[{"id": 5467052, "authorName": "WAGONBOYTD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wagonboytd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Rail rider Love it.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608137564, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467104, "authorName": "bobrk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bobrk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Love to see old tech. What's the deal with that fan on the... flywheel?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1608138020, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467159, "authorName": "minshall", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/minshall/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That will buff right out.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1608138453, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467218, "authorName": "Fez", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fez/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If only I saw this in May, I'd be finished with it.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1608139192, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467212, "authorName": "Fez", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fez/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@bobrk The radiator is at the rear of the engine, so I'd guess it's a suck-through downdraft flow. (very technical term I used).", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1608139206, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467230, "authorName": "bobrk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bobrk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Fez, that was my thought as well. I'm guessing there is some missing ductwork...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608139332, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467291, "authorName": "voiture", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/voiture/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "There's one of these the in the Schlumpf collection in Mulhouse. It's pretty imposing (both the collection and the car).", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608139951, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467645, "authorName": "alanm96ss", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alanm96ss/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is there a carfax available for this car? How many owners?", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1608144034, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467675, "authorName": "59turner", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/59turner/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@bobrk Most motors of the day were not meant to be portable, but on a stand to power a factory or equipment. Putting them in a moving chassis caused the cooling issue to be solved. The easiest way to get air past a radiator required for cars was to add the fan blades to the fly wheel which was already exposed and turning. This also meant that the radiator went in the back of the engine. Engines dedicated to cars slowly put the radiator in front for better cooling. Renault kept the radiator/fan in the back much longer than others.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1608144413, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467734, "authorName": "e9er", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/e9er/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If you are comfortably retired but long to work at Home Depot in the plumbing dept. wishing you could get your old day job back, then buy car and restore this car.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608144767, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467796, "authorName": "Alfanut2600", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alfanut2600/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm curious about the toothed wheel that is mounted to the front right wheel hub, visible in photos 63 and 167. Anyone know what it is for? I've got to assume it is not a reluctor wheel for an early ABS system! A speedometer drive, perhaps - although why you'd choose one of the front wheels for that is beyond me?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608145131, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467837, "authorName": "AlfaZagato", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alfazagato/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hate to be pedantic, but there appears to be five spokes on that steering wheel, @BaT", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608145283, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467883, "authorName": "spit6", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/spit6/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@alfanut2600, yes it is for the speedometer", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1608145514, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5467752, "authorName": "Dontbeasnob", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dontbeasnob/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If I bought this, I would only get it running, and literally drive it as is just to confuse people. My license plate holder \u201cmo money mo problems.\u201d Cool rig though.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1608145532, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5468416, "authorName": "schigh", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/schigh/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I can also vouch for the auto museum in Mulhouse. Probably spent 5 hours there and I'm sure I didn't actually see everything. Even Jay Leno has been there.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608147933, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5468505, "authorName": "wilco", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wilco/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "You are correct that is the speedo drive on the front wheel.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608148336, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5468541, "authorName": "wilco", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wilco/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A lot of early heavy trucks use the radiator behind engine design as well gave a lot better protection for the delicate radiator.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608148441, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5468551, "authorName": "wilco", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wilco/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What size are the tires? \r\nIt looks like 30 by 2 and a 1/2", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608148466, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5469007, "authorName": "Lewis", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lewis/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@WAGONBOYTD- I was in Palma de Mallorca in the 1970s when I was in the Navy and in the narrow-gauge railway station roundhouse was one of these mounted on tiny rail wheels. The steering column was removed as well. There were also two 1920s? Citroen pickup trucks. I tried like hell to find out if I could buy the trucks but had no luck and they wouldn't let me bring them back on the ship. When we went back there a year later, everything was gone. The entire roundhouse complex was set up for steam locomotives be there were none to be seen.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608150331, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5469502, "authorName": "wilco", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wilco/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It looks to be a 12CV type EU\r\n1917-1921.\r\n if any of you francophiles know better please chime in.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1608152668, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5471625, "authorName": "Alfanut2600", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alfanut2600/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Thanks @wilco. It still seems odd to me to use a steerable wheel as the source for the speedometer. I wish there was a photo showing the speedo drive mechanism.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608165942, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5472106, "authorName": "ARO1984", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aro1984/", "bidAmount": 500, "content": "$500 bid placed by ARO1984", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608173960, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5472390, "authorName": "Autobroker", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/autobroker/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Will this vehicle be able to make a cross country drive? If not, what needs to be done to make a trip to Los Angeles?", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1608179676, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5472395, "authorName": "Autobroker", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/autobroker/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Is the registration current?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1608179711, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5472428, "authorName": "speedbump", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/speedbump/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Based on the impressively sized heater core at the firewall, this must have been equipped with the optional cold-climate package.\r\nWonder what condition this was in when it became a donor car 54 years ago?...", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1608180737, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5472645, "authorName": "shervinator", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/shervinator/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Imagine how long you would have to spend explaining to the original owner where this car would end up 100 years later.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1608201536, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5472658, "authorName": "brakeservo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brakeservo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Taking the speedometer drive off a front wheel wasn't all that unusual when this car was built.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1608203545, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5473166, "authorName": "wilco", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wilco/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yes it was common practice to use the one front wheel for the speedometer Drive.\n look up Ford Model T speedometer drive and the pictures will be very similar I'm sure to what this Renault had.\n at least it would give you a more accurate distance traveled back in the days of Muddy roads were your back wheels were spinning often.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1608217343, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5473566, "authorName": "Rocketbill", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rocketbill/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@IMSMuseum. You should let Peter Mullin know about this car. It would make a wonderful addition to his collection of French cars in his museum in Oxnard.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608222435, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5475005, "authorName": "bringatrailer", "authorUrl": "", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A walk-around video has been added by the seller. \u2013 BaT", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608233794, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5478611, "authorName": "brakeservo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/brakeservo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Rocketbill - I suspect this car is too far gone and too proletarian to be of any interest to Mullin.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1608264855, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5485261, "authorName": "jim_rosenthal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jim_rosenthal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well, this web site IS called BringATrailer..... this is scary. How rare ARE these cars? Is this \"worth restoring\"?", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1608386451, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5489570, "authorName": "Dagwood", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dagwood/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I looked at the thumbnail of this car and thought \u201cthis looks like a Renault from the front end treatment and radiator position. I\u2019m glad I did open this thread up because I have never seen one except occasionally in car books. What a cool and very unusual vehicle. Cheers to whoever wins this. I mighty restoration, but lots worse hehicles have been saved. GL @ seller and bidders.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1608527591, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5491864, "authorName": "MannyD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mannyd/", "bidAmount": 1500, "content": "$1,500 bid placed by MannyD", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608580325, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5493855, "authorName": "MannyD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mannyd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It looks like the clutch is missing are their any other parts not shown in the photos . A few parts are in the back seat but it looks like the clutch is incomplete", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608589768, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5494979, "authorName": "ONLYINUTAH", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/onlyinutah/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If you had not said this was in a museum, you would think this was a recent barn find!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608598872, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5495287, "authorName": "Lyonsvee", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lyonsvee/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@mannyd looks like all the gauges and dash as well", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608603670, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5495416, "authorName": "RevSome", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/revsome/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Leather roof. Wicker body panels. Built to last.\r\n\r\nHeck, it's a Renault. Add some kerosene, should fire right up.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1608605919, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5496063, "authorName": "MannyD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mannyd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The hood looks to be incomplete and not the correct one as it is too small. The correct hood would cover the top of the radiator water pipe . So I guess what you see is what you get.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608642211, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5496133, "authorName": "markrubyred", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/markrubyred/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Will it pass CA emissions?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608644011, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5496189, "authorName": "IMSMuseum (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/imsmuseum/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hello @MannyD,\r\n\r\nThe Renault was purchased along with another Towncar bodied Renault by the Foundation in the late 1960s. This was purchased as a \"parts car\" for the restoration of the town car. We do not have any extra parts with the car and what is documented in the images comes with the car.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1608645448, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5496208, "authorName": "Patrick01", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/patrick01/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Absolutely, positively a car that I've never seen before! Renault had such a distinctive hood in the day; sure, the one on the car is incorrect, but one could picture the right one on the car easily. In Titanic, there was a four-door Renault in the hold.\n\nA guy could restore this one. Lots have been done with a lot less to start with. A guy could always build a killer hot rod from it (ducks!). Whatever the end result, this can be, and is, a really unique car in every sense. The potential is there...even if it ends up as art in the corner of someone's shop or man cave (I despise that term!)", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608645791, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5496273, "authorName": "Patrick01", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/patrick01/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@alfanut2600 - The speedometer drive was on an undriven wheel because then, the odometer and speedometer would read the actual distance traveled, and the right speed. Roads back then were generally a mudpit in rural areas. As a driven wheel would spin in the mud, this would lead to inaccuracies in the total miles driven, were the speedometer/odo driven off the transmission, as cars/trucks are today. At least, that is the reasoning I remember when reading about why Henry Ford did the very same thing on his early cars.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608647043, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5496307, "authorName": "Thaxted2bat", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/thaxted2bat/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If you have to ask the price, then you can not afford it.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608647522, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5496926, "authorName": "wilco", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wilco/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It uses a cone type clutch. most of the clutch components seemed to be there except for the large compression Spring.\r\n Often they were lined with leather and it looks like the leather is dried and disintegrated on the angled edge of the big aluminum clutch disk.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608655180, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5497063, "authorName": "wilco", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wilco/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Fort Wayne clutch and drive line can reline it .\r\n If you look at picture 135 and 137 laying on the back floor looks to be the main pressure Spring on the connector shaft that runs between the transmission and the clutch.\r\n But I'm sure a few components and some hardware are missing.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608656917, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5497375, "authorName": "JeremyJames", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jeremyjames/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Great candidate for LSX swap!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1608660757, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5499549, "authorName": "groceg", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/groceg/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What a positively elegant car this must have been in it's day.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608673035, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5501136, "authorName": "AVd", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/avd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Was the radiator placement a design or engineering outcome on some of this era cars?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608681848, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5501246, "authorName": "427CSX", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/427csx/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Bids just kind of languishing, . . . hey - where's old Packard11 when you need him?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608683912, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5501986, "authorName": "j.t.", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/j.t.-user/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Any color you want as long as it's wicker. Happy 100th year Berline!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608697158, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5502628, "authorName": "TTM", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ttm/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Beautiful exhaust manifold... pic 149", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608732397, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5502819, "authorName": "Lewis", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lewis/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Would it be possible that the hood is from a Franklin? I recall that Franklins had such a grill on their earlier models. But having said that, a Franklin hood would have two rows of horizontal louvers which on this one may have been covered over. Google images has pictures of Franklins and the shape is quite similar. Didn't Renault hoods of this era have a crease down the centre and a small diamond-shaped grille in the middle with the word \"Renault\" horizontal in the middle of it?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608735501, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5503051, "authorName": "MannyD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mannyd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Are their any numbers on the bottom left side of radiator on a plate ? I know the serial nimber plate must be missing since their is no dashboard. Any paperwork?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608738656, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5503443, "authorName": "IMSMuseum (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/imsmuseum/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hello @MannyD,\r\n\r\nThe plate you are referring to is listed in image 152. It appears to say 25. As we purchased this car along with another Renault as a parts car for that restoration. We do not have too much paperwork on the vehicle.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608743742, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5503812, "authorName": "AlpineElement", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alpineelement/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Bring a Tow Dolly", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608748148, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504062, "authorName": "costapa", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/costapa/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This is a Berlinette: a Berline in the internet", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608750075, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504371, "authorName": "Alfanut2600", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/alfanut2600/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Patrick01 thanks for the additional info on the speedometer drive. I'm always learning something new on BAT thanks to knowledgeable contributors such as yourself!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608751682, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504828, "authorName": "Sluggo76", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sluggo76/", "bidAmount": 1600, "content": "$1,600 bid placed by Sluggo76", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608754521, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5504856, "authorName": "Lyonsvee", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lyonsvee/", "bidAmount": 1800, "content": "$1,800 bid placed by Lyonsvee", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608754743, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5504867, "authorName": "Sluggo76", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sluggo76/", "bidAmount": 1900, "content": "$1,900 bid placed by Sluggo76", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608754811, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5504884, "authorName": "Lyonsvee", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lyonsvee/", "bidAmount": 2000, "content": "$2,000 bid placed by Lyonsvee", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608754921, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5504894, "authorName": "Sluggo76", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sluggo76/", "bidAmount": 2100, "content": "$2,100 bid placed by Sluggo76", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608754984, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5504901, "authorName": "MannyD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mannyd/", "bidAmount": 2500, "content": "$2,500 bid placed by MannyD", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755041, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5504903, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Good luck here bidders", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755062, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504913, "authorName": "Sluggo76", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sluggo76/", "bidAmount": 2600, "content": "$2,600 bid placed by Sluggo76", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755116, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5504918, "authorName": "MannyD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mannyd/", "bidAmount": 2800, "content": "$2,800 bid placed by MannyD", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755130, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5504928, "authorName": "Sluggo76", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sluggo76/", "bidAmount": 2900, "content": "$2,900 bid placed by Sluggo76", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755211, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5504931, "authorName": "MannyD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mannyd/", "bidAmount": 3050, "content": "$3,050 bid placed by MannyD", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755224, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5504936, "authorName": "zachmac", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/zachmac/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "So far were at about $1 for every manhour it will take to breath life into it. GLTA bidders.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755247, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504938, "authorName": "Softal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/softal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Any idea how much time and money to bring this\r\nback to driving?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755259, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504943, "authorName": "Sluggo76", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sluggo76/", "bidAmount": 3150, "content": "$3,150 bid placed by Sluggo76", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755297, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5504942, "authorName": "zachmac", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/zachmac/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Softal - see my guesstimate below. Brave souls bidding here!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755331, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504948, "authorName": "Softal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/softal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Thanks @zachmac", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755332, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504953, "authorName": "tgb6621", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tgb6621/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Softal Well it took 100 Years to get to this condition so I'm assuming it will take about the same time to get it back.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1608755358, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504960, "authorName": "Softal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/softal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\ud83d\udc4d@tgb6621", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608755401, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504965, "authorName": "Sluggo76", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sluggo76/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sold on 12/23/20 for $3,150 to Sluggo76", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755418, "type": "bat-bid-reserve"}, {"id": 5504969, "authorName": "shervinator", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/shervinator/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Au revoir, Renault!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755425, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504970, "authorName": "Spider_Mike", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/spider_mike/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Congratulations @Sluggo76. Would love to hear your plans for the Renault. Please consider sending BaT the \"After\" pictures. Does your wife know about this?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608755428, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5504982, "authorName": "zachmac", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/zachmac/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well we now know where @Sluggo76 will be the next several winters. Congrats.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755465, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5505013, "authorName": "Sluggo76", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sluggo76/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Thanks. Will be a very interesting project.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1608755671, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5505018, "authorName": "MannyD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mannyd/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I bid before the auction closed 3259. Why did you refuse my bid. Did you block my bid", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608755686, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5505207, "authorName": "TTM", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ttm/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Great buy @Sluggo76 Nice, do-able project once the hood/bonnet is sourced or created. Great potential! ...it may turn out to be a 1919 if you research the VIN...", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608756749, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5505234, "authorName": "OutOfMyElement", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/outofmyelement/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Best of luck, and while I am late to the auction, did anyone inquire about the date codes on the tires?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608756900, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5505285, "authorName": "tintinmilou", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tintinmilou/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "And the site earns its name.\r\nFelicitations, et bonne chance! \r\nEt surtout, bon moral! ;-)", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1608757126, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5506042, "authorName": "CBPhoenix", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cbphoenix/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have a few parts from a seized EU engine if you want to get in touch I am in Australia.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608761271, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5507015, "authorName": "shakingthrough", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/shakingthrough/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@MannyD - sorry to read that happened, but there is no motivation to block anyone's bids. Most likely your screen did not reload in time making it appear that you still had time to bid when the 2 minute Bring a Trailer clock had in reality already run out.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1608765386, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5520251, "authorName": "Fez", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fez/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "No... shi#. I could have afforded the transport, I'm only 60 miles from the Speedway.\r\n\r\nMy estimate was $11,000", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1609174144, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5624385, "authorName": "Lyonsvee", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lyonsvee/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@sluggo76 I've tried getting a hold of you through Jason at the speedway, please give me a ring, I have photos of the hood and have a question about your wheels, thanks!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1611178534, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 13711525, "authorName": "Saras", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/saras/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Looking to collaborate with fellow Renault owners for restoration project of my Renault 1912.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1708432123, "type": "comment"}]