorgeous photographs found in glossy coffee table car books. I want so badly to actually see one in the flesh. I can deal with that hope much better than the far more outrageous fantasy of actually driving one, much less owning one. I need to get my work done, and then this comes along to mess with my mind and other normally covered areas of my earthly body.... \nDamn you BAT!!! Damn you to HELL!!!!", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513268868, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909849, "authorName": "manpot", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/manpot/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow..that's all. I may be a Porsche guy but a Stratos is divine in all ways.Oh to be a multi millionaire..", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513268932, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909847, "authorName": "Guzi66", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/guzi66/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My highschool science teacher still owes me a hundred bucks from when these came out. He insisted that the Stratos was powered by the same Fiat/Lancia engine as the (US) Scorpion. I on the other hand had already read everything R&T/C&D had to say so when he offered $100 bet I knew I had him.\nTo this day I don't think teachers should be engaging in \"high stakes\" betting with their students. But I do think that as good role models they should pay up if the do and loose. Can't remember the guy's name but I've sure never forgotten about the Stratos - or that hundred bucks!", "likes": 21, "timestamp": 1513269012, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909871, "authorName": "d_a_c", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/d_a_c/", "bidAmount": 311000, "content": "$311,000 bid placed by d_a_c", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513269404, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1909876, "authorName": "Mike_Breinin", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mike_breinin/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What can be said other than this is the most exciting auction that BAT has offered in at least 6 months, and possibly the most exciting auction ever (even more so than the 959). Such a glorious machine that is perfection in every way. I can't wait to watch this one go to the moon!", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513269482, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909881, "authorName": "GageDave", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gagedave/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I've got two of these in 1/18th scale - one in race and one in street. Hands down my favorite car but then I'm jaded since I've stood on the side of the dirt road while the Safari Rally blasted by feet away. If you are fan of these cars you owe it to yourself to read the Car & Driver review written somewhere in the mid '70's. I have a copy - some of best automotive journalism ever written. Awesome to see this on BaT. I might be willing to give up my eye teeth just to see one in the flesh. Hopefully it stays in the States. GLWTS!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513269554, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909890, "authorName": "WheelerDlr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wheelerdlr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "from what European dealers are asking (650-775k USD) this should do really well. A quick search didn't produce any for sale in the US other than this one. \n\nWhy they are not $1M+ puzzles me, much more iconic and cooler than many $1M+ car out there!", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513269679, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909913, "authorName": "amccullough", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/amccullough/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I read a report on a scientific study done once, and scientifically it was proven that the Stratos was the bestest car of all the cars ever made.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513270030, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909917, "authorName": "NickyDaFish", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nickydafish/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "There are a handful of these racing the European Historic Rally circuit \r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxGtzRIenmU", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513270107, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909906, "authorName": "velorex", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/velorex/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Walter Rohrl in his recent interview printed in Classic Auto (Polish magazine) said: \u201c\u2026but a true scoundrel of a car was Lancia Stratos. In the street version this car was simply dangerous. The Group 4 car was something else entirely: much improved, possible to control. The street version could not be tamed. I remember when driving the regular Stratos even at 180 km/h my hands were wet with perspiration, \u2018- right Christian?\u2019 (Christian Geistdorfer, Rohr\u2019ls co-driver, confirms. It was Christian\u2019s very own Stratos).\u201d\n\nQ: You\u2019ve said in the past: \u201cIf you learn how to drive Stratos, you can drive anything, even F1.\u201d\n\n- \u201cI still believe it. I remember one of my first rally events in Germany. It was a winter rally, on snow. Studded tires were verboten. There was this special stage, essentially one long straight shot through the forest. We were reaching 190 km/h. In my entire career it was the only stage at which Christian was afraid. I was driving like this [Rohrl is sawing his arms left and right showing continuous slides and corrections]. When we finished I heard a loud 'sigh' in my intercom. Honestly, we were both glad we were still alive.\u201d", "likes": 38, "timestamp": 1513270278, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909919, "authorName": "LikesWeirdCars", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/likesweirdcars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Can someone tell me what is up with the copper RTV gooped out of the seam next to the engine number?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513270307, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909925, "authorName": "BATfan27", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/batfan27/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I went for a boot in one of these a few years back. The car was almost identical to the one in the photos and let me tell you it did not like to go straight! It is a very very dicey car to drive and is happiest at lurid slide angles to the direction of travel. Still it makes the most glorious engine sound and the Stratos carburetor setup has none of the flat spots that are the norm on my DCNF equipped Dino 246GT.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513270482, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909931, "authorName": "Nis1973", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nis1973/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I've had a blue one for about two years now and absolutely love it! There are objectively much better, faster cars now but very few can match the level of involvement on a nice twisty road, the sound above 5,000 RPM, the visual impact, and history (winningest Ferrari-engined car I believe). I have to admit, though, that the first time I drove it aggressively on the road I ended up being terrified. Once you get to know it, though, and learn to play according to its rules, it's such and exciting drive!", "likes": 21, "timestamp": 1513270839, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909946, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@velorex \"possible to control\" sounds like an improvement indeed.\n\nAnd to say that the Stratos was the tamed production version, not the wild show prototype. That was the Zero, which was out of this world.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513271259, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909950, "authorName": "wallmall09", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wallmall09/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My grandma\u2018s neighbour had one exactly like this one when I was a kid. In a little farmer\u2019s village in the alps, where - in the early 80s - it was easier to spot a carriage pulled by a horse rather than an exotic sports car.\r\nThe owner ended up selling it in the late 80s, because after all those years somebody was gonna give him enough money to buy a brand new Ferrari 328 with it. So he did.\r\nAt the time we both thought it was a great deal...", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513271364, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909956, "authorName": "Frank_Garcia", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/frank_garcia/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Please BaT, I am getting tired of seeing these on here all the time.", "likes": 14, "timestamp": 1513271470, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909961, "authorName": "Stagehand", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stagehand/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Mike K\nGood stuff. \nThanks", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513271573, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909976, "authorName": "rubin565", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rubin565/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Awesome. I needed a new Daily", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513272117, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909980, "authorName": "Prospect944", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/prospect944/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The Bidding: Holy S__t!!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513272242, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1909999, "authorName": "FredrikB", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fredrikb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Maybe someone can buy it and make a nice doghouse out of it...\r\nhttp://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/other-italian-cars/190150-lancia-stratos-ex-munari.html", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513272659, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910020, "authorName": "datsone", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/datsone/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Looks like the common thread in these comments is there\u2019s no rational reason to own this, which is exactly why it\u2019s . . so . . hard . . to . . . resist", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513273302, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910034, "authorName": "Jags_in_the_barn", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jags_in_the_barn/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If an E-type is sex on wheels, this is more of the same, but with a little bit of BDSM thrown in for good measure. Nothing quite matches these for overall success from a singular objective.", "likes": 13, "timestamp": 1513273700, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910037, "authorName": "Arekusan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/arekusan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Where are the pics of it airborne?", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513273751, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910041, "authorName": "JAGBOY", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jagboy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I saw one of these a few weeks ago zigzagging through the Ginza in Tokyo, parting shoals of Toyotas and Hondas like a shark among the mullets. A thrill just to see it.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513273793, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910040, "authorName": "Arash", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/arash/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I made a joke earlier about it being an X1/9, and I understand that they are incomparable, BUT, they do share a lot of parts from hinges, to switches to... em... well they both come in red...", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513273801, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910039, "authorName": "Thisguy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/thisguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "You know that look that kittens get when you pick them up by the scruff of the neck, and they go all limp and gaze vacantly into the middle distance? Yeah.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513273808, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910043, "authorName": "lonewolfsx", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lonewolfsx/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Off topic, but both the photography and videography is top notch on this listing - obviously it's going to go for a lot but I love the artistic quality to the pictures and the stabilized footage in the video clip. In fact, one of these may be my new desktop wallpaper", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513273843, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910045, "authorName": "Pete000", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pete000/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Stunner !", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513273879, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910073, "authorName": "Sammgb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sammgb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Since there's no 'drool' emoji..., drool..., drool..., drool..., drool...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513274450, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910087, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@benzog : windshields are available, as @ Nicolas says.\n\n@jeff steindler : yes \u2013 X1/9 lid latches, door latches, and some other switchgear. With only 500 produced, Lancia raided the parts bins for hardware where it made sense. \n\n@WheelerDlr : prices have softened somewhat; I haven\u2019t seen $700k prices for a couple of years. The most recent auction sales have been a lot lower than that. As @deichenb said earlier, this one sold at auction last year for \u00a3308K.\n\nPer @velorex \u2018s wonderful quote, one of the all-time rally greats stated \u201cIf you learn how to drive Stratos, you can drive anything, even F1\u201d \u2013 something no one ever said about a 1974 Lotus Elise SC.\n\n@FredrikB : that\u2019s a genuine works \u2018doghouse\u2019; it left Kenya a couple of years ago, and last I heard it was being restored in Europe\n\n\u201cIt looked positively petite compared to the 80s 308 that was parked next to it,\u201d\nFor those that understand the scale of what they\u2019re seeing, this is the same size as an X1/9, except 6\" wider \u2013 all of which is in the flanks; the greenhouse is narrower than an X1/9 at the roof.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513274823, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910089, "authorName": "Ex36", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ex36/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "How crazy to be tempted to bid $313,000 (just to do it), on something that looks like this no less, and be completely confident an even higher bid would soon free me of my commitment?!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513274831, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910096, "authorName": "Arash", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/arash/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ex36 go ahead, I'm sure the reserve is out of this stratosphere...\n\n...see what i did there.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513274924, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910105, "authorName": "Jon442", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jon442/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Any lover of the Stratos should check out The Race Forever by R.A. Montgomery, 1983 edition. Okay, it's a Choose Your Own Adventure book and I was 10, but it's a good read.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513275113, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910112, "authorName": "Sidragon", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sidragon/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Oh, now this IS why BaT is bookmarked and explored daily, what an absolutly stunning beastie to have up on the auction block....\nThank you!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513275311, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910133, "authorName": "Danseur", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/danseur/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Jon442, I remember that book do well! I was the same age and it was my first introduction to this car! Been fascinated ever since!!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513275749, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910142, "authorName": "pqm", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pqm/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Bring a set of brass balls to the table...this is going to be good.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513276047, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910159, "authorName": "velorex", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/velorex/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My day so far: wake up. Drink coffee. Open BaT. OMG!!! Copy all the pictures. Set pictures as a background on the computer. Read all the posts. Translate short excerpt from an article. Post the translation. Look at the pictures some more. Go do some work stuff. Come back. Open BaT. Read posts. Look at the pictures. Check the brokerage account balance. Retirement is highly overrated. Look for Stratos videos on YouTube. Check ListerBell website.", "likes": 35, "timestamp": 1513276620, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910180, "authorName": "DENWERKS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/denwerks/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was going to bid, but I don't think I or Stanley (aka my english bulldog) will be able to fit in this thing, darn! Good Luck, great car!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513277037, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910195, "authorName": "JG333SP", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jg333sp/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This guy thought my 308 Dino was one of these. I told him naahh, mine has an actual Ferrari engine. \r\n\r\nFlipping great car-impossible to find in the states these days. Worth every penny-GLWS", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513277377, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910199, "authorName": "letterman7", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/letterman7/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'll say it and get pummeled: for half the price (or less) I could order a Hawk replica and have the same thrill. No, it wouldn't be a \"real\" Stratos, but it would be close enough for me...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513277490, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910207, "authorName": "alec", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alec/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A car that wears it's name perfectly! But not for the faint of heart and the average driver. Expect to be disappointed if you plan to drive on regular roads at regular speeds. It is not particularly comfortable (especially if you are taller than 6ft). Expect also the clutch to be very firm and the gear box stiff. No synchro in first gear or reverse makes driving in the city even more of a hassle. BUT! If you are a somewhat suicidal driver and plan to toss the car in corners at high speed, then you've got the right machine. Bring your slim Italian shoes, some heel-and-toe and have fun! BTW, not your standard AAA windshield replacement here and you can imagine how weird it would be to look at the road through that glass! Great car nonetheless!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513277629, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910229, "authorName": "dono59", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dono59/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "So cool, so Italian, so beautiful......just wish I saved more of my paper route money !", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513278097, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910265, "authorName": "CapRic", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/capric/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As luck would have it, the auction on that red '64 Kellison J-5 closes just 3hrs before this one closes. \nDecisions, decisions! \nWell, if I can't get the Kellison, I'll have time to try for this Lancia!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513279027, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910278, "authorName": "Turk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/turk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Why do i feel like it would be more appropriate to be looking at pornography at my desk than this right now?", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513279115, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910282, "authorName": "RJ80", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rj80/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As others have mentioned, it can be fun to serial Fiat owners on a budget to pick out all the parts bin stuff that made its way to the Stratos. Others have mentioned the trunk and hood release in the door jamb as being from an X1/9. The exterior hood latches are the same parts as the targa top latches on the X1/9 as well. Taillights are shared with the Fiat 850 (and Lancia 037 rally cars). Door latches are shared with X1/9 and 308 GT4. Most Veglia ancillary gauges are essentially the same as Fiat 124. \n\nI had the great fortune to drive a Group 4 Stratos on the street (thus completing my Dino Trifecta drive experiences -- the 246 GTS and Fiat Dino 2400 Spider came first). Each Dino-engined car has its own unique character, but a lot of the same soundtrack. The Fiat Dino is a cruiser, the Dino 246 is a far more serious car, but the Stratos is a monster compared with the other two. The cabin is far tighter than even the Dino 246 and the car, overall, is far more focused. You never forget you're essentially driving a race car on the road. \n\nMaybe it's time to buy another X1/9...", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1513279207, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910299, "authorName": "milage", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/milage/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Holey moley and I thought R5's were expensive. Well done.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513279366, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910341, "authorName": "Dolce71", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dolce71/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm a lover of Italian cars , never seen this one before, aside from the price it's commanding I wouldn't have looked twice, what gives, kinda ugly too.\r\nWhomever wins the bidding will be saving a ton buying it on BAT. Now I'll have to watch and see where this goes.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513279946, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910348, "authorName": "DenverWoody", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/denverwoody/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "190HP. That\u2019s what it took back in the day. Wow.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513280059, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910351, "authorName": "xwx11", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/xwx11/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "RJ80: 'Door latches are shared with X1/9 and 308 GT4.'\n\nGT4 and X1/9 door latches are different - looks aren't everything.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513280089, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910396, "authorName": "Dolce71", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dolce71/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As far as I'm concerned looks are everything when you're spending $300k+", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513280820, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910469, "authorName": "nybruin", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nybruin/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Generally not a fan of red, but in this case I'll make an exception.\nDrool..\n .... \n .. \n .", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513281576, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910497, "authorName": "vintageair", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/vintageair/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Okay aside from looking at the Lister Bell website where you can buy a full Stratos kit (minus engine) for $35k this auction has me thinking all sorts of crazy stuff. I own two Alfa 164S's and now I'm wondering if it would be possible to shoehorn a 3 liter Alfa V6 into an X19 - LoL", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513281969, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910518, "authorName": "supersportsp", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/supersportsp/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I just need this, an 037 and a Delta S4 to complete my Lancia rally homologation collection. If I'd invested the money I have dumped into my Integrale since May in Bitcoin I could probably swing at least one of them....", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513282144, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910537, "authorName": "mr_smee", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mr_smee/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I think I must be the designer of this car, I drew it in my jr-high notebooks enough times.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513282381, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910579, "authorName": "kens", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kens/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@vintageair Just to illustrate how difficult it is to have an original thought. Yes, someone has done a 3.0 Busso into their X19. I recall seeing the video long ago. \n\nI predict an otherwise unexplained surge in lotto purchases this weekend. BaT should be getting commissions for the lottery sales assist.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513283044, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910605, "authorName": "GageDave", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gagedave/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Dolce71\n\nI noticed most of the photos are from about the same level. Many of us slobbering here have seen the car from other angles. Try this one on flickr - in my opinion the sexiest car ever made.\n\nhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/ferrari-live/9054637259/in/gallery-drogerscollections-72157660675029327/", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513283624, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910690, "authorName": "Nurburgringer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nurburgringer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It's cool watching the view count click away in real time :) \n\nThis has got to set a BaT record for views, watchers and dreamers.\n\nAlways liked that the trunk release handles on this are the same as the X1/9. Makes me feel like I owned at least a tiny part of a Stratos...", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513285047, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910732, "authorName": "Cobyryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cobyryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I just wanna do donuts everywhere in that thing.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513285645, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910734, "authorName": "EdKennedy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/edkennedy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow! This has got to be the most outrageous, crazy listing ever on BAT. Love it. I\u2019ve seen Stratos pics before but not in this detail.\nThanks to BAT and seller for bringing here.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513285669, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1910801, "authorName": "jsaidnawey", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jsaidnawey/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Dream car. Had a serious Wayne's World-esque \"We're not worthy! We're not worthy!\" moment when this page loaded.. Will definitely be watching this auction in its entirety and hope we end up with a sale!", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513286640, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911010, "authorName": "hpeier12", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hpeier12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "the yellow Stratos I had on the mid seventies was the only Car which I could launch all 4 wheels of the ground going over an hump on a deserted road in Switzerland before they had all those money making cameras installed , regretfully sold it for 30K in 1978 , should have kept it like many of those Iconic Cars which turned out be a much better Investment than money in the Bank.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513289078, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911026, "authorName": "DrT", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/drt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If a Fiat X1/9 and a Triumph TR8 had a baby....", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513289176, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911050, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The car might seem expensive at first, but take into account you only have to Bring A Tiny Trailer, which offsets some of the costs.\n\nI can't believe some people didn't know the Stratos before this auction. Surely the ocean is big, but given its aura on this side, at least some of it must have reached every living creature on the other side? Overhere, everyone had one as a Matchbox. Or as a scale model kit. Or as a poster. It featured massively in Sega Rally 2 and lots of other games. Michael Jackson used -bought- the Zero for Moonwalker. There's tons of replicas available. It has been featured in Top Gear more than once, including the notorious \"man-touching\" remark. It is THE first rally car. It is the canvas for the classic Alitalia Livery.\n\nBut if you're totally not into rallying and more focused on the US car market, I can believe you've missed out on after all a very rare car like this. I mean, I still haven't seen Grease. But still.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513289476, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911059, "authorName": "eisenmen", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/eisenmen/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was really interested until I saw the meager trunk space. But this ride video convinced me otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXgWWNJVdYA", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513289682, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911081, "authorName": "WheelerDlr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wheelerdlr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "less than 24 hours live on BaT and 211 comments and counting, and 20,296 views and counting... The listing of this Stratos on BaT is truly epic and a game changer. Collectors/Buyers/Investors take note of this....", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513290275, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911105, "authorName": "JST", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jst/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DrT Blasphemer!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513290696, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911140, "authorName": "taosman54", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/taosman54/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I don't recall what rock I've been living under ,but somehow these have escaped me . After watching the videos I have become a true believer ... these cars are freaking AWSOME! All I can say is there must be a major pair hanging under the back of these cars", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513291179, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911148, "authorName": "mbaum", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mbaum/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Walter R\u00f6hrl be damned - I much, much, much rather have this then the Dino 246 GT. Even if I look at Gandini's wedge masterpiece all day long and use the helmet cut outs in the doors for my wine glass ...", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513291368, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911161, "authorName": "Porscheminiamateur", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/porscheminiamateur/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Countach!!! This might be the most exciting listing on BaT ever. Every single photo takes your breath away.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513291619, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911172, "authorName": "lamachina", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lamachina/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I hope this car beats BAT's the current highest price for a sale. A distinction now held by a Honda or Toyota or something. It certainly deserves to.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513291965, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911174, "authorName": "amigaboy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/amigaboy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DrT - I have a TR8 and love it. But it's no Stratos, I can admit that. And at current bid of $311K, the only place I'm likely SEE a Stratos is either at the local 'rich tech guy car club' in Redmond (https://www.exoticsat.com) - or on the 12th (of never). Doh! \n\nOf course if the buyer would like to give me a test drive, let's get some WA people with half a mil burning a hole in their pocket involved....? :)", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513292008, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911204, "authorName": "cushman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cushman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Quite a vehicle. I have lusted after one of these since before I stopped reading car magazines. One of the most aggressive looking street cars ever built, but 311K is just to much for a car with a cracked windshield. Anyway, now I have a JK.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513293306, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911223, "authorName": "lee_anzola", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lee_anzola/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It looks like a brave real mad bull , love it , a true rally car , happy new owner that will be the envy at any car event .", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513293941, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911235, "authorName": "ANCMatt", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ancmatt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hmmm, this or the '75 Beta Berlina that's bid to $3,333 with less than 24 hours to go?\n\nhttps://bringatrailer.com/listing/1975-lancia-beta/\n\nA year, and a world, apart.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513294272, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911260, "authorName": "DrT", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/drt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@amigaboy - my comment was directed only at the styling not performance", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513295207, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911266, "authorName": "Crazyas00", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/crazyas00/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Stratos!!! Enough said!! I actually got to watch one that was out of place. It was the 24 Hours of Daytona. I think 1977, or 78. I have several pictures somewhere in a box. I even have a vague memory Toly was driving. But then I think I remember the driver lineup was all Italian. It was quick, but it was not the fastest car there. Here again, I think it was in GTU. I do remember it finished. It was downright small next to a 911RS. Such was the diversity of the old FIA opening round of the Championship in it's day. \nAnd just for the knowledge of all, a Group 4 ex. Works Alitalia Stratos sold earlier this year at Bonhams Paris sale for $370,156. Me being me, I'll take the rally car over the street car. That would also assume I could afford either! Going to be the record here on BaT!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513295362, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911301, "authorName": "professorgearhead", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/professorgearhead/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Clunk..... sound of jaw hitting tabletop.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513296701, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911318, "authorName": "RichterRox", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richterrox/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is it the picture or is the camber of the right front tire way off?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513297482, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911337, "authorName": "mallard", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mallard/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was very fortunate to get a ride in a rally prepared Stratos last summer in the Redwoods of CA. Did I mention that it was a very spirited drive on the tight roads between huge Redwoods. The car stuck to the road like glue. I don't think I will ever experience anything like that again. This car on auction is very nice but doesn't sound anything like what I heard, but it shouldn't it's not race prepared. Good luck seller, It's hard not to smile when I think about that ride.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513298025, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911363, "authorName": "bimmergas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bimmergas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A remember Bernard Darniche driving one of these in the Rallye of Monte Carlo in the late seventies. What an amazing driver, what an amazing automobile!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513299053, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911385, "authorName": "racerboy9", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/racerboy9/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The Gr4 Stratos is a different critter and much more planted than the road car but you can get the 15\" rims and put on the Michelin TB series lower profile tires and make a big improvement.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513299964, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911413, "authorName": "Nis1973", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nis1973/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Crazyas00 \"And just for the knowledge of all, a Group 4 ex. Works Alitalia Stratos sold earlier this year at Bonhams Paris sale for $370,156. \" <<< Not true. That was a stradale that was converted to grp.4 and painted in Alitalia livery. A real Alitalia works car would be well over a million dollars and would likely trade privately. The general pecking order is:\r\n 1. Alitalia works cars.\r\n 2. Period group 4 privateer cars.\r\n 3. Stradales.\r\n 4. Non-period group 4 conversions (like the car you are referring to).", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513300958, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911443, "authorName": "toly_arutunoff", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/toly_arutunoff/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "$12,500 in '76. \"Make offer\" for two in '77--from the factory dealer SVAT in Torino. Not much fun to drive on the road on CN36 tires. As numb as an arcade game. They did have 3-poswition adjustable antirolbars. My yellow one had blue mousefur suede seats--the whole seat of that material. I slid them out and slid them right onto the tracks of my 3Z Ferrari spider--the Zagato-rebodied swb Spyder California that was thereby worth about half of an original-bodied car. The luggage compartment had the cutest little yellow mousefur rectangle of \"carpet\" on the bottom. The car had several recalled Fiat parts--doorlatches, throttle cable; and the master cylinder would wear out after a couple hours' racing. It had decent ventilation and during racing conditions, not to mention a couple thousand miles on the road from Torino-Cherbourg and Boston-Tulsa there were no untoward smells in the cockpit. I've never seen one that had other than a black basket-handle spoiler to match the tail spoiler. It'd spin with no warning. Sold it to a man in Dallas for $26k plus a load of spares around '81 or so...if I think of anything else I'll let you know; happy to answer questions!", "likes": 29, "timestamp": 1513302173, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911465, "authorName": "amigaboy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/amigaboy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Another random place you can see a Stratos (didn't realize it until about the 3rd viewing) is in the animated Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex tv series - Batou drives one. :)", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513302801, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911494, "authorName": "enzowho", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/enzowho/", "bidAmount": 325000, "content": "$325,000 bid placed by enzowho", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513303571, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1911532, "authorName": "513mugsy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/513mugsy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This is the car I watched on rally videos and saw in magazines as a kid. Always wondered what they would sound like in person. Still haven't realized that dream yet. Maybe the seller could post a video with a couple of revs for us to poor to bid?!?! Cause alot of people know I will never own one of these!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513304999, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911578, "authorName": "benzog", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/benzog/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sorry @DrT, it would be DOA.\nNo comparison....", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513307178, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911575, "authorName": "Jchack", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jchack/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What? 232 comments and no word from the seller yet! And no one has asked the usual 'Does it have A/C?' either.\n\nSeriously, I have spent far too much of the last 24 hours watching Stratos videos and wondering if I should consider a replica. Thankfully the dream ends when I recall giving up my X1/9 because my knees ached too much after a half hour folded up in it.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513307340, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911590, "authorName": "DrT", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/drt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@benzog @jst @amigaboy dudes! It was tongue in cheek...jeez Have we lost our sense of humor or is the Stratos just too precious to poke fun at?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513307940, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911595, "authorName": "benzog", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/benzog/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "No, it's okay, we get it. I had a good chuckle when I read it. I just thought DrT and DOA were a hoot as well. Besides, I just gave you a thumbs up for it. It's all good!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513308446, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911647, "authorName": "Billy1921", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/billy1921/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What's the most expensive sale ever on BAT?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513310899, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911670, "authorName": "Doritoman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/doritoman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A Toyota 2000 for close to half a million.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513311718, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911708, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Nicolas : \u201cI can\u2019t believe some people didn\u2019t know the Stratos before this auction.\u201d\n\nI guess I must be living the same \u2018reverse-sheltered\u2019 life as you. It never occurred to me that there were car guys \u2013 and who else is on BaT? \u2013 who\u2019ve never heard of the Stratos.\n\n@Nis1973 is exactly right on all counts. The Bonham\u2019s Paris car was a converted stradale. Of the 27 recorded works Stratos \u2013 a fraction of which ran in the second Alitalia livery, only 63 remain. \n\nThe only edit I\u2019d make to the pecking order is to clarify that not all the works cars ran in Alitalia livery. The Stratos debuted in 1973, and ran that and the \u201874 season in Marlboro livery. In 1975 they switched to Alitalia sponsorship, but that year they were green cockpit and lower body with white between and a single small \u2018A\u2019:\nhttps://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3476/3243271155_447ea834d8.jpg\nIt was only 1976-77 that they ran the white with red & green \u2018double-A\u2019 Alitalia livery that everyone thinks of, and it was when the coffin-spoke alloys debuted. For the 1978 season, the works cars ran black, white and red Pirelli colors. Works cars\u2019 values completely depend on their competition results and/or their driver(s). I have no idea of the values of the couple of Gp 5 circuit racers \u2013 if any still exist, but I suspect their aero bodies make them less desirable than the rally cars.\n\nWe aren\u2019t seeing Gp 4 conversions much anymore, as an unmolested stradale like this is now worth more than an Alitalia clone, with flares and coffin-spokes. Other than the wider wheels (and the flares to cover them) and the engine tuning, there was never lot of difference between a stradale and a Gp 4 car \u2013 inside or out. But the wider Gp 4 front and even-wider rear wheels & tires make a huge difference. The Stratos was developed in the pre-Pirelli P7 era.; it was developed with the standard 7.5 x 14 alloy and Pirelli CN36 tires. By 1975, when the works cars entered their first full season, they were wearing low-profile P7for tarmac \u2013 the tire that changed rally as well as supercars.\n\n@toly arutunoff : I well remember seeing the yellow Stratos run at Watkins Glen. And you\u2019re right \u2013 spoilers and airfoils were satin black; these have been painted later.\n\n[correction of earlier post: all seatbacks were black vinyl]", "likes": 16, "timestamp": 1513314281, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911726, "authorName": "Raffi", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/raffi/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A moment please to ponder the combination of audacity and brutal grace Gandini captured in this car. It continues to be as amazing as it was when first shown. Big money for sure, but compared with other cars that don't come close, it's worth every penny of what it earns.", "likes": 21, "timestamp": 1513315856, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911757, "authorName": "RCMike", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rcmike/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Can I get the house sold by Wednesday? Would love to be in the bidding..", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513318278, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911785, "authorName": "bringatrailer", "authorUrl": "", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@billy1921 \n@doritoman\n\nhttps://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-toyota-2000-gt/ for $560k.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513321632, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911799, "authorName": "hand_foot_maneuver", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hand_foot_maneuver/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Which kidney ya want? Left or right?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513322560, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911814, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@billy1921 @doritoman there also was the Porsche 959 Komfort which had a bid of $810.000 but reserve not met. This Stratos will certainly not go over that bid. And most likely also not over the 560k.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513325698, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911818, "authorName": "Bigtoe32067", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigtoe32067/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was 10 years old in 77 and I must've done something good because my mom took me to the hobby shop and gave me 3.00. Back in those days my dad had just died and my mom ws struggling to take care of me and my sister in a minimum wage job and welfare so that 3.00 was some thing special to me and represented a couple of hours of work for my mom. \nI took that 3.00 and bought a model kit of a Stratos with Alitlia livery and took it home and spent the whole weekend putting it together. \nFrom the transverse engine in the rear to the front and rear clamshells to the rear basket handle spoiler. This car was the coolest, funkiest, wildest and most bad ass car I'd ever seen. I'd close my eyes at night to go to sleep and dream of running my hand along the car, opening the door and getting in, I'd then imagine myself driving it and finally fall asleep with a smile in my face. It was a rough time for me because I'd just lost my dad in a scuba diving accident and this silly little car model provided a few minutes of escape from what I perceived as my not so great 10 year old life. \nAll my life I've had a soft spot in me for these cars and while I've seen and driven a lot of awesome cars in my life, I have never seen one of these in the flesh. \nOne day I'll hopefully change that and I'm pretty sure I'll never be able to buy one or even drive one but one day I'll find one and I'll run my hand along it and my 10 year self will be satisfied and my 50 year old self will fall asleep that night with a smile on his face. \n\nThe second owner who put 50k kms on it in three years is my hero and whoever buys this will be my hero if they actually drive it.", "likes": 79, "timestamp": 1513326570, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911833, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Bigtoe32067 there might be a museum near you that has one. The only one I know is Sinsheim, Germany. Or as I said, historic rally races but that'll mainly be Europe.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513332851, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1911903, "authorName": "CNP", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cnp/", "bidAmount": 360000, "content": "$360,000 bid placed by CNP", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513343918, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1912142, "authorName": "Nis1973", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nis1973/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Bigtoe32067 What part of the country are you in?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513350990, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912157, "authorName": "Andyp", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/andyp/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@bigtoe32067\nDrive or fly to Texas, you have 5 days to do exactly what you are talking about.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513351376, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912182, "authorName": "Jaquizz", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jaquizz/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Ok, you can't put this up and expect me to get any work done! Stunning car. I would have one of these in my 10 car dream garage.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513351857, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912197, "authorName": "CNP", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cnp/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Ed L thanks for all the great info.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513352308, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912216, "authorName": "sackboy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sackboy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Highest priced Fiat X1 ever sold !!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513352737, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912270, "authorName": "DSFM2005 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dsfm2005/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "WOW! Well what a ride this has been and will continue to be. We are humbled and honored to be able to share this car with the entire BaT community, you guys are great! \n\nWe are very privileged to own this Stratos. It was a longtime dream finally fulfilled over a year ago. The car came to us from the second owner an Italian gentleman who owned it for nearly 37 years. In 1984 it went into storage with about 70,000 KM\u2019s and there it stayed for nearly 3 decades. We flew the Stratos on a Lufthansa flight to Houston and when it arrived at our shop the condition was honest and very original but somewhat neglected. Many hoses and fitting were still the original ones from the factory but unfortunately no longer functional. We spent the following 6 months, researching, servicing and reconditioning it to the beauty you see today. In all a lot of money and time (approximately 500 hours) went into this labor of love, it has been an enjoyable experience and the end result is breathtaking. The car is original, never restored just maintained and kept up as needed throughout the years and we all here feel that it is exactly how a Lancia Stratos should look and feel. \n\nTaking it to Concorso Italiano was a treat it was really well received, but the highlight was getting up at 5am and ripping it on 17 mile drive, that\u2019s going to be a tough one to top! \n\nIf you have the means to own and drive a Lancia Stratos it\u2019s a privilege and opportunity that you should experience. I like to say you don\u2019t drive this car you dance with it. It\u2019s a Viennese Waltz and an Argentine Tango all together with hints of a Paso Doble mixed in. It\u2019s an Icon, Legend, Unicorn, etc\u2026 etc\u2026 but more than that it is automotive art in our humble opinion and will only continue its legendary status with generations to come. \n\nTo the entire BaT staff and community, we thank you for providing an excellent platform worthy of sharing this stunning motorcar. \n\nYour friends, \n\nDSFM2005", "likes": 37, "timestamp": 1513354171, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912347, "authorName": "daver277", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/daver277/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Desktop background car.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513356043, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912385, "authorName": "racerboy9", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/racerboy9/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A lot of the Gr4 converted Stratos are just tarted up stradales. There is a lot more to it than wide wheels and a rally paint job. Different shocks/struts, rear uprights, springs, suspension arms, quick rack, sway bars and linkage, Lockheed brakes, up-rated big-valve or 24-valve engine, modified oil sump, comp gearbox with dog rings and at least nine sets of different transfer gears and a totally different dash and instruments. All this makes the Gr4 a beast of a rally car.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513357083, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912445, "authorName": "ridewhencan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ridewhencan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I log onto BAT for the occasional work time distraction. Two hours later, all of the comments read and videos watched, I'd better get back to work. My partner keeps walking past my office and I keep switching screens, lol. Great auction. Great info on this star.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513358862, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912548, "authorName": "OinFL", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/oinfl/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "ahh very cool. THEE rocket", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513361356, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912550, "authorName": "RBBGroup", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rbbgroup/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "just curious... what was the price of one of these when it was new? in 1974?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513361367, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912587, "authorName": "FixItAgainTony", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fixitagaintony/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Not sure that old bill of sale at 5Mill Lire about $3500 at the time makes much sense.... 1983 right ? may be they left off a zero ? for the Italian tax guys", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513362185, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912629, "authorName": "reverend_sean", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/reverend_sean/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "(to be read in the voice of The Most Interesting Man in the World) - \"I don't change my desktop background often, but when I do, it is for this red Stratos\"", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513363316, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912637, "authorName": "maxxfish7", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/maxxfish7/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Gorgeous car, but not one you'd get to drive much these days. I put my deposit down with Lister Bell in September. At that point it was a year wait for a kit. After all the frenzy from this auction, I bet their lead times will double!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513363479, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912646, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@FixItAgainTony : the original \u2018list\u2019 price in 1974 was about $12,500.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513363770, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912681, "authorName": "Grandpa", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/grandpa/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Ed L : That's $66,000 today, adjusted for inflation. Obvious question--what should we be buying today. (Ignore if this is threadjack.)", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513364486, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912730, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Grandpa : a crystal ball", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513365152, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912969, "authorName": "Grandpa", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/grandpa/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ Ed L : Touche. I'll be dead in 40 yrs. anyway.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513366849, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1912897, "authorName": "Stratos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stratos/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Embarrassed at how emotional this auction has gotten me. \n\nNever imagined seeing a Stratos here, but such a joy. Other commenters have done a brilliant job of describing the ridiculously visceral driving and riding experiences, so this is just a personal footnote. \n\nRough circumstances growing up taught me about survival, while much inspiration to persevere came from automobiles. I built models and spent hours maintaining a modest HO racetrack. I dreamed of glorious bodies and colors and speed - adventures beckoning beyond the cramped venue of childhood. And although Corvettes were my first crush (even before the lovely Nancy T. in fifth grade), the tiny Lancia invoked the first and most everlasting mystical association to a car. It represented hope; though small but tenacious, it swung with the power of Thor\u2019s Hammer. \n\n\"It will be remembered because it is a supreme example of what is achievable with perseverance, skill and a lot of courage.\u201d Cesare Fiorio\n\nWhew. This car, its genesis, and what it has represented, played a notable part in where I arrived. Gratitude nearly impossible to express in words. \n\nFor fun: \n\nChris Harris rides shotgun with three rally greats:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXgWWNJVdYA\n\nTo those relishing a photo of a Stratos in-flight:\nhttp://historygarage.com/little-rally-car-lancia-stratos/\n\nAnd of course \u201cthe story,\u201d from conception to birth: \nhttps://www.lanciastratos.com/en/history\n\n@PDXBryan, thanks for alerting me to this auction in the middle of an intensive clinical week. \n\n @bringatrailer and @DSFM2005, thank you.", "likes": 26, "timestamp": 1513366905, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1913096, "authorName": "GageDave", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gagedave/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow! That Chris Harris ride was awesome. I got a short ride shotgun one time in helicopter - not even close.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513368198, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1913137, "authorName": "evo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/evo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Bloody hell", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513368804, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1913181, "authorName": "GageDave", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gagedave/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The 5 minute clip of actual race coverage in the history garage link is even better. I watched the '73 & '74 Safari Rally's in Kenya from the side of the road ('73 was at night) but don't remember if any Stratos were in those races.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513369428, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1913439, "authorName": "Tyracious", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tyracious/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Location:\nBerkeley CA \u2013 deserted industrial side street\nTime:\nLast Century \u2013 summer \u2013 7:00 PM\nIncident:\nWhile driving past said street noticed at the very periphery of vision a single isolated bright orange thing about 200 yards down the street.\nEven though it flashed by in an instant I knew what the strange, alien craft from planet X was.\nU-turn.\nSpent at least half an hour crawling around and drooling.\nWhat made the experience surreal was it sitting alone without any other vehicles on the street.\nNo people.\nDead quiet.\nThen noticed this was near Fantasy Junction.\nOk \u2013 I guess they didn\u2019t have room or something and decided to leave it out on the street.\nAsking price - $25,000.\nCoolest objet d\u2019art ever.\nMy favorite car of all time.", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1513372158, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1913464, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Don't look up old stories of people who were second hand shopping and could buy \"a Stratos or a [insert still very affordable car here]\" for the same money in the eighties. It's too painful. There was a period where a Stratos was mainly old and impractical, and could be had for relatively cheap. Today it's no longer old and impractical, it's vintage and focused. And as a result I'm removing the \"for sale\" sign in front of my house, as it would no longer cover the cost of a Stratos in 2017. My house is just old and impractical so it doesn't raise enough money.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513372456, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1913566, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Look at this onboard footage:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0qQg57fGA8\n\nIt truly is like sitting inside a full face helmet. It's hardly larger than than anyway.\nAnd look at those steering inputs, they are similar to how 50's-60's grand prix cars were driven. Constant \"slide and catch\" tiny jerks on the steering wheel to keep the beast tamed.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513373870, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1913658, "authorName": "MyType", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mytype/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "So, this is what a spaceship on wheels looks like, stunning!", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513374802, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1913997, "authorName": "taosman54", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/taosman54/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "After watching the factory footage provided by Stratos I don't think I've ever seen any other car that presents such a aura of \"attitude\" while at the same time sounding like 10,000 pissed off hornets shook up in a bottle just waiting to get out and inflict pain My cousin had a 61 Lancia convertible in the 60's, but this ..... this ....", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513380426, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914006, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Stratos\nPerseverance and courage brother. Sending good thoughts your way.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513380850, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914020, "authorName": "ar1950", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ar1950/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Considering what these cars were built and used for seeing this one in such good, original condition is pretty amazing. Looking forward to seeing where the price action ends up on this one. GLWTA. \n@Stratos, thanks for the links.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513381539, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914142, "authorName": "ralt12", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ralt12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Just saw one parked in the faculty lot at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Wish you could post pictures here, pretty impressive kit.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513386502, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914217, "authorName": "Bigtoe32067", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigtoe32067/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "To all who asked. I didn't realize this was in Spring. I just moved from the Spring area in June to a small farm in the country about 30 minutes north. \nI'd definitely take a short drive in the country in my 308 to go check this car out and the car cousins can see each other also\nSeller do you have an address where I can check out the car and in a sense of full disclosure, I am not a buyer (well, in my dreams I am), just a lifelong fan who'd love to see it so I'll try not to waste too much of your time. \nThanks\nTony Moore\nBigtoe", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513390608, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914219, "authorName": "Bigtoe32067", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigtoe32067/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "And it's nice to see I'm not alone in the long forgotten emotions that this car brings out. \nWhat a car!\nBigtoe", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513390670, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914364, "authorName": "Mazdastuff", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mazdastuff/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I thought it was at Drivers Source...guess it got moved.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513398473, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914383, "authorName": "Andyp", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/andyp/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@bigtoe32067\nClick on the contact seller link in the BaT essentials box. It will send the seller an email.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513399979, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914417, "authorName": "Stratos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stratos/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Snowy day off watching Stratos videos. \n\nEnter Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond in one of my favorites (3 minutes), squeezed into a cockpit, demonstrating why \"man-touching\" your friend's knee is unavoidable during shifts, lol. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxKtqnUZU5k\n\n@PDXBryan Much appreciated. Apologies if the clinical mention in my post was confusing - I'm actually the one treating people :-)", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513403830, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914442, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "one of my favorites for the sound:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2OlsCu1tfc", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1513409319, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914473, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@bigtoe32067 I hope you and the seller can arrange a timeslot so you two can have the time of your life around the car. In my opinion, it's part of the responsibilities of owning a piece of art/history. The owner gets to drive it home at night, but to marvel at it is for everyone. I'm looking forward to reading your report here.\n\nPS your scale model might be larger than the actual car.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513417217, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914494, "authorName": "A-Stock", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/a-stock/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I am only 300k short!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513426452, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914541, "authorName": "rallyace", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rallyace/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Still time to buy some Powerball tickets and, if luck is on my side, I may own this beauty.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513431351, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914564, "authorName": "Darel", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/darel/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "OK, i'm setting aside my inner fanboy and asking...what's the deal with the RTV silicone by the serial number stamping on the engine block? And, not being familiar with the location of this number stamping, it LOOKS like it's on the CYLINDER HEAD?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513432383, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914644, "authorName": "GibbyGibson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gibbygibson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Surprisingly few of the usual comments complaining that BaT is meant for project cars and cheap fun. I wonder why...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513434987, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914684, "authorName": "Stratos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stratos/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@GibbyGibson\n\nI was part of that bitchfest. Apparently BaT listened. \n\nNow we have the rolling carcass of a Beetle sharing the stage with a Stratos. \n\nMore variety here means less accomplished around the house. Oh well...", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513436067, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914696, "authorName": "Thegreatmandito", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/thegreatmandito/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If only I hadn't sold all that bitcoin earlier this year...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513436507, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914748, "authorName": "Toofast", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/toofast/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have to comment on this car if for no other reason than I feel it is my duty as a fan and friend of BaT to have my words included with the other comments. We have all seen many rare and significant cars cross the block here, but I never imagined a Stratos showing up. There's just so few of them around. Congratulations in advance to whoever ends up owning this. Thanks to BaT and DSFM2005 for the offering. I won't say anymore about the car since others that are much more versed than I have commented and that is the real beauty of having this forum to see and discuss cars that most of us have no chance of owning, and some might not even get to see. I wonder what surprises are in store for us next year!", "likes": 17, "timestamp": 1513438252, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914775, "authorName": "racerboy9", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/racerboy9/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Here is a tough clip to watch. Car was fixed and racing again. \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJSynKt0X2s", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513438954, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914810, "authorName": "professorgearhead", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/professorgearhead/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Just a bit of real-world perspective for anyone who has never seen a Stratos in the flesh: if I remember correctly, they are about 10\u201d shorter and 4\u201d wider than a first generation Mazda Miata.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513439846, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914947, "authorName": "GibbyGibson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gibbygibson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Damn those Italians for building such pretty cars. If I\u2019m never financially stable in my life it\u2019ll be their fault.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513444764, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1914982, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Stratos\nAhhhh, good to know! At this point there are at least 5 of us that are glad you're well ;^)", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513446049, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915049, "authorName": "jayj", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jayj/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow I love this. Saw one of these in person only once (other than the model I had as kid) - at an Amelia Island auction a few years ago - it wasn't being auctioned someone drove it there and was in the parking lot. Pictures don't do justice to the coolness and just how small these are. I had my Lotus Elise there and it seemed quite \"large\" compared to the Stratos and I never again thought about the challenge of climbing into the drive seat.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513449478, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915094, "authorName": "stylepergallon", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stylepergallon/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I just want to know how whoever took the photo at the car show managed to get a shot without 30 people mobbing this car and blocking the view!\n\nOne of the most rare and unique cars in the world, and yet another great milestone for BaT. Looking forward to watching this to the end.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513451926, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915097, "authorName": "nero308qv", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nero308qv/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Bigtoe32067 - you can be aooy that you own a 308, as I think it is one of the best driving classic sports cars and makes much fun. Which exact model do you have?\nI own a 308 GTS QV, which I have driven a little bit more than 140,000 miles in29 years nd it is still y favourite car - although I'd love to own and drive a Stratos, too ...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513452310, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915191, "authorName": "clintonmomo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/clintonmomo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Darel the RTV could be on the oil pan, which would make sense. Maybe it's just the way the photo is rotated to make the stamping legible. But it does look like a cylinder head without being able to see an overall photo of the stamping location.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513457898, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915238, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The engine serial is stamped at the rear flange of the block, at the offset for the front head, which is shifted forward relative to the rear head due to the cylinder offset in the V. Toward the bottom of that photo you're looking at the bellhousing for the clutch and drop gears. \n\nNo -- I can't explain the sealant.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513461524, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915268, "authorName": "newcollector", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/newcollector/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "In a very small group of the most special cars ever... \r\nPerhaps in the top 10?", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513463162, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915308, "authorName": "Ananda", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ananda/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Looks so much more at home on the gravel and dirt roads than on a racetrack or city street. So so cool.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513466488, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915392, "authorName": "RacerRon", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/racerron/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "One of my all-time favorite cars. In fact a made a video of the rally Stratos a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siCrvN7O3dA", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513472411, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915417, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@RacerRon\nNicely done and that last scene is....YIKES!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513474502, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915520, "authorName": "taosman54", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/taosman54/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@RacerRon Incredible! Had to keep watching Who performs the score?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513485063, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915555, "authorName": "SvntSvn", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/svntsvn/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Dsigned by legendary Bertone. Powered by Ferrari. Produced by Lancia as the 1st purpose built rallye car. Very limited production. Unreal appeal, unbelievable driving characteristics. \nThere is no box left unchecked here in this class of automobile.\nInstant bottom of the ninth, point to the pitcher, gone.. out of the park walk off win.\nEnd of story. Amen", "likes": 15, "timestamp": 1513488180, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915579, "authorName": "cascadia", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cascadia/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "One of the VERY few cars where the phrase \"ridden hard and put away wet\" is not meant to be derisive!", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513491465, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915612, "authorName": "Gilligoo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gilligoo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Dear Santa...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513506568, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915793, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A side note: Many unctions on this site finish with hardly any \"thumbs up\" registered but look back at these comments. Almost every comment registers a thumb or 70. This car really brings out the passion and community! All these stoic, hard-core car guys are like kids again and I'm diggin' it. Thanks for providing the playground BaT!", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513526756, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1915813, "authorName": "XLR8", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/xlr8/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "XLR8\nPerformance & Rarity some of the reasons BaT has been able to care for my \"safe\" addiction for the last ten plus years. Someday my dream will again become reality.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513528081, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916058, "authorName": "Dazed_and_Amused", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dazed_and_amused/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "You want both kidneys? Done.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513544838, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916123, "authorName": "ZombieWolf", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/zombiewolf/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was born in 74. we are meant to be with each other... in some after life. What number will this beauty get. What a car!! Congrats to the current and future owners.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513548976, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916176, "authorName": "BMWCSLM3", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bmwcslm3/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow, in spring! 10miles from my home. Beautiful car with amazing motorsport history.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513553224, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916184, "authorName": "Famoroso", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/famoroso/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well, which one of us couldn't use another mid engine rally car?\n\nSuch a great and entertaining auction to watch. Perhaps this / BaT is the reason for the waning NFL ratings?\n\nPlease don't be RNM...\nPlease don't be RNM...\nPlease d-o-n-'t be RNM!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513553957, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916218, "authorName": "bmwahba", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bmwahba/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Childhood dreams. Wow.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513556426, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916244, "authorName": "amike", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/amike/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Not many negative comments, and for good reason! One of my favorite cars ever, even though it's not from the classic Lancia era (more a Fiat/Ferrari, not that there's anything wrong with that). The front end looks like my Lotus Europa before I put in European springs. I would immediately lower the front end on this car too, would look much better with the rocker panel closer to horizontal. I wish I knew what these are really going for, as there is enough room in one of my garages for such a tiny car and I am out of the stock market looking for a place to park some cash.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513559614, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916257, "authorName": "svarooom", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/svarooom/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Buy it now as these will be well over $700K soon...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513561068, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916271, "authorName": "montreal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/montreal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is it possible for someone to buy a car this expensive without seeing it in person,just to make sure everything is A++??? I know it happens often here on BAT, but I really have a hard time understanding it!!\nWhat do BAT members think? Am I the only one who would be scared to bid $400K + without seeing the car? I know the worst scenario would be to loose ''only'' $5000...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513562867, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916355, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@amike : \"Not many negative comments, and for good reason!\"\n\nWhich raises a point that's been bugging me: Much earlier in the thread, @scoopyg posted that he'd never heard of the car before and thought it was ugly. The post was flagged, and I believe it shouldn't have been. As far as I'm concerned flagging should be limited to genuinely offensive comments or personal attacks, not simply comments you disagree with. Everyone here is entitled to post their honest opinion -- no matter how silly that opinion may seem to the rest of us.\n\n /rant", "likes": 30, "timestamp": 1513569696, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916357, "authorName": "Stbuild", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stbuild/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hey @mike, I get it that your stricken by the Stratos, but please be real, suspension and \u2018stance\u2019 are not determined for bystander appeal in a static condition. This is Rally car, the suspension\u2019\u2019s \u2018stance\u2019 is only relevant in motion.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513569811, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916401, "authorName": "Stratos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stratos/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@montreal \n\nEspecially for a car of this caliber, bidders will often arrange for PPI's using a specialist. There are a number of these services available nationwide. \n\n@Ed L - Agree, wholeheartedly.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513574859, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916474, "authorName": "Sliding_Pillar", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sliding_pillar/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "For those who are interested in recent auction results for Stratos, (and other Lancias) you can find the details here: http://www.viva-lancia.com/auction/index.php", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513599311, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916530, "authorName": "Ultimagtr650", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ultimagtr650/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Montreal, I bought a Ferrari Boxer from New York without seeing it two years. The reason was simple. The car was worth more in parts than what I paid for it.\nThat way you simply cannot lose, as long as the details as advertised are corect.\nIt seems this seller has a well documented comprehensive history, which is easily verified.I see no issue as others have stated, this car will only go up in value and so the risks involved are really minimal at best.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513605281, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916544, "authorName": "RRulison", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rrulison/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "To whomever wins this, and it won't be me, please promise me one thing...after dropping $400K Plus on this amazing car, you will drive it like it was meant to be driven, like in the amazing video by @RacerRon . I get the whole value/appreciation/investment thing, but for all of us who have loved these since we were kids, please, for the love of God, give it the thrashing we all have dreamt of.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513605678, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916598, "authorName": "MrBonus", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mrbonus/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is the seller willing to take payments over my expected lifetime?", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513608308, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916624, "authorName": "Rick", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rick/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm still a little baffled why dealers (especially this one) use this venue especially on a high end car like this. Just seems I must be missing something.. Can anyone enlighten me? And then on top of it he doesn't participate in the conversation...Seems to me everyone in the world who is searching for one knew it was on the market.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513609912, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916633, "authorName": "Dazed_and_Amused", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dazed_and_amused/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Rick - It's simple: The seller is getting a metric ton of advertising for $99. \n\nI've blown more money on a proper steak dinner. More than once.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513610186, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916754, "authorName": "manpot", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/manpot/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I am absolutely NOT a fan of replicars but I do have to wonder if anyone has Stratosfied a FIAT W19..or a Fiero..which I guess would make it a \"Stratosfier\". Sersiously I could see working some of this cars amazing front and rear onto a smashed x19..thoughts Baters? And yeas I am aware of the very beautiful high end tributes and could see me being in the market, maybe, for one of those. I find the Stratos just stunning..", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513616066, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916785, "authorName": "Stratos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stratos/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That's a damn fair question, @MrBonus, and gave me a good laugh too. \n\nAnd why not? These prices are basically mortgages, lol.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513617002, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916872, "authorName": "kimbo305", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kimbo305/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@manpot the two Stratos kits, Hawk and Lister Bell, are supposed to be excellent. One is very true to the original and one is better engineered than the original. I dunno if you want to call those tributes; they're still kit cars. But given the rarity of the real thing, I don't think there's any shame in them.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513619646, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1916893, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"To whomever wins this, and it won\u2019t be me, please promise me one thing\u2026after dropping $400K Plus on this amazing car, you will drive it like it was meant to be driven, like in the amazing video \"\n\nFor most of us mere mortals, that's a great recipe for reducing the number of remaining Stratos. Anyone who wants to drive this car \"as it was meant to be driven\" would be well advised to first take a good multi-day rally school course. At least twice.", "likes": 16, "timestamp": 1513620169, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1917047, "authorName": "manpot", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/manpot/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Totally agree...I could just see someone taking some serious cues from this gorgous beast and adapting them to the front and rear of a Fiat X19..", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513623483, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1917333, "authorName": "GP1393", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gp1393/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Fantastic photos! Really staged well with great lighting. I could tell in one second the first photos were taken in Italy? How you may ask. Easy, all the graffiti on the train. It is amazing really that most surfaces in Italy are covered by the stuff. You can tell where some businesses or buildings tried to cover over the graffiti, but eventually gave up. It is pervasive.\n\nOh yeah, the car is AWESOME too.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513626843, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1917380, "authorName": "nero308qv", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nero308qv/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "OK, so now we all know that this car was sold at auction on Sept. 7, 2016, by RM Sotheby's in London for GBP 308,000. This amount in USD is roughly 412,000 today", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513627708, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1917554, "authorName": "RBBGroup", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rbbgroup/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ svarooom\nyeah... in about 2 days :)", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513629942, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1917595, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@manpot the windshield. Look at the outrageous cut-from-cylinder windshield. When you start from an existing car, you tend to be stuck with its windshield. Which is, for any car you can think of, totally not what a Stratos looks like. So you're better off with a Stratos kit car and keep your X19, MR2 or Fiero for the lovely mid engined car they are in their own right. A Lotus Evora might be a closer starting point for the Stratos looks, but if you're going to kill an Evora you once again are better off with a Stratos kit car, also financially.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513630667, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1917882, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Ed L\nAmen on the flagging thing! I'm as infatuated with this ride as most of us, but it's pretty lame to flag just because of an opposing opinion. If I'd had a chance to read the post, I'd have probably uttered some profanities and moved on.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513634508, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1917917, "authorName": "racerboy9", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/racerboy9/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I too thought the Stratos was ugly the first time I saw it but the more I read about it the cooler it became.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513634960, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1917937, "authorName": "Rick", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rick/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Dazed and Amused-- Same coverage or better on Hemming's for $99.95 for 6 months.. and he won't have to pay a $5000 commission. dah? Do the math. I stand by my question.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513635301, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1917967, "authorName": "Porscheminiamateur", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/porscheminiamateur/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Top notch car \r\nTop notch listing\r\nTop notch seller\r\nTop notch Top notch Top notch\r\n\r\nPounds conversion in mid/late 2016 pre Brexit was more like $429k. Looks like it\u2019s had a ton invested since then! This is amazing to see it here.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513635622, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1917979, "authorName": "Pashainsert", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pashainsert/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Just curious how much does it cost to fly a car over from Europe to the States? Has to be a\nFortune!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513635936, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1917991, "authorName": "Jchack", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jchack/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Nicolas Good advice to @manpot. The Stratos is so unique in its structure for a street car with the tilting front and rear bodywork. An X1/9 has a bulkhead between the trunk and engine compartment. The Dallara competition X1/9's have a structure more similar to a Stratos but they are very modified. \nIf one has a damaged X1/9 the Dallara body kit is quite attractive and more easily fitted than trying to create something else. \nSuspect modifying an MR2 would not be easy either. The Fiero is easiest to change as it is not a metal body but then we've all seen Lamborghini and Ferrari styled Fiero's and they just don't look quite right.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513636680, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918001, "authorName": "taosman54", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/taosman54/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Rick I think the plus here is that you get a running commentary by people who have owned these cars ,experienced the plus and minus factors, extremely interesting videos. Is it worth $5000 ? At $ 400,000 I think it doesn't matter much to the bidder at that point.Don't get me wrong , we found our XK on Hemmings web site .The people factor and communication is what makes this such a great venue as opposed to a static listing @Racer Ron I've got the bride watching your video with me now ,best experienced at maximum volume", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513636928, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918017, "authorName": "amike", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/amike/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Let's get some negative comments... Looking closely at the pictures, this is a rough car. Look around the windshield (which appears to be cracked) and rubber surround, the hinge screws are quite buggered (why?),\nthe inside of the front and rear bonnets, wheel wells, etc are very rough and could be restored for very little compared to the price of this great vehicle. Not sure what kind of award it would win at Concorso Italiano during Monterey Week in this condition (top only class?). And looking at dozens of other Stratos pictures, this one is much higher than most in the front. But I still want it, though I think a nice Fulvia is in my future instead. :)", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513637431, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918033, "authorName": "Jchack", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jchack/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Another Erik Comas video. The visuals might be a bit repetitive but the sound doesn't get boring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSA7XTus4uc. \n\nWhy do so many Stratos videos have the headlamps up but not on? Is it to flash at slower cars? Can understand if you also have the battery of rally lamps. Am trying to recall how my X1/9's lights worked. Seem to remember an off/park/on switch and think the lights came up in the park position but I never drove around that way.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513638034, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918086, "authorName": "jrehark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jrehark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Never thought I would see an example of my favorite car in the flesh. Imagine my surprise to see a neon green example at a Mid Ohio vintage race with my small Ohio hometown plates on it!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513639466, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918087, "authorName": "Andyp", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/andyp/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Pashainsert\nIf you need to ask about shipping costs this is probably not the car for you.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513639486, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918107, "authorName": "manpot", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/manpot/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Re; Flying a car from Europe..depends who you know. Back in 1978, I believe, a friend of mine was an out of work ( at the time) actor working for Pan Am. He was also a Porsche guy who bought my 356 B Super 90 Cab when I left the UK. He called me and said he had picked up,( as far as I remember), a rough 1960 B in London had found they had room in the cargo hold of the next day flight from Heathrow to LAX and it would be on it. I could not believe it and figure we would be tied up in red tape. I got in my backup car ,a 1953 Chevy four door ,( also had a 1970 914) and headed out to LAX to where they had taxied the 747 for cargo unload. There was this pretty decent 356 sitting on the tarmac. I signed my name on a clip board..and suddenly owned a UK 356. The thing had a flat battery so I called a pal and we towed it home behind the Chevy. A couple of day later my buddy hitched a free ride from the UK. We cleaned the car up and got it running..not very well and put an ad in the LA times for $1,500..about three times what had bought it for. No response. Next week we put the ad back in for ( as far as I remember) $3,500 and got dozens of calls and sold it to the first looker. My pal got a great free vacation , including a surf trip down Baja in the 914,and someone got a half decent car to fix..the same car they could have bought for less than half the price the week before but they just could not believe a $1,500 Porsche was worth it. lots of lessons learned from this one!", "likes": 15, "timestamp": 1513640120, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918171, "authorName": "Ian7", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ian7/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Adnogal how is \"I am a former owner of one of these\" not the saddest thing I've read in years? :-( I'd be happy just to see one in person ....", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513643631, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918176, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "In terms of shipping to the US from Europe, much depends no how close both you and the seller are to a sea port that handles RORO or containers. Obviously costs have changed in the past 11 years, but before I bought my Fulvia HF I looked at an S2 in Switzerland. I got pricing for shipping by sea (container) and by air from there to LA. Because Frankfurt airport was a lot closer than any port, with all dockage fees and port handling costs it would have cost every bit as much to ship by sea as by air \u2013 and that\u2019s with me living in LA, which is served by a choice of ports. It would have taken about 3 - 4 days by air, including customs clearance, instead of 3 - 4 weeks by sea, and it would have been a lot easier to pick up the car at LAX than either port. So don\u2019t assume air shipping is always a lot more money; there are a lot more airports than sea ports...", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513643952, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918206, "authorName": "Adnogal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/adnogal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Regarding replica comments, I did have a deposit on a listerbell, but after investigating import rules, and getting two separate opinions from import brokers, I determined it could not be legally imported( at least as a fully assembled unit, minus engine and tranny). I would recommend anybody considering this to check it out.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513645412, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918242, "authorName": "scotty_g", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scotty_g/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow! There are usually comments are about the decimal point being in the wrong place or there being one too many zeros! I usually sigh and roll my eyes at those comments, but, is this decimal in the wrong place and/or are there one too many zeros in that price?! WOW! I could get 60 $5,000 unusual, fun cars plus a huge pole building to keep them in for that price. I guess that's what separates folks with real money from the rest of us. It sure is a cool car, no question about it, best of luck to the bidders!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513647154, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918285, "authorName": "racerboy9", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/racerboy9/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I would keep that windshield in the car as it is an original Glaverbel. Never seen a Glaverbel spare for sale. I have a NOS windshield in the Lancia bag and it is a Sigla. There are a handful of non-original parts (easily rectified) on this car but everything that counts and is almost impossible to find is there. Few are perfect and this is a nice one.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513648506, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918357, "authorName": "John_M", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/john_m/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Did everyone else see this auction get posted to the top of the feed today? Seems like I have not seen that before, but it is good way to get more eyeballs on this auction!", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513651877, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918364, "authorName": "einnocent", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/einnocent/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yeah @JohnM I was just going to say, I've never seen a re-post of an existing auction to the front page. They also posted a Stratos video from an earlier comment as an inspiration post. I guess this whole Stratos thing is causing everyone to lose their minds. \n\nTo be fair I did make my wife watch that video in an In n Out. And then again at home, in surround sound. So I get it.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513652540, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918381, "authorName": "giorgitd", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/giorgitd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@John M yup, I *almost* posted a note about the flood of 1974 Lancia Stratos HF Stradales on BaT and then noticed that this was the same one as posted a few days ago. Pretty special car, for sure, but the reshuffle to the top was confusing...", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513653796, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918409, "authorName": "Lolat324", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lolat324/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Double the pleasure, double the fun..........", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513654907, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918413, "authorName": "EeeThirty", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/eeethirty/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wonderful photography. Does it cost extra to drop a relevant \"video inspiration\" post the day before the auction?", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513655156, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918415, "authorName": "keen99", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/keen99/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@eeethirty I know right? I want one for my listing! :p", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513655224, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918451, "authorName": "Best_Of_Show", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/best_of_show/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This is a fantastic car and shipping anywhere in the world is a 'Rounding Error\" at this point... The very best guy and company to handle this is Martin Button and Cosdel International. They have the means, connections and ability to deliver it anywhere in the world!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513657422, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918455, "authorName": "fitfan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fitfan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "and a \"free\" bump to the top of the list now too! whats the expression... oh i know! \"Automotive Priviledge!\"", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513657598, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918487, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yeah, I've never seen a car get bumped to the front before. Does it automatically happen at 350 comments/$350K?", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513659940, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918528, "authorName": "Stbuild", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stbuild/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sure am thankful for this historical review of one of the most iconic cars of the seventies but @PDXBryan and @fitfan my thoughts exactly!\nAnd after all, who would want to try to sell a car to the self centered egotist the week before Xmas-the season of Giving, not Getting???", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513663649, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918559, "authorName": "kimbo305", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kimbo305/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What does the large rectangular red light on the dash cluster indicate? Oil pressure?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513667472, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918565, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'd second the recommendation of @Best Of Show. On the recommendation of knowledgeable friends, Martin Button of Cosdel is who I got the comparative quotes from over a decade ago.\n\nBut I'm not sure how or why we got off on the shipping-from-Europe-to-US tangent; the car is already here.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513668477, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918580, "authorName": "Delvin", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/delvin/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The bump has happened before, I believe it was the 959 but I'm not 100%", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513670602, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918587, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@kimbo305 : per the owner's manual, it's the parking brake indicator and (when the parking brake is off) indicator for low brake fluid level (\"spia freno di stazionamento e livello minimo liquido freni\").", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513672327, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918591, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Scotty G with respect, I don't think you're placing the Stratos in the right category mentally. It is an \"unusual, fun car\" in the way an original Ford GT40 is an \"unusual, fun car\", not in the Meyers Manx way. The automotive history of the Stratos is stellar (see what I did there) and the only raison d'\u00eatre (that's not Italian) for the car.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513674775, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918628, "authorName": "Atch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/atch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@EdL: I've had great results sipping with Cosdel too (5 or 6 cars over the last couple of years) great service even door to doo if necessary. To your point about air vs ocean it totally depends on location. LA to Europe is almost certainly better value by air", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513683187, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918739, "authorName": "Mario75", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mario75/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Be honest this is a big game no auction and all the cars here are overpriced", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513693073, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918800, "authorName": "RRulison", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rrulison/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Ed L I agree completely with your comment on my comment. Who doesn't dream of doing what they don't know how to do with someone else's money, or in this case, car. And let's be honest, just getting a little sideways is probably something this car will never do, given its value, and that alone would be a great thrill.\n\nMaybe the video is a bit much, for we mortals, but at least drive the beauty.\n\nAwesome auction, awesome comments.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513695751, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918921, "authorName": "pforrest", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pforrest/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I used to live in Spring, TX. I\u2019m nauseous knowing that one of these was hiding out within a 5-mile radius of my house.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513699207, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1918948, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "People! What's the deal with the itchy flagging fingers? This car can stand on it's own and doesn't need nannies.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513699916, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919018, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@PDXBryan the latest flagged comment was a gratuitous attack on the entire site and all its auctions in general (and not the first from this member...), without any argumentation. It had nothing to do with the Stratos, and flagging it had nothing to do with censorship.\n\nI'm all for a site with comments covering the whole range of opinions on the subject at hand. Keeps us sharp and triggers us to second-guess ourselves. I think the site can do without trolling behaviour though, and in those cases a tiny red flag does come in handy.", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1513702547, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919046, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm as anti-flagging as anyone, but I agree with @Nicolas here. The post had absolutely nothing to do with this or any other car.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513703301, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919062, "authorName": "bringatrailer", "authorUrl": "", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Thanks for the comments everyone. And thanks for using the flagging feature. We review every comment that gets flagged that way, and will reinstate the hidden comments if they are constructive. In this case, as noted by others, the comment was not, so the feature is working as intended... (keeping the discussion about the car listed here).\n\nThanks for all the enthusiasm about this Stratos!\n-BaT", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513703662, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919247, "authorName": "fringecarcollector", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fringecarcollector/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow, on most other listings, if the seller makes only one post during the first 6 days of the sale, the BaT Militia is out here with swords and torches. I guess when your car is in another Stratos-phere...you don't have to say much!\n\nGLWS, this car is insane and insanely out of reach.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513708830, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919288, "authorName": "mchammersteinn", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mchammersteinn/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "And here I am, thinking I'm having a nice throwback with memories of my Stratos R/C car, and *bam* in walks @jon442 with The Race Forever by R.A. Montgomery drop. Cheers, sir, I happen to have an 8 year old who will love it.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513709820, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919293, "authorName": "Stuttgart", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stuttgart/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Too many comments to read on this one during my lunch break. This is an amazing car and I am glad that bids are reaching the 'stratos'phere. :) GLWTA and with a sale this high in price, BAT should mandate a success story follow-up.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513709941, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919562, "authorName": "rust", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rust/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "nice", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513712572, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919581, "authorName": "SvntSvn", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/svntsvn/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Just a awesome piece...\n\n@rggale ... i was thinking the same thing.. a car that is already in a different tax bracket needs a bump?...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513712776, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919708, "authorName": "Honest_Karl", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/honest_karl/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If I had a Thousand dollars for every comment on this car...I could afford to bid!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513714580, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919977, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@rggale\nYou're right (I haven't reviewed to double check). One comment in 6 days is usually a red flag. I'm sure the seller is not used to mingling with the riff-raff, but that's the culture of this site. When in Rome.......", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513717175, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919980, "authorName": "timmclean", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/timmclean/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "BaT would I be correct in assuming this is the highest bid vehicle on your site thus far? Really a neat ride with great history.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513717194, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1919986, "authorName": "CarsOverMoney", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carsovermoney/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@timmclean - absolutely not lol search for the 959 a while back!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513717239, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1920019, "authorName": "Ten13", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ten13/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@timmclean - not sure if the '67 Toyota 2000GT was the highest ever, but it fetched 560,000 exactly one year ago today. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-toyota-2000-gt/", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513717873, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1920075, "authorName": "timmclean", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/timmclean/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Ten13 and @CarsOverMoney thanks guys. I had completely forgotten about that 959 but was unaware of the Toyota 2000GT until now. GLWS!!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513718639, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1920099, "authorName": "skr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/skr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "There was a $1mil bid on this Lancia: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1955-lancia-aurelia/", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513718891, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1920331, "authorName": "Username", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/username/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This incredible machine is an f-bomb itself.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513721176, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1920443, "authorName": "WheelerDlr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wheelerdlr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Dear 1%ers please please please indulge us tomorrow and bring the big sticks out to play! \n\nIn all seriousness this car has captured all of our imaginations. These cars seem so unattainable and yet here we have a great one up for grabs. In my personal opinion its should bring well into the mid $500k range. But the value aside look at all the attention and positive comments this has received, that really tells you something. This is almost a mythical creature, a unicorn and yet there it is for someone to make it theirs. Can't wait for tomorrow!", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513722168, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1920577, "authorName": "Jaquizz", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jaquizz/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Agreed! I am scheduling my day around the end of this auction", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513724206, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1920631, "authorName": "WheelerDlr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wheelerdlr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If you don't like red, this yellow one at DK engineering can be had for $770k USD!!!\n\nhttps://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/lancia/stratos/1977/501132", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513725981, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1920693, "authorName": "Irquik2", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/irquik2/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I like red. I lack bread. Most unfortunate! Ok, if this beauty machine hasn't gotten the prize for highest dollar, perhaps it will win for most comments. I'm doing my part! Great fun to watch, best of luck to buyer and seller!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513728765, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1920903, "authorName": "sjmorgan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sjmorgan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Shoud go for $500K+, or more, but... Are the buyers here? \nAs for the seller not posting much... It indicates that the bidders are familiar with the car, and likely communicating with the seller. \n\nTomorrow afternoon might be interesting. \n\nNow for all of you who don't bid 6 figures... If you want something VERY Similar to drive, at a fraction of the price, try an Alfa 4C. And if you are into long term relationships, the Alfa has a carbon composite chassis. It wont rust. 'Might even have an upside as a collectable.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513739715, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1920934, "authorName": "E30eric", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/e30eric/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As the 1%er's move things around in their portfolios tonight, I'm going to bed anticipating the end of this auction. I look forward to getting up, making coffee then watching the big boys with the big checkbooks go to work on each other.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513740932, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1920939, "authorName": "Alonso51", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alonso51/", "bidAmount": 385000, "content": "$385,000 bid placed by Alonso51", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513741153, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1920988, "authorName": "macygray", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/macygray/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "RE: on driving a Stratos like it was meant to be driven\u2026.\n\nThe road going Stratos was a homologation special for the rally Stratos for the World Rally Championship back in the '70s. That means the rally cars were driven by some of the best rally drivers, all of whom have very fast hands. \n\nYou need a high skill level to drive these fast because of the combination of high power and the very short wheelbase, which is only 86 inches. That's significantly shorter than the 308 GT/4 that sold on BaT recently (100 inches), and most other cars. A short wheelbase allows a car to rotate quickly, which is what you want in a WRC car. If it's a mid-engine car, even more so. \n\nI noticed this quote below from Ed L: \n\"Anyone who wants to drive this car \u201cas it was meant to be driven\u201d would be well advised to first take a good multi-day rally school course. At least twice.\"\n\nWise words for someone wanting to drive a Stratos at the limit.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513745390, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921030, "authorName": "DrivingBlues", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/drivingblues/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@macygray. Thanks for your insight on the hand reflex speed. I always thought that rally videos did not focus enough on the heel-and-toe speed and had not thought about commensurate steering response expertise. \r\n\r\nNow given @macygray's characteristics of the Lancia, I'm thinking this is the perfect (expensive) solution for quickly nabbing that rare parking space at the mall during the holiday season. Yea, I did not think my wife would buy that as an excuse to bid either.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513750482, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921033, "authorName": "RedRacer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/redracer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Every time this car passes by a dirt road it loses a part of it's soul...or maybe it's my soul...i don't know.\n \nOne thing I do know is that I could care less about most cars sitting in collections, yet, there are some cars that make my heart ache if I think about it. This is one of those cars.\n\nThis car should be endlessly campaigned in historic rally.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513751153, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921046, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Look, I've fantasized about the Stratos since I saw the prototype as an Autosprint cover story in 1972 -- \"Ho guidato la Stratos\". I still have the issue. \n\nBut let's be a little clear-eyed here. Rallying is the most efficient way to kill a car short of pushing it off a cliff. By which I mean pushing it off a cliff on purpose. As I said earlier, there's not a huge difference between the stradale homologation version and the early Gp 4 cars. But there's enough of a difference that you cannot rally this example -- historic or otherwise -- without killing its originality -- and without the risk of killing it literally. On the standard-size tires and the street suspension set-up, if you slide the rear on tarmac as Erik Comas does in the video on the other thread, you are not likely to catch it.\n\nSo I hope the buyer drives it as intended -- as a stradale. It would make an epic road event car. That'd be enough for me...", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513753354, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921047, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Look, I've fantasized about the Stratos since I saw the prototype as an Autosprint cover story in 1972 -- \"Ho guidato la Stratos\". I still have the issue. \n\nBut let's try to be a little clear-eyed here. Rallying is the most efficient way to kill a car short of pushing it off a cliff. By which I mean pushing it off a cliff on purpose. \n\nAs I said earlier, there's not a huge difference between the stradale homologation version and the early Gp 4 cars. But there's enough of a difference that you cannot rally this example -- historic or otherwise -- without killing its originality -- and without the risk of killing it literally. \n\nOn the standard-size tires and the street suspension set-up, if you slide the rear on tarmac as Erik Comas does in a Gp 4 version in the video on the other thread, you are not likely to catch it.\n\nSo I hope the buyer drives it as intended -- as a stradale. It would make an epic road event car. Honestly, that'd be enough for me...", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513753466, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921068, "authorName": "Bigtoe32067", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigtoe32067/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@nero308qv. I also have an 83 308 QV. Mine is blue and I assume yours is black based on your screen name. I've had it for 6 months but I only drove it for about 2 of those months because of the weather but I drove it as my daily driver for those 2 months which was about 2,000 miles. \nIt's a great car and incredibly fun to drive. It's the slowest car I own but definitely the most fun. \nBigtoe", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513757173, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921079, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I agree with @Ed L. Even if it's just historic rally, even if it's just historic rally demo, the car still needs some hefty preparation to make it suitable. So even ignoring the risk involved with rallying any car at any speed, you can't have an original Stradale and rally it too. This car should be driven regularly to meetings and the like, but the rallying should be limited to the works cars or stradales completely converted for that purpose. There is no shortage of those; if I'd want to see a real Stratos rallying, all I have to do is wait a few months and travel a few 100km at most.\n\nI rally demo a Delta Integrale, which requires much less preparation to turn stradale into rally. But even then: different shocks, different wheels, roll cage, different seats, harnesses, extinghuisher, dashboard mods, sump guard... And that's with the luxury of not being forced to change the fuel tank. Now all of this is easily reversible, but still not something everyone wants to do to a priceless car. The Integrale, for the time being, is not quite priceless yet so I was fine with it.\n\nThen there's still the risk. I was lucky not to have had any crash or other damage with the Delta. But I don't have to think long to find situations that could have resulted in serious damage, rollovers and total losses had they gone just a little bit different.\n\nSo yeah, let's be glad if the next owner just brings it out from time to time to let it shine on meetings and shows. Remember, a Porsche 959 was totalled in traffic and a 288 GTO nearly ran off a cliff when it lost a wheel on a sunday drive, so just taking them out is already taking a risk. Then again, it's a car, not a statue.", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513760645, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921092, "authorName": "jas280z", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jas280z/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Less than 12 hours to go. Will Santa get a new red sleigh today?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513767767, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921105, "authorName": "CNP", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cnp/", "bidAmount": 400000, "content": "$400,000 bid placed by CNP", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513771218, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1921110, "authorName": "CitroenDS23", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/citroends23/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Cool Car,However I Can not wrap my head around all of these old cars that folks pay 400-500k for or a Million or more to me its just too much money for a car.But then again for the 1% that can afford them I guess why not.But Im sure Glad that the cars I Love are still within my reach Citroens I Own 3 Lovely Citroens and to me they are much more interesting then all the many super cars.But I guess if I won the Lottery maybe Id Buy a 1980s Ferrari Or a Etype but thats all.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513772509, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921115, "authorName": "montreal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/montreal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is the price heading for the...STRATOSPHERE ?", "likes": 13, "timestamp": 1513772817, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921135, "authorName": "TimSim", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/timsim/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I rearranged my afternoon schedule just so I can watch the end of this auction. \n...am I nuts... absolutely, I have BaT-itus!", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513775004, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921143, "authorName": "jas280z", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jas280z/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@CitroenDS23, there are a couple of things to consider when trying to figure out how a car can possibly be worth so much money. \n\nFirst off, one needs to consider this as a piece of history and a work of art. Historic and/or significant works of art often sell in the eight to nine figure range. Here we have a collaboration between Ferrari and Lancia, two historic Italian car companies that helped change the landscape of the automotive world (more Ferrari there). This model also had extensive racing success, further adding to its historic value.\n\nSecond, we have to consider the value of this car, compared to the typical buyer's net worth. A car like this, to someone worth $30MM+ would be similar to a Corvette to a buyer with a net worth of $1.5MM. Simply put, the value is relative to the buying power of the owners.\n\nA car will sell for what a willing buyer and willing seller will agree to. If the market dictates that these are worth mid six figures, then that is the correct value for the car. Certainly there are many other things that someone could purchase for that money, but I can't think of any...", "likes": 15, "timestamp": 1513775822, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921157, "authorName": "Pablo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pablo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@jas: lol", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513776591, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921212, "authorName": "kens", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kens/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Okay, time to revisit this excellent five minute video by Petrolicious.\nThe Uncompromising Legendary Lancia Stratos\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG3Eqp6dfZo\n\nIf I win this auction, I am sure that I can cover the purchase with my lottery win tonight.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513778628, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921214, "authorName": "MajorTomB", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/majortomb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I see that the Stig has failed to enter a bid...\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcfEhXBJbA0\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxKtqnUZU5k", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513778682, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921230, "authorName": "Alonso51", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alonso51/", "bidAmount": 405000, "content": "$405,000 bid placed by Alonso51", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513779115, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1921240, "authorName": "RBBGroup", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rbbgroup/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "it's still early for bidders. Most are still at various banks speaking with their mortgage brokers\nor buying lottery tickets.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513779536, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921276, "authorName": "turbolover", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/turbolover/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "RBBGroup (and others) ... well... my lotto tickets didn't work out. Back to the street corner :D", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513780710, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921285, "authorName": "WAH", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wah/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@CitroenDS23 for sure you will want to add an Italian to your garage one day. even if just for a few years. they will blend well with the French machines", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513780930, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921301, "authorName": "CKKurtz", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ckkurtz/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Lancia Stratos - The Hottest Rod of All.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513781340, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921312, "authorName": "jim_rosenthal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jim_rosenthal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Very fine commentary here. I would like to point out that there is at least one other collaboration between Lancia and Ferrari, of note: Ferrari ran Lancia's D50 GP cars when Lancia couldn't afford to do it anymore, as I understand it. This would have been in the early fifties. \n\nIf I had a million dollars to spend on a car, I'd buy one of the Lancia D24 toolroom copies built by Guido Rosano in the 1990s, I think it was. One was just sold by Max Girardo in the UK. The D24 is one of the most beautiful cars ever made- and one of the most advanced for its time. At this point, I would settle for a ride in one- just to hear that engine and be in one whilst it was rolling would be enough.\n\nThe photography in this feature is really top notch. What a bad ass little car. Reminds me of one of my colleagues. Fast, hot and wicked.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513781894, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921318, "authorName": "Couperman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/couperman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Kens. Thank you for pulling me back into the Petrolicious rabbit hole again. Another hour slipped by.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513782028, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921331, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Jim Rosenthal There is also the Lancia Thema 8.32 which has the Ferrari 3*8 V8 engine but which isn't a great car with that much power and weight on a FWD. The Delta Integrale partsbinned a few components from that Ferrari drivetrain (clutch?) as far as I understood.\n\nSomeone once said that if you were trying to find the best fifties Ferrari, you should buy a Lancia Aurelia. He didn't imply it had anything to do with Ferrari, just that in its time it was the better car. I think the same would be true for the D24 and race cars.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513782729, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921396, "authorName": "stefan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stefan/", "bidAmount": 406000, "content": "$406,000 bid placed by stefan", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513784828, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1921413, "authorName": "Ian7", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ian7/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "at 400k, and the bid increments are only 1000? we could be in for a long enjoyable afternoon :-)", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513785295, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921417, "authorName": "RBBGroup", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rbbgroup/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ 1 comment = $1000\nCommentators are ahead, for now.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513785464, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921420, "authorName": "SvntSvn", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/svntsvn/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Got another $50k to go. ..", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513785562, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921433, "authorName": "jas280z", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jas280z/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@RBBGroup, I'm sure the seller would be happy with 1 watcher = 1K!\n\nSpeaking of which, there hasn't been much input from @DSFM2005. Not that I am complaining, doesn't seem to have been many questions. I'd imagine those truly in a position to purchase have been spamming the contact seller button. It's amazing how a low six figure GT350 will be picked apart by the BaT crowd, but a significantly more valuable car like this is mostly comments about how awesome it is to have one posted. Probably a combination of the aura of the car, and less arm chair mechanics who KNOW this or that is wrong.\n\n @DSFM2005, you hanging in there? Any regrets about listing, now that a sale may be hours away? Never tempted to keep it for yourself?", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513785930, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921434, "authorName": "watchcarefully", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/watchcarefully/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@RBBGroup - I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but...some of these comments aren't worth two cents.\n[written only in jest]", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513785968, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921440, "authorName": "Alonso51", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alonso51/", "bidAmount": 409500, "content": "$409,500 bid placed by Alonso51", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513786104, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1921459, "authorName": "DSFM2005 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dsfm2005/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@jas280z - We hear loud and clear! it has been a great experience and we have enjoyed discussing it with a lot of serious enthusiast. It has been a privilege owning the Stratos and we only hope that it goes to a great home that will use it often as it was intended!", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513786481, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921478, "authorName": "kimbo305", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kimbo305/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Ah crap, I just randomly flagged your comment by accident; sorry. Still wishing for that cancel feature, BaT.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513786794, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921482, "authorName": "DSFM2005 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dsfm2005/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "To the entire BaT staff and community we cannot thank you enough for the great response and interest you have given to our great Stratos. The car is truly deserving of your praises and we hope that the next chapter for this great car is a great one. \n\nWe are here to answer any questions you may have - please contact us via the contact seller button. \n\nBidders - should you need assistance with shipping and logistics we are happy to help with worldwide transport. Our goal is to always provide the smoothest transaction possible. \n\nNow going for one last burn out in the Stratos..... Kidding! \n\nYour friends, \n\nDSFM2005", "likes": 22, "timestamp": 1513786996, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921484, "authorName": "Houndstooth901", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/houndstooth901/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Probably the most fun and entertaining car ever conceived. \"Yellow Zone\" on the tach, through the twisties is where they thrive. Like a toddler with a hand full of sugar, they'll wear you out and keep on going. Final bidding should start with a 5..", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513787034, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921487, "authorName": "joebarthlow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/joebarthlow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "are we entering BaT record territory? 67K views is HUGE!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513787061, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921494, "authorName": "Ian7", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ian7/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@joebarthlow If I recall correctly, highest sale was $560k(?) and highest RNM was a million", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513787368, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921541, "authorName": "Boostedredfox", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/boostedredfox/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As one of the many resident Delta Integrale guys on this site, I'm just here to enjoy my lunch and watch something special cross the block :)\n\nAlso, should be noted that the Delta Integrale is quite small (exterior dimensions wise) by today's standards, but the Stratos looks like a toy car next to it. \n\nSidenote: they make great noise as well. Videos online don't really do it justice.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513788864, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921553, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\u201cI would like to point out that there is at least one other collaboration between Lancia and Ferrari, of note: Ferrari ran Lancia\u2019s D50 GP cars when Lancia couldn\u2019t afford to do it anymore, as I understand it. This would have been in the early fifties.\u201d\n\nThe D50 wasn\u2019t a collaboration in any real sense. Lancia developed and built the car, which debuted in 1954 as the most advanced F1 car of its era (though not the most successful, given that it raced against the W196 Mercedes). \n\nWhen Lancia was sold to a private investor in 1955, part of the complex deal involved Fiat taking over Lancia\u2019s debt in exchange for the D50s being transferred to Ferrari, whose own F1 car was uncompetitive. Ferrari further developed the D50 \u201cLancia-Ferrari\u201d on their own. \n\nSo, to the extent it was a \u201ccollaboration,\u201d it was a sequential one...", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513789221, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921567, "authorName": "dgravier", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dgravier/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If I were to put 500k in that car I would wonder why the licence plate changed from Y70340 at Sotheby's sale last year to Y70304 here. A typo when changing the plate shape?\nWell anyway I ain't to put 500k...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513789615, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921574, "authorName": "voitures", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/voitures/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DS23 - Being French, your signature caught me eye instantly. Ahhh the DS23, one of the most significant cars ever built. I am about to get my hands on a 71 SM that I have had restored (rotisserie) for 3 years (clearly a labor of love). Can\u2019t wait. I also have a R5 Turbo. French cars are great yet unfortunately non existent in the US. Good luck with your DS\u2019s ??.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513789973, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921590, "authorName": "doublegarage", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/doublegarage/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Just a fantastic car. Good luck with the sale, I'll be watching. Always good to see a real Stradale without all the rally-parts and livery. I know I'll never be able to afford one, so have placed an order on a replica kit - but the pictures on this auction will help get the interior correct, so thanks for the great pictures too.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513790300, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921603, "authorName": "WAH", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wah/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@voitures Wow, very nice. Didn't you also just win a TR?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513790801, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921608, "authorName": "SIFI1886", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sifi1886/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Boostedredfox To think the Stratos wheelbase is almost a foot shorter than the Delta is crazy, I'm sure it doesn't take much to get the rear wheels to overtake the front wheels", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513790898, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921610, "authorName": "WAH", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wah/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@EdL good stuff", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513791034, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921632, "authorName": "Scoopman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scoopman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Though I have never laid eyes upon one of these fantastic Stratos Stradales in the flesh, it brought to mind a different Stradale, the Alfa 33 Stradale. I saw one in an Alfa exhibit in the London Design Museum about 25 years ago and it was unforgettable. Sexiest thing on 4 wheels I have ever seen, by far. Only 18 produced, which makes the awesome Stratos seem ubiquitous by comparison. God knows what those are worth now.\nhttp://www.carscoops.com/2016/05/holy-moses-alfa-romeo-33-stradale-just.html", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513791679, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921662, "authorName": "kens", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kens/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "In the fall of 1977, while buying another Italian car in Italy, I sat in a Stratos for some time imagining all of the possibilities. I can only imagine! \n\n@Scoopman Just over a year ago at a car show, a 33 Stradale was fired up on the field. Because I was very nearby, I had a ring side view as the car was quickly surrounded by onlookers. With the engine cover up, I noted the top injectors squirting fuel into the velocity stacks. I don't think four bolt hubs are very manly. Pondering the 33 Stradale, I overlook this flaw.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513792646, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921673, "authorName": "brb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is it too late for stratosphere jokes?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513792845, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921674, "authorName": "voitures", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/voitures/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@WAH, just recently bought a 2008 GT3 & a 72 3.0CS (BMW) on BaT - \u2018Tis the season :)", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513792846, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921677, "authorName": "turbolover", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/turbolover/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@voitures ...and just HOW do i get on your Christmas list!?!?", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513792910, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921728, "authorName": "Scoopman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scoopman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@kens I stand down here in the dark and boggy lowlands with my two proletarian (and somewhat rusty) 4x98 Fiat 124 Spiders, as I gaze upwards longingly, but with sad futility, towards the 5 bolt Stratosphere... a mere half million or so dollars short of greatness. Woe is me.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513794589, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921759, "authorName": "eurodice", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/eurodice/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "WOW. Do you take bitcoin? :P", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513795483, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921764, "authorName": "neunelfer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/neunelfer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "400k yes, but considering what this car can do it's a bargain, right?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513795503, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921774, "authorName": "VenaGT", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/venagt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "In '75, my family defected from Czechoslovakia through Yugoslavia and we ended up in Italy for 9 mos. waiting for visas to trek further. My old man was a rally racer in CZ and had interest in cars, so he took us to a place called Vallelunga. As a 6 year old kid, I sat there and watched about a dozen of these Stratos' (Strati?) fly around in an exhibition race. I will never forget the sound I heard that day. What a beautiful car. Thanks for the memories. GLWS!", "likes": 21, "timestamp": 1513795795, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921777, "authorName": "Crazyas00", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/crazyas00/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Knocking on records here, all categories. $$, comments, views, interest. Gunna be a good day!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513795925, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921787, "authorName": "turbolover", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/turbolover/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "We cracked 70k views... impressive. How are these calculated? Does that # go up each time i refresh my page ? So ~1375 watchers and ~70400 views means we on average refresh the page 51 times?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513796265, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921884, "authorName": "brb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@turbolover I'm not officially \"watching\" the auction, but I've refreshed this page approximately 50,000 times, so I don't think the tally is limited to the watchers.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513797725, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1921924, "authorName": "CrzyAzn", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/crzyazn/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "AlonsoF1 car collection FTW!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513798183, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922001, "authorName": "Atch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/atch/", "bidAmount": 415000, "content": "$415,000 bid placed by Atch", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513799135, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1922012, "authorName": "rmessner", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rmessner/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Gonna need over 500 to begin to get in the right ball park for this one.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513799288, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922025, "authorName": "2doors", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/2doors/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "$k or comments?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513799455, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922035, "authorName": "RogerD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rogerd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Let\u2019s all keep quiet when bidding gets going so as not to jam things up. Might be hard to resist but don\u2019t want to break anything.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513799534, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922041, "authorName": "Norm_Peterson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/norm_peterson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Love the entire car -- everything, and that flipped-up kiss-my-tail rear end is especially endearing. Best of good fortune to the next caretaker (damn lucky devil).", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513799640, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922088, "authorName": "bimmergas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bimmergas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If reserve has been lifted, is this a record with BaT? Very cool! Hope to see a sale.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513800281, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922094, "authorName": "Tyracious", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tyracious/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Congrats to BaT and the seller for making this one happen.\nI hope we don't end up at RNM.\nSo much more entertaining and informative than watching the usual suspects on the TV auctions.\nSame old Corvettes and Camaros shuffling thru.\nAnd the stuffy auctions with the well manicured proper British MC's - \"are we all done then?\" - eh - more interesting watching SpongeBob Squarepants.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513800454, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922108, "authorName": "jagman38", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jagman38/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I regret I have been busy and haven't asked to view this car since it is local. Such an awesome piece of automotive history and such a great commentary over the past week. GLWA. Hope she finds a new home today.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513800680, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922120, "authorName": "Boostedredfox", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/boostedredfox/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Tyracious isnt wrong.\n\n....As I actually have Spongbob playing on one tab, and this Bat auction on the other", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513800799, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922187, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Oh look, the price fork with my Lancia stradale is approaching 400k. So close, yet so far.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513801618, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922195, "authorName": "TimSim", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/timsim/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It would be cool to hear a sound clip of the engine revving everytime a bid was placed instead of the current bid tone.", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1513801738, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922203, "authorName": "SM_Minis", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sm_minis/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "First time I've visited this auction and there's 458 comments and 2:10 to go on the clock. I could probably read all of the comments by the time the hammer goes down just before quitting time. So do I A) read and enjoy the auction of one of the most fascinating cars ever, or B) get back to work and do something productive for my employer? Before providing your opinion you should also know that I'm retiring in six weeks. Yeah, it's a no-brainer!", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1513801788, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922207, "authorName": "brb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SM Minis ...or C) cash out retirement funds and buy this car.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513801857, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922218, "authorName": "moosehead", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/moosehead/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What is it about unobtanium that makes it so desirable?", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513801948, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922222, "authorName": "SM_Minis", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sm_minis/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@brb - I won the Quasar auction here last week for 2% of what the Stratos is currently bid to, and that was enough damage to the retirement funds! I felt \"big time\" with my Quasar bid, but I can't imagine what it feels like in the half million range. But thanks for the suggestion.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513802098, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922275, "authorName": "CNP", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cnp/", "bidAmount": 420000, "content": "$420,000 bid placed by CNP", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513802765, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1922280, "authorName": "Frank_Garcia", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/frank_garcia/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Holy crap, $420,000k... \nMy reality check, \njust bounced.", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1513802918, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922366, "authorName": "Mocanlagunas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mocanlagunas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I know someone that has one of these. Or so I'm told...\n\nHe's a photographer thad did some work for the ad agency I used to work in Guatemala. He drove around in a very nice VW bus (don't remember now if westfalia) and it sounded very nice. \nHis ex then told me the bus had a Porsche engine, and told me that he also had a Lancia Stratos. It had been shown at an autoshow in Guatemala and after the show, they didn't want to ship it back and so he ended with it. \nI never saw it. I don't think he drove it. I don't know what happened to it... I don't even know if the story is true, so maybe there's a Stratos in some barn in Guatemala!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513803826, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922378, "authorName": "Norm_Peterson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/norm_peterson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SM Minis: Buy this lovely wicked little vamp and you'll have a wonderful excuse to avoid the boredom of retiring to Broomfield. Yeah, that's the ticket -- buy this babe and save your soul.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513804111, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922413, "authorName": "Alonso51", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alonso51/", "bidAmount": 424200, "content": "$424,200 bid placed by Alonso51", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513804177, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1922427, "authorName": "Skinners_Union", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/skinners_union/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "BRB going to Guatemala", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513804259, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922433, "authorName": "hobbsm3", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hobbsm3/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow. Statos-pheric price!!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513804318, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922456, "authorName": "SM_Minis", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sm_minis/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As already stated, I haven\u2019t read the comments yet. So, apologies if this has already been asked/discussed in some way. I understand that the Stratos is a low polar moment of inertia car and that helps it change directions quickly, an obvious attribute in rallying. And I\u2019ve read comparisons of the Stratos to the Sopwith Camel in that it supposedly had similar low polar moment attributes that enhanced its abilities in a dog-fight. The Camel was not an easy plane to fly, so, through extrapolation does that mean the Stratos is relatively unstable and/or difficult to drive? The Stratos was quite successful in its intended role, but did it take an ace to do it?\n\nThe question was stimulated by an article in the December issue of Aeroplane Monthly written by one of the few living pilots with experience on the Camel. Titled \u201cVicious Little Beast\u201d, he describes a plane that is inherently unstable in all three axes (must be \u201cflown\u201d constantly), having flying characteristics that are counter-intuitive (control inputs result in aircraft movements unlike any other plane of the era, or since), and a center of gravity that moves drastically as the fuel is consumed. This resulted in aerobatic capabilities that no other aircraft could match and that the enemy combatant never expected. If the Camel pilot lived long enough to master the type (reportedly 15 hours), let alone the enemy, they were on their way to being an ace. And surprisingly to me, the Camel wasn\u2019t like that because of a low polar moment of inertia, but that\u2019s drifting too far off topic. (The article is well worth reading if only for the author\u2019s ability to describe in an understandable way the set of inputs and reactions none of us will ever experience.)\n\nThe Stratos is by no means a widow maker, but was stability or some other quality traded off for maneuverability? I\u2019ll be quiet now and watch the auction.\n\n@Norm Peterson \u2013 Nah, I\u2019m retiring to Lakewood, and they are already having problems with the current collection of cars. Terrorizing the streets would be too much. As I noted on another auction this week, my next-door neighbor\u2019s son commented to him, \u201cAt least he\u2019s not into dump trucks.\u201d", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513804585, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922464, "authorName": "Atch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/atch/", "bidAmount": 430000, "content": "$430,000 bid placed by Atch", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513804589, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1922539, "authorName": "Zscream", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/zscream/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Last chance for all you fine people. I will trade my slightly used Mother in Law, for $475,000, or buy the car, and I will trade you outright...", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513805243, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922545, "authorName": "watchcarefully", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/watchcarefully/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'll offer an even better Mother-in-Law...my late one. Straight up trade for this Lancia (or a Matchbox version). Delivery costs of her ashes to be covered on my end.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513805329, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922552, "authorName": "Walter_Gomez", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/walter_gomez/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Regarding Ed L.'s comment on rallying, back in 1980 while living in Turin, Italy, I went with another co-worker to a night stage rally in the hills surrounding Turin. We parked the car at the base of the hills, walking for quite a while before finding a spot on the edge of the pavement. As it got dark, probably around 9:30 or so, the rally started. From our vantage point we could see the cars as the snaked in and out around the hills, fire belching from their exhaust pipes as they let off slightly for corners. Cars flew by us only a few feet from us as we cheered them on. Yeah it was dangerous being so close, but what a thrill knowing that being so close to the rally cars was something that I would never see here in the U.S. By the end of the stage three cars had gone off the coarse and tumbled down the hills!\n\nThe reason I was in Turin was that I had gotten my dream job designing for Pininfarina. While in Turin, I did regularly see from my office a lime green Stratos zip by presumably down the road to the Bertone plant. One evening I was walking through downtown Turin when over the chorus of 4 cylinder Fiats and Lancias I heard the distinct sound of a tuned V-6. I immediately turned around to see the same green Stratos cruising down the avenue. What a sight!", "likes": 18, "timestamp": 1513805367, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922548, "authorName": "macygray", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/macygray/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SM Minis\nThere are a few comments related to the general topic you bring up below...among the 470 (so far)...\n\nAnd yes, I would definitely say that with the mid-engine placement, the very short wheelbase and the short overhangs, the Stratos has what must be one of the lowest polar moments of inertia of any car.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513805375, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922579, "authorName": "wer2xu", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wer2xu/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SM Minis\nI think the comparing this car to any acrobatic airplane is a little unfair, while an airplane like a camel, or a Cap-21, or a Super Chipmunk requires \"flying\" from taxi to shutdown, a car, any car can be driven easily at 1/10 or 2/10...take this thing to 9 or 10 and then you are gonna find the drivers...but i think the same can be said about 930's or any other track car from the non assisted era....", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513805563, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922581, "authorName": "Peahioi", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/peahioi/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "In 1983, I negotiated a sale from/through Toly Arutanoff (sp?) and my friend Dr. Paul Guttman. Paul also found a Stratos down in the High Desert in Southern California.\nAs memory serves, the one from Toly went for $16-18K... the other for a few K less.\nTimes sure change!!!\nI drove the Blue one (don't recall which one it was) and found it was more fun than my F-SV...", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513805596, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922586, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SM Minis : the Stratos has a low polar moment, a short wheelbase, a wide track, and a high-geared steering ratio \u2013 all of which conspire to allow it to change direction very quickly. It takes a great deal of skill to drive it near its limits.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513805690, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922590, "authorName": "WheelerDlr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wheelerdlr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Does anyone know how many Stratos are in the US? has to be very few, I have only seen one other in Pebble Beach auction. \n\nSomeone please keep this one in the states!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513805744, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922597, "authorName": "BaT-MaN", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bat-man/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wiki: The polar moment of inertia is a measure of an object's ability to resist torsion as a function of its shape. It is one aspect of the area moment of inertia, or second moment of area, linked through the perpendicular axis theorem. Okay, now I completely understand the conversation.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513805867, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922629, "authorName": "RRulison", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rrulison/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have a megamillions ticket in my wallet. I feel very confident it is a big jackpot winner.\n\nI'm willing to bid my ticket.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513806449, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922632, "authorName": "Nis1973", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nis1973/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ SM Mini Yes, it's unstable but if you learn how to work with this it can be very effective. I have never driven another car that responds so much to throttle input mid corner. Lift carelessly and you are screwed; breathe off just the right amount at just the right time, be prepared to quickly get back on gas the and counter steer if necessary and you feel like a hero...", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513806472, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922634, "authorName": "mrdeezy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mrdeezy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What's the BAT record sale? are we gonna set a new one? The 5% Bat fee is $21,500 @ $430,000\nThat 5% is more than what my cars are worth :(", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513806514, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922637, "authorName": "cascadia", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cascadia/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Change the cabin air filter on my 300TD or sit here and watch this auction? Yep, gonna get some coffee brewing....", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513806554, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922638, "authorName": "Ex36", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ex36/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@mrdeezy I believe they cap the 5% fee at $5K or something.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513806565, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922640, "authorName": "CMP", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cmp/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "BAT fee maxes out at $5K", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513806569, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922642, "authorName": "bringatrailer", "authorUrl": "", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@mrdeezy - our fee is capped at $5k! \n\nRecord sale is $560k\n\n-BaT", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1513806581, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922649, "authorName": "Norm_Peterson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/norm_peterson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SM Minis: I'm dyslexic, Randy, and sometimes see and say everything twice and sometimes I see and say everything twice, so, did you write \"dumb trucks\" or \"dump trucks\"?\n\nRegards.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513806651, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922651, "authorName": "Ex36", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ex36/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Easy money = Quick, edit that policy!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513806658, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922664, "authorName": "Gnauzer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gnauzer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@bringatrailer what sold at $560k", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513806885, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922669, "authorName": "bringatrailer", "authorUrl": "", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Gnauzer - Toyota 2000GT: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-toyota-2000-gt/", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513806972, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922672, "authorName": "hoonidan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hoonidan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was working in Geneva for a few weeks back in 2014 and was lucky to escape to Carugati Automobiles during a lunch break. I walked around trying not to drool on several Paganis, vintage Ferraris (including a 250 GT Lusso), classic Lamborghinis, and much more. Among such automotive royalty, nothing blew me away like the bright orange Stratos sitting on the floor. What an incredible machine to see in person, the proportions are so unique and on such a small car, it was really amazing to see. One of the moments of my life just to be in that showroom! Here is the exact Stratos I saw there:\r\nhttp://static.autoblog.nl/images/wp2014/Stratos.jpg", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513807057, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922673, "authorName": "Norm_Peterson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/norm_peterson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Gnauzer: A wash tub filled with 356 rust, or so I thought.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513807073, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922676, "authorName": "Eric_T", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/eric_t/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I haven't read all 488 comments either, so sorry if this is a repeat. Top Gear: One of the best cars ever made...\r\nhttps://youtu.be/HxKtqnUZU5k", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513807103, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922677, "authorName": "chuckgoolsbee", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chuckgoolsbee/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This car wants to kill you. \n\nAnd You.\n\nAnd YOU. \n\n\nThis car wants to kill all of us.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513807137, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922683, "authorName": "Bryan_A", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bryan_a/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Gotta die of something", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513807168, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922686, "authorName": "Joe_in_BC", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/joe_in_bc/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Gnauzer... there have been auctions with higher bids than $560k but they ended RNM.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513807179, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922692, "authorName": "Ex36", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ex36/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "And I thought Toyotas only made \"practical\" family cars. Geez, another car I didn't even know I wanted. Thanks, BaT!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513807247, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922695, "authorName": "Cuff", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cuff/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@gnauzer... search \"959\" or \"aurelia\"", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513807285, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922704, "authorName": "Gary_Yogurt", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gary_yogurt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The price won't shock me half as much as finding out the Stratos has a trunk.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513807455, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922714, "authorName": "Honest_Karl", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/honest_karl/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Fancy Kristen approves:\n\nhttps://jalopnik.com/nows-your-chance-to-drop-over-400-000-on-a-lancia-stra-1821475472", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513807558, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922716, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Rally driving any car is difficult. I for one know to quite some extent how to countersteer, but I still make mistakes in feeling when to stop countersteering and steer back into the corner while flooring it with FWD/4WD. So I still get some \"controlled slide into terrain\" after catching the initial oversteer and drifting quite nicely through the first part of the corner. And that's with a somewhat easy to control car. Now the Stratos is a hard to control rally car. So...Not for the inexperienced. \n\nAll this is only valid when going >9/10; someone here mentioned very correctly that any car is easy (and similar) to drive at 1/10. I'm curious what the Alpine A310 V6 will give at 10/10 once I get it running. They say it's like a Porsche but worse. \n\nAs you see, I'm step-wise preparing my skills for my first Stratos. Which, with my wage and its value, requires me to live to the glorious age of 140. In a cardboard box.", "likes": 17, "timestamp": 1513807612, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922724, "authorName": "d_a_c", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/d_a_c/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "IT'S THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM....", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513807708, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922729, "authorName": "hymanltd", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hymanltd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Alright ladies and gents, I have my cuppa and I'm ready to sit back and see some action on this car. Let's go!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513807746, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922732, "authorName": "bbqman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bbqman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I told my customers I was closing early today- not for holidays- for BaT premier auction.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513807786, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922733, "authorName": "DennisLJacob", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dennisljacob/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I would be very surprised if there was a storm here. I think there are a couple potential owners out there and this is going to be slower moving than a regular car.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513807791, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922742, "authorName": "jagman38", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jagman38/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Everyone go potty now so you don't have to get up when the action starts.", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513807940, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922746, "authorName": "Frank_Barrett", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/frank_barrett/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If I recall correctly, Karl Ludvigsen owned a Stratos.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513807956, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922753, "authorName": "bryanp", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bryanp/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Ed L and SM Minis. \r\nI understand polar moment of inertia and why a low moment made the Stratos and the Ferrari 250LM such great cars. But then I do not understand why cars like the Fulvia and 60s Minis were also such great rally cars - FWD w/ the engine in front - in the case of the Fulvia, most of the engine was in front of the front wheels - they must have had a veryu high PMI . .. . Is it just a case of different driving style? My father won the Pennsylvania Hillclimb Championship in '74 (E Mod) in a firebreathing Mini Moke. He always said that you had to discard everything you knew about cornering in a front-engined, rear-wheel drive car when you got in a Mini. \"Go into the corner about 10 times faster than you think you should, let off the gas a little at the apex to let the front tires get good grip, get back on the gas and you'll be fine.\" . . . .", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513808031, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922766, "authorName": "cru.jones", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cru.jones/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@jagman38 One of the reasons I bring my laptop to the restroom with me. ;)", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513808159, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922769, "authorName": "cascadia", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cascadia/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Page view counter going up faster than our national debt.....", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513808183, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922770, "authorName": "NS400Randy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ns400randy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Whole lotta Rosie", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513808186, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922772, "authorName": "brb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@defiler Given your handle, please keep the other reasons to yourself.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513808197, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922774, "authorName": "Jetson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jetson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@defiler: TMI", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513808207, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922776, "authorName": "mac214", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mac214/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@defiler - I don't know if that is worse in a public restroom or taking a phone call.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808251, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922779, "authorName": "cru.jones", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cru.jones/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@everyone What!? I like defragging my hard drive all the other times I bring it in with me...", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513808271, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922784, "authorName": "cru.jones", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cru.jones/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wait...That didn't sound right either. :/", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513808352, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922785, "authorName": "Norm_Peterson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/norm_peterson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@jagman38: Okay, and the other reasons you bring your laptop to the can with you, please.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513808376, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922790, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@cascadia\nMultiple thumbs up!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513808407, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922782, "authorName": "joebarthlow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/joebarthlow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "is there another $131K left in the tank? we shall see. seems a little quiet right now. 75K views though!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808449, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922793, "authorName": "WAH", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wah/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "this clock sure runs slow\nwaiting\nwaiting\nwaiting", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513808468, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922795, "authorName": "scapistron", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scapistron/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Views topping 100k or the car going over 500k?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808484, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922796, "authorName": "DennisLJacob", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dennisljacob/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Do you get a free Tshirt if your car sells above $400k?", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513808502, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922797, "authorName": "AlexMc", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alexmc/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'll take the $500k", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808505, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922798, "authorName": "CNP", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cnp/", "bidAmount": 435000, "content": "$435,000 bid placed by CNP", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513808508, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1922800, "authorName": "cru.jones", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cru.jones/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "There we go!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513808518, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922801, "authorName": "Jetson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jetson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@defiler: you are referring to the auction, I hope", "likes": 15, "timestamp": 1513808562, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922804, "authorName": "Mocanlagunas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mocanlagunas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hope this ends quickly... I want to head home...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808611, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922807, "authorName": "DennisLJacob", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dennisljacob/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Who checks on the credit of bidders for this?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513808631, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922810, "authorName": "watchcarefully", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/watchcarefully/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DennisLJacob - BaT does, but only if you bid $200k on a modern Honda Civic.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513808674, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922812, "authorName": "lsaxen", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lsaxen/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "bidder looses thousands if he doesn't pay.... that should be enough of a deterrent", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808694, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922814, "authorName": "Ian7", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ian7/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@dennisljacob read the fine print, BaT already has the bidders $5000", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513808700, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922816, "authorName": "d_a_c", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/d_a_c/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL ....15:00 MINUTES TO GO", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808710, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922817, "authorName": "Norm_Peterson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/norm_peterson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Woody, watch my beer -- I'll be right back.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513808725, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922819, "authorName": "Pashainsert", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pashainsert/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@joebarthlow I agree with you, this price seems low for a limited production and collectable example like this. \n\nIn a couple of years there will be comments like \" I should have bought the one offered on bring trailer...\" ;)", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513808751, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922821, "authorName": "lsaxen", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lsaxen/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "the next hour will be very telling....", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808812, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922823, "authorName": "Atch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/atch/", "bidAmount": 439000, "content": "$439,000 bid placed by Atch", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513808825, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1922824, "authorName": "DSFM2005 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dsfm2005/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Humbled and appreciative of all the great comments and feedback, can't say enough thank you's!", "likes": 25, "timestamp": 1513808828, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922829, "authorName": "Crazyas00", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/crazyas00/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Norm Peterson : I have Single Malt Whisky here.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513808880, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922828, "authorName": "XLR8", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/xlr8/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "XLR8\nEntertainment and education at it's best\nPossible to improve?\nDoubtful without a more unique performance vehicle", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513808880, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922831, "authorName": "moparmickey", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/moparmickey/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yep, BAT money % taken out of your bank as soon as the auction ends if you bid!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808888, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922832, "authorName": "Stratos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stratos/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "So one of the most spectacular cars of all time, one of the best auctions, some of the most emotionally-driven comments...and some guy talking about what he does in the men's room? \n\nI didn't think it could get any more enjoyable, lol.", "likes": 16, "timestamp": 1513808889, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922835, "authorName": "hymanltd", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hymanltd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Best of luck, @DSFM2005! This is a spectacular machine!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808910, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922836, "authorName": "ARUP", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/arup/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I knew about these cars but didn't really 'know' about these cars! WOW!", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513808922, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922840, "authorName": "GudgieD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gudgied/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@dsfmp2005. Thank you for allowing us to share this wonderful vehicle - even if only in our dreams", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808960, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922842, "authorName": "golfR", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/golfr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Saw one of these driving up a mountain in the snow, and wondered why would you do that.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513808967, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922834, "authorName": "bbqman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bbqman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DSFM2005 I guess we should be thanking you for bringing such a unique car to BaT for us to dream about- well most of us.", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1513808980, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922843, "authorName": "Ian7", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ian7/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "sure it's an ok car, but have you seen that Scirocco I'm bidding on ?? :-)", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1513808981, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922846, "authorName": "joebarthlow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/joebarthlow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "until I discovered the Stratos, I always thought Lancias were affordable Italian classics. LOL", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513808988, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922845, "authorName": "Blacktan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/blacktan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "With this much activity and comments, if I was a serious bidder I would not chance the 2 minute clock!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513808988, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922847, "authorName": "PoweredbyFord", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/poweredbyford/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A group of us are in the shop watching this on the big screen\u2026 Tequila shots are set up on the bench to be consumed at a rate of one shot per $10,000 bid.", "likes": 25, "timestamp": 1513808995, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922848, "authorName": "neunelfer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/neunelfer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Man this is like seeing Hendrix at Monterey", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1513809007, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922849, "authorName": "CNP", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cnp/", "bidAmount": 445000, "content": "$445,000 bid placed by CNP", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809012, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1922851, "authorName": "sphinx1832", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sphinx1832/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DSFM2005 Thank you for the spectacular presentation and the experience of watching the end of the auction!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809019, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922855, "authorName": "DennisLJacob", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dennisljacob/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This is better than watching other auctions on TV. Here we get to watch over a nice period of time. Where bidders can take more time between decisions. 2 minutes keep on counting", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809031, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922856, "authorName": "bbqman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bbqman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Epic auction no doubt", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809034, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922857, "authorName": "jagman38", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jagman38/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ Norm Peterson Laptop is too big, that's what smart phones are for. But, this is like the difference between watching a film in a theater or at home.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809038, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922859, "authorName": "stefan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stefan/", "bidAmount": 470000, "content": "$470,000 bid placed by stefan", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809050, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1922860, "authorName": "gullylurk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gullylurk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "SHOTS", "likes": 14, "timestamp": 1513809058, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922861, "authorName": "Ian7", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ian7/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@blacktan that's why there have been a few posts about letting the bidders have the floor during the last few minutes", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809064, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922862, "authorName": "marauder", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/marauder/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Gruntastic entertainment all the way!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809067, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922863, "authorName": "cascadia", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cascadia/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@PoweredbyFord - Drink!", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513809068, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922864, "authorName": "Atch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/atch/", "bidAmount": 475000, "content": "$475,000 bid placed by Atch", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809070, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1922865, "authorName": "bleeder", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bleeder/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That escalated....", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809071, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922866, "authorName": "bbqman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bbqman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "new blood", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809075, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922869, "authorName": "AlexMc", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alexmc/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Atch with the left cross!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809086, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922870, "authorName": "cru.jones", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cru.jones/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow. This is epic.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809089, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922871, "authorName": "golfR", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/golfr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I like the sound when a bid is placed.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513809095, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922872, "authorName": "Chrispc", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chrispc/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The sharks are circling...", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809096, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922875, "authorName": "jparnell", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jparnell/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Going to be pretty boring here after this ends!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809110, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922876, "authorName": "ARUP", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/arup/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm waiting for the uppercut!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809114, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922877, "authorName": "d_a_c", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/d_a_c/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "LET'S GET READY TO RUUUUUMBLE", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513809118, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922878, "authorName": "PoweredbyFord", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/poweredbyford/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@cascadia - We are!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809121, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922880, "authorName": "bmitch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bmitch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Why don't we just let the bidders enjoy this", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513809122, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922879, "authorName": "VenaGT", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/venagt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "it's cool if my toddler bids a half mil by accident?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809122, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922881, "authorName": "megerian", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/megerian/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What is the BaT alltime record sale?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809126, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922882, "authorName": "Mulhollander", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mulhollander/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Waiting for the sucker punch quiet bidder to come in at the 20 second mark.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809136, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922884, "authorName": "DennisLJacob", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dennisljacob/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "560K", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513809142, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922886, "authorName": "RevSome", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/revsome/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Get yer comments in now folks. The last two minutes will be a frenzy the likes of which BaT has never seen.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513809153, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922885, "authorName": "watchcarefully", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/watchcarefully/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@megerian - see below", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809153, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922888, "authorName": "JimmyHank", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jimmyhank/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Productivity at the office = zero until the hammer falls.", "likes": 17, "timestamp": 1513809177, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922889, "authorName": "Rod_S", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rod_s/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "time to cash in your 30 bitcoin, gents", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513809181, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922892, "authorName": "joebarthlow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/joebarthlow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "that toyota got to $560K in only 11 bids", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809203, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922895, "authorName": "cigarsandscotch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cigarsandscotch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I can barely read the comments they are coming in so fast.....not even enough time to reach for my popcorn...", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513809209, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922896, "authorName": "moparmickey", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/moparmickey/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "sorry my cat stood on the key board at $474,000 it was not me", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513809225, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922897, "authorName": "Stratos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stratos/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Screw the office. This is more important.", "likes": 14, "timestamp": 1513809238, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922898, "authorName": "bbqman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bbqman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "No time for popcorn, this is serious", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513809242, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922900, "authorName": "BRoget", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/broget/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I don't know if it's the Robitussin I've been chugging for this disease I seem to have contracted, or the tea and bourbon Im chasing it with, but this is the best entertainment I've had in weeks.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513809269, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922901, "authorName": "pmissaghi", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pmissaghi/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "everybody, don't talk all at once :)", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809275, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922903, "authorName": "notforhire", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/notforhire/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The bidding history of these guys is... revealing. Who says money doesn't buy taste?!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809282, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922904, "authorName": "Gingerman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gingerman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It's time for scotch. Teenage scotch.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513809283, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922902, "authorName": "VenaGT", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/venagt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "popcorn? spumanti!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809293, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922907, "authorName": "joebarthlow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/joebarthlow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "fire me, I don't care", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809296, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922908, "authorName": "Blacktan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/blacktan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Ian7; I agree, time to let the bidders have the floor! I am done until after the hammer falls.", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1513809337, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922915, "authorName": "mac214", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mac214/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Drinking games using BaT sounds fun, but this auction feels like a single malt type of auction. Cheers.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809344, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922916, "authorName": "RevSome", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/revsome/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Bidders don't care about the comments.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809362, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922918, "authorName": "MAMilligan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mamilligan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Its an Italian car. Pizzelles and espresso.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809382, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922922, "authorName": "Crazyas00", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/crazyas00/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "OK, Comment! There, done!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809411, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922923, "authorName": "DennisLJacob", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dennisljacob/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "bidders are hoping their computer doesn't hiccup", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809419, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922924, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I wonder how long the last 2 minutes will last?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809434, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922925, "authorName": "watchcarefully", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/watchcarefully/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Crap. We broke the Internet.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809448, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922926, "authorName": "Stratos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stratos/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Comments are the best part. Otherwise it's just another eBay.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513809450, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922927, "authorName": "Chrispc", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chrispc/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Where's Howard Cosell when you need him.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513809463, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922928, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That's it, we broke the internet. I got a 503 when trying to view another BAT page.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513809468, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922930, "authorName": "Mike_K", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mike_k/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I think BaT limit is near. Website getting very laggy to access. I'm out", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809497, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922931, "authorName": "ARUP", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/arup/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "All of my racing bicycles and components are Italian!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809506, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922932, "authorName": "pmissaghi", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pmissaghi/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "2 minutes, its 475K", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809507, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922933, "authorName": "marauder", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/marauder/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Commenting here is a little like that favorite tree in the park all the dogs like.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513809519, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922934, "authorName": "jagman38", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jagman38/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "too quiet....", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809520, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922935, "authorName": "huseinrokadia", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/huseinrokadia/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The 'Like\" button under the comments can't keep up!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809525, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922936, "authorName": "Mike_K", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mike_k/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I think BaT limit is near. Website getting very laggy to access.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513809541, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922937, "authorName": "cigarsandscotch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cigarsandscotch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm guessing we wont see too many bids with 3 seconds left at this price level", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809547, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922939, "authorName": "Quimbo6511", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/quimbo6511/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The last two minutes will be similar to a college basketball game.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809574, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922940, "authorName": "bmitch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bmitch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "yeah that's right @ Nicolas. Break it for the bidders and chuckle it up", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809591, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922941, "authorName": "Atch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/atch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sold on 12/20/17 for $475,000 to Atch", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809602, "type": "bat-bid-reserve"}, {"id": 1922942, "authorName": "BRoget", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/broget/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809609, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922943, "authorName": "Bill_S1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bill_s1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Awesome, congrats!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809614, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922944, "authorName": "Mocanlagunas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mocanlagunas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "hope this sells", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809623, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922945, "authorName": "neunelfer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/neunelfer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Do I hear 480k?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809628, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922946, "authorName": "x4158", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/x4158/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wait, my popcorn isn't ready", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809639, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922947, "authorName": "Dolce71", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dolce71/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My feeling is we all may disappointed when this does not hit reserve.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809648, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922948, "authorName": "Rod_S", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rod_s/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "come on! i'm rooting for the guys taking shots", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809659, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922949, "authorName": "GWW", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gww/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "beautiful", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809662, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922950, "authorName": "sphinx1832", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sphinx1832/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Congrats!!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809663, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922951, "authorName": "hymanltd", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hymanltd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "SOLD! Well done!!!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809664, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922953, "authorName": "Pashainsert", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pashainsert/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Very well bought at this price Congrats", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809671, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922954, "authorName": "d_a_c", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/d_a_c/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "WOW", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809672, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922955, "authorName": "scapistron", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scapistron/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Now I want to know the reserve.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809680, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922956, "authorName": "Bryan_A", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bryan_a/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Shwing!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809689, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922957, "authorName": "PoweredbyFord", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/poweredbyford/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A KO punch?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809691, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922958, "authorName": "barenstam", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/barenstam/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sweet", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809701, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922959, "authorName": "TimSim", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/timsim/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "WOW! Nice Congrats @Atch!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809727, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922960, "authorName": "the_normanns", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/the_normanns/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "D-O-N-E", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809742, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922961, "authorName": "Chrispc", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chrispc/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That's 15 new Miatas.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809746, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922962, "authorName": "Mulhollander", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mulhollander/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "So unless you're on this page, the BAT site is down. Wondering if there were any last minute bidders that got blocked out of placing a bid.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809763, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922963, "authorName": "Norm_Peterson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/norm_peterson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Woody, where in hell's my beer?", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513809771, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922964, "authorName": "RogerD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rogerd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I guess know who have slow connections", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809786, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922967, "authorName": "XLR8", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/xlr8/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "XLR8 \nI thought it would need 500 to meet reserve", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513809845, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922968, "authorName": "the_normanns", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/the_normanns/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "NOT TOO BAD for a little italian Car :-) CONGRATS for both parties", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513809904, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922970, "authorName": "Nicolas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nicolas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The site couldn't keep up, we broke the internet! I got a 503 on a bidder's page and never saw the 475k bid. Congrats to the new owner!", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513809919, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922971, "authorName": "DENWERKS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/denwerks/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I would have ran it NO RESERVE ?", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513809924, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922972, "authorName": "Chrispc", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chrispc/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Kablooey!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513809963, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922974, "authorName": "joebarthlow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/joebarthlow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "i wonder if all the bids came in on time...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513810008, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922977, "authorName": "rmessner", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rmessner/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "just awesome car", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513810083, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922979, "authorName": "cigarsandscotch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cigarsandscotch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513810147, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922981, "authorName": "rmessner", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rmessner/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Only if you leave this page. Still basking in its afterglow. Awesome suction. The best of what BAT can do. But need another couple of servers to keep up!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513810213, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922982, "authorName": "Twincam", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/twincam/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That SUCKS for the other bidders & seller!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513810223, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922984, "authorName": "Tyracious", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tyracious/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yo BaT - your Pagely WordPress managed hosting did not scale.\r\nI'd be giving them a call.\r\nBTW - WordPress?\r\nLucky the bidding went thru.", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513810287, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922987, "authorName": "wine90", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wine90/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Bat gets same commish no matter", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513810323, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922992, "authorName": "Blacktan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/blacktan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Looks like my MR2 Spyder is safe for now!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513810387, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922994, "authorName": "Teatoe993", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/teatoe993/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Those last two minutes were as lackluster as Tyson/Spinks.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513810441, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1922998, "authorName": "JTW", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jtw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "At least we all still have our ears.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513810537, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923001, "authorName": "TimSim", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/timsim/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Need more bandwidth for auctions like this one", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513810580, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923003, "authorName": "watchcarefully", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/watchcarefully/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wait...there's a Scirocco for sale?", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513810695, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923004, "authorName": "Tyracious", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tyracious/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Error 503:\nThe Web server (running the Web site) is currently unable to handle the HTTP request due to a temporary overloading of the server. The implication is that this is a temporary condition which will be alleviated after some delay.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513810708, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923006, "authorName": "isebmw", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/isebmw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "503 - typically too many open database connections", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513810806, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923007, "authorName": "notforhire", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/notforhire/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hopefully ISP providers are car enthusiasts. Our future depends on it!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513810824, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923009, "authorName": "jagman38", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jagman38/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well, drats, the dreaded 503 bit me on a comment (or a like) and I missed the actual end trying to get back on the page. Congrats @Atch Drive it like you stole it!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513810832, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923012, "authorName": "LB1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lb1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I missed it", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513810862, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923016, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow,\nThis auction seriously taxed the site! I tried to make a last comment with 3.5 minutes to go and it went 503 error. I'm just now able to get back on. Damn, I missed it. I would've so bid on this if that hadn't happened..no, seriously! ;^)", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513810920, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923014, "authorName": "jas280z", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jas280z/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Fantastic result!!\n\nLet's look at how BaT shined here. The seller is going to walk away from this with $475K in pocket, minus the $100 placement fee. For the seller to walk away with a similar amount at Barrett-Jackson or Gooding, that car would have needed to have hammered for $517K, assuming an 8% seller's commission. Now, lets just assume that $475K was the minimum the seller needed in pocket, and the car wasn't selling unless they got that. Then the buyer saved $42K right there, buying on BaT.\n\nBut, that same buyer would have had to pay a 10% commission on the $517K at an in person auction, bringing their total out of pocket cost for the car to $569K. Here, with a 5% commission capped at 5K, they are paying $480K, a savings of $89K. Now, also figure that the taxes paid are generally paid on the hammer price, the buyer will only be paying taxes on $475K, not $517K, which at a very conservative 5% tax rate is a difference of $2K.\n\nSo, assuming that @DSFM2005 got exactly what they needed out of the car, @Atch paid $92K less than a buyer would have at Barrett-Jackson or Mecum. Ladies and Gentlemen, THIS is how BaT can take on the big boys. On cars of this caliber, BaT offers a 16%+ savings compared to the big name auctions. If I were Barrett-Jackson, or Gooding, or RM, I'd be watching this little upstart website very carefully.\n\nCongratulations to all!!", "likes": 57, "timestamp": 1513810959, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923021, "authorName": "John_M", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/john_m/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Congratulations to the winner. It's interesting that the winner and runner up had only 11 comments between them.. Seems money talks and BS walks..... no wait, that's not right...forget it. \nAs for the sight, the comments are having a tough time loading when it gets this high. Perhaps it is time to go to a different commenting platform?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513811010, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923025, "authorName": "Tyracious", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tyracious/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It's all good.\nBaT has experienced what most of us in IT run into with a real world situation that can be hard to simulate in stress tests.\nThe really good news is that BaT is so popular that it's hosting provider got overloaded.\nAnd - congrats to us (especially the commentators) for making that happen.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1513811090, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923026, "authorName": "DENWERKS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/denwerks/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I wish I had that 503 Problem on my auctions, LOL.", "likes": 16, "timestamp": 1513811112, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923028, "authorName": "DSFM2005 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dsfm2005/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Site froze on our end. Really hoping other bids didn't get caught", "likes": 13, "timestamp": 1513811140, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923030, "authorName": "RevSome", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/revsome/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "You had better look into that!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513811171, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923031, "authorName": "SaabStory", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/saabstory/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@notforhire That 6.25% is the Texas sales tax to Texas residents.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513811174, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923019, "authorName": "notforhire", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/notforhire/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@jas280z - don't forget the 6.25% \"additional charges from this dealer.\"", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513811201, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923022, "authorName": "Crazyas00", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/crazyas00/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I watched the Stratos sell, then made a comment, and was knocked out. And I am NOT going back in to see if it posted! Great Sale anyway!\n\nHey, I forgot. Did we break the Comment Barrier?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513811268, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923032, "authorName": "jas280z", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jas280z/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@notforhire, that is not a dealer fee, it is Texas tax that must be collected if the buyer is from Texas. If you notice, I did look at taxes in my evaluation, although I estimated it at 5%, assuming that a buyer of this stature will know how to lower their tax burden as much as possible.\n\n@DSFM2005 has no control over this, the law is the law. As a dealer, they must collect it if they buyer is for Texas.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513811304, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923035, "authorName": "RevSome", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/revsome/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "There was a lot of time remaining when my BaT feed went awry. Quite possible that the nominal \"winner\" is not in fact the winner. Bit of a legal nightmare if that's the case.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513811309, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923036, "authorName": "notforhire", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/notforhire/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SaabStory - thanks for the clarification... apologies for not understanding that. It's written in a way that suggests it's a premium, not a tax only applicable to successful TX bidders. Notice the next \"fine print\" line that identifies additional tax for TX residents. Turns out that's one sentence.\n\n@jas280z - see above!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513811418, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923039, "authorName": "doublegarage", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/doublegarage/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@jas280z - fully agree, and not just the writing on the wall for dinosaurs like BarretJackson, but also worrying times for the so-called \"brokers\" who might park your car in a dusty showroom for a quarter and start flipping through their rolodex with \"literally hundreds\" of names in them to see who might want to bid.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513811427, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923040, "authorName": "John_M", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/john_m/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "recent comments I added didn't get posted either. The commenting tool couldn't load fast enough or keep up. \ninteresting that the two final bidders had only 11 comments between them. Seems $$ talks and BS walks...or something like that....\nCongrats to the winner!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513811429, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923046, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Congratulations to the seller and especially to the buyer!\n\n@bryanp : low polar moment will allow a car to rotate easily, but there\u2019s a lot more to a successful rally car than that.\n\n A Fulvia has the engine in front of the front wheel centerline, but a V4 is very short, and except the cylinder block and crankshaft, it\u2019s all alloy, so it\u2019s about the same 60/40 distribution as most other front-engine car of the period. More importantly, though, FWD dynamics are entirely different; it requires a completely different technique than RWD, and a completely different line through a corner\n\nYour father clearly understood how to drive FWD, which is a question of managing weight balance and tire loading. Put a bit simplistically, with FWD you\u2019re asking the front tires to load both longitudinally (accel / braking) and laterally (cornering); the more you ask of one, the less you get of the other. So you can go deep into a corner under power (long. load) and as you start to turn, lifting off the throttle reduced the long. load and instantly increases lateral grip capacity, so the tires bite and the nose turns in sharply. Getting back on the power reduces the lateral grip, which will create understeer that you can use to pull the nose straight while accelerating out of the corner.", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1513811542, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923048, "authorName": "Irquik2", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/irquik2/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Looked like a site wide server overload to me. 503 error was not letting me access approval of my pending listing. Couldn't watch the final of this sale either. Very little action at the end on the Stratos. Hope potential bidders weren't have the same problems as me! Awesome ride and fun to watch auction - great comments as well. Excellent automotive entertainment. BaT - crank up the bandwidth, chop-chop!!!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513811677, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923054, "authorName": "Omnivore", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/omnivore/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Cool. BaT moving into disruptor status. In-person auctions are starting to look long in the tooth. Of course one can still visit Monterey and overpay for lodging, food, parking and fight throngs of people. I\u2019ve been there and done that, and they get more crowded every year. \nSince this Lancia did well I\u2019m gonna put up my own 1974 Gandini-penned sportscar here.\nCongrats to all and watch this space...", "likes": 14, "timestamp": 1513811839, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923056, "authorName": "macygray", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/macygray/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@jas280z\n\nIt's actually better than you described to sell on BaT. \n\nYes, the commission is smaller on BaT with a car like this, but the seller on BaT also saves transport costs (and return costs if the car doesn't sell), and hotel/dining-out costs. If it's a high end car that's being sold, the seller would want to be there to keep an eye on unloading and movement of the car, and to answer questions about the car's history and condition.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513811854, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923049, "authorName": "RevSome", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/revsome/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Can BaT make a comment on the validity of this final bid? I suspect the comment and the bid functions are separate and did not impact the final results.\nPerhaps some IT techies can comment in the mean-time.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513811885, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923058, "authorName": "Scoopman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scoopman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The winning bidder may have made a huge score by the site freezing up as it did, when it did. There were two other bidders who were just behind the winner, I am wondering if they got locked out. If so it would really suck for them and especially for the seller.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513811904, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923070, "authorName": "bringatrailer", "authorUrl": "", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Thanks for all of the comments everyone. This was a very exciting auction as anticipated!\n\nWe experienced a traffic spike like we have never seen before, and some users experienced slow loading times and error messages. We will be upping our server capacity yet again, and we will initiate that tonight. \n\nAs always, we remain committed to fairness on BaT and we are in the process of ensuring that everyone who wished to place a bid has an opportunity to make themselves known.\n\nThanks again to the BaT community and to @DSFM2005 for bringing this awesome car here!", "likes": 33, "timestamp": 1513812487, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923082, "authorName": "RevSome", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/revsome/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I did mention much earlier that BaT will see a comment frenzy the likes of which it has never seen. But I had no idea it would be THIS crazy.\n\nKudos to BaT for doing the right thing with your comment and your pledge to up your band-width etc. You folks are the big time now. Congrats that you've come this far this fast.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513812854, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923090, "authorName": "bleeder", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bleeder/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "So many Captains Obvious in this thread. lol", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513813010, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923093, "authorName": "jas280z", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jas280z/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@macygray, right you are! \n\nThat is actually what lead my dad to list (and sell) his '69 Stingray here. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1969-chevrolet-corvette-7/\n\nWe knew it would likely take a bit less here that it would at Mecum, but when we figured in the cost of transportation, listing the car, and seller's commission, we figured it was worth a shot here first. \n\nIt hammered for $22,750, which was a little lower than we had hoped for, but when we figured that we would be looking at an 8% commission, $500 to list, and $1,500 in shipping to Mecum, it would have needed to hammer for nearly $27K at Mecum to get the same in pocket. That would have been the upper end of our estimate at Mecum, so it was worth letting it go. I can't say that we saved any hotel or food cost, since we would have likely taken it to Indy, which we attend annually.\n\nIt worked out very well for us, with a car worth 5% of this Lancia, the potential savings only grow as the value of the car does.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513813060, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923099, "authorName": "taosman54", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/taosman54/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Atch Time to let those hornets out of the bottle Well done , Enjoy!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513813199, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923102, "authorName": "EJM", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ejm/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I am still waiting for a RSR or a IROC car to pop up here or a 962 or a 935. Heavy Porsches.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513813272, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923115, "authorName": "drcharles2", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/drcharles2/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "In August 2015, I had a similar Ba T result where a server overload crashed the system;\n\nhttps://bringatrailer.com/listing/1961-mercedes-benz-300-sl/\n\nThe capacity at that time was far less than today, so the system shutdown resulted in the final 4 bidders being left at the altar, thus resulting in a \"no sale\".\n\nThere was, however, a silver lining...3 of the 4 finalists were willing to meet or exceed the reserve, but by that time I had a serious bout of seller's remorse.\n\nInstead decided to keep the car, with zero regret. Ba T waived any fees, and I still enjoy driving the car regularly, in the wild, and have added > 2500 miles since. In retrospect, the gateway 504 error page was the best gift I could have received.\n\nMerry Christmas, guys.", "likes": 30, "timestamp": 1513813657, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923135, "authorName": "taosman54", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/taosman54/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@drcharles2 Looking at your car I'd say it was karma. you can't drive a check, and feel the wind and sun in your face. She's a beauty", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513814560, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923139, "authorName": "notforhire", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/notforhire/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@drcharles2 - thanks for this positive perspective epilogue!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513814578, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923186, "authorName": "DBAOne", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dbaone/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Righteous bucks", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513816335, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923191, "authorName": "Norm_Peterson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/norm_peterson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Crazyas00: When I showed this to my wife she was beside herself with excitement, and, as happened before with a Maserati, it was the two of them on one side with lonesome me on the other -- I didn't stand a chance. Great auction.\n\nRegards,\n\nNorm", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513816427, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923198, "authorName": "Tyracious", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tyracious/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A possible answer may be that BaT - in its Terms and Conditions - may extend the auction end time in the event of technical problems.\n\"BaT does not guarantee the auction end time and may extend it solely at our discretion in the event technical issues interrupt operation of the site.\"\nDunno about BaT but we have a dashboard that monitors our Azure cloud service and we are alerted by text/email if http errors come up. Especially 5xx errors.\nAnyway - I'm for sure positive they'll sort it out.\nGo BaT.\nFor our sake hope one of the big auction houses does not come in and buy them out.\nFor BaT - hey the crew/funders (hopefully the crew) can retire to Monte Carlo and spend their days tooling around in Lancia Stratos'.\nYou've earned it by making this thing into THE gearhead/auction site.", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1513816760, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923222, "authorName": "geek_boy_in", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/geek_boy_in/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Atch well played. This is one of those cars I would have given it all probably if I had the free cash. Which land is it headed if I may ask without intruding into anyone's privacy ?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513817411, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923228, "authorName": "Crazyas00", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/crazyas00/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Tyracious : BaT has in the past had a few auctions that had glitches right near the end of the sale. They researched their logs, and discovered what had happened. In one case, they relisted the vehicle, informed both the high Bidder and runner up that was going to happen, so both could continue. Watchers like me had to see the listing come up again. But if you had bid on it, you got an e-mail informing it was back up for sale. Another case happened when the runner up did not see the higher bid come in. Hence he never raised his bid. In that case, BaT contacted both of them, and talked it through. The runner up decided he had bid as high as he wanted, and the vehicle went to the winner. The point is, BaT will do the right thing, once they figure out what happened. We might be done, or we might not. We should know tomorrow.", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1513817664, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923229, "authorName": "Atch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/atch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I\u2019m English but live here in the US. The car will live in the US & be driven in both US & European rallies", "likes": 25, "timestamp": 1513817674, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923231, "authorName": "Crazyas00", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/crazyas00/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Atch : Well Done Sir! Enjoy, and send a Success Story our way.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513817796, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923241, "authorName": "ar1950", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ar1950/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Crazyas00, from the comment from BaT it sounds like if this wasn't a clean result they will get it straightened out. Also, being aware of the technical issues it sounds like they are on that as well. Hope so. I will also say that, even with my ISP's current latency issues, I did a tracert to \"www.bat.com\" and it was incredibly slow IMHO. Hopefully this all gets improved. \n\nTo the buyer and seller, if this is indeed a clean result, congratulations all around. Great to see cars like this one show up around here.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513818218, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923246, "authorName": "montreal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/montreal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Atch Please explain the following: In december 2016, you posted a comment regarding this $30 000 BMW saying '' love the car wish I had the $''\nhttps://bringatrailer.com/listing/2003-bmw-m5-3/\nNow you are buying a $475 000 car !!! PLEASE GIVE US YOUR SECRET !! Lottery ? Stock market? Congrats for the car!", "likes": 31, "timestamp": 1513818564, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923264, "authorName": "Airboss16", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/airboss16/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SM Minis\nReference to Sopwith Camels....\nwatch this\n(I don't think driving the Stratos is as challenging)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq78ZocOAkY", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513819397, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923283, "authorName": "Atch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/atch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@montreal\nWell remembered, I can\u2019t remember yesterday!\nThanks for the congrats, much appreciated.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1513820416, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923297, "authorName": "DENWERKS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/denwerks/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Awesome auction. BaT is the best auction site around, and keep raising the bar for sure, yeah the computers slowed, but at the end of the day, its a good thing, BaT keep improving this site to make it the perfect platform for buyers and sellers. Thanks again BaT for starting this site for the Vintage Car Enthusiast. If I get a Stratos one day, I promise I will bring it here at NO RESERVE, : )", "likes": 21, "timestamp": 1513821218, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923307, "authorName": "MinutemanMike", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/minutemanmike/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "So far I have seen a few Lancia Flavia's in person where would one go to see this exotic creature? Also I googled how to pronounce Lancia, I am able to say it correctly when discussing it . Now I can say Volvo and Lancia in English.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513821872, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923312, "authorName": "alec", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alec/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@montreal: bitcoins, for sure.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513822197, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923330, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "BaT, please don't sell out, leave that to the microbrews.", "likes": 13, "timestamp": 1513823045, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923339, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@drcharles2\nI think I remember your car. My god, the thing makes my knees weak! 300SLs just kill me and congrats on keeping and enjoying it........um,...uh....think I could get a ride in it someday?", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513823367, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923584, "authorName": "jdpuknowme", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jdpuknowme/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Great buy and a long time coming Atch. Congrats. Can't wait to see this one on the roads.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513842405, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923590, "authorName": "carstruck", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carstruck/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yowzer BaT. \n697 comments..! \na Stratos.. !!\nMega info from Ed L and others\ndefiler on the potty. \nGreat entertainment. Congratulations", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1513844489, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923617, "authorName": "voiture", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/voiture/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That's a pretty strong final number. Stradale prices seem to be all over the map but possibly trending down a bit lately. \r\n\r\nAlso a very interesting discussion about the merits of BaT vs. an auction house. In the art world, Sothebys and Christie's offer \"guarantees\" to the seller for a big-name painting or sculpture in order to land the commission, but they make their \"real\" money on mid-range works on which they can charge full freight to sellers. I'm not sure cars fit into the same category because artworks are unique, whereas if you don't like this particular Stratos, there are (relatively) plenty of others out there.\r\n\r\nIn fact, there's nothing to stop B-J, Mecum to post online auctions, especially for \"lesser\" cars that might only sell for for under 100k, with reduced fees for buyers and sellers. That might ultimately cap BaT's revenue model.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513855875, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923625, "authorName": "montreal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/montreal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DEMWERKS I have to disagree with you...If I get a Stratos one day, I will NOT put it on BAT...\nI will KEEP it forever and put it on my will for my kids !!! A piece of automobile history.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1513857645, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1923918, "authorName": "BEK_Boston", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bek_boston/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Great result, congrats all around. Interesting that the winning bidder made a comment that he wished he had the $$ for a used M5 a couple months ago...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513870495, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1924144, "authorName": "geek_boy_in", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/geek_boy_in/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Atch - wonderful to know that you would be rallying this car. Cars are meant to be driven and not stored in mausoleums. If one can pay half a million dollar to buy it, she/he can pay a $100K to fix it ! Cheers !", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513876524, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1924401, "authorName": "Tyracious", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tyracious/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@voiture - thank you for the interesting comments.\nBaT value is in the brand/experience development over the years aided by the ever increasing general media exposure.\nAlso of great value are the loyal commentators and fans of the site developed over the years.\n\nTechnologically it would not be too hard to copy the model.\nThe blueprint is laid out before your eyes and you can get a feel for the programming model by doing a view-source.\nFinding and retaining competent, knowledgeable car people to provide content and provide auction support is the challenging part. The crew is part of the value proposition and a potential buyout could include terms where at least some of the key people stay under contractual obligation.\nE-Bay and the other auction houses are potential suitors.\nRather than spending resources to try and develop their own BaT model I would think the number crunchers would rather give BaT an offer they could not refuse. In fact there may even be some competition as to who can snap them up first.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1513883949, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1924467, "authorName": "Arekusan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/arekusan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Interesting discussion on financial merits of BaT versus an auction house like B-J. The one piece missing in the discussion - and I do not know the answer - is if the bidder base is different. Might this car have hammered for $517k or higher at a big auction house, netting the same or more for seller? Maybe. Celebrities and such may send agents to the big auctions with instructions to complete PPIs and come home with certain models at whatever the price. Do they also shop on BaT? Or Hemmings for that matter? I don't think we know.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1513884648, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1924502, "authorName": "keen99", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/keen99/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@arekusan it's my feeling that cars like this bring their own buyers wherever they're sold. the bigger auction houses might have tried to pursue and invite a selection of potential bidders, of course, which would help. but it seems to me that the people who -can- bid on something at this price are going to find out about it whatever the venue. car collectors at that level tend to have established a number of relationships with professionals and others in the industry that will make sure of it. I don't think they'd avoid BAT or ebay or anywhere else a flagship sale happens just because it's not their usual.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1513885137, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1924515, "authorName": "voiture", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/voiture/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Tyracious\r\n\r\nThe big auction houses have lots of knowledgeable folks to write their ad copy and negotiate with sellers. (They're technically called \"specialists\" -- in fact it's a job I'd love to have). They write their copy a certain way to appeal to a certain type of bidder. Is that a different group than BaT attacts? Possibly. \r\n\r\nAs in the art world, you might have a division along the lines of the cognoscenti vs. the trophy hunters. The \"trophy hunters\" are in the game for the thrill of the hunt, and the kill. What they're killing doesn't so much matter as does the fact that they won it. Whereas the cognoscenti are in the game for other reasons -- love of art (or a certain kind of car); looking for the next big thing. it doesn't mean they have less money to spend, but they may be reluctant to spend it at an auction house. Most transactions in the art world are done quietly, behind the scenes, through intermediaries or gallery owners. Probably the same in the car world.", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1513885247, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1924781, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@voiture : \u201cThe big auction houses have lots of knowledgeable folks to write their ad copy and negotiate with sellers. (They're technically called \u201cspecialists\u201d \u2014 in fact it's a job I'd love to have). They write their copy a certain way to appeal to a certain type of bidder. Is that a different group than BaT attacts? Possibly.\u201d\n\nPossibly some of the folks who write catalogue descriptions (technically, they\u2019re often not the in-house \u201cspecialists\u201d) are the same folks who comment on BaT...", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513889628, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1925053, "authorName": "hardrivn", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hardrivn/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Atch, Since you missed out on the M5, I will let you drive mine if you let me drive this ;)\nSanta would kill and butcher Rudolf in order to get in this sleigh. Stunning Car!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1513892889, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1925832, "authorName": "Atch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/atch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@hardrivn, I can help santa for you, I started life as a butcher!", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1513941272, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1929527, "authorName": "johni6020", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/johni6020/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "very beautiful Lancia. buyer will be glad.. \nif someone is looking for a set of NOS original locks for this model....i have a set of 3 with original locks with it. also used on the Ferrari 308 GT4. but that is not yet that exclusive.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1514191818, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1950167, "authorName": "wagon_master", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wagon_master/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wink wink @Ed L:", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1515439209, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1950569, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@wagon master : it\u2019s been said that a nod is as good as a wink to a dead horse, but I\u2019m not sure what your \u2018winking\u2019 means in this case...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1515446708, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 11165976, "authorName": "defilade", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/defilade/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "An update on this car, it sold at Amelia Island in March 2023 for $582k. https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1974-lancia-stratos-hf-stradale-1/", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1680983772, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 11195765, "authorName": "dk911", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dk911/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@defilage Thanks for the update. To think so many of these languished unsold on dealer floors right up to 1979. I want a time machine !", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1681321940, "type": "comment"}]