[{"id": 1812039, "authorName": "Richard_Ridge", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richard_ridge/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The lead shot is a good view of the enlarged front track on which Pontiac marketeers hung their new advertising slogan.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1508790540, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812046, "authorName": "TERRYM", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/terrym/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "GLWTA.Really like it! I guess it could be called a stripper.No Hydramatic,Armstrong Steering & brakes.Unusual would have thought original purchaser would have bought a 2 Door post instead of this Hardtop.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1508790596, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812043, "authorName": "overthehill", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/overthehill/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow, three on the tree. I love it! Truly a rare bird.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1508790740, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812071, "authorName": "Green66", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/green66/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Very Nice...from an era when car designers actually liked cars. This car has soul. GLWTA", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1508790939, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812161, "authorName": "a410traveler", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/a410traveler/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Beautiful car but a 3 on the tree in a car this sporty simply doesn't make sense.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508792010, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812251, "authorName": "jerhofer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jerhofer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That\u2019s a lot of RED!! Only fire trucks have more! Beautiful car.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508793018, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812329, "authorName": "skizz", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/skizz/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "No Power steering?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508793865, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812341, "authorName": "Roadmaster", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/roadmaster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Red/white over red/white? Fender-mounted mirrors? Three on the tree? Fender skirts? Ooh-la-la!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1508794231, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812452, "authorName": "Noprisoners", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/noprisoners/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The only available transmissions were the brand new 4 speed Hyrda-Matic automatic (not available in Chevrolet that year) or a three speed on the column. This is at a time when transmission shops had lines around the block getting the automatics fixed. Many guys of my dad's generation who would have bought these did not trust automatics. I know my dad didn't. Gorgeous car with a trunk big enough for at least three guys and a case of cheap beer to sneak into the drive in theater.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1508796367, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812524, "authorName": "danman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/danman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I don't have a lot of experience with any GM cars of this period, though my family had a 58 Chevy Brookwood wagon, but it would be more than 10 years after this car was produced before manufacturers would make power steering OR power brakes standard. I owned a 68 Mercury Cyclone that had power steering but NON power brakes...and 4 wheel drum brakes at that.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508797337, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812621, "authorName": "Brewster", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brewster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I see a four-barrel, four-speed and long headers in it's future", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508798685, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812644, "authorName": "MWebb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mwebb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Nice, like it.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508799112, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812667, "authorName": "Rich_but_not_wealthy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rich_but_not_wealthy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My dad had always been a Chrysler guy until he bought his white '59 4-door Bonneville with a black flat top roof. It had power everything, A/C and the beautiful interior with the multi-colered striped seats. The Hydra-Matic had a very low 1st gear to get all that weight going and then shifted early to 2nd. Loved that car.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1508799987, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812678, "authorName": "Frost", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/frost/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The first time I saw a picture of one of these original \u201cwide track\u201d Pontiacs was as a 7 year old eating my Cheerios. General Mills teamed up with General Motors and put a picture of a \u201859 Pontiac on the front of the Cheerios box. I think it was a sweepstakes where they gave away a bunch of these to cereal eaters. I don\u2019t eat much cereal these days but am still a \u201cserial\u201d car guy. Good luck to seller and buyer.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1508800238, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812687, "authorName": "needwheels", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/needwheels/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "beautiful, golden age of domestics. Interesting placement of the side mirrors. It's like 2/5 the ways to the Japanese market placement.\n\nGood luck!!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508800718, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812708, "authorName": "SouthernCalifFinancial", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/southerncaliffinancial/", "bidAmount": 5000, "content": "$5,000 bid placed by SouthernCalifFinancial", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508801486, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1812720, "authorName": "MrFin", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mrfin/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "How perfect. A car from 1959, the most outrageous year for GM's space age fins designs ever, residing in Neptune NJ. Obviously, not a vehicle from planet Earth. I hope someone from Cape Caneveral snaps it up.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508801920, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812723, "authorName": "William_Henshaw", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/william_henshaw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm not a fan of the '59 Pontiac, the car looks too busy and has ugly fins. There are some nice things, great roof, nice split grill, cool engine and trans. The interior also looks strange, I'm not saying it's wrong, I've just never seen that design before. It's a very clean looking car, it's the right body style and the interior does look beautiful, unfortunately it's a '59 and does nothing for me. Now if it was a '60 or a '61, but that's a different story.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508802013, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812746, "authorName": "Jesse_D", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jesse_d/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well my cereal box connection to this car involves the little plastic cars that sometimes came in them. My family owned the wagon version of this car in white over blue and my mother had to drive herself and five kids from southern Ohio to Maine each summer- my father took the train later and helped with the drive home. The trip was three days and you can imagine the chaos with five kids from 2 to 15 years old. As for the plastic cars I would open one of the back windows and send the plastic car down the V of the fin to the back where my older brother would try and catch it- this at 60 mph while my mother yelled, sisters pouted and little brother wailed. Oh my- we had a 55, a 59, a 64 and a a 67, all Pontiac, all wagons, for this trip. My memory says this chassis is the biggest any of the big three ever built, in any case there were six of us in the two seats or lying atop the trunks in the back.", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1508803208, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812761, "authorName": "nofat95", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nofat95/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I think George Jetson passed this on to Judy when she was old enough to get her license.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1508803743, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812767, "authorName": "soldmybullitt", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/soldmybullitt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Regarding that very low first gear in Hydromatic:\nWe inherited a 59 sometime in 1964 with the v-8 and Hydromatic. Turning left into a crowded parking lot in downtown LA the gear locked into low as the engine twisted due to a broken motor mount. I managed to turn off the ignition and pull the emergency brake before I hit anything. As we used to say, \" an E ticket ride.\"", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508803917, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812792, "authorName": "KnoxHarrington", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/knoxharrington/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow, manual steering, brakes and transmission! And no a/c, either!\n\nIt's not just a car, it's a mobile gym and sauna.", "likes": 15, "timestamp": 1508804847, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812915, "authorName": "PWSchuh", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pwschuh/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I love a '59 anything from GM, this included. Only thing that would make this better is being a wagon.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508810617, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812955, "authorName": "Swingandamiss", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/swingandamiss/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "1010 WINS guy, huh? (Sorry, only folk from NYC area will understand). Incredibly beautiful car.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1508813041, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1812961, "authorName": "Swingandamiss", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/swingandamiss/", "bidAmount": 15000, "content": "$15,000 bid placed by Swingandamiss", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508813061, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1813098, "authorName": "st8omind", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/st8omind/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I had a seafoam green 61 4 door Catalina. Never should have sold it. This is a beautiful car. GLWTS", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508821667, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1813169, "authorName": "Carguy48", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carguy48/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Great story of how the '59 GM styles came to be. They were originally planned as updates to the one-year-only '58's until GM guys saw Virgil Exner's \"forward look\" designs. GM changed their designs for '59 while Harley Earl, who retired shortly after, was out of the country. My first car was a used '59 Catalina four door. Have been looking for an affordable '59 Pontiac, but not cheap for one in decent condition. This one won't be an easy drive with no power anything, but a nice driver nontheless.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508844838, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1813253, "authorName": "DaftOne", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/daftone/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "WOW, \"Wonder Bar\" indeed! This car just reeks with class. Thanks for the pictures, there are just so many design features in every detail right down to the shift and turn signal levers. A true work of art, really enjoyed looking at this car. GLWA!!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1508849033, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1813309, "authorName": "Thaxted2bat", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/thaxted2bat/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The car's red and the engine's blue. Welp, guess they defeated the Doppler effect.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508851413, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1813325, "authorName": "Arekusan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/arekusan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "No power-robbing options whatsoever... sweet... the only thing missing from the order sheet was the 345HP Tri-Power option (and perhaps a 4.10 Safe-T-Track diff).", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1508851771, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1813396, "authorName": "JTW", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jtw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Interesting to compare the back of this car with the 1961 Cadillac.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508853509, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1813594, "authorName": "tferrer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tferrer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "When American cars were singular in their luxury styling and recognized the world over", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1508859327, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1813909, "authorName": "bondgraham", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bondgraham/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have said it before, but this is the embodiment of the statement:\u201dThey don\u2019t make \u2018me like this anymore\u201d", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1508868337, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1814769, "authorName": "horselesscarriage", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/horselesscarriage/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "....crazy styling....", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508879935, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1815407, "authorName": "Puckster", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/puckster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I don't know what's happening. I'm working late trying to get some projects finished and this auction keeps taking over my computer. I'll be damned if this isn't tenth or eleventh time it's happened tonight.\n\nGorgeous car.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508898667, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1815471, "authorName": "Kromis", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kromis/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "With 3 in the tree, will anyone ever turn on the radio? I would only wish to listen to the mechanical music. American Graffiti, baby!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508903409, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1815490, "authorName": "lobster", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lobster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This car reminds me of the '59 Impala, 348ci, 4bbl. with 3 on-the-tree my dad bought new. Car had no heater or defroster. Shortly after he bought it he took the family to Midnite Mass in the car; it was freezing and the windshield had a nice coat of ice covering it. We got about a half mile from home with my dad trying to see where he was going- the whole family screaming at him for trying to drive blind and buying a car without a heater/defroster. He got out and scratched the ice off with the car keys leaving some nice permanent scratches. I inherited the car and drove it for years, and every time I'd see those key marks it would remind me of that crazy Christmas Eve night and a great dad who loved cars. \nThis Pontiac looks sweet and I can tell you it's got plenty of room for fun times\u2026. with family or friends! GLWTA!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508906142, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1816326, "authorName": "mike_rockwell", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mike_rockwell/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Nice save/restoration on this Iowa car. Always seems strange to see 3 on the tree in these big luxury cars, you'd think they'd need to be automatics & then, no power anything, but I think there was a gradual transition from old clunky everything in cars to these more modern vehicles. My Dad had a '59 Olds \"88\" with 3 on the tree, always thought that was weird also, went 60 mph in low, how did I know that. For those raised on no power, there is a technique to driving these cars, the demo. drive by the owner was exactly correct. When turning, you always need to be moving, when stopping, you down-shift into 2nd. Even parallel parking you can be moving, it's all about working with all that heavy mass, not against it. Ya, I know, 4 speeds were available back then, but that was more of a performance enhancer, I had a '59 Impala factory \"Super Stock\", 348ci, 3-2's, & a 4spd.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508957089, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1816651, "authorName": "500_PM", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/500_pm/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I prefer the Buicks, but 1959 GM is like a happy accident.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1508960945, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1817061, "authorName": "nofat95", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nofat95/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Every time I see this listing I think of \"ground control to Major Tom\".", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1508965653, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1818338, "authorName": "no.radar", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/no.radar/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "There's something about a three-on-the-tree that takes me back.\n\nActually, takes me back to the backseat in my dad's cars from the fifties and sixties watching him changing gears.\n\n(Note on the video: I'd stay out of the Subaru's blind spot, if I owned this!)", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509032069, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1820803, "authorName": "DreamerD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dreamerd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My grandmother had the stable mate of this, a '59 Oldsmobile Super 88 and had to sit on padded phone book to see over the steering wheel. She lived in LA and would often visit her brother in San Diego. One time when she got back from a visit she said, \"I always wondered how fast those Lincolns and Cadillac's were going when they flew past me. You know, they're going faster than 112mph.\" How do you know that, Grandma? \"That was all my car would go and they were still pulling away, but just barely.\"", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1509121102, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1821171, "authorName": "Matthewjemal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/matthewjemal/", "bidAmount": 15500, "content": "$15,500 bid placed by Matthewjemal", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509131801, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1822334, "authorName": "Myron_Vernis", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/myron_vernis/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My dad, who hated cars, had a '59 Bonneville four door hardtop in this color scheme with a crazy tri-tone metallic vinyl interior. It was powered by a 389 with three carburetors. As a little kid, I thought it was the coolest car in the world. All my dad did was complain about the horrible gas mileage. I learned about depression at a young age when he traded it for a base Plymouth Fury four door sedan.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1509154145, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1823144, "authorName": "Mrv8q", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mrv8q/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I remember as a kid tearing up, when the tow truck left with our \u201859 two door/post Catalina, never to return. I had big plans for that car...\nThe old man replaced it with a \u201871 Impala, which regularly dined on automatic transmissions.\nHis last American-made car.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1509218713, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1823293, "authorName": "cyclemikey", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cyclemikey/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Noprisoners - The four-speed Hydra-Matic had been around for quite a few years when this car was built. And the wariness about automatic transmission reliability had substantially subsided by 1959 as well. Your comments would apply more accurately to a model a decade older.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1509232259, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1823643, "authorName": "Johnsgarage", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/johnsgarage/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "You want rare... A late 50s Pontiac with three pedals and a three-speed column shift transmission ever so nicely meets the requirement. ...one of the finest, most honest, no stories Pontiacs I've seen on BaT! Driving one of these cars with no PS/PB is not as bad as it sounds. ...a few minor corrections/detailing under the hood and a bit of undercarriage detailing and you are ready to show it anywhere.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509289962, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1823764, "authorName": "islander", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/islander/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is the asymmetric interior original? If not for the tailfins, the seats would be the coolest feature of this car. But the fins, man those fins... I picture the engineer/designer conversation going something like this:\n\nJoe: Monty, did you see what Cadillac is doing with their fins this year?\nMonty: Yeah, and the guys at corporate won't let us go that high, something about a marquis brand.\nJoe: Typical.... How did they word it exactly? inches of fin, or total height?\nMonty: I think they said 'can't be higher than the Eldorado'\nJoe: Okay, how about this, 4 fins. Each 2/3rd the height of the Eldorado? We would not only have more fins, we would have more height combined?\n\nI believe this is also potentially the origin of the phrase: \"I like it, I like it a lot!\".", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509299208, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1823921, "authorName": "skidcar", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/skidcar/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Not a single word / comment from the seller? Mmm....", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1509315545, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824238, "authorName": "eima77", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/eima77/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Beautiful Vehicle! Nice presentation by Seller. \n@skidcar being it's the Big Day, maybe the Seller will post something for everyone \nBest to Seller and Buyer! GLWS ?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509366706, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824254, "authorName": "Dean_Laumbach (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dean_laumbach/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@skidcar Do you have a question?\n\n@islander \"Though not confirmed in the history file from the previous owner, the interior is believed by the seller to have been refreshed with new upholstery and carpets.\" \n\nI could not find receipts for carpet and upholstery, but there were some carpet swatches that came with the other receipts. I believe at the very least the carpets were replaced.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1509368522, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824356, "authorName": "Brentk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brentk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@cyclemikey - 3 speed TH-350 or TH-400 a 4 speed or overdrive auto wasn't around for quiet a few more years.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1509374008, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824368, "authorName": "Brentk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brentk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The 80's had the 700r4", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509374430, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824448, "authorName": "mike_rockwell", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mike_rockwell/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The early GM big blocks had Turbo 400 transmissions, easy to tell the trans., pan looks like a kidney, versus the Turbo 350, the pan being square with a cut-off corner. I never tore up a TM400.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509377430, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824453, "authorName": "FordinaFord", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fordinaford/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A 3 speed manual column shifted vehicle is the best theft-deterrent device around these days because nobody other than old folks like me know how to shift them!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1509377615, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824529, "authorName": "cyclemikey", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cyclemikey/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Brentk - Your youth is betraying you. Nobody said anything about TH350s or TH400s. This car is too early to have been factory equipped with one.\n\nThe original Hydra-Matic transmission came out in 1939, and it was indeed a four-speed automatic. That transmission was used through the 1950's and beyond by most GM divisions (including Pontiac, but not Chevrolet) as well as many other cars of the era whose makers bought the transmissions from GM.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509380417, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824579, "authorName": "Jackcougar", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jackcougar/", "bidAmount": 16000, "content": "$16,000 bid placed by Jackcougar", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509382315, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1824614, "authorName": "Greenmachines1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/greenmachines1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What a great selection of cars this 'Seller' has brought to auction lately. \nI've only been a member for a few months and I've watched Dean's '66 442, '72 Eldorado, the beautiful '61 Buick currently being auctioned and now this nice '59 Catalina. \nWhile not in the market at the moment, once I finish getting set up here on the farm we just bought, I would like to start acquiring some nice '50s, '60's and early '70s 'drivers'.\n\nI've almost seen enough from this 'Seller' and Jason from 'Denwerks' where I could almost unsubscribe from this site and just deal directly with them as they have such amazingly beautiful and affordable vehicles. \n\nGreat ads and the vehicles are clean and detailed as they should be when selling.\n\nPontiac had a few different interiors around this time I believe and this is one of the nicest designs in my opinion.\n\nThis '59 would be another one I'd like to be able to pull into the parking lot with at the local drive-in burger joint on a Friday night.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509383475, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824641, "authorName": "Brentk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brentk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@cyclemikey - oh boy my grandfather wouldn't be happy with me.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1509384673, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824647, "authorName": "Dean_Laumbach (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dean_laumbach/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Greenmachines1 I wish I could take the credit for acquisition of these automobiles, and if I did I would be lying. Most of my clients have very large automobile collections, and they would never have the time in their schedules to sell them on their own. Although they do send some of their toys to live auctions, they have an appreciation for the efficiency that Bring a Trailer affords them. Nothing more disappointing than sending a car via enclosed shipping to an auction, paying the listing fees, and then not have the car meet the reserve or sell for less than what it is worth due to a poor run time ( got to love a Wednesday morning or late Thursday night) LOL. If I ever have a personal stake in a vehicle it will most likely have 3 pointed star on the hood and I will disclose my ownership status.\n\nThis Catalina is a great car and will make a great addition to a collector who appreciates cars from this era.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1509384787, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824682, "authorName": "skidcar", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/skidcar/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Dean Laumbach\nNope...! But thank you for your comments!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509385941, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1824935, "authorName": "Viper1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/viper1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have a 59 Bonneville with the red and white color scheme. I'm surprised that Tony Soprano didn't own this car. He could put about 50 people in the trunk. I love mine.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1509391748, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1825098, "authorName": "Bogeyman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bogeyman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I actually learned to drive on one of these - my mother's car. Ours was a white 4 door but with the same armstrong steering and leg strong brakes and 3 on-the-tree. I've always thought that after learning to drive on that, I could drive anything...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1509393415, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1825187, "authorName": "Viper1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/viper1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "For me, 3 on the tree makes it more valuable as a collector. I'll be bummed if the high bid isn't considerably more than this.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1509394509, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1825188, "authorName": "Swingandamiss", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/swingandamiss/", "bidAmount": 16250, "content": "$16,250 bid placed by Swingandamiss", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509394529, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1825194, "authorName": "Jackcougar", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jackcougar/", "bidAmount": 17500, "content": "$17,500 bid placed by Jackcougar", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509394625, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1825200, "authorName": "Swingandamiss", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/swingandamiss/", "bidAmount": 17750, "content": "$17,750 bid placed by Swingandamiss", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509394747, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1825202, "authorName": "Jackcougar", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jackcougar/", "bidAmount": 18000, "content": "$18,000 bid placed by Jackcougar", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509394778, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1825209, "authorName": "Anonymous", "authorUrl": "", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Reserve not met on 10/30/17 at $18,000", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509394898, "type": "bat-bid-reserve"}, {"id": 1825214, "authorName": "eima77", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/eima77/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Bummer, nice Car", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1509394936, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1825215, "authorName": "Crazyas00", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/crazyas00/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yuppers. Thought so", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1509394944, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1825216, "authorName": "Viper1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/viper1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The car was worth more. I wouldn't have wanted to sell it at that price either.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1509394950, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1825285, "authorName": "Brentk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brentk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "RNM - maybe the seller will enlighten us on the reserve, maybe not. Beautiful car hope it finds a good home. 1959 GM was my favorite year. Design was amazing. 3 on the tree not exactly as fun as a muscle car muncie 4 but very enjoyable.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509396127, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1825291, "authorName": "Brentk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brentk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@viper1 - I didn't check recent BJ or Mecum auctions but this was a nice driver quality car, exactly what I would want. I hope the top bidder can work something out.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1509396191, "type": "comment"}]