[{"id": 1659090, "authorName": "jor", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jor/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Orange velour! Does it get any more '70s? Answer: no. No, it doesn't.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1501194071, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 15:21:11+00"}, {"id": 1659106, "authorName": "MRF", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mrf/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "We were never offered these here in the states. The upper end of the Fiat line was the 131/Brava. Though a few came here via grey market. A nice deal if you can't go for a Fiat Dino.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501194551, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 15:29:11+00"}, {"id": 1659109, "authorName": "William_Henshaw", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/william_henshaw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was sold at pumpkin velour!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1501194766, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 15:32:46+00"}, {"id": 1659124, "authorName": "Keith_T", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/keith_t/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It's as if a Volare and a Camargue mated in a bordello. The headliner is very nice, too.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501195981, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 15:53:01+00"}, {"id": 1659146, "authorName": "Caelestis", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/caelestis/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Came for the orange, not disappointed.\nCompared to the shapeshifting blobs of today, this simple, lithe coupe is a real treat for the eyes.", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1501197021, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 16:10:21+00"}, {"id": 1659148, "authorName": "Arno", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/arno/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This is wonderful and as others have mentioned the pumpkin velour just locks the car into its time period. Another period feature is the \"Automatic\" badge on the trunklid, back when that was something to advertise. I guess in today's seemingly parallel universe you should have a \"Manual Transmission\" badge on the rare cars that still have them. Sad.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1501197056, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 16:10:56+00"}, {"id": 1659150, "authorName": "Elanguy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/elanguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I assume (or at least hope) that the color in these photographs is very oversaturated. I wouldn't want that interior to be that bright.\n\nOther than that I do find these beautiful and striking. I suppose they would no longer look as big as they did in Rome when they were new. Cars have changed since then and there.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501197095, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 16:11:35+00"}, {"id": 1659165, "authorName": "Super7Driver", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/super7driver/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The interior is in great shape, quite amazing. Not sure why there is plastic on one of the doors. The crisp lines of the car are quite appealing, too bad about the slush box.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1501197627, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 16:20:27+00"}, {"id": 1659184, "authorName": "mwillinger", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mwillinger/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Elanguy - I looked at a 130 Coupe just like this one here in Virginia during its auction on BaT a number of months ago. (http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1975-fiat-130/) When I saw the car, I was kind of disappointed that the interior was NOT as vibrant as it appeared in the photos. The one listed here seems in better condition than the one I looked at, so maybe the interior color here is better represented. \n\nI was also surprised at how large the car appeared in person. Not any less appealing because of the size, just larger than I was expecting. And they are quite roomy inside. \n\nThe one I drove had a 5-speed, which was nice, and it made a wonderful noise when the go pedal was prodded a bit. I don't think I would turn this one down just because it has an automatic, but I would be less inclined to go after it if one with the manual was available. \n\nIt's a beauty. GLWTA.", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1501198804, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 16:40:04+00"}, {"id": 1659200, "authorName": "Manic", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/manic/", "bidAmount": 500, "content": "$500 bid placed by Manic", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501199503, "type": "bid", "endDate": "2017-07-27 16:51:43+00"}, {"id": 1659260, "authorName": "Elanguy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/elanguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@mwillinger I suppose interior colors are just a matter of personal preference. My own is for subdued, so if this is more pumpkin than electrified orange it would suit me better. But I respect that others could prefer what I don't like as well\n\nGlad to hear they still look big. I am remembering Rome 45 years ago and these among a flock of Fiat 500 and 600s. And not the monster version of the 500 we have now.\n\nDid you get a chance to drive it?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501202676, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 17:44:36+00"}, {"id": 1659300, "authorName": "mrdeezy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mrdeezy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This is sweet!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501205087, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 18:24:47+00"}, {"id": 1659304, "authorName": "mr_smee", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mr_smee/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "You better be stepping out of this in Armani. Beautiful, would love to have one.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1501205299, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 18:28:19+00"}, {"id": 1659356, "authorName": "Darrin", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/darrin/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Bella! Video is very helpful.\n\nIn the mid-eighties I had a 74 Cadillac Coupe DeVille in bright red with white leather interior (red, not burgundy, dash and carpeting) and a white landau roof. It was sold for a 79 Fiat Brava in silver with a orange-brown velour interior. This brings back memories. Today I have a bright red Fiat 500c with a white and red interior and black canvas top. Colors come back but I'm not going to own a Cadillac. Does this mean my next car will be silver and orange-brown? I think I can do this combo in a new BMW.\n\nAnyone know why one ignition coil is not connected? Spare? Or does this car have 2 coils?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1501208058, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 19:14:18+00"}, {"id": 1659435, "authorName": "RoyalCX", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/royalcx/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The \"additional brake light,\" as stated above in the description, on the rear is most likely a rear fog light which was relatively popular as an accessory across Europe and obligatory in some counties like Belgium because of the frequent fog and rain that cause poor visibility.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1501213412, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 20:43:32+00"}, {"id": 1659487, "authorName": "isambardo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/isambardo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "So sharp. Always wanted one of these and this is one of the nicest I've seen. Alas, the time is not right for me to bid.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501217522, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 21:52:02+00"}, {"id": 1659491, "authorName": "SubGothius", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/subgothius/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My favorite detail in this design is how the cove that runs along the beltline tapers like a bayonet fuller groove in the front fender, ending right where the hood takes a subtle break downward; at just the right viewing angle, the lower edge of that cove appears to wrap up and over the fender peak and continue across the hood.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1501217708, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 21:55:08+00"}, {"id": 1659493, "authorName": "mbaum", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mbaum/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This, the Peugeot 504 coupe and the Lancia Gamma coupe are among the very best designs of the late 60's/ early 70's and highly underrated Pininfarina masterpieces. They all derived from the Florida/ Flaminia and are more proof that the smart minds at PF (Martin and Brovarone) knew exactly what they were doing. Nobody did three-box better than them. To this day. This car is absolutely marvelous.", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1501217773, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 21:56:13+00"}, {"id": 1659494, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@RoyalCX : \"The \u201cadditional brake light,\u201d as stated above in the description, on the rear is most likely a rear fog light\"\n\nAbsolutely correct.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1501217840, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 21:57:20+00"}, {"id": 1659514, "authorName": "Super7Driver", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/super7driver/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@RoyalCX, my 1990 Caterham, though delivered new to San Diego, has rear fog lights (although a pair). Definitely a common European item.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501219775, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-27 22:29:35+00"}, {"id": 1659542, "authorName": "michielleendert", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/michielleendert/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Such a beauty. Shame Fiat didn't go for the Pinninfarina proposed 4 door http://www.quattro-porte.com/?p=296", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1501226895, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 00:28:15+00"}, {"id": 1659546, "authorName": "dgclassiccars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dgclassiccars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hi all, thanks for the very kind comments. I can assure you this 130 coupe is an absolute gem and the pictures really don't do the car justice. Having seen so many of these over the years this is by far the best one I've come across and hence why I jumped on it when it went up for sale, it really is that special. The passenger front panel was painted after a bike fell on it in the garage and the shade slightly out apart from that the car is like it new. \n\n@mwillinger @elanguy - If you open the doors the interior colour will blow you away it really is that bright and excatly how it was when it rolled out of the factory in 73, for some it might be too much but for me personally it's super cool and a real talking point about the car.\n\nIf anyone needs any further information, pictures or videos please feel free to get in touch.\n\nThanks all again and happy bidding.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501228955, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 01:02:35+00"}, {"id": 1659586, "authorName": "alan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Simply magnificent! Crisp lean lines on one of Fiat's biggest ever cars make this my favorite.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501242453, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 04:47:33+00"}, {"id": 1659604, "authorName": "iceminus", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/iceminus/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Two words I have never seen right next to each other in well over half a century onto planet, Pumpkin and Velour.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1501243623, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 05:07:03+00"}, {"id": 1659651, "authorName": "JTW", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jtw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"Has it been repainted?\"\r\n\"Yes, but not all at the same time. \"", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501246454, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 05:54:14+00"}, {"id": 1659661, "authorName": "ilpatino", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ilpatino/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Square-jawed masterpiece. I cannot help but to imagine it being equipped with an aluminium 5 liter v8 from a 450SLC 5.0. Now that would be an asolute hoot to drive.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1501247125, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 06:05:25+00"}, {"id": 1659706, "authorName": "masernut", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/masernut/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "One of Pininfarina's finest. Crisp, clean and beautiful.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1501248996, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 06:36:36+00"}, {"id": 1659722, "authorName": "Patrick01", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/patrick01/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This is probably the most beautiful FIAT built, save for the Dino. Yeah, the orange is blinding, but this was 1973, after all! I'd drive this all day long! And that additional light on the rear is a rear fog light. Nice thing to have!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1501249669, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 06:47:49+00"}, {"id": 1659843, "authorName": "jml78", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jml78/", "bidAmount": 700, "content": "$700 bid placed by jml78", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501253873, "type": "bid", "endDate": "2017-07-28 07:57:53+00"}, {"id": 1659888, "authorName": "injuhneer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/injuhneer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Fiat has had a few very nice designs. I personally rank this as number three behind the Dino Spider (1) and Dino Coupe (2) but in front of the X1-9.\n\nVery nice. That Lampredi has a nice subdued snarl.\n\nAnd yes, it is a foul weather lamp on the rear bumper.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501255574, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 08:26:14+00"}, {"id": 1659976, "authorName": "cmaranto1987", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cmaranto1987/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Has everybody forgot about the Fiat Abarth 2300 S?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501258632, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 09:17:12+00"}, {"id": 1660079, "authorName": "alan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yup!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501261415, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 10:03:35+00"}, {"id": 1660099, "authorName": "mbaum", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mbaum/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well .. while I am obviously a huge fan of this design, when it comes to the most beautiful Fiats, one really has to look at the fuoriserie cars from the 40's, 50's and 60's. Among the 1100, 1300, 1500 and 8V variants, you will find many of the most stunning designs ever put on a car ancd you will have your choice of any coachbuilder and any of your favorite designers. \n\nOne of the most amazing cars that I have seen in the last 5 years or so is a friend's amazing Fiat 1100, designed by Michelotti and built by Vignale. See it in the link below. The 130 is a great mass-produced design that is under appreciated. But there are many, many fantastic looking FIat's out there that might take a spot higher in the list of the most beautiful Fiats ever built.\n\nhttp://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/1505396,1544/1953-Fiat-1100_Photo.aspx", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1501262021, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 10:13:41+00"}, {"id": 1660102, "authorName": "Ghans", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ghans/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Clean design and in very good shape. What an interior. The red color pops right out. GLWTA", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501262265, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 10:17:45+00"}, {"id": 1660143, "authorName": "HugoHarris", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hugoharris/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I sat on n one these estimable machines earlier this week at the premises of UK Fiat Dino specialist Mark Devaney. The ultimate Mafia car! Glorious, but slightly sinister..", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501263454, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 10:37:34+00"}, {"id": 1660345, "authorName": "vixenlotus", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/vixenlotus/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I find the design of this car remarkably modern for 1973. I think the exterior is beautiful! if you had told me it was built 20 years later I would have believed you.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501268558, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 12:02:38+00"}, {"id": 1660352, "authorName": "Manic", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/manic/", "bidAmount": 800, "content": "$800 bid placed by Manic", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501268612, "type": "bid", "endDate": "2017-07-28 12:03:32+00"}, {"id": 1660525, "authorName": "Pork_Pie", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pork_pie/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Pity it isn't a RHD. Downunder, the seller could expect 75k which is what one sold for last year.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1501270379, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 12:32:59+00"}, {"id": 1661410, "authorName": "QuackrBackr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/quackrbackr/", "bidAmount": 1500, "content": "$1,500 bid placed by QuackrBackr", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501286705, "type": "bid", "endDate": "2017-07-28 17:05:05+00"}, {"id": 1661492, "authorName": "Dpev70", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dpev70/", "bidAmount": 1600, "content": "$1,600 bid placed by Dpev70", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501293240, "type": "bid", "endDate": "2017-07-28 18:54:00+00"}, {"id": 1661533, "authorName": "SubGothius", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/subgothius/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@michielleendert: Wow, that 4-door is exquisite, much like their proposed Gamma Scala variant of the Gamma coupe:\nhttp://oldconceptcars.com/1930-2004/lancia-gamma-scala-1980/\n\nIn fact, I'm surprised they didn't design the sedans first, as it's much harder to make a good-looking sedan derivative from a coupe than vice-versa, so it's common practice to design the sedan first if there's any chance whatsoever of both being produced.\n\nBTW, if you look closely at that 130 sedan photo, you'll see the passenger-side rear door had an alternative quarter-glass proposal that would allow the rear windows to roll all the way down.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501296667, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 19:51:07+00"}, {"id": 1661567, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SubGothius : the 130 \"Opera\" 4-door is indeed a case of a coup\u00e9 being expanded into a berlina, unlike typical practice. Of course, given how crushingly dull the standard 130 berlina was, it could hardly have been otherwise:\nhttp://icdn-4.motor1.com/images/mgl/Yxwxl/s1/fiat-130-saloon.jpg", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501300694, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-28 20:58:14+00"}, {"id": 1661644, "authorName": "rocketmaan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rocketmaan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hey guys, thanks for all the links, opened my eyes to the awesome Italian cars that we've never seen here. This two door is cool. So is the test drive video with the appropriate music sound track, I keep thinking how great it would be to buy a car like this and spend a month in Italy before shipping it home. How well do these handle on Alpine roads? GLWTA", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501315556, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-29 01:05:56+00"}, {"id": 1661722, "authorName": "Darrin", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/darrin/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Ed L In the USA at that time a 130 Berlina would be an exciting car when compared to a Ford Granada, Dodge Aspen, Oldsmobile Omega, and several other cars I forgot the names and seamed to disappear off the earth thoroughly unloved.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501333074, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-29 05:57:54+00"}, {"id": 1661845, "authorName": "PJM5164", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pjm5164/", "bidAmount": 1700, "content": "$1,700 bid placed by PJM5164", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501338373, "type": "bid", "endDate": "2017-07-29 07:26:13+00"}, {"id": 1661872, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Darrin : I very well recall automobile design of the period, and as a body design the 130 berlina was every bit as inspiring as a Ford Granada. That's why the PF-designed Coup\u00e9 appeared so exciting at the time -- and holds up well even now.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1501339994, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-29 07:53:14+00"}, {"id": 1662114, "authorName": "Kucarfa", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kucarfa/", "bidAmount": 10000, "content": "$10,000 bid placed by Kucarfa", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501358547, "type": "bid", "endDate": "2017-07-29 13:02:27+00"}, {"id": 1662120, "authorName": "mwillinger", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mwillinger/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Finally - a serious bid on this nice Fiat.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501358959, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-29 13:09:19+00"}, {"id": 1662349, "authorName": "Darrin", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/darrin/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ED L - I agree Pininfarina's 130 Coupe is way more beautiful and exciting than a 130 Berlina but 30 some years ago I wish I could have bought a used Berlina in the United States. The European Granada and the U.S. Granada were not the same car, vastly different. I have never seen a t the 130 Coupe in person but the video makes me believe that this is one incredibly beautiful and well detailed designs. As of this listing it has been officially added to my collection wish list, bad timing for bidding on it at the moment.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501381877, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-29 19:31:17+00"}, {"id": 1662368, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Darrin : I drove a Mk III Euro Granada when it was introduced in 1985; it's a real shame we never got it. I've also seen a 130 berlina in the flesh. It's not an ugly car by any means, but it's just unexciting as a design; it comes off as the bigger cousin of the 124 berlina.\n\nI've also seen a 130 Coup\u00e9 -- in silver, like this one. It's bigger than it tends to appear in photographs, and its size makes the extraordinarily clean lines and spare detailing even more striking. \n\nIf I'm going to have one with velour upholstery, it'd rather it be blue, not burnt orange. But it wouldn't prevent me from going after this one if I was in the market.\n\nSomeone's going to get a great car that'll draw a crowd anywhere.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501384459, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-29 20:14:19+00"}, {"id": 1663035, "authorName": "SubGothius", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/subgothius/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It's a testament to any design as well-proportioned as this that it's hard to judge their size from photos. IMO, the Maserati Quattroporte III is another such design.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501495882, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-31 03:11:22+00"}, {"id": 1663046, "authorName": "dgclassiccars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dgclassiccars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@SubGothius The 130 coupe is big, there aren't many cars on European roads this size, the space inside is very generous!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501500339, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-31 04:25:39+00"}, {"id": 1663937, "authorName": "CBCL", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cbcl/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Can we make a rule about no tilt shifted photos? Half of these pics are completely blurry.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1501530962, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-31 12:56:02+00"}, {"id": 1664120, "authorName": "dgclassiccars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dgclassiccars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@CBCL Why should there be a rule for tilt shift photos? It can help bring out the detail which is great for the potential buyer. Are you looking to bid?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501533304, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-31 13:35:04+00"}, {"id": 1664497, "authorName": "roydestroy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/roydestroy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My uncle had one of these beauties in Beirut, Lebanon in the late seventies and owned it up until the early nineties. I remember the interior being so plush and luxurious and the engine sound and exhaust note were just utterly intoxicating. Marvelous car!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501540895, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-07-31 15:41:35+00"}, {"id": 1664959, "authorName": "cxowner", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cxowner/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Pininfarina design = Ferrari 400, RR Camargue, Peugeot 505...", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1501587600, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-01 04:40:00+00"}, {"id": 1666138, "authorName": "Skodanske", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/skodanske/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Merita un buonissimo prezzo, molto bella...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501620583, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-01 13:49:43+00"}, {"id": 1666901, "authorName": "Ftumpch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ftumpch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I appreciate this design but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that I like it - though this is perhaps because it was the instigator of a movement in car design which subsequently went on to produce what I think are some of the most resolved and artistically meritorious cars ever made... and I'm thinking here the Maserati Quattroporte II and the BMW E28 as the best examples. \n\nYou can see the influence of the 130 coupe in an enormous range of cars, from the Renault 5 to the Lincoln Continental Mkv, and maybe some of its DNA even lives on in cars like the Audi A8 and the 2015 Aston Lagonda. If anything the 130 coupe looks to me too much of a disposable consumer item, a bit too 1970s kitchen appliance-like, to stand up in absolute terms to many of the designs it has gone on to influence. \n\nIt's certainly still an arresting-looking object though, and if you have ambitions of starting your own private museum you could do worse than start with this one.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1501648811, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-01 21:40:11+00"}, {"id": 1666929, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Ftumpch : it was an extraordinarily-influential design. The 130 Coup\u00e9 was Paolo Martin's update of Pinin Farina's extraordinarily-influential Lancia Aurelia \"Florida\" concept 16 years earlier. It's a more austere design than most people \"love.\" But as in the theater, where the best acting doesn't appear to be acting, I'd argue that it's exceptionally good -- in the literal sense. And it's particularly good for a production model; Pininfarina built over 4200 of these.\n\nThumbs up for an interesting conversation.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1501650571, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-01 22:09:31+00"}, {"id": 1669708, "authorName": "Sei", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sei/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have owned two . The first one I bought as my first car back in '85. That wasn't a good idea as a student especially as it soon appeared there was much wrong with it.\r\nI visually liked the car very much but not the headlight.\r\nI think the Lancia Gamma coupe is simular but looks better from the front.\r\nI now own u.a a Ferrari 400 which is again the same concept styling wise.\r\n\r\nFor your info : yes I have also owned cars such as the Maserati Quattroporte III mentioned here and still own cars like a 308GT4 and Fiat 2300S coupe but would definitly chose a Berlina over a coupe now.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501770114, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-03 07:21:54+00"}, {"id": 1669874, "authorName": "jml78", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jml78/", "bidAmount": 10500, "content": "$10,500 bid placed by jml78", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501775099, "type": "bid", "endDate": "2017-08-03 08:44:59+00"}, {"id": 1669903, "authorName": "dgclassiccars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dgclassiccars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Somebody can have the bragging rights to owning one of the sweetest Fiat 130 Coupes around, surly there cant be many left in this condition. A bottle of the finest Prosecco thrown in for the lucky winner.....good luck!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501776200, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-03 09:03:20+00"}, {"id": 1669908, "authorName": "Kucarfa", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kucarfa/", "bidAmount": 14000, "content": "$14,000 bid placed by Kucarfa", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501776296, "type": "bid", "endDate": "2017-08-03 09:04:56+00"}, {"id": 1670237, "authorName": "jml78", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jml78/", "bidAmount": 14500, "content": "$14,500 bid placed by jml78", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501785698, "type": "bid", "endDate": "2017-08-03 11:41:38+00"}, {"id": 1670404, "authorName": "Kucarfa", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kucarfa/", "bidAmount": 15500, "content": "$15,500 bid placed by Kucarfa", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501788454, "type": "bid", "endDate": "2017-08-03 12:27:34+00"}, {"id": 1670640, "authorName": "dgclassiccars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dgclassiccars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Just over 30 minutes left folks, this time capsule isn't to be missed!!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501791477, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-03 13:17:57+00"}, {"id": 1670792, "authorName": "Kucarfa", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kucarfa/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sold on 8/3/17 for $15,500 to Kucarfa", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501793400, "type": "system", "endDate": "2017-08-03 13:50:00+00"}, {"id": 1670853, "authorName": "dgclassiccars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dgclassiccars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well done Kucarfa! You've bought an absolute gem. Thanks to all involved. See you in the next auction with a beautifuly restored Land Rover Defnder 90!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501794173, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-03 14:02:53+00"}, {"id": 1671277, "authorName": "Ftumpch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ftumpch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Cheers Ed. Yes well, $15,500 seems like an amazing price for such an icon. I'd definitely choose one of these over a 105 GTV if they were both going for the same amount... Congratulations Kucarfa.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501808218, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-03 17:56:58+00"}, {"id": 1671291, "authorName": "Ed_L", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ed_l/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Congratulations to Kucarfa!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1501808808, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-03 18:06:48+00"}, {"id": 1671487, "authorName": "alan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Fabulous car, well bought, congrats !!!!!!!!!!!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501819672, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-03 21:07:52+00"}, {"id": 1671613, "authorName": "winstone", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/winstone/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Outstanding value!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1501839515, "type": "comment", "endDate": "2017-08-04 02:38:35+00"}]