[{"id": 6700670, "authorName": "JustAnotherLonghorn", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/justanotherlonghorn/", "bidAmount": 15000, "content": "$15,000 bid placed by JustAnotherLonghorn", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628796775, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6700702, "authorName": "Jtjlpl", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jtjlpl/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Dream car!!!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628796912, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6700739, "authorName": "Dollycat3", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dollycat3/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow absolutely beautiful and stunning \ud83d\udc4c\ud83d\udc4d", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628797047, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6700799, "authorName": "Pinarello", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pinarello/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "No schmancy photos needed. This one speaks for itself.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1628797261, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6700821, "authorName": "johnnyb11", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/johnnyb11/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yeah, this thing is nice. GL", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628797369, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6700850, "authorName": "GruppeC956", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gruppec956/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What a classy ride. Show up in this at the golf course, and steal the show from every bright Lamborghini, convertible Ferrari and RS Porsche.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1628797537, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6700908, "authorName": "oldcanuck", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/oldcanuck/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "For me, put the chrome wires on...... please.", "likes": 16, "timestamp": 1628797911, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6701049, "authorName": "Monacochamp", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/monacochamp/", "bidAmount": 30000, "content": "$30,000 bid placed by Monacochamp", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628798759, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6701062, "authorName": "thesheikh", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/thesheikh/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My dream car has been down the street this whole time!? \ud83e\udd7a", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628798853, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6701087, "authorName": "Dollycat3", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dollycat3/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ luxmotorcars\r\n\u201cFactory service entries in the gallery below note replacement of the rear axle assembly in June 1961.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\nWhy would this work needed to be done on a nearly new car?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628798983, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6701159, "authorName": "nickcandee", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nickcandee/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "DB4 made its debut September 1958, Paris salon, not London in October 1958. Just for the record. Tasty DB4 - should be a hoot to drive!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628799380, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6701257, "authorName": "dino70089", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dino70089/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I sold my DB4 SII in 2019, took a bath on it after buying it at the peak in 2015. Prices have continued drifting lower since. Given how much the market on these has corrected, I think there are some great DB4 bargains out there...perhaps this one could be such a bargain for a new owner and yield a good result for the seller.\n\nBy the way, I believe the ignition wires are wrong...they're supposed to be `bumble bee' (yellow with a black stripe) wires...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628799875, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6701282, "authorName": "Blueprint", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/blueprint/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I thought there would be at least 007 Bond jokes by now.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1628799966, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6701286, "authorName": "Erikdb5", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/erikdb5/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Lovely car, but the black painted wire wheels look dreadful, and terribly out of place.", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1628799971, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6701370, "authorName": "Viccms1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/viccms1/", "bidAmount": 40000, "content": "$40,000 bid placed by Viccms1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628800404, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6701409, "authorName": "DerAutoPlatz", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/derautoplatz/", "bidAmount": 50000, "content": "$50,000 bid placed by DerAutoPlatz", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628800644, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6701418, "authorName": "Greenmachines1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/greenmachines1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"DB4 made its debut September 1958, Paris salon, not London in October 1958. Just for the record.\"\r\n\r\nInteresting as Aston Martins own website doesn't acknowledge that. They just simply state, \"The new car was shown at the London Motor show in 1958,...\"\r\nWhatever.\r\n\r\nAnd on that note, Aston Martin made its Bond debut with the DB5 in the 1964 film Goldfinger.\r\n\r\n\" I thought there would be at least 007 Bond jokes by now.\"\r\n\r\nMe too.\r\nBut we should start getting the standard incorrect comments anyways, such as,\r\n\r\n\"Paging Bond, James Bond. You're car has arrived.\"\r\n\r\nNo. It didn't.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628800693, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6701436, "authorName": "Jaguar3.4", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jaguar3.4/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I would also like to see this beauty return to the chrome wire wheels, as it is documented to have been originally furnished. A wonderful car!", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1628800790, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6701492, "authorName": "JTlake", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jtlake/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Blueprint.......\r\n\r\nThis car has been shaken, and stirred. \r\nBut no Bond(o).", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1628801054, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6701709, "authorName": "emeralddunes", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/emeralddunes/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I owned one of these back in the UK -mine was red and only about 3+- inches long , built by Corgi Toys!\r\nHow l wish l could own this beautiful full sized one - and especially luv\u2019 the engine upgrades for getting behind the wheel and driving this incredible machine - well!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628802004, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6701777, "authorName": "Redbird41", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/redbird41/", "bidAmount": 60000, "content": "$60,000 bid placed by Redbird41", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628802373, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6701799, "authorName": "MMBitters", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mmbitters/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Just to be a bit of a Bond pedant, Aston Martin made it's film debut in Goldfinger with the DB5, but in the novel he drove a DB III, \"The car was from the pool. Bond had been offered the Aston Martin or a Jaguar 3.4. He had taken the DB III. Either of the cars would have suited his cover - well-to-do, rather adventurous young man with a taste for the good, fast things of life. But the DB III had the advantage of an up-to-date triptyque, an inconspicuous colour - battleship grey - and certain extras which might or might not come in handy. These included switches to alter the type and colour of Bond's front and rear lights if he was following or being followed at night, reinforced steel bumpers, fore and aft, in case he needed to ram, a long-barreled Colt .45 in a trick compartment under the driver's seat, a radio pick-up tuned to receive an apparatus called the Homer, and plenty of concealed space that would fox most Customs men.\"", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1628802487, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6702001, "authorName": "Monacochamp", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/monacochamp/", "bidAmount": 100000, "content": "$100,000 bid placed by Monacochamp", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628803357, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6702029, "authorName": "osprey", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/osprey/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well, I think the black wires give it a real 1950s/1960s \"drive it during the week and race it on weekends\" look.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1628803476, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6702359, "authorName": "DerAutoPlatz", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/derautoplatz/", "bidAmount": 111111, "content": "$111,111 bid placed by DerAutoPlatz", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628804895, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6702413, "authorName": "sludgo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sludgo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hm. I actually dig the black wheels. Maybe not stock or standard or concours-correct, but to my eye they're more business-like. Purposeful. Understated on a car that makes a loud enough statement on its own.\n\nThat said, I've noticed that I've started to \"watch\" only two basic categories of rides posted here on BaT: premium listings of jillion-dollar offerings that I could never afford like this lovely Aston and cheap, weird-duck sorts of things like AMC Matadors.\n\nSo, time to get back on the meds.\n\n;^)", "likes": 17, "timestamp": 1628805132, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6702600, "authorName": "OutOfMyElement", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/outofmyelement/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I read a number of Bond novels over 50 years ago, and I remembered him driving a Blower Bentley. Just looked it up and this is what I found:\r\n\"In the early Bond stories Fleming gave Bond a battleship-grey Bentley 4+1\u20442 Litre with an Amherst Villiers supercharger. After Bond's car was written off by Hugo Drax in Moonraker, Fleming gave Bond a Mark II Continental Bentley, which he used in the remaining books of the series.\"\r\n\r\nThat's what I remember, not the DB5 as seen in the movies. \r\n\r\nBut all of this is the picking of nits - this is a great looking car and Bond would have been happy to motor around in it. Me too. Alas, it is already far beyond my means.\r\n\r\nGLWTA!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628806560, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6702646, "authorName": "OCKurt", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ockurt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Q: Now this one I'm particularly keen about. You see the gear lever here? Now, if you take the top off, you'll find a little red button. Whatever you do, don't touch it.\r\n\r\nBond: Yeah, why not?\r\n\r\nQ: Because you'll release this section of the roof, and engage and then fire the passenger ejector seat. Whish!\r\n\r\nBond: Ejector seat? You're joking!\r\n\r\nQ: I never joke about my work, 007. \r\n\r\nAwesome car, GLWA!", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1628807253, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6702683, "authorName": "Flying_Dutchman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/flying_dutchman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@emeralddunes - I still have mine! It is canary yellow. Corgi Toys #218.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1628808126, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6702766, "authorName": "dino70089", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dino70089/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@MMBitters All the info I've seen indicate that Bond drove a DB4 Series V initially. Use of the DB5 immediately followed.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/sponsored-content/forget-db5-ultra-rare-db4-series-v-vantage-real-bond-car", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1628809455, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703099, "authorName": "Roberteguth", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/roberteguth/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I also am relying on memory, but I believe in the original books, Bond drove a DB 2/4 Mk III. In the movie it was shown as a DB5, but in fact Aston Martin did not yet have a DB5 ready to go, so they modified a DB4 to look like the future car. Who knew it took so much to make an icon.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1628815139, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703151, "authorName": "Universal_Exports", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/universal_exports/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This may be a sinful comment but...might it be true that I prefer the sharper front styling of the DB4 to the DB5?! Potentially so.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1628815768, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703240, "authorName": "Slim67", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/slim67/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I also like the like the black wire wheels. GLWTA", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1628817105, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703445, "authorName": "DJMN", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/djmn/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If you aren't in love with this car, maybe cars aren't your thing.", "likes": 15, "timestamp": 1628820211, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703512, "authorName": "DillonCroco", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dilloncroco/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Who can not love this car?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1628821300, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703606, "authorName": "Vtec4ever", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/vtec4ever/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The definition of cool. I can see David Niven or Sterling Moss driving this thing. It is the absolute perfect car for the proper gentleman. Maybe the classiest car on the website right now.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1628822995, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703619, "authorName": "Cycliccollective", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cycliccollective/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Beautiful", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628823241, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703668, "authorName": "Speedraser", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/speedraser/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The DB4 is the car that made me love Astons. @Universal_Exports I agree -- to me, the DB5 is beautiful, and the DB4 is even more beautiful. The DB4's proportions are, imo, more perfect. The uncovered headlights make for a longer front fender line, and the DB4 (Series I to IV) is a little shorter and lower than the DB5.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1628824652, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703677, "authorName": "dino70089", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dino70089/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The DB4 Series I, II and I believe III have the taller hood scoop which provides a more aggressive appearance. Also only the early series have the egg crate style grille, later replaced with a horizontal slats grille", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628825136, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703696, "authorName": "Speedraser", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/speedraser/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@dino70089 I believe the Series I, II and III had the egg crate grille and the taller hood scoop. Series I and II had the \"cathedral\" taillights, Series III got the individual stacked lights. Series IV got the slatted grille and the lower hood scoop. Series V got the longer and taller body (same as the DB5).", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628825555, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703858, "authorName": "Carrera4.0", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carrera4.0/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'll bet I could fit 5 DBs in this ;-)", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628833252, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6703918, "authorName": "ripper996", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ripper996/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Any Aston Martin is worth owning...God save the Queen.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628840187, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704004, "authorName": "remoorejr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/remoorejr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Clearly needs a proper plate. Only BMT 216A will do. Just magnificent. GLWTA.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628853062, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704026, "authorName": "taosman54", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/taosman54/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Shaken not stirred, this beauty has me feeling both", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628854526, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704065, "authorName": "urelfer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/urelfer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow, I really like the black wheels. And the upgrade to 4.2. And the red interior as well as the rest of the car :-)", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628856458, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704067, "authorName": "urelfer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/urelfer/", "bidAmount": 196442, "content": "$196,442 bid placed by urelfer", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628856499, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6704132, "authorName": "Baur2002", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/baur2002/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "OK, enough already on the wheels\u2026\u2026.It comes with two sets, chrome and black. If you are not handy with a mallet and a floor jack, or unable to find jack points to change the knock off wheels yourself depending on your mood, yet can afford this amazing machine you likely are in the tax bracket that would permit hiring a shop to do it for you.", "likes": 20, "timestamp": 1628858353, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704235, "authorName": "drako13", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/drako13/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is it just me, or has this car had a lot of bodywork done to it... an iconic car, that has had two reprays, dentless paint removal, and straightening of the front grill... couldn't have been kept in a garage.. or maybe it was really Bond's car.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628860312, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704239, "authorName": "Mike_Breinin", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mike_breinin/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Finding third gear appears to be equivalent to finding......well, I am not going to finish that thought here. \r\n\r\nBeautiful machine. I like the black wheels and I always get a chuckle when a car is driven through neighborhoods where it is worth more than the houses that are passing by.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1628860345, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704309, "authorName": "Universal_Exports", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/universal_exports/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@speedraser I couldn't agree more. The black wheels also help.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628861231, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704324, "authorName": "Chris01", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chris01/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Love the size of the window winder handles. Pity there can\u2019t be an image of the smell of that leather and cockpit\u2026!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628861467, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704393, "authorName": "Lord_Balfour_IV", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lord_balfour_iv/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Bond \u2026 James Bond.\n\n\nThis auction has me \u2026. Stirred.\n\n\nIIRC: this is the model actually used in the Bond movie. The vehicle was modified a bit in anticipation of the new DB5 (caveat: this info could be yet another dribble from my font of misinformation).\n\nThe winner of this auction will immediately see his \u2018Suave Score\u2019 increase and will actually save money by discontinuing his now unnecessary Viagra and testosterone prescriptions.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1628862485, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704401, "authorName": "Siowner", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/siowner/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is the ejector seat and the smoke-screen still working? Just kidding. It looks like a great Aston in excellent condition. That engine has a good look to it with it's triple carbs and the interior and body look top notch.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1628862558, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704581, "authorName": "dino70089", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dino70089/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Lord_Balfour_IV If by \"model\" you mean DB4, then yes. But the different series were quite different and it was the Series V with the covered headlights that was used initially. So DB4 SI-IV looks very different than the Series V (which is basically a DB5).", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628864487, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704659, "authorName": "Lord_Balfour_IV", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lord_balfour_iv/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@dino70089: yes, I meant the DB4 model. As you note, there were myriad sub-designations through the run and I didn\u2019t recall which specific configuration was used. Thought it interesting at the time that the vehicle could be modified to resemble the \u2018new series\u2019 but that there wasn\u2019t a new series vehicle to use!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628865374, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704753, "authorName": "455bobj", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/455bobj/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Black wheels amps the sinister look. Nicely sorted. Great investment.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1628866453, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704875, "authorName": "nagelphoto", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nagelphoto/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Awesome ride, the only problem I can see with this car is it's not British racing green!\r\nGreen is the best color in the world!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1628867718, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704914, "authorName": "EMow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/emow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "One of those cars that ruins my day as I waste hours thinking of all the ways I'd dissappear into the sunset glued to the drivers seat.\r\n\r\nI hope whoever picks this up drives it as much as I tell myself I would. Here for all the comments!", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1628868080, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6704971, "authorName": "Andrew_Leeson", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/andrew_leeson/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Having owned a DB5 (same car, twice over) and driven many other DBs, this one stacks up nicely. Triple SU, 4-speed, DB4. Check. I don't know that black wheels would have been the thing on a DB4 - painted wheels would have been silver, chrome were uncommon outside the U.S. as they rust horribly on U.K. roads. Had Bond opted for the 3.4 Jag, however, body colored wires were not unusual - think Mike Hawthorn. Correct or not, I like them here.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1628868814, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6705249, "authorName": "northstrand", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/northstrand/", "bidAmount": 200007, "content": "$200,007 bid placed by northstrand", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628872856, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6705699, "authorName": "PDXBryan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pdxbryan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Come on vocabulary, help me out here\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628877587, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6705737, "authorName": "dino70089", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dino70089/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@nagelphoto Actually, Aston Martin Racing Green would be more proper...\n\nhttps://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo19/monterey/lots/r0018-1961-aston-martin-db4-series-ii/774738", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1628877784, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6706214, "authorName": "randypie", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/randypie/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Get a driving video with someone who knows how to drive it right.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1628879348, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6706542, "authorName": "Alden36", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alden36/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "DB 5 Sexy\r\nDB 4 Hooligan", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1628880914, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6706615, "authorName": "nagelphoto", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nagelphoto/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@dino70089 Thank you sir I stand corrected, I know there's lots of competition but the Dino is my favorite car!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628881326, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6707309, "authorName": "Digital_Disaster", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/digital_disaster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Nicely done. This one's bringing all the money. IMHO.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628884203, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6709241, "authorName": "Spitfire921", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/spitfire921/", "bidAmount": 210000, "content": "$210,000 bid placed by Spitfire921", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628894886, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6709381, "authorName": "Mgaguy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mgaguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If I bought this would I be like Bond agent 006.5\r\nEveryone relates Bond to the DB5\r\nHaving read the comments I can see everyone is wrong.\r\nThe trickery in movies. Who would have believed it?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628896753, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6709814, "authorName": "Dymc751", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dymc751/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My favorite Body style. Of all time.\r\nGuess I was heavily influenced by\r\n James Bond 007.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628903697, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6709927, "authorName": "Monacochamp", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/monacochamp/", "bidAmount": 212000, "content": "$212,000 bid placed by Monacochamp", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628905483, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6710220, "authorName": "HarveyRanch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/harveyranch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As a fan of all things classic car, I have always thought that these cars are one of most beautiful ever produced. And Just simply a fantastic example.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1628913052, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6710367, "authorName": "Jester944", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jester944/", "bidAmount": 250000, "content": "$250,000 bid placed by Jester944", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628921481, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6710726, "authorName": "AlfaMania", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alfamania/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Surprised to see, according to the build sheet, this Aston came with Avon Turbospeed \u201cP\u201d whitewall tires instead of Dunlop\u2019s. Looks like some early Aston\u2019s are on the rebound price wise. A 1965 DB5 convertible just sold at auction for $3,195,000. This Aston isn\u2019t close to being concours and has a color change from Dubonnet to Silver Birsch.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628947298, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6712282, "authorName": "dino70089", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dino70089/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Since this auction ends after Car Week completes, it'll be interesting to see how the last few days go here.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1628967382, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6714407, "authorName": "Rainman5000s", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rainman5000s/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Can someone explain why anyone would paint the wheels black? It makes the wheels disappear. The DB5 at auction sure did not have black wheels. Seems like that is one great why to leave money the table when selling a car. Love the beautiful lines of a DB4/5 yet the wheels kill it for me.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1628992696, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6714509, "authorName": "AlfaMania", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alfamania/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Very simply, painting the wheels black, which was done in 2016, is someone expressing his or her individuality. From the factory, the 16\u201d wheels are painted silver-grey. An option from the factory is fully chromed wheels. The factory build sheet for this Aston in regards to its wheels states: Fully Chromed Road Wheels.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1628996321, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6714742, "authorName": "LXII_PHOTO", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lxii_photo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The chrome wheels are pictured in photos 244-248 in the gallery, for anyone interested.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629011080, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6714951, "authorName": "TheOMDude", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theomdude/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I acquired my Aston Martin passion before the 007 hype. After all, that was just a \u201ccompany car.\u201d The legendary character didn\u2019t romanticize his car, calling it his \u201cLocomotive,\u201d and chose Bentleys for his personal transportation. No, I became passionate for the DB4 from reading the Road & Track Road Test, where Carroll Shelby\u2019s Le Mans win co-driver Roy Salvadori executed the first zero to 100 to zero test, setting the standard in something like 22 seconds. It\u2019s a long time ago so that number is subject to verification.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629033165, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6715340, "authorName": "Spitfire921", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/spitfire921/", "bidAmount": 260000, "content": "$260,000 bid placed by Spitfire921", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629040627, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6715886, "authorName": "porsche22", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/porsche22/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "is the steering wheel mounted 180 degrees off center", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629049161, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6716929, "authorName": "Speedraser", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/speedraser/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@porsche22 No, it\u2019s correct \u2014 it gives a less obstructed view of the instruments that way.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629056224, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6718222, "authorName": "Zadra", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/zadra/", "bidAmount": 265000, "content": "$265,000 bid placed by Zadra", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629067227, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6719014, "authorName": "shaned", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/shaned/", "bidAmount": 300000, "content": "$300,000 bid placed by shaned", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629090852, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6719147, "authorName": "GlenK", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/glenk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Looking at this Aston and the references to James Bond, make me think of what would have become of the company if Jaguar I believe had supplied the cars for the movie. Would Aston have just become another nice English car we don't think about much like Bristol or Armstrong-Sidley?", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1629115865, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6724282, "authorName": "TheOMDude", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theomdude/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@GlenK: In a word, no. Not if by \u201cwe\u201d you mean the car nuts on this site. Winning Le Mans does carry some weight, after all.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1629157337, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6730507, "authorName": "SchlickVonReitmann", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/schlickvonreitmann/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Neil's DB5 didn't sell down in Pebble Beach at $500K+, at least not during the live auction, so maybe this one will have better luck http://www.neilpeart.net/index.php?cID=258", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629241050, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6745236, "authorName": "whipcity76", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/whipcity76/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Drop-dead gorgeous! GLWTA!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629466345, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6745921, "authorName": "Jb79", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jb79/", "bidAmount": 305000, "content": "$305,000 bid placed by Jb79", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629474912, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6748237, "authorName": "AlpineJay", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alpinejay/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@sludgo Just thought I'd point out I saw what you did with the the other BAT offerings, like the AMC Matador. Of course, I have an Alpine.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629488413, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6750344, "authorName": "wyoheater", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wyoheater/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "IMHO Styling wise Carrozzeria Touring in Milan got the DB4 right the first time with the S1. AM\u2019s subsequent tweaks: heavier bumpers, longer wheelbase, parts bin scavenged tail lights all detract from the perfection of the original. Mechanically AM did make significant improvements in subsequent series to enhance performance and comfort. Very special cars enthusiastically supported by the AM Works and a fabulous community of owners, marque specialists, vendors and general car aficionados. Show up in a DB4 and you are always welcome on the lawn of most any event. Bid accordingly! GLWTA", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1629497331, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6752300, "authorName": "RiffRaff", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/riffraff/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Looks like the driver in the video needs to go back to his Camry. Automatic. This is out of his league. Sensational car. A $20K pound motor rebuild is steep. I would pay double that before an LS ever got close to the lovely bonnet. GLWTS.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629558637, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6755078, "authorName": "oldukguy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/oldukguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was always a mega-admirer of the James Bond DB5, That love affair started around London in the late 1960s and lasts as strongly even today .....", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629581322, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6755382, "authorName": "shaned", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/shaned/", "bidAmount": 306000, "content": "$306,000 bid placed by shaned", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629587235, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6755467, "authorName": "meade2020", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/meade2020/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Nice car", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629589332, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6761281, "authorName": "Goldcars", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/goldcars/", "bidAmount": 307000, "content": "$307,000 bid placed by Goldcars", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629710293, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6761537, "authorName": "Alfadriver", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alfadriver/", "bidAmount": 310000, "content": "$310,000 bid placed by Alfadriver", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629724332, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6763963, "authorName": "Underdoggy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/underdoggy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@RiffRaff Yep, agreed, whoever is in the driving video needs to stick with automatics, no row row row your boat there buddy! That was hard to watch!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629746987, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6766735, "authorName": "bosshoss3406pack", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bosshoss3406pack/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Why, as I'm Reading these Comments, does Everything entering MY HEAD have a British Accent???", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629760331, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6766845, "authorName": "luxmotorcars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/luxmotorcars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hey everyone thanks for all the comments. Yes I sucked in the first driving video. 5AM no coffee and the first time behind the the 61 year old Aston Martin. Sorry one take! Ha! Ha! It has been revised to a proper video. And funny stuff @RiffRaff but my Camry has a prancing horse on it. :) I'm here until the end, if there are any questions. We have owned the car for four years now. It is a truly special car.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1629761919, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6767158, "authorName": "SchwarzHorse", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/schwarzhorse/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "No passenger eject button, I'm out !", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629766401, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6767879, "authorName": "shaned", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/shaned/", "bidAmount": 311000, "content": "$311,000 bid placed by shaned", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629781644, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6768148, "authorName": "Alfadriver", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alfadriver/", "bidAmount": 315000, "content": "$315,000 bid placed by Alfadriver", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629807306, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6768278, "authorName": "Udonome", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/udonome/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Wyoheater, you gotta see the Touring DB4 prototype, used the same bumper / grille from the 3 DB2/4 MKIII Touring Spiders (this might ID me to \"one of which lived in our garage in pa for a decade).", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629810154, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6769059, "authorName": "Spitfire921", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/spitfire921/", "bidAmount": 320000, "content": "$320,000 bid placed by Spitfire921", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629819674, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6769135, "authorName": "Goldcars", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/goldcars/", "bidAmount": 325000, "content": "$325,000 bid placed by Goldcars", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629820450, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6769505, "authorName": "AlexBert", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alexbert/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Winner of This Car should Scoop a BaT Car that is still available. Father and Son GR8 Bond.\n\nAsk BaT for my Reference. GLWTA.\n\nhttps://bringatrailer.com/listing/2019-harrington-aston-martin-db5/", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629823645, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6772137, "authorName": "ScottK", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scottk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "These are my favorites among the DB 4/5 family. I still prefer the exposed headlamps, and love the early fine eggcrate grilles. I certainly would have stepped up to a five-speed, but that's me.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629836110, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6773028, "authorName": "Judd", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/judd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I still hear the big six growl and my father's laugh as my uncle hauled his DB4 convertible up over the ton on a somewhat straight section of otherwise twisty 2 lane. I was 5 years old and in dad's lap.\r\n\r\nI hope someday to find that car, if only to know it still exists.\r\n\r\nWhat a wonderful car this is!", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1629839277, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6773913, "authorName": "AussieBenz", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aussiebenz/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This car has been very well looked after for many years, an absolute credit to the current owner and the previous custodians, somebody will get a beautiful car.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629843221, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6773944, "authorName": "billyblyth", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/billyblyth/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "IMHO The wheels in black would be more appropriate on a Jaguar XK 120/140 with racing wind screens, wire stoneguard head light screens. More of a bugs in your teeth, racing look. This car is a more polished, sophisticated car and wires, chromed or not, are a better choice. Nice to have both sets of wheels for when your feeling naughty!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629843639, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6774147, "authorName": "TheOMDude", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theomdude/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ScottK: I agree that, like the tri-five Chevrolet, they got it right the first time. My only caution is \u201conly if you ignore the GTZ.\u201d Now THAT is among the GOAT.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629846518, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6774270, "authorName": "shaned", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/shaned/", "bidAmount": 326000, "content": "$326,000 bid placed by shaned", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629848249, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6774331, "authorName": "U0NLYLV4N0W", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/u0nlylv4n0w/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was born too soon but little did I realize until too late. Too soon old, too late smart!", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1629849086, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6774543, "authorName": "Spitfire921", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/spitfire921/", "bidAmount": 330000, "content": "$330,000 bid placed by Spitfire921", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629852440, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6774731, "authorName": "FSH", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fsh/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Aren\u2019t analog cars great? Even though this isn\u2019t the model that James Bond drove, the coolness factor still drips from this vintage.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629855005, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6774939, "authorName": "AMvintage", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/amvintage/", "bidAmount": 335000, "content": "$335,000 bid placed by AMvintage", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629858234, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6775691, "authorName": "TheOMDude", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theomdude/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Today\u2019s car nuts can be blinded by the 007 history. They may not understand where the DB4 figured in the performance car universe when it was introduced. It had comparable power to its Ferrari contemporaries, superior to Maseratis\u2019 comparable six, and the only available GT with 4-wheel disc brakes. When this example was built, the DB4 had had disc brakes for two years, while Ferrari was just putting them in their first road car. Corvettes wouldn\u2019t get them for another three, and even Jaguar\u2019s revolutionary E-Type still was a year away.", "likes": 21, "timestamp": 1629896049, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6776458, "authorName": "bill59", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bill59/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Back when cars were cars and men were men. What a great example.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629905031, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6776599, "authorName": "racerx", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/racerx/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "remember... James Bond actually drove a DBMkIII - Sean Connery drove a DB4 (modified to look like the yet-to-be-released DB5)!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629906249, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6776603, "authorName": "racerx", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/racerx/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "this is an excellent example...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629906278, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6776721, "authorName": "old_carr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/old_carr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was fortunate enough to see this car in person yesterday (thanks guys!) and I can tell you, while the pictures are good, it is even more stunning in person. Well sorted car with a well documented history. Don't let the beauty get in the way of the fact that this car was built to be driven. As noted in previous comments, they were serious performers in their day (and beyond), just look up some of the Goodwood Revival races to see some of them driven the way they were meant to be (well, the GT versions, but you get the idea). Good luck bidders!", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1629907418, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6776767, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@TheOMDude\n\nYou bring a lot of good information to the table on BaT in many auctions ~ Nice to see", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629907993, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6776772, "authorName": "WMarder1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wmarder1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I don't want it... the rubber pad on the clutch pedal is mounted upside down. JK - this is stunning! GLWA.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629908011, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6776851, "authorName": "shaned", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/shaned/", "bidAmount": 336000, "content": "$336,000 bid placed by shaned", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629908905, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6776917, "authorName": "900ss", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/900ss/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "TheOMDude - The e-type may have come a few years later but the XK 150 had four wheel disc brakes - and telescopic shocks all round. Depending on the model, the 150 had anywhere from 190 hp, in the initial 1957 3.4 liter iteration, to 265 in the 1959 -1961 150S. The Aston is a beautiful, valuable, car - but the 150 was just as sophisticated for half the price (we have a 150 - can't afford a DB4).", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629909591, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777067, "authorName": "Seasurfer67", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/seasurfer67/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@900ss........I'm with you, Buddy........love the 150's......especially the 150s........the DB4, also a beautiful car, but way out of my budget.....", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629911009, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777073, "authorName": "Pcolony", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pcolony/", "bidAmount": 340000, "content": "$340,000 bid placed by Pcolony", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629911052, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777088, "authorName": "dylanCA", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dylanca/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Something about red leather just screams cool.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1629911198, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777167, "authorName": "johnnyb11", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/johnnyb11/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I see the sales invoice stating that the car came with a Guarantee. Not a Warranty. Remember those days? Very attractive car here. GL", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629911949, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777200, "authorName": "604fan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/604fan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Can someone tell me how to make that exhaust note my ringtone?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629912272, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777202, "authorName": "TheUnderminer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theunderminer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@604fan Make the winning bid and you can record all the ringtones you want (;", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1629912310, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777232, "authorName": "peter19", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/peter19/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A particularly nice trifecta of beauties to start the BaT day. Thanks!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629912540, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777265, "authorName": "Alfadriver", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alfadriver/", "bidAmount": 345000, "content": "$345,000 bid placed by Alfadriver", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629912822, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777288, "authorName": "audiphile99", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/audiphile99/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If only the wire wheels weren't black\r\nand I had about $400k, I'd bid on this. Damn shame about those wheels. I was this close.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1629912955, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777315, "authorName": "Speedraser", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/speedraser/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@900ss I love Jags too \u2014 had a 140 and an E-type. But a 150 was not \u201cjust as sophisticated\u201c as a DB4. It had a great engine (though iron block rather than aluminum) and disc brakes. But it also has a fairly simple, separate chassis and a pretty basic body structure. Nothing wrong with that, but the DB4\u2019s platform chassis and superleggera body structure are far more sophisticated.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629913104, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777313, "authorName": "Getragwerk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/getragwerk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I should have placed a $50K bid when I had the chance, just to brag that I once placed a bid on a DB4.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629913104, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777320, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@audiphile99\r\n\r\nThe description states:\r\n\r\n\"Four chrome wire wheels with Vredestein Sprint Classic rubber are also included in the sale.\"\r\n\r\nThere is still the issue of the 400k ;)", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1629913150, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777321, "authorName": "originalbob", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/originalbob/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A true dream car for anyone with Buck\u2019s, space, time and the passion for an iconic machine. I like the black spokes but that would not be difficult to change based on the new owners perspective - best of fortunes to @luxmotorcars and the new owner later today with luck \ud83d\udc4d\ud83c\udffc", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629913154, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777332, "authorName": "bobmillstein10", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bobmillstein10/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I can't imagine that the bidding is anywhere near the reserve on this car. I would expect the number on the car to be twice as much. I think the DB4 with the open headlights has a longer and prettier look than the DB5. The value on the 5's can approach the 900- 1M mark. Good luck.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1629913266, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777338, "authorName": "audiphile99", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/audiphile99/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@trademark lol. indeed. ;-)", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629913295, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777361, "authorName": "johnnyb11", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/johnnyb11/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I just heard Annie Lennox singing \" Would I lie to you\". She's walking out the door and then you can hear a 6 cylinder sports car revving. I wonder if she took the Aston? GL", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629913458, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777396, "authorName": "Mustang15", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mustang15/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "DB$400k.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629913717, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777404, "authorName": "billyblyth", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/billyblyth/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Had the chance to drive one these several years ago and all I can say is this a true drivers car. Quick, balanced and very responsive. GLWTA!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629913776, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777424, "authorName": "TheUnderminer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theunderminer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "One day in the distant future, DB4 $4.2M", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629913922, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777426, "authorName": "coffeebreak", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/coffeebreak/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "trademark, I tried to put in a similar comment but the BaT AI didn't like it.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629913949, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777438, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That's odd @coffeebreak\r\n\r\nDid you use any bad words? ;)", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914022, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777440, "authorName": "Bueller86", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bueller86/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This is why Aston Martin is my favorite car manufacturer... ever since the early days, they have been built jaw-dropping automobiles! \r\n\r\nGood luck to all bidders and the seller!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629914036, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777446, "authorName": "CoolCal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/coolcal/", "bidAmount": 350000, "content": "$350,000 bid placed by CoolCal", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914056, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777462, "authorName": "PrettyMuchAShelbyGuy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/prettymuchashelbyguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Great looking car. I\u2019m a sucker for anything with red leather interior. It\u2019s just luscious. I\u2019m intrigued by the black spokes\u2026was that a recent addition? Or was it \u201cmurdered out\u201c in 1960 from the factory?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914129, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777475, "authorName": "coffeebreak", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/coffeebreak/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@trademark, it was G rated. Just a cut and paste from the text above. Go figure", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914197, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777495, "authorName": "34Century", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/34century/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "1 Bad aasssssssss Motor Car !!!!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629914349, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777497, "authorName": "TheUnderminer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theunderminer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "RNM if we dont see anything soon...", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914355, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777500, "authorName": "Jester944", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jester944/", "bidAmount": 351000, "content": "$351,000 bid placed by Jester944", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914375, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777487, "authorName": "Getragwerk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/getragwerk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@bobmillstein10 - there's 2 minutes left, still a lot of room for the earth-shaking bids to come plonking down!\nBut still, there's some guy with the 1pm meeting that ran a bit long that will be seriously pissed...", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1629914384, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777503, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That would be defined as soon", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914396, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777515, "authorName": "audiphile99", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/audiphile99/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "the dreaded .33% bid raise.", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1629914436, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777514, "authorName": "ninerfan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ninerfan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@PrettyMuchAShelbyGuy the answer is in the fourth paragraph of the description above. \u201c Black-painted 16\u201d wire wheels were added in 2016 and are secured by chrome two-eared knock-offs. \u201d", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914436, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777521, "authorName": "davidmathey5901", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/davidmathey5901/", "bidAmount": 352500, "content": "$352,500 bid placed by davidmathey5901", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914465, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777527, "authorName": "Jperell", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jperell/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "No worries\u2026.. it ain\u2019t over till it\u2019s over!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914493, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777535, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Any bids are good bids regardless of %'s", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1629914522, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777538, "authorName": "TheUnderminer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theunderminer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@trademark dont think soon gets any closer than that", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914539, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777539, "authorName": "CoolCal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/coolcal/", "bidAmount": 400000, "content": "$400,000 bid placed by CoolCal", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914541, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777542, "authorName": "TDIDDY", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tdiddy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Eating popcorn one thousand dollar bite at a time!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914552, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777544, "authorName": "Jperell", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jperell/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well, well\u2026.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914557, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777547, "authorName": "audiphile99", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/audiphile99/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Thank you @coolcat", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914559, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777546, "authorName": "ninerfan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ninerfan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "There we go!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914559, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777550, "authorName": "kodibear", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kodibear/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "now there's a move!!!!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914561, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777552, "authorName": "Getragwerk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/getragwerk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I was wondering where @CoolCal was", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629914569, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777554, "authorName": "ubupear", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ubupear/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow.....", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914577, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777560, "authorName": "neilcmac", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/neilcmac/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Still a bargain at this level.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914602, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777548, "authorName": "gratefulgar", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gratefulgar/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "There's a hefty % raise.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914602, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777562, "authorName": "Pcolony", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pcolony/", "bidAmount": 402000, "content": "$402,000 bid placed by Pcolony", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914613, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777564, "authorName": "ThinksHesFast", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/thinkshesfast/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Cool Cal, like we had to wonder, LOL!!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914617, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777565, "authorName": "Trublue", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trublue/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sweet!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914618, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777571, "authorName": "Getragwerk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/getragwerk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "421,960 would be a nice number to see, just for fun", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914638, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777573, "authorName": "jp7025", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jp7025/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Unbelievable amount of non constructive remarks. Silly.", "likes": 13, "timestamp": 1629914644, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777580, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Flag them ;)", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914673, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777593, "authorName": "davidmathey5901", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/davidmathey5901/", "bidAmount": 410000, "content": "$410,000 bid placed by davidmathey5901", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914723, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777603, "authorName": "3Pedalonly", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/3pedalonly/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"Unbelievable amount of non constructive remarks. Silly.\"\r\n\r\nBe glad the car doesn't have Montana plates and 158 miles on it...", "likes": 17, "timestamp": 1629914774, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777624, "authorName": "CoolCal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/coolcal/", "bidAmount": 411000, "content": "$411,000 bid placed by CoolCal", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914840, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777628, "authorName": "dylanCA", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dylanca/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Living on the edge with that timing!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914852, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777629, "authorName": "RyanHowRad", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ryanhowrad/", "bidAmount": 413000, "content": "$413,000 bid placed by RyanHowRad", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914853, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777633, "authorName": "davidmathey5901", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/davidmathey5901/", "bidAmount": 420000, "content": "$420,000 bid placed by davidmathey5901", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914872, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777634, "authorName": "Bueller86", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bueller86/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What am I missing about the Montana plates...?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914876, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777637, "authorName": "coffeebreak", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/coffeebreak/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"Goin' to Montana soon and be a dental floss tycoon\"", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1629914880, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777638, "authorName": "bobmillstein10", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bobmillstein10/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This could go on all day without meeting the reserve. Get serious.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629914882, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777639, "authorName": "rmessner", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rmessner/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I think there is still a ways to go on this beauty", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629914889, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777641, "authorName": "brownnb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brownnb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Definitely not the time to trust your server!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914900, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777626, "authorName": "aleccartio", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aleccartio/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "9 out of 10 of my client cars have Montana plates and we are proud of them.", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1629914902, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777643, "authorName": "CSM1234", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/csm1234/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@bobmillstein10\r\nFeel free to show everyone how it should be done.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1629914904, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777645, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'd say the bidding has been serious", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914907, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777646, "authorName": "ninerfan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ninerfan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Maybe it takes 1:50 to type in and confirm those 6 digits\u2026", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629914910, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777650, "authorName": "EMow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/emow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Guessing over under is 550,000$", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914922, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777653, "authorName": "Nurburgringer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nurburgringer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"What am I missing about the Montana plates\u2026?\" \r\nTechnically, if not morally, legal way to weasel out of sales tax", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1629914926, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777656, "authorName": "StubbyFlexhead", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stubbyflexhead/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Rollin rollin rollin\r\nDrive it like it\u2019s stolen ...", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914933, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777658, "authorName": "bobmillstein10", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bobmillstein10/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Got one in the garage already. My third DB4.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914938, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777661, "authorName": "idrivemine", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/idrivemine/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I think BaT really needs to look into implementing a $5k minimum bid increase on vehicles selling in the \"over $200K\" price range.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1629914939, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777663, "authorName": "RyanHowRad", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ryanhowrad/", "bidAmount": 421000, "content": "$421,000 bid placed by RyanHowRad", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914944, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777667, "authorName": "PrettyMuchAShelbyGuy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/prettymuchashelbyguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ninerfan thank you for the detail, I\u2019m having to work too hard today to follow at the detail I would like, will definitely read after the fact. Thank you again.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629914950, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777670, "authorName": "dastick", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dastick/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Im enjoying watching the way this is being bid. Not the usual way it goes here.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629914956, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777679, "authorName": "bigfootG", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigfootg/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@idrivemine \r\n\r\nno they dont hahaha", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914987, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777683, "authorName": "EMow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/emow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Living a life of crime fighting is not cheap, I can understand the attempts at cost savings..", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629914989, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777682, "authorName": "3Pedalonly", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/3pedalonly/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"I think BaT really needs to look into implementing a $5k minimum bid increase on vehicles selling in the \u201cover $200K\u201d price range.\"\r\n\r\nWhy, so I have to go back to work?", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1629914989, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777684, "authorName": "NCB755", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ncb755/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "$600K all day and twice on Sunday", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1629914993, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777697, "authorName": "mrhemi", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mrhemi/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "One seriously impressive motor car here...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915041, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777702, "authorName": "davidmathey5901", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/davidmathey5901/", "bidAmount": 425000, "content": "$425,000 bid placed by davidmathey5901", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915056, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777708, "authorName": "CoolCal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/coolcal/", "bidAmount": 450000, "content": "$450,000 bid placed by CoolCal", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915078, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777710, "authorName": "Michael_Yount", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/michael_yount/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@NCB755 - but not today, methinks....", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915083, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777709, "authorName": "Jperell", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jperell/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Seriously serious\u2026..", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915083, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777712, "authorName": "OutOfMyElement", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/outofmyelement/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Tune in my friends, to the show that never ends!\r\n\r\nThis is one exciting auction!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915097, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777714, "authorName": "Bueller86", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bueller86/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Loving all this ;)", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915100, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777723, "authorName": "ninerfan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ninerfan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Getting there\u2026", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915130, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777725, "authorName": "billyblyth", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/billyblyth/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "At the rate these have appreciated, this will be paying you rent to be in your garage!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629915137, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777726, "authorName": "Spitfire921", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/spitfire921/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Odds on \ud83d\ude0e cat takes it", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915140, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777729, "authorName": "BrianS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brians/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wouldn't it be something, if the auction that started the day, ended the day.", "likes": 13, "timestamp": 1629915154, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777733, "authorName": "brownnb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brownnb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This isnt a car that comes across this site everyday that's for sure!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915167, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777734, "authorName": "davidmathey5901", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/davidmathey5901/", "bidAmount": 451000, "content": "$451,000 bid placed by davidmathey5901", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915168, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777735, "authorName": "Kiwiterry", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kiwiterry/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "No matter what one pays for this AM ,drive for years to come and sell for more in the future?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915174, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777737, "authorName": "RckyMtnFvr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rckymtnfvr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I just came back from Monterey Car Week where I watched various 1960\u2019s Astons go for $500,000 - 650,00 at Sotheby\u2019s and Gooding.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1629915188, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777741, "authorName": "JDSKULL", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jdskull/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Everyone just min bid and make this BAT's longest auction ever!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629915193, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777744, "authorName": "OutOfMyElement", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/outofmyelement/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Nurburgringer - weasel is such an ugly word - why pay more taxes than absolutely necessary. Avoiding is not evading.", "likes": 19, "timestamp": 1629915200, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777746, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Safest way to buy a car with social distancing on BaT.\r\n\r\nDown the road as well", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915201, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777760, "authorName": "Nurburgringer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nurburgringer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@OutOfMyElement claiming residence in a state you don't actually live in can certainly be called \"avoiding\" ;)", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1629915268, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777763, "authorName": "CoolCal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/coolcal/", "bidAmount": 455000, "content": "$455,000 bid placed by CoolCal", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915286, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777765, "authorName": "TheUnderminer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theunderminer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Nurburgringer You must be a blast at parties", "likes": 18, "timestamp": 1629915295, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777769, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Save it Ness for after auction", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915305, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777770, "authorName": "ninerfan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ninerfan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Another big bump coming?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915308, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777774, "authorName": "dylanCA", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dylanca/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@ninerfan Pablo used to ask the same thing.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915329, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777777, "authorName": "davidmathey5901", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/davidmathey5901/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Ahahah my max was 450k for this one!!!\r\nI hope you guys enjoyed the show!!!", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1629915333, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777776, "authorName": "Trublue", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trublue/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Honesty is the best policy", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915333, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777779, "authorName": "ubupear", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ubupear/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I think CoolCal waits until the timer gets to 0:07. Nice touch.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629915337, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777784, "authorName": "brownnb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brownnb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have no dog in this fight and I am stressed about bidders trusting their servers this much! Must be refreshing by the second!", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1629915357, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777786, "authorName": "oligark68", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/oligark68/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "beautiful car", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629915358, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777792, "authorName": "Iceter", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/iceter/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "When the last bid was for $25k more, I don\u2019t think a $1000 bid is going to win it.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915387, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777793, "authorName": "EMow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/emow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "On the spectrum of banter, on one end we have the XBox Live community with their choice words and lack of reserve, and on the other, the BaT crowd with dry wit and fear of a ban.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629915389, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777795, "authorName": "66alfa_gtv", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/66alfa_gtv/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sometimes it's tough watching the well-healed spend their money.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1629915393, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777798, "authorName": "peter19", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/peter19/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Mr. Mathey will be patient for another.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915399, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777799, "authorName": "davidmathey5901", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/davidmathey5901/", "bidAmount": 456000, "content": "$456,000 bid placed by davidmathey5901", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915403, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6777803, "authorName": "peter19", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/peter19/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Or not", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629915417, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777805, "authorName": "BrianS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brians/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Trying to remember the name of that beautiful state between Idaho and North Dakota.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629915419, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777800, "authorName": "audiphile99", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/audiphile99/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "are we getting a .2% raise next?\n\nOops, yup", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915422, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777807, "authorName": "kodibear", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kodibear/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "nevada...not vegas.... and yes it is..", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915424, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777808, "authorName": "dylanCA", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dylanca/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Any jump in price at this level is plenty.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629915429, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777811, "authorName": "ext", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ext/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Mr Mathey not being patient after all!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915446, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777815, "authorName": "bigunit007", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigunit007/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Time for BaT to throttle back all the superfluous comments...", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629915455, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777754, "authorName": "VR6GTiGuy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/vr6gtiguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@OutOfMyElement\n\nWe\u2019re so glad you could attend\nCome inside! Come inside!\nThere behind a glass is a real bad Asston...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915462, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777818, "authorName": "drako13", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/drako13/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@kodibear.. sorry, you are correct. My excuse is that I'm Canadian. lol", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915470, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777809, "authorName": "Getragwerk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/getragwerk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Here's a page format idea, @bringatrailer - I'm sure I'm not being super original, but perhaps the whole experience would be livelier if there were (2) columns, one for the comments and one for the bids. That way you don't have to scroll down through the commenter-chitchat (and the OH SO UNCONSTRUCTIVE comments - LOL) to find the bids, and commenters can keep going at their (our) rhythm...", "likes": 22, "timestamp": 1629915514, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777828, "authorName": "CSM1234", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/csm1234/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Getragwerk\nI suspect that most serious bidders pay very little attention to the comments.", "likes": 19, "timestamp": 1629915518, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777781, "authorName": "drako13", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/drako13/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@nurburgringer. I believe I heard a lot of Californians registering in Nevada to escape the smog requirements.. Is that considered the same thing?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629915520, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777834, "authorName": "Anonymous", "authorUrl": "", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Reserve not met on 8/25/21 at $456,000", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915526, "type": "bat-bid-reserve"}, {"id": 6777835, "authorName": "BrianS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brians/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Getragwerk I tend to scroll past the bids to get caught up on the banter!!", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1629915527, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777837, "authorName": "brownnb", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brownnb/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Figured", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915539, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777838, "authorName": "ninerfan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ninerfan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Dang RNM", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915541, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777840, "authorName": "TheUnderminer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theunderminer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "To be expected but sad to see it happen!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915542, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777842, "authorName": "SkippyArlVa", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/skippyarlva/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "With over 2,700 car aficionados watching some serious productivity drop in \"the office\" right now...", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629915549, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777843, "authorName": "kodibear", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kodibear/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "me too!!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915551, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777849, "authorName": "ralt12", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ralt12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@drako13 as a 1960, no smog requirement for CA.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629915566, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777856, "authorName": "JDSKULL", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jdskull/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "RNM! Who Woulda Thunk It?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915581, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777857, "authorName": "JMack77", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jmack77/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Interested to know the reserve. Well, maybe a post-auction deal can be made!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915584, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777859, "authorName": "cstraub", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cstraub/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That avoided taxes", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1629915589, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777863, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Maybe a deal with the high bidder is possible ~ Hope so", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915597, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777877, "authorName": "luxmotorcars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/luxmotorcars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Thanks for all the great comments and bids.", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1629915644, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777883, "authorName": "audiphile99", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/audiphile99/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "yes, well as I implied .2% and .33% bid raises were not gonna take this to the reserve. The counter bidder needed to be more serious.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915666, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777900, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "You conducted a nice auction seller here @luxmotorcars\r\n\r\nSorry it did not hit the #'s needed", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1629915745, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777906, "authorName": "Spitfire921", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/spitfire921/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I wish they\u2019d make people aware that a reserve is on vehicles.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915788, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777910, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If it's no reserve it's in the title\r\n\r\nOtherwise all have a reserve", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629915819, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777915, "authorName": "OutOfMyElement", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/outofmyelement/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Spitfire921 - they do!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915831, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777919, "authorName": "NCB755", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ncb755/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow. 2767 watching and nobody wants to pay up for this. Time to lower market expectations?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629915843, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777922, "authorName": "bobmillstein10", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bobmillstein10/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Told you so.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629915869, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6777997, "authorName": "Vtec4ever", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/vtec4ever/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Funny, this seller has a lot of cars that are bid to not reach the reserve. They must have very high reserve rates on the vehicles they post here.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629916173, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6778127, "authorName": "luxmotorcars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/luxmotorcars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Vtec4ever we only had 1 other that did not reach the reserve. We do not set the reserve BAT does. Are prices are very competitive and reflect the current market.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1629916639, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6778139, "authorName": "luxmotorcars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/luxmotorcars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Thank you @trademark.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629916687, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6778182, "authorName": "Vtec4ever", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/vtec4ever/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@luxomotors well I was looking at a 1991 Acura NSX, a 2018 McLaren 720S, a 1959 Porsche 356A And none of them sold. These are all according to the past listings on BAT that you listed.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629916858, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6778206, "authorName": "luxmotorcars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/luxmotorcars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "We didnt list the Mclaren or the Porsche. @Vtec4ever I bid on those cars....", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1629916974, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6778223, "authorName": "Vtec4ever", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/vtec4ever/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@luxomotors Alrighty then. Good luck with the sale of the Aston. Hopefully it goes to a good home.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629917074, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6778230, "authorName": "luxmotorcars (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/luxmotorcars/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Vtec4ever Thank you.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629917124, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6778236, "authorName": "dino70089", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dino70089/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Seller made a mistake to not accept the high bid IMO. For a DB4 such as this, the high bid was well within the market. Having recently sold a much nicer DB4, I have experience with these cars.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1629917143, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6778508, "authorName": "Udonome", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/udonome/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I don't think the high was unrealistic, BaT provided a great option for selling this car. In the end only the seller can decide if its enough $ and since they are dealers I would hold out for all the $ too. Think of it this way the only downside of not selling is the DB4 is still in your collection and if any of the 4 DB4's or the two DB5C 's or 2 DB6's or the DBS 6 or 4 AMV8's that used to be in the garage were still there I'd be glad to see them every day.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629918297, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6779413, "authorName": "dino70089", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dino70089/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Udonome The seller is a dealer, not a collector. They sell cars, not to have them sit around carrying overhead. If you look at DB4 sales (and no-sales) over the past 12mos, you'll see that high bid here was towards the top end of what a DB4 can bring in the current market.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1629921659, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6779420, "authorName": "gsarahs", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gsarahs/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It would be nice if once an auction ends up with a \"Bid to $XXX\", that the reserve is disclosed to us BAT'ers. At least then people would have an idea of what would be needed to secure a particular car or a similar one. Smoke and mirrors like in this situation do nothing as far as providing any info to us.", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1629921943, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6779512, "authorName": "Udonome", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/udonome/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "OK @dino70089, pretty sure I said they were a dealer and stated that I would hold out for all the $ too. You don't have to automatically be a collector to enjoy walking past a DB4 in your garage, even if you have had a nice offer on it that you decided not to accept. This might be all the money, but it didn't trade hands so that's how you know the high bid wasn't enough even though BaT typist research say's it was.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629922194, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6779664, "authorName": "dino70089", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dino70089/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"All the money\" is only what someone is willing to pay for it and that may not align with what a seller thinks it's worth...which is typically the case when a reserve is not met and the seller chooses not to adjust their expectation. Since this is BaT, it's not like it would be better to take the car to Pebble vs Scottsdale to get max value.\r\n\r\nI let my DB4 go for a sizable loss, but had I chose to wait, that `all the money' would be significantly less now than it was then. I hope the seller can strike a deal with someone who will enjoy the car rather than it sitting with a dealer who's just trying to max profit.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1629922935, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6780437, "authorName": "Mainesailor", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mainesailor/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Silliness", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1629925812, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6782194, "authorName": "TheOMDude", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theomdude/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@900ss: That's why I come to these boards! To get my dose of humility! So which was first? The 150S was introduced in March, while the Earl's Court introduction of the DB4 wasn't until October, so Jaguar scores a first.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629937222, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6782774, "authorName": "TheOMDude", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/theomdude/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@900ss: I tried answering about a hundred posts ago and BaT wouldn\u2019t post it. I\u2019ll try again. Thanks. One of the reasons I come here is to learn humility. It\u2019s a matter of seven months and the Jaimg 150S was introduced in March, while the Earls Court intro of the DB4 was in October. One could debate whether the XK150 was a sports car while the Aston is a GT but that\u2019s argument for argument\u2019s sake.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1629945637, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 7139107, "authorName": "AhmedAlZain", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ahmedalzain/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "the name is Bond.. James Bond", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1634803113, "type": "comment"}]