[{"id": 4055225, "authorName": "Dobb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dobb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Who painted the engine? Overspray everywhere.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1579549427, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4055238, "authorName": "RWD-FTW", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rwd-ftw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Waaaay back in my youth, still a teen in the 80's, I decided I needed a second/spare car just to play with. It ended up being similar to this, a big 2 door Olds 98, in pale yellow with tan leather interior and 403 V8. To this day I'm not sure after BMWs, Mercedes, and a bunch of Lexuses, I have ever experienced a finer way to cruise down the open road.", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1579549513, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4055263, "authorName": "Jaybokay", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jaybokay/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This chunk of Peak Seventies\u2122 is proof that what constitutes a \"classic car\" is very much fluid. With the passage of time, this car has turned from an offense to most of the automotive community into an un-ironic bit of cool for people that are sick and tired of seeing the same old Ferraris and Porsches show up.\n\nThat said, if I were going to buy myself a full-zoot \"personal luxury coupe\" from this time period, I would look no further than the AMC Matador coupe Barcelona Edition. That right there is a car that would make Jerry Seinfeld proud!", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1579549750, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4055545, "authorName": "djimbe", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/djimbe/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Pop's last company car. They forced him out in '76. His had a dark brocade interior, like the olivy green '72(-ish) he had before this. The three of us kids spilling into that back seat going to freakin' church instead of staying home to watch Bullwinkle. We moved within walking distance of church in '76, and shortly after that it was the end of Pop's Buick history and pretty much the end of his career.\r\n\r\nI still like Bullwinkle.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1579551438, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4055571, "authorName": "Scott_S", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scott_s/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Set of Magnum 500 (Boss 302 terminology) wheels would make this thing look a million times better. Buick had the Magnum 500 style wheel on the early 70's Riviera so they have to fit this.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1579551613, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4055703, "authorName": "AlexBert", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alexbert/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Scott_S I have a feeling that this beautiful Gem will End-Up with 24'' chromed wheels in 8 days from Now.\nWhat a destiny!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1579552733, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4055757, "authorName": "mr_smee", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mr_smee/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As a B-body, I don't think it is technically a Colonnade car, but it wears that roofline well. The Buick Centurion of this generation was very attractive and LeSabre or Centurion they are truly great cruisers.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579553153, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4055729, "authorName": "F.N.Steinway", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/f.n.steinway/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I love this car but I need this like I need a 1975 Buick LeSabre Custom hardtop coupe. You could get a Buick 455 that put out 510 ft lbs from the factory. This car is more evidence that everything Buick was once epic. Heres someone who appreciated the more Buick, the better!\n\nhttps://youtu.be/I_TDSTNPGzU", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1579553379, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4055766, "authorName": "BillSct", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/billsct/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Along these lines my father owned the big older brothers to this car, a 1971 and then a 1972 Buick Electra 225, both with the 455 engine. The 1972 was blue, the 1971 was maroon with a black interior made from a fabric that my Dad refered to as \"ladies underwear\" because it looked pretty much exactly like the material women's girdles were made from in those days. The 1971 was consumed by the rust Gods. I inherited the 1972 in the early 1990's but didn't have a place to keep it and couldn't afford to replace the flexible break lines in order to get it past the Connecticut DMV so I had to sell it. Too bad. I'd love to have it sitting in my garage right now just for the kitsch of it all. Of course I'd also like to have the 1972 Volvo 1800E I had in college that I also couldn't afford to fix at the time. Oh well!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1579553435, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4055850, "authorName": "sbarracl", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sbarracl/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Needs some Wesley's Bleche Wite on the whitewalls.", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1579553694, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4055867, "authorName": "Jdokmo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jdokmo/", "bidAmount": 1000, "content": "$1,000 bid placed by Jdokmo", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579553827, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4055868, "authorName": "SlowNRusty", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/slownrusty/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If that's the engine temp gauge that reads \"Hi\" in red and \"Lo\" in green, that is almost reason enough to buy this big shapely girl.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579553835, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4055998, "authorName": "trusted_one", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trusted_one/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "In the words of the Commodores, \"She's a Brick House!\"\r\nI lost a Demolition Derby to one of these at the county fair. Nothing stops the 455 and those bumpers. Me thinks he cheated and filled up the trunk with spray foam. Hit with all my '68 Bonneville had and barely made a ripple!", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1579554891, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056050, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "She's a blue beauty but I can't help wondering her top speed down Mulsanne straight. Probably in the triple digits right? ;^)", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579555305, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056082, "authorName": "77fleetwood", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/77fleetwood/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SlowNRusty: I'm pretty sure that the gauge that reads \"Hi\" in red and \"Lo\" in green is a fuel consumption gauge - not sure of the Buick name for it, but Chevrolet called it the Econominder. It's essentially a vacuum gauge that encourages you to keep your foot out of it - very much an item of its time on a land yacht during the gas crunch.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1579555402, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056088, "authorName": "ettev15z", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ettev15z/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SlowNRusty\nNope, that's a glorified vacuum gauge labelled \"FUEL USAGE\". Chevy had the same thing but with the HI/LO scale opposite and labelled \"FUEL ECONOMY\".", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1579555507, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056135, "authorName": "CanAm1968", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/canam1968/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@77fleetwood...you might be right. I bought my Grandpa's 1978 Buick Lesabre and it had the same lights to indicate gas mileage. But mine also had the 3.8 turbo...which was a precursor to the Buick Grand National. Oh..@evettev15z...he has the confirmation...ty sir!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579556044, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056722, "authorName": "ramon.carro", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ramon.carro/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A Granpa's car , with all respect to all , what is the significant presence for this car here at auction among classics , unique and desirable cars ?", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1579560309, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056738, "authorName": "dscain", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dscain/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Nice! I went on my honeymoon in the 2nd car I ever bought with my own money, this car\u2019s cousin - a 1975 Olds Delta 88 Royale 2-door in the same colors. I was 21 at the time. So many memories! \r\n\r\nThis is a great example of The American Car, driven by many families 40 years ago. (Has it really been that long?). Of course it has a place here.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1579560488, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056755, "authorName": "AlfaS77", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alfas77/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Look at that rear window deck. You could fit two kids up there on a long trip.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1579560702, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056771, "authorName": "David_C.", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/david_c.-user/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A fuel economy gauge on a 455 V-8 equipped car is truly an exercise in futility.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1579561112, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056785, "authorName": "GC19", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gc19/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I\u2019m surprised that it doesn\u2019t have A/C as most Florida cars, even in the 70\u2019s, were equipped with it. I\u2019m wondering if it spent its early years in the north? Also, it looks like it has a tinted windshield but all of the other windows are non-tinted which is more typical of a car shipped to a northern climate.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1579561524, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056854, "authorName": "BillSct", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/billsct/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What's it doing on BAT? Kitsch, baby, kitsch! By far the best room at the Newport Car Museum is the 1950s American convertibles. Absolutely over the top ridiculous American car design. This car is the grandson of those cars.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1579563007, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056967, "authorName": "LoveFieldCarPhoto", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lovefieldcarphoto/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Carmagazineeditor nice studio photos. May I ask where the studio is located?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579565724, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056983, "authorName": "Carmagazineeditor (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carmagazineeditor/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@LoveFieldCarPhoto Our studio is in Clearwater, Florida. Send me an email if you need some studio time. Thanks for the kind words.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579566284, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4056984, "authorName": "CaptainMyCaptain", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/captainmycaptain/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If BaT had a rule that each offering could only illicit a certain number of memories, this auction would be in violation and have to be taken down.\r\n\r\nFirst of all, kudos to @djimbe for evoking more touchstones in one paragraph than should grammatically be allowed: 1.) \u2018Pop\u2019s last company car before he was let go, 2.) Going to church in this in \u201976, 3.) the back seat of a Buick, and 4.) Bullwinkle. Congratulations. You have won a prize that will be delivered later.\r\n\r\nMy parents always drove Chevys. Impalas, never Caprices. (\u201cWhat are they trying to prove? Fender skirts and extra trim doesn\u2019t make it anything other than a gussied-up Impala.\u201d) They thought anything above Pontiac on the GM hierarchy was for the \u2018Upper Crust\u2019. That was not a compliment.\r\n\r\nMy wife\u2019s parents always drove Buicks. They thought anything below Oldsmobile on the hierarchy was for the \u2018Riff-Raff\u2019.\r\n\r\nThey were both right.\r\n\r\nThis \u201975 Le Sabre came out right as I was starting my senior year in high school and seemed to offer some level of stability as I turned my thoughts to college. The country was confused at the time. Viet Nam was a lost cause that nobody understood. Watergate had created the first (and only) president never actually elected. The Arabs had shown they controlled the flow of oil and that oil was the lifeblood of the American economy.\r\n\r\nBut there was Buick. Rock solid. Somehow stylish and staid at the same time. A combination that only Telly Savalas could pull off in 1975. (Millennials, look him up. He\u2019s a thing.)\r\n\r\nAmerica was beginning to think that maybe Toyota and Jimmy Carter were the answers to what ailed us. Let that sink in.\r\n\r\nMy boss at the dry leaners bought this exact car. Same model. Same color. Same options. Seventeen year old me loved that car. My boss did not.\r\n\r\nGM replaced the engine in it. Twice. After the second one, my boss suggested, \u201cPerhaps you should just take this Le Sabre back and give me another one. I\u2019ll understand.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cThat will never happen, sir.\u201d was the reply. \u201cWe will spend $30,000 making this one right before we ever replace it.\u201d\r\n\r\nHe swore he would never buy another GM product.\r\n\r\nThey were both true to their word.\r\n\r\nDespite all that, I love this car. It is like my high school yearbook. I haven\u2019t looked at it in years, but the minute I saw it could sit staring at it for hours and be overcome by emotions. Not all of them good, but worthy of revisiting.\r\n\r\nDon\u2019t even get me started on Bullwinkle.\r\n\r\nI hope this thing gets more money than could ever make sense. Just like white seats in a full sized family car. If for no other reason than to encourage further preservation of these.\r\n\r\nJust like the memories they evoke.", "likes": 23, "timestamp": 1579566300, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057022, "authorName": "LoveFieldCarPhoto", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lovefieldcarphoto/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Carmagazineeditor I have a 3500sq ft studio here in Dallas and have dozens of bat shoots for sellers in the DFW area. I always appreciate other folks representing cars in a studio environment. Some bat commentators don\u2019t like studio work, but most do!\r\nWould love to see the lighting setup y\u2019all have. Website etc.\r\nI\u2019m on the gram: @lovefieldcarphotog", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579567409, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057064, "authorName": "dscain", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dscain/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Interesting options on this one: power windows and 455 V8, but plain wheel covers, no a/c, no power locks, and only an AM radio. Special order, perhaps?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1579568438, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057076, "authorName": "Button", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/button/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This is a large automobile. I think the headlights and taillights might be in different time zones. Wow", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1579568748, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057221, "authorName": "djimbe", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/djimbe/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ramon.carro the significance of this offering is that a lot of us old timers grew up with these cars and ran them with our young families and saw them in the driveways of our neighbors that our our parents said were quality people. Senior technical management like my dad were given these to drive. Find one now in this condition if you can. It's super good to see one of these 45 years after it rolled off the line. That mill doesn't have to stay in that state of tune. The rest of the mechanicals are up for a goose. This car belongs to that brief time when we saw the past rapidly going away and the concept of \"malaise\" hadn't become the title for what used to be the Great American Automotive Industry. Tipping point, right here. Some dark years between this and the GNX...", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1579572454, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057247, "authorName": "ramon.carro", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ramon.carro/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@djimbe , my Dad had a 1969 Riviera and a 1971 EL Dorado , so I am familiar with this era type of motor car , my comment was specific on this particular car been auction here , FWIW", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579573099, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057262, "authorName": "djimbe", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/djimbe/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@dscain this spec screams fleet vehicle like Pop got. We never had anything but AM radio, manual locks and windows, plain wheels, etc. I recall AC in Pop's cars. It was Chicago and he commuted on surface streets to the factory. But, yeah. Stripper spec. This is a 2V, right? Pop never had a quad...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1579573528, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057268, "authorName": "F.N.Steinway", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/f.n.steinway/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@CaptainMyCaptain Bullwinkle, like this Moose sized Buick, just gets better with time but my favorite Sunday morning programing was \u201cUnderdog\u201d Hence my love for MG\u2019s, weinerdogs, and I suppose GM\u2019s predicament by 1975. You have inspired an post modern bumper sticker. \u201cWhat would Riff-Raff drive?\u201d \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo5PlxDxXug", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579573783, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057282, "authorName": "CaptainMyCaptain", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/captainmycaptain/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ramon.carro\nGet off my lawn.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1579574213, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057302, "authorName": "F.N.Steinway", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/f.n.steinway/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\\/ \\/ as said by Clint Eastwood \\/ \\/", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579574788, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057352, "authorName": "F.N.Steinway", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/f.n.steinway/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ramon.carro A fair question. If this were my baby though, by springtime It would have a gmc 6-71 blower through the hood, some nitrous, a turbo400 in the middle and the rear end tubbed with 30 inch wide Hoosier daddy drag radials, fuzzy dice, a 50,000 watt stereo so I could enjoy Rush\u2019s \u201c2112 \u201c over the open headers and a vanity plate OKBOOMER", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1579576403, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057364, "authorName": "ramon.carro", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ramon.carro/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow , me 3 mentions on this very odd car , my comment was specific to this particular car at auction here , my father had back in the day a 69 Riviera and 72 El Dorado so I am familiar with these type of motor car , FWIW", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579576955, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057493, "authorName": "West-Coaster", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/west-coaster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@David_C. \r\n\"A fuel economy gauge on a 455 V-8 equipped car is truly an exercise in futility.\"\r\n\r\nBut think about this. If you could monitor that needle, and keep it out of the red, you might coax that 455 from 8 mpg to 10 mpg. If my math is correct, that would be a 25% improvement. \r\n\r\nAgree on the oddity of no A/C on an otherwise loaded-up car. I wonder if it was ordered by some geezer who didn't trust that newfangled air conditioning, thinking it was going to poison him or something. \r\n\r\nGLWTS", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1579585062, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4057824, "authorName": "JTW", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jtw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Top speed on the Mulsanne Straight back in the day would have been solidly in the triple digits. kph.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579616463, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4058151, "authorName": "Sentrash", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sentrash/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "wow. That's just awful.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1579623685, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4058328, "authorName": "Dobb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dobb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@David_C. 11,517\r\n\"A fuel economy gauge on a 455 V-8 equipped car is truly an exercise in futility.\"\r\nBut it's fun for others to see the driver grimace as it moves like the minute hand of a clock. :)", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1579626860, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4058399, "authorName": "Utesman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/utesman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Code '26' is Majestic Blue, NOT Mulsanne Blue.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579627923, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4058464, "authorName": "Utesman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/utesman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ ramon.carro.......because to lot of us...this IS a classic, unique, and desirable car!", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1579628768, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4058521, "authorName": "ettev15z", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ettev15z/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@djimbe\r\n5th digit of VIN is T. That's a 455 4bbl. 1974 model year was the last of the Buick 455 2bbl.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579629531, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4058542, "authorName": "Utesman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/utesman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Don't think I've EVER seen a ride w/dual license plate illuminator lights.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579629891, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4058975, "authorName": "RoyBoy61", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/royboy61/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@West-coaster @F.N.Steinway I figured I would find you guys here looking at this car. Always good comments and even better stories. I was a teenager in 1975 and the car world was abysmal with very few exceptions. I would have to say the only good thing that came from the decade was the wonderful music that has stood the test of time. Ever notice how many advertising \"jingles\" use '70's based songs? Anyway, back to this car. Would this be called a \"personal\" luxury car because of only having two doors? I call it a boat with four wheels and a bench seat. I wonder how many of the more run of the mill, obscure 1970's cars like this one have miraculously survived for 45 years without becoming a total rust pile? Will it ever be worth more than its weight in raw materials? Beautiful example here going back to the all too forgettable 1970's domestic automobile engineering collapse.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1579634415, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4059092, "authorName": "West-Coaster", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/west-coaster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@RoyBoy61\r\n\r\nI think that by 1975, the \"personal luxury\" segment was a size smaller. Think Monte Carlo, Thunderbird, Cordoba, Grand Prix, et al. Big two-door cars were more just a way to say, \"My kids are grown, and I like the way the car looks with two fewer doors.\"", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1579634887, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4059252, "authorName": "Cooker", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cooker/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My Dad had a '76 LeSabre Custom 4 door. It was white with black vinyl top and corduroy interior and was loaded with all the power options. I took my driver's test on my 16th birthday in that car and successfully parallel parked it. Impressive, if I do say so myself. Big, smooth and quiet with pretty good power for the times.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579636289, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4059460, "authorName": "Dobb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dobb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@CaptainMyCaptain 2,234\r\n\"Somehow stylish and staid at the same time. A combination that only Telly Savalas could pull off in 1975. (Millennials, look him up. He\u2019s a thing.)\u201c\r\n\r\nWho loves ya, baby?", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1579637661, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4059730, "authorName": "sy1616", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sy1616/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Amazing how after not even a full day this car is at 49 comments. Heck, my W210 Mercedes E55, dare I say, a more interesting car, got 71 all week. Very good for the seller!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1579639517, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4060241, "authorName": "Bigpaul427", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigpaul427/", "bidAmount": 2500, "content": "$2,500 bid placed by Bigpaul427", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579642521, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4060277, "authorName": "Bigpaul427", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigpaul427/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "common guys- its a classic full size car from the 70s. Many cars I remember looking at in NY as a kid didn't have A/C as standard. Its funny how back then no one thought you needed A/C up north. I'm in FL now so a vintage air unit may be on order........", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1579642702, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4060281, "authorName": "PMB-BTR", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pmb-btr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@CaptainMyCaptain\r\nThanks for the heartfelt comment. Funny how life can be.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579642716, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4060295, "authorName": "PMB-BTR", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pmb-btr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Button\r\nBut only when parked East to West....", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579642769, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4060836, "authorName": "matt_mason", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/matt_mason/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Kind of a Goodfellas meets Mr. Rogers vibe here...", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1579647677, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4060887, "authorName": "jerryE34", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jerrye34/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The only thing this is missing is the styled steel wheels that Buick put on the Riviera, it would be stunning with those wheels.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579648584, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4061086, "authorName": "The_Chucker", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/the_chucker/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I got my driver's license at 16 in 1984. This was the car you \"borrowed\" from your parents to do power-brake burnouts in.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1579653491, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4061117, "authorName": "JohnF1966", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/johnf1966/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Owned a similar car in H.S. What a balancing act it was. The intoxicating torque of the 455 as opposed to my very limited resources to fill the tank. It was impossible to find a gas station that my car did not want visit. Great memories!! Great car with cool colors. GLWS !!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579654069, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4061190, "authorName": "hrlydavison", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hrlydavison/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The wheels it needs are the Buick Ralleye Wheels. They come in 14\" and 15\". Coker makes a repo version that is nice. You can still find original ones that are nice also. The center caps are harder, especially the flat black within chrome with the tri-shield. I have a 71 custom and 72 Electra limited 225. The limited trim would have been nicer, but Custom is next in line and still has nice features. The 455 is respectable without the A/C in a big car. 12-14 in daylight. 15-16 running at night (interstate). I have had my 72 on long trips, Illinois to Texas, Illinois to Florida. It runs all over south Florida on day trips and never overheats. These cars are great for long trips. I am not a fan of the government bumpers and shy from these years as such. But for the last 25 years that I have had owned my 72, it sits for 9 months mostly, hook the battery up in the summer prime the carb and it comes to life and is a valiant steed for the summer months. I shod them in BF Goodrich Radial TA's with the Buick ralleye wheels, it really makes the cars pop. By the way, best \"make me a muscle car\" LeSabre... 2 door- 1967. That 1967 car has one of my favorite rear ends.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579656881, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4061269, "authorName": "West-Coaster", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/west-coaster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Ah, the inevitable suggestions that this car \"needs\" to ditch those handsome wheel covers in exchange for reproduction rally wheels. You know, like that Buick over there. And that one over there. And that one. And that one. And that one. And that one.\r\n\r\nMy, how original. \r\n\r\nI'm sure there's a factory in China stamping them out right now by the pallet-load. In order to satisfy the classic car version of \"me too\" with regard to wheels. \r\n\r\nMeanwhile, this car looks so subtle and elegant with those full wheel discs. But as the saying goes, to each his own. JC Whitney (whoever he was) made a fortune selling stuff to people over the years.", "likes": 15, "timestamp": 1579658523, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4061573, "authorName": "hrlydavison", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hrlydavison/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@West-Coaster- hmmm, is that your high brow showing? Your subtle (one in each of your three paragraphs) put downs are as subtle as the factory wheel covers. Your rallye wheels that scream \"me too\" is your user name right here on BaT. My how original. 30K+ thumbs up and not one bid? West-Coaster (Whoever he is)", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579668458, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4061666, "authorName": "F.N.Steinway", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/f.n.steinway/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "RoyBoy61 Always a pleasure to find your hereabouts as I just happened to have found your Buick boat option with four wheels and a bench seat down in the Florida keys. On the west coast? Simply fly in and navigate her home around the horn. I Hear its quite the adventure this time of year ...planned to go with the wife on our Spencer but the whiskey ran out. Thank the Lord.\r\n\r\n https://www.sailingtexas.com/sspencer35100.html\r\n\r\nThats her on the bow. I\u2019m down below wrestling a Perkens diesel in a grease hole the size of a airplane bathroom while inventing cuss words that should have won a pulitzer prize. \r\nI\u2019m sure Hemmingway would have given it a shot. ..hmmmm bad pun. At any rate take a few days off, visit the sites, don't forget your compass and pick up a copy of \u201cThe old man and the sea\u201d at the gift shop. Send a postcard. bon voyage!\r\n\r\nhttp://personal.southern.edu/~sbauer/Funstuff/Buick-boat/Buick_Made_into_a_Car-Boat.html", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1579675799, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4061971, "authorName": "PMB-BTR", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pmb-btr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Can't we all just post along?", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1579702293, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4062070, "authorName": "sego", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sego/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Beautiful ride!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1579704659, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4065728, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 2800, "content": "$2,800 bid placed by RICHSKI1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579752906, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4065968, "authorName": "MMMMM", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mmmmm/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was living in Houston in 1982 and I needed a car. My co-worker's grandmother had a 75 Buick Deuce and a quarter with 38,000 miles on it and she wanted $800. It was cranberry with a white vinyl top. We had to drive up to Texarkana to get it, so we stayed the weekend at grandma's. She like me so much, that before I took the car, she had her son (who owned the local tire shop in town) put on a brand new set of Michelin TRXs which were about a grand....might have been the best used car deal I ever got", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1579776597, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4066351, "authorName": "hrlydavison", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hrlydavison/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It's seems some of you think the Rallye wheels were not even an option on the Big Buicks. Which they were all the way up to 1980 or so. The whole \"me too\" and the \"And that one over there. And that one. And that one. And that one. And that one.\" is ridiculous. I seldom ever see an Electra or Lesabre with the rallye wheels. I seldom see an Electra or LeSabre anyway as most were destroyed in the Midwest during the 1980's demolition derby era. The ones that remain around here if you do get a chance to see one are riding on 22\" inch or larger. Maybe they all have them on the West Coast?\r\n\r\nhttp://oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Buick/1975_Buick/1975_Buick_Brochure/1975%20Buick-41.html\r\n \r\nGood reading for the BIDDERS here also.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579790407, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4067508, "authorName": "bufguy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bufguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It is an incredible time machine, but 1974 was also probably the worst year for that series of B-bodies...First year of 5mph bumpers front and back, last year before catalytic convertors which meant the engine was really strangled with add on emission gear, beginning of the first energy crisis with extra tall gearing as a method to eke out mileage and finally from what I can see the only year a 2bbl was offered on a 455...Still a cool car", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579806839, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4068410, "authorName": "Carmagazineeditor (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carmagazineeditor/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hi everybody. To be clear, this is a 455/4bbl car, not a 2bbl and miles are actual.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1579813473, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4070221, "authorName": "Classichondaman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/classichondaman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Might be tempted to dye the seats light blue, but with a massive 205hp out of that 455 I've got to go for this. Will stick with the stock wheels, but maybe turn the tires around.\r\n\r\nLove the relatively clean engine compartment for a '76, who needs A/C?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579876839, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4070224, "authorName": "Classichondaman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/classichondaman/", "bidAmount": 2900, "content": "$2,900 bid placed by Classichondaman", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579876874, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4073144, "authorName": "dooscoop32", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dooscoop32/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@David_C. \r\nYou wrote: \"A fuel economy gauge on a 455 V-8 equipped car is truly an exercise in futility.\"\r\n\r\nThat's like a hefty girl I used to work with who always drank a Diet Coke with her Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1579906205, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4073285, "authorName": "dooscoop32", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dooscoop32/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Classichondaman \nYou wrote: \"Will stick with the stock wheels, but maybe turn the tires around.\"\n\nNooooooooooo!! Blackwalls with wheel covers on a full-size Buick from that era look awful. The only thing worse is white-lettered tires with wheel covers. Almost all these cars came with white walls and they look best in that configuration. Perhaps though, the white walls could stand a really good cleaning and a tad of tire shine. It would make a huge difference.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1579908828, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4073620, "authorName": "Classichondaman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/classichondaman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@dooscoop32 \r\nNoooooooo....wheel covers don't look awful with blackwalls, they look great! While it is true that many of these vehicles had thin whitewalls when new, that doesn't change the fact that blackwalls make a car look more solid and purposeful......less dainty. This is a big hefty car, and the last thing it needs are tires that make the wheels look smaller.\r\n\r\nWe do agree, however, that white-letter tires would really be terrible! I don't even like those on muscle cars, and pretty much ALL of those have them. White-letter tires add \"clutter\" in my view, detracting from the intrinsic shape of the car.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1579916317, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4074291, "authorName": "pt70", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pt70/", "bidAmount": 3200, "content": "$3,200 bid placed by pt70", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579958908, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4074702, "authorName": "Bigpaul427", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigpaul427/", "bidAmount": 3500, "content": "$3,500 bid placed by Bigpaul427", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579969149, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4074712, "authorName": "Bigpaul427", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigpaul427/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wouldn't think such a forgotten car in the classic car world is garnering so many comments and opinions. Goes to show- if its old, there is story to go with it. Great work by BaT to have this forum and site to offer all these great cars for us to see and bid on.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1579969320, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4075393, "authorName": "rkjjeep", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rkjjeep/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That left bumper filler is pretty beat up but reproduction parts are available", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1579990140, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4075590, "authorName": "FDeViva", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fdeviva/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Roy Boy 61 intend to think that hearing 70s music jingles now are about guys like me, 59 years old grew up during those musical times and we\u2019re the guys who are in the dough, with empty nests, paid off house and disposable income to burn. In ten years you\u2019ll be hearing 80s music jingles (unfortunately).", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1579999184, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4075623, "authorName": "1976w123", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/1976w123/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I did not know BAT auctioned ships .", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1580000507, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4075857, "authorName": "4x4Fred", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/4x4fred/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Imagine driving this couch from Florida to California. A highway cruiser for sure.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580014503, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4076229, "authorName": "DBAOne", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dbaone/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm a native Floridian, and have lived in the area this car is located in for all of my 47 years. These were in multiple driveways in my neighborhood in the 70's and early 80's.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580053547, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4076240, "authorName": "midrshrink", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/midrshrink/", "bidAmount": 4000, "content": "$4,000 bid placed by midrshrink", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580054213, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4076355, "authorName": "Hammer1634", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hammer1634/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My grandfather owned an almost identical car; same color. When he died, it sat on my grandmother's Long Island driveway for many years. When needed again, my Dad put it back in service with maybe an oil change and a new battery. It served grandly for several years before my Dad bought a Suburban. The LeSabre was a joy to drive, with a rumbling engine; it moved with the confidence of a ship making its way through a harbor. It cruised beautifully on the highway. No air conditioning. There was none at home either.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1580058163, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4076583, "authorName": "Matt1973", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/matt1973/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Ahhh the beauty of the 70's automobiles...An era when I could name any car a block and a half away. Great looking LeSabre.. Glwta.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1580067263, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4076848, "authorName": "johnsonremarketing", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/johnsonremarketing/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sweet", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580082955, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4076899, "authorName": "DrRecklessMD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/drrecklessmd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Am I a bad person for thinking that the Oldsmobile Silhouette belongs here but that this is just too much malaise?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1580087107, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4077245, "authorName": "NameTaken2", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nametaken2/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Matt1973 wrote: Ahhh the beauty of the 70\u2019s automobiles\u2026An era when I could name any car a block and a half away.\r\nWith you there Matt1973 -remember around 1980, walking down street at night with friends, and I was identifying every approaching car based on their front lights. \r\nThey were amazed, but imagine most car nuts could do that back then!", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1580132017, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4077327, "authorName": "Tobyallen", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tobyallen/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This brings back memories! My father had a brand new black on oxblood interior LeSabre in 1975. Looked very \u201c gangster\u201d. I was 19 . Dad insisted on me taking my visiting cousins to the planetarium in his brand new ride. I was not too fond of the car, much preferring my 340 \u2018Cuda. But I did as told. We got about 10 miles from home and the engine blew. It turned out the factory had somehow not machined the oil galleries in the heads. Result of course, was catastrophic. Jeez these were such boats. Truly the era of American automobiles when the manufacturers were completely losing their way. Bumper restrictions, pollution control, abysmal quality...... not much to like. But if you have the need for a time warp this car will fit the bill nicely! GLWTA", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580134692, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4077991, "authorName": "Aj69", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aj69/", "bidAmount": 4100, "content": "$4,100 bid placed by Aj69", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580151064, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078028, "authorName": "Scott_S", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scott_s/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@the_Chucker - yeah the one wheel, passenger side burnouts", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580151497, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078278, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 4200, "content": "$4,200 bid placed by RICHSKI1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580153580, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078364, "authorName": "Jimshane", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jimshane/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The lack of ac gonna hurt but what a neat and rare old ride. From experience if you remove the front and rear bumpers the Buick might lose 500 lbs. I\u2019m exaggerating just a bit but those 5 mph bumpers and all the reinforcement they took was crazy heavy.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1580154277, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078393, "authorName": "RussellJay", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/russelljay/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Perfect ride for a Scorsese Film", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580154484, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078431, "authorName": "Bigpaul427", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigpaul427/", "bidAmount": 4500, "content": "$4,500 bid placed by Bigpaul427", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580154678, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078456, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 4600, "content": "$4,600 bid placed by RICHSKI1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580154795, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078488, "authorName": "Bigpaul427", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigpaul427/", "bidAmount": 4700, "content": "$4,700 bid placed by Bigpaul427", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580154926, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078492, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 4800, "content": "$4,800 bid placed by RICHSKI1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580154941, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078506, "authorName": "TheADM", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theadm/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The only read I\u2019m not bidding is the lack of air conditioning. If it had it it might be headed to Cali.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580154984, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078509, "authorName": "Bigpaul427", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigpaul427/", "bidAmount": 4900, "content": "$4,900 bid placed by Bigpaul427", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580154989, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078513, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 5000, "content": "$5,000 bid placed by RICHSKI1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580154995, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078558, "authorName": "Aj69", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aj69/", "bidAmount": 5100, "content": "$5,100 bid placed by Aj69", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155180, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078560, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 5500, "content": "$5,500 bid placed by RICHSKI1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155190, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078568, "authorName": "Aj69", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aj69/", "bidAmount": 5600, "content": "$5,600 bid placed by Aj69", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155234, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078570, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 5800, "content": "$5,800 bid placed by RICHSKI1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155240, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078579, "authorName": "Aj69", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aj69/", "bidAmount": 5900, "content": "$5,900 bid placed by Aj69", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155278, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078584, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 6500, "content": "$6,500 bid placed by RICHSKI1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155286, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078588, "authorName": "DENWERKS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/denwerks/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My aunt drove one of these to her job at the local college, its funny she was only 5', when she came driving down the road all you saw were 2 hands and eyes looking through the steering wheel, lol. Looks like a nice example here!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1580155308, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078598, "authorName": "Aj69", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aj69/", "bidAmount": 6600, "content": "$6,600 bid placed by Aj69", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155340, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078599, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 6800, "content": "$6,800 bid placed by RICHSKI1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155346, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078608, "authorName": "Aj69", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aj69/", "bidAmount": 6900, "content": "$6,900 bid placed by Aj69", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155376, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078610, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "MY GRANDMOTHER HAD ONE SHE IS 90 DOES NOT REMEMBER MUCH BUT SHE TALKS ABOT THIS CAR SO WE WANT TO GET IT FOR HER TO BE IN AS LONG AS WE CAN", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1580155398, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078613, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 7250, "content": "$7,250 bid placed by RICHSKI1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155416, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 4078621, "authorName": "Aj69", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aj69/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Long live RICHSKI1 GRANDMA...ENJOY", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1580155480, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078624, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is she deaf like me (seriously)\r\n\r\nBest of luck here", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1580155493, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078639, "authorName": "Anonymous", "authorUrl": "", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Reserve not met on 1/27/20 at $7,250", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155538, "type": "bat-bid-reserve"}, {"id": 4078644, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Maybe a deal can still be made", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155562, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078650, "authorName": "hrlydavison", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hrlydavison/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Doubtful, I bet he wants $10K at least", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155630, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078653, "authorName": "Bigpaul427", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigpaul427/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Why do I get the inpression a dealer owns this car? No Sale at $7250????\r\nNot fair to Richski1", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1580155635, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078656, "authorName": "VolvoguyKC", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/volvoguykc/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "205 horses from 455 CID. Ready to dominate the Nordschleife", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1580155654, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078662, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "THANKS WITH FREIGHT TO NJ WE ARE STRUGGLING ILL LET YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS GOD FORBID THE DAY WE LOOK TO SELL IT\r\n\r\nPS NO SHE CAN HEAR WHEN WE TURN UP THE AID SERIOUSLY, WHO WOULD SAY THAT BAYBE NOT JUST DEAF AHH\r\n\r\nBE WELL", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155689, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078668, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "*MAYBE", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580155712, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078672, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "i AGREE THATS A LOT FOR THIS RIDE", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1580155735, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078682, "authorName": "Aj69", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aj69/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I hope a deal.is made amd ur grandma is happy.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1580155807, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078700, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "TRIED TO REACH SELLER, SAID HE IS NOT REACHABLE,??WHAT IS THAT ABOUT", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1580155989, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078711, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "THANKS aj ITS PRETTY COOL,", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580156021, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078722, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@RICHSKI1\n\nBaT sends high bidder info to the seller so expect him to contact you\n\nOnce the auction is over I believe you can no longer contact seller from the auction page", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1580156231, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078742, "authorName": "RICHSKI1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/richski1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING\r\n\r\nRICH S", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1580156243, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4078874, "authorName": "Architectdave", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/architectdave/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Great car, seems that figure would get it... surprised BAT would set the reserve higher than the high bid.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1580157397, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4079036, "authorName": "F.N.Steinway", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/f.n.steinway/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@VolvoguyKC Bone Stock 455 buick Engine. Add Headers, Edelbrock performer manifold, TA performance 212 cam, Holly 750 4bbl. 426 bhp and 514ft lbs at 3500 rpm all day long on 87 octane. A 75 leSabre would be great. I went around Nurburgring in a Citroen H van motorhome with 78 bhp. Took a couple days, woke up in the morning made coffee, had a baguette with swiss and prosciutto. Wasnt bad at all. Never noticed any of the \u201cGreen Hell\u201d that Jackie Stewart was whining about.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1580159427, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4079561, "authorName": "Scott_S", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scott_s/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "$7600 was all the money for this (incl BAT commission)", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1580165805, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4079581, "authorName": "Carguy48", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carguy48/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I drove these when new. Butt-ugly. Cow catcher bumpers. 205 horsepower dogs. Boring interiors. Not GM\u2019s high point. Should have taken high bid.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1580166299, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4079618, "authorName": "stale_cracker", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stale_cracker/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yep..for a no A/C unit..that's all the money...", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1580167466, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4079734, "authorName": "JDSKULL", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jdskull/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If this was in new condition with only 20 miles on it, it still would not be a classic. This is, and will always be, just an old car. Owner should have sold it for this money.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1580170324, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 4080623, "authorName": "Tobyallen", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tobyallen/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Crazy to not have taken the money. Nothing endearing about these mid to late \u201870s boats except perhaps sentimental value to someone. American cars of this era did nothing well. They were caught snoozing while all the import manufacturers made inroads, Yeah.....brutally bad cars IMHO. Agree that these will never be considered classics.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1580217752, "type": "comment"}]