[{"id": 6371325, "authorName": "luv2box (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/luv2box/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This is a time-capsule survivor . It is a post-war Sedanet driven sparingly by three previous owners and myself. The initial owner purchased it in western Oregon where it rains 164 days a year. He ordered it with 3M undercoating, seat covers adn Dynaflow Transmission, essentially the first on Buick and only offered on the Roadmaster model. ( I have Ancestry.com information on the first owner).\r\nI believe the current 37,263 miles are original and have service, auto invoice and Arizona Title documents to support that opinion. The interior is original but for replaced carpets and the car was re-painted in 1985.\r\nIt is 100% reliable and a strong performer.", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1623514132, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6371484, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Now that summer is upon us this is the perfect \"Grill\" to buy that comes with a car.\n\nhttps://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1948_buick_roadmaster_sedanette_1620788360c848acc275a5eedb0aIMG_1559-scaled.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365\n\nCar looks great seller ~ Best of luck with the auction", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1623516419, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6371947, "authorName": "Ohjai", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ohjai/", "bidAmount": 1609, "content": "$1,609 bid placed by Ohjai", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623521686, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6372061, "authorName": "Hunts318", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hunts318/", "bidAmount": 6200, "content": "$6,200 bid placed by Hunts318", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623522583, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6372173, "authorName": "Ohjai", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ohjai/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@hunts318 Shucks, my next bid was going to be the body number 4707. You overbid my goal.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623523480, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6372320, "authorName": "Bogeyman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bogeyman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What great lines on this car. One of the best early post war designs from Detroit.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1623524555, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6373368, "authorName": "CaptainMyCaptain", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/captainmycaptain/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "When Lieutenant Henry Dornan got his orders to ship out to the European theater in the summer of \u201942 his girl, Dotty, insisted they get married before he report for duty. He was a realist and argued for waiting till his return. She was a romantic and would have none of it.\r\n\r\nThey made a trip to the Macon County Courthouse that Saturday and then moved their things into the big four square house she had inherited from her grandmother earlier that spring. They lived as man and wife for two weeks, making the most of every moment. Then he was gone.\r\n\r\nA trip to the doctor in September confirmed that she was expecting. Ever the romantic, she sent weekly letters with pictures of the pregnancy\u2019s progress, then snapshots of their son the following April. The two years that followed were not easy, but the last two years of the war weren\u2019t easy for anyone.\r\n\r\nIn June of \u201945 she was enjoying a rare cup of rationed coffee and looking out the window of the front room of the big clapboard house when the shiny black \u201942 Ford sedan pulled up and two uniformed military officers got out. She didn\u2019t even have to read the telegram they came to deliver. She knew. The details were irrelevant.\r\n\r\nShe offered them a glass of lemonade which they declined. That evening she fed her son, bathed him, put him to bed and waited till he was asleep before she collapsed in a heap on the wide pine planked floor and cried until there was nothing left.\r\n\r\nShe made the best of it for another year and a half, but determined to head west and start a new life before the boy started school. Too many memories, and yet not nearly enough. It took another six months to sell the house and everything in it. She took the proceeds from the sale, her husband\u2019s insurance money and packed up his \u201941 Chrysler Town & Country and headed west towards Bakersfield where she had relatives and the promise of a new beginning.\r\n\r\nOn the fourth day of the drive, just outside Fort Stockton, the L-head six cylinder engine of the barrel-backed beast blew. Only due to the kindness of strangers was she able to make it to town. It didn\u2019t take long for the mechanic at Big Sky Buick-GMC to diagnose the problem. The repairs would be far more expensive than the old worn mahogany and white ash whale was worth.\r\n\r\nSome of life\u2019s major decisions take months or years to formulate and implement. Others, not so much.\r\n\r\nDotty sat at the lunch counter of the Rxall Drug, her young towheaded son on the stool next to her, the spitting image of the father he had never seen. Over a patty melt and fries she mapped out a series of decisions on the back of a napkin that would be a sketch of the next several decades.\r\n\r\nShe got $75 in trade for the Chrysler and paid cash for the balance on a Verde Green Buick Roadmaster Sedanet, the first \u201948 model in town.\r\n\r\nShe drove the sexy sedan to the Cattleman Hotel where she checked in and called the relatives in Bakersfield and told them she wasn\u2019t coming. A week later, she bought the vacant red brick ranch home on Decatur Drive.\r\n\r\nShe\u2019d never been to Fort Stockton before, but never left. She ordered a Smith-Corona typewriter from the Wards catalogued began writing, first articles, then short stories. With each one the plots got better, the characters more developed and details more defined.\r\n\r\nThe romance novels came last, but paid best.\r\n\r\nFor someone who had only know the intimate pleasures of a man for two weeks, the varied ways in which she could write about them spoke to readers and provided a life for her and her son.\r\n\r\nHer boy, her Buick, and her books are what she became known for in town. That is, until her second novel was purchased by Hollywood and made into a movie. The proceeds from that paid for a new \u201959 Buick Electra 225 convertible. The beautiful Verde Roadmaster became Little Hank\u2019s fabulous first car.", "likes": 63, "timestamp": 1623537420, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6373394, "authorName": "Socal86", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/socal86/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@CaptainMyCaptain I can just picture Dotty cruising about town with her son in a magnificent Buick as fine as this listing. Thank you for a knockout story !...\u2026\ud83d\udc4d", "likes": 13, "timestamp": 1623538183, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6373424, "authorName": "Mrsqueaks", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mrsqueaks/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My dad had a 1942 Roadmaster Sedanette which he. had when he was posted to Madigan Medical Center, Ft Lewis,Tacoma, Washington before his going to Europe in the army. The BUICK on the radio was the first word I could spell at 3 years old in 1943.", "likes": 14, "timestamp": 1623539265, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6373443, "authorName": "fka_ray", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fka_ray/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "......the marketing wizards at Buick division sure had their mojo working in that era.......came up with some great names, \"Roadmaster\", \"Fireball 8\", \"Dynaflow\",\"Sonomatic\", and even \"Sedanet\", the only carmaker to ever use that made-up word (but only in their marketing, never on the car itself)...", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1623539738, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6373455, "authorName": "Socal86", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/socal86/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The Van Auklen bumper guards are the epitome of a grill and bumper guards !..... Extremely rare and worthy on this beautiful Buick Sedanet. Truly an era of fine automobile styling !..\u2026.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1623540069, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6373490, "authorName": "Dick_Steinkamp", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dick_steinkamp/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well done pictures, videos and presentation! This car makes quite a statement. Beautiful and special.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1623541200, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6373640, "authorName": "Darel", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/darel/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"Green Green\"?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1623545821, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6373695, "authorName": "luv2box (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/luv2box/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Thanks for these kind initial comments. I'll learn a lot about my car this week. It is an incredibly nice example of Harley Earl styling. Note how the dash molding continues into the door trim. I love just admiring it ! I've mainly been in Thailand these last 10 years, returning only two months in the summer. So I've driven this land yacht only 400 miles. In the meantime, it's had aviation fuel and monthly warm-ups. Good luck to you all.", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1623547364, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6373706, "authorName": "ODA593", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/oda593/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What, no free CARFAX? \ud83d\ude1c", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1623547645, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6374101, "authorName": "Maaserv", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/maaserv/", "bidAmount": 7000, "content": "$7,000 bid placed by Maaserv", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623583650, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6374126, "authorName": "TR68", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tr68/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Aviation fuel? Kerosene? Is this car a diesel?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623585667, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6374153, "authorName": "1988callaway32", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/1988callaway32/", "bidAmount": 11948, "content": "$11,948 bid placed by 1988callaway32", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623587297, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6374226, "authorName": "chucklikesit", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chucklikesit/", "bidAmount": 19999, "content": "$19,999 bid placed by chucklikesit", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623589365, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6374247, "authorName": "1988callaway32", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/1988callaway32/", "bidAmount": 21948, "content": "$21,948 bid placed by 1988callaway32", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623590079, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6374337, "authorName": "bondgraham", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bondgraham/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A Buick like this in a place called Carefree AZ?\r\nSign me up.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1623591994, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6374373, "authorName": "Lance_Tesla", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lance_tesla/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Gorgeous car, but I\u2019d take the bumper guards off her before I drove her home! IMHO, they look like shiny pushbars off a Highway Patrol cruiser.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623592980, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6374811, "authorName": "Pontiacs4evr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/pontiacs4evr/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This car is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen with 4 wheels and an engine.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623601753, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6374927, "authorName": "neverenoughgold", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/neverenoughgold/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Only two weords necessary, understated elegance. No wonder Buicks were often referred to as the doctor's car!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1623604459, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6375033, "authorName": "coffeebreak", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/coffeebreak/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Its' got Chrome! Not too much but enough to make a statement.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1623606618, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6375553, "authorName": "msmiranda", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/msmiranda/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@TR68\nAviation gasoline still has tetraethyl lead additives the way god and General Motors intended. And no alcohol. Jet fuel, however, is essentially kerosene.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1623610163, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6375983, "authorName": "TR68", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tr68/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@msmiranda Thank you. I had no idea lead was still available. Nor do I know anything about aircraft. One can always learn something new at BaT.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1623611597, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6376119, "authorName": "Haciendaguy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/haciendaguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Plus the aviation fuel is 100 octane for some power boost.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623612364, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6377994, "authorName": "MBM", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mbm/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Yes indeed a great warm power house surrounded in class and chrome. Notice how that dynaflow just keeps gliding with absolutely no shifting or jerks. That's because the transmission does not shift gears but is driven off of pumps and turbine fluid action, So Smooooth ... btw: At 6 or 7 : 1 compression don't need or can utilize the higher octane and with the inherant high nickel head metallurgical content of the Buick straight eights including all of the later nailhead V8's,. High lead is not really needed as lead content in fuel is used to cool the valve stems and guides not cushion them. At any angle a deserving car for a deserving collector.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1623641947, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6378145, "authorName": "msmiranda", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/msmiranda/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm not sure I'd agree that a higher octane would result in a power boost per se. The tetraethyllead in leaded gasoline was included as an anti-knock compound and the higher numbers indicated fuels that were formulated for higher compression engines which of course do have higher power. However, an added benefit is that the lead also acted as a lubricant, particularly for valve stems and seats. Engine rebuilders learned to use hardened valve seats and guides so that they were able to function properly on unleaded fuel.\r\n\r\nA straight across comparison of auto gas and avgas is complicated at best. Aircraft piston engines normally operate at a steady power setting and at a great variety of altitudes. The pilot adjusts the fuel/air mixture from the cockpit. Takeoff and other situations requiring full power are always at full rich. Cruising is usually at the best lean setting for economy or for speed. Constant speed propellers and turbo or superchargers further complicate the equation.\r\n\r\nAviation engines and fuels must meet very stringent standards for certification. Basic \"regular\" leaded avgas had a rating of 80/87 octane which meant it was rated at 80 octane at a full rich setting used for takeoff, landing, and other full power situations. The 87 octane rating referred to the fuel's performance at cruising speeds and at altitude when the mixture is leaned. Avgas rated at 80/87 is seldom found at airports anymore.\r\n\r\nThe most common formulation nowadays is 100LL (low lead) which contains roughly half the lead that used to be found in premium grade automotive gas.\r\n\r\nThe real benefit to running this car on aviation gasoline is that it contains real TEL. Presumably this car has never had its engine rebuilt so the valve seats and guides have not been replaced with new ones designed to operate on unleaded fuel.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1623653311, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6378482, "authorName": "rfm45", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rfm45/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I\u2019m familiar with later Dynaflows where the transmission function is controlled by a single gear selector. What is the driver doing with the second selector on the right side of the steering column? It appears he\u2019s pulling it down and up to control some aspect of performance.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623677432, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6378528, "authorName": "stratguy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stratguy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have some cool photos that I took of an old Roadmaster. If the buyer is interested, I can send them. Here is an example.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/bk2v2BJ", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623678771, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6378646, "authorName": "Ranchero65", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ranchero65/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "In addition to what @msmiranda has stated regarding avgas and the effects of TEL I will give my personal experience. Back in the late 80s I was driving a 68 Buick Riviera with a 455 V8 rated at 9.5 to 1 compression. The engine would ping under moderate load using the unleaded regular available at the time. I found a convenience store near my home that also sold 104 octane avgas. I found that a roughly 4 to one mix of avgas and regular unleaded solved the detonation issue (4 gal reg to 1 gal avgas). On a lark I once tried a full tank of avgas but found that the car did not run as well and lacked power. My reading on the subject revealed that TEL prevented ping by resisting ignition of the fuel. My 4:1 mix gave the fuel just enough ignition resistance to prevent pre-ignition under any load but allowing the engine to make full power. A full load of avgas caused the fuel to resist ignition under all conditions and caused the sub-optimal performance.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1623681028, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6378854, "authorName": "luv2box (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/luv2box/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\" The big news for the year was Dynaflow, which many automotive experts consider one of the most important automotive developments since the self starter. It appeared only as an option on Roadmaster cars this year, but the demand for the new torque converter type of transmission was so great that production facilities were doubled, tripled, and then quadrupled. Within two years, 85% of all Buicks built would have Dynaflow. \" {George Damman).\r\nAs mentioned, this one runs silky smooth, strong and doesn't leak.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1623684622, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6379621, "authorName": "msmiranda", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/msmiranda/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I love the driving video. The car is so smooth and solid. Notice when he turns the radio on it takes a few seconds before that warm sound comes on. That's the vacuum tubes warming up to give us that gorgeous analog sound. Vacuum tube audio - there's nothing like it! \n\nI would not replace it. If I felt I had to have a modern audio system I'd hide it somewhere. But keep that original just as it is. Replacement tubes can be easily found.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1623693945, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6382760, "authorName": "msmiranda", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/msmiranda/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A trip from Point A to Point B puts very different demands on an automobile engine and an aircraft engine. For example, Seattle to Denver. Both start at about sea level and end at about 5,500 feet. But the airplane climbs to cruising altitude, sets a direct course for its destination, and descends to Denver. The car, on the other hand, passes over city streets, stops for traffic lights, climbs hills, descends grades, and cruises on the interstate during its journey. It's a different kind of engine doing a different kind of job. \n\n@Ranchero65's experience with a full tank of avgas may illustrate a characteristic of that fuel. Avgas is formulated to operate at high altitudes. Some piston engine aircraft can operate at 20 or 25 thousand feet or more. So the fuel is formulated to perform optimally at a lower vapor pressure because the ambient air pressure is much lower at altitude.\n\nThe performance at takeoff is adjusted by enriching the mixture as I mentioned before. Some airplanes have an \"auto-rich\" and \"auto-lean\" setting to reduce the pilot's workload. But a simple airplane like a Cessna 150 has a manual rich/lean adjustment in the throttle.\n\nThe decreased performance @Ranchero65 mentioned very likely had to do with vapor pressure issues. It wasn't designed for a car engine and he had no way of leaning the mixture while driving. It sounds like he hit on an ideal mix of avgas and auto gas to get the benefits of TEL while still getting satisfactory performance.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1623714507, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6384492, "authorName": "JoeZap", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/joezap/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "To rfm45: The little lever is the turn indicator.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623769170, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6384785, "authorName": "Maaserv", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/maaserv/", "bidAmount": 22200, "content": "$22,200 bid placed by Maaserv", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623773733, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6385217, "authorName": "chucklikesit", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chucklikesit/", "bidAmount": 22999, "content": "$22,999 bid placed by chucklikesit", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623779806, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6386353, "authorName": "oldone2", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/oldone2/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@CaptainMyCaptain...Sometimes funny. Sometimes sad. The widow Dornan and the Buick pulled my heart strings. What was the name of the movie?", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1623787271, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6387109, "authorName": "oldone2", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/oldone2/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "In middle age, half a lifetime ago, I got a hand-me-down 19-something Roadmaster as a family car. It had DYNAFLOW. It was very slow. Smooth, but slow. I lived in NYC where alternate side street parking was impossible so I parked it under the bridge in Queens. When I went to get it for a weekend trip it was gone. Police didn't care. I didn't miss it. The green car is one of my all time favorites. Don't leave it just anywhere.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1623791801, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6389050, "authorName": "rfm45", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rfm45/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "JoeZap\r\nThanks. Never saw one on the right side", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1623846296, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6389165, "authorName": "chucklikesit", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chucklikesit/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "avation gas is also 6.00 plus a gallon..............................fill er up............................", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1623848649, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6390453, "authorName": "Red1234", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/red1234/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Almost all Buicks of that era were dealer-equipped with either Helms or Van Auken bumper guards., as they were very popular then.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1623865601, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6401123, "authorName": "carpartsnos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carpartsnos/", "bidAmount": 23300, "content": "$23,300 bid placed by carpartsnos", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624030839, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6402254, "authorName": "luv2box (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/luv2box/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Information from the firewall data plate :\r\n\r\nSerial No: 2 Southgate , Ca. Assembly plant\r\n\r\nSTYle: 4707- Model 76S Roadmaster Sedanet\r\n\r\nBody No: C1481 ( Body number, C means Fischer plant at Southgate )\r\n\r\nTrim No. 76 : Grey Heather Bedford Cord.\r\n\r\nPaint No.: Verde Green\r\n\r\nIt has been at rest for two weeks but just fired up immediately. All instruments function as new with the exception of the clock, and I have two extra Sonomatics for parts if it needs them. The engine number indicates it came off the line just weeks before hydraulic lifters were standard. This was a surprise as the engine is very quiet. I'm proud of this car. If you have any questions let me know.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1624041781, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6403512, "authorName": "chucklikesit", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/chucklikesit/", "bidAmount": 23999, "content": "$23,999 bid placed by chucklikesit", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624049028, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6405016, "authorName": "luv2box (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/luv2box/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The stainless trim pieces of the \"running boards\" were inextricably missing so I had them made. The 1985 paint shop thought the valve cover looked better in black so I corrected that. I replaced the oil and grease stained trunk floor fabric with a matching pattern from Bob's Automobilia. Shout out to them ! An ole time interior guy told me my lumpy front bench seat was because Buick at the time used latex rubber here and it eventually disintegrated. So I had him re-do it.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1624067197, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6405829, "authorName": "gmastro", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gmastro/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What a gleaming piece of art. Just stunning. \n\nWould have enjoyed hearing the horn whilst weaving through the cacti.\n\nThe new owner will be a damn lucky dude/dudette, imho.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1624112519, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6406204, "authorName": "carpartsnos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carpartsnos/", "bidAmount": 24249, "content": "$24,249 bid placed by carpartsnos", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624118579, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6406287, "authorName": "Gulf-Porsche_21", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gulf-porsche_21/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My 89 year old mother has fond memories of taking a road trip from with her uncle and cousin in a Roadmaster. This was in the late 1940s, in a model with Dyna Flow. Uncle \u201cVander\u201d sometimes used both lanes of the 2 lane highways. She recalled the Dyna Flow has a distinct sound. GLWA.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624119944, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6406486, "authorName": "cmt2000", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cmt2000/", "bidAmount": 24700, "content": "$24,700 bid placed by cmt2000", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624123145, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6406511, "authorName": "carpartsnos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carpartsnos/", "bidAmount": 25100, "content": "$25,100 bid placed by carpartsnos", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624123526, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6406748, "authorName": "CULLYSBRO", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cullysbro/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Brings back memories of my 50 Olds sedanet or torpedoback as we referred to them. Lovely car. GLWTA", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624126191, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6407014, "authorName": "bellfleet", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bellfleet/", "bidAmount": 25500, "content": "$25,500 bid placed by bellfleet", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624128207, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6407035, "authorName": "carpartsnos", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carpartsnos/", "bidAmount": 25750, "content": "$25,750 bid placed by carpartsnos", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624128335, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 6407133, "authorName": "Anonymous", "authorUrl": "", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Reserve not met on 6/19/21 at $25,750", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624129202, "type": "bat-bid-reserve"}, {"id": 6407210, "authorName": "Mercuryman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mercuryman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This Roadmaster is a really beautiful example. Just stunning in every way.\n\nBased on the bidding for this car and the disappointing bids on my recent 1949 Mercury coupe BAT auction, I just am not sure that BAT is the best venue for 1940s American classics.\n\nThis Buick, in my opinion, is worth a whole lot more than the high bid.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1624130052, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6407528, "authorName": "bluesman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bluesman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Agree Merc, this is a very nice car, too nice for final bids.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624132363, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6408071, "authorName": "Zeke", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/zeke/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The sad thing is that the Buyers for these cars are in their 70's and there are not that many out there with the extra garage or warehouse space. The question of BAT being the appropriate sale venue for this type of vehicle is valid, but where else to go? Car clubs specific to a brand? How many of us work on our own cars and the knowledge that the Seller repeatedly demonstrated in his comments means a Buyer better already know or get up to speed quickly.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624140194, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6408163, "authorName": "SirBradford", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sirbradford/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Nice Roadmaster, worth more than bid for sure. Looks like 40s classics have fewer interested bidders of late; makes me feel older than my years. My father always called the transmissions, Dynaslush, but then he was stoplight drag racing his '34 Ford coupe in the early 50s. I would be pleased to comfortably cruise in this 2-speed automatic.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1624143012, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6408386, "authorName": "LastV8", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/lastv8/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"I'm an excellent driver...\"", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1624149907, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6413520, "authorName": "Mercuryman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mercuryman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I think several factors are at work here.\r\n\r\n1. Lots of BAT buyers seem to be attracted to modified cars that have a lot of bling, such as these:\r\nhttps://bringatrailer.com/listing/1948-buick-roadmaster-sedanette-2/\r\n\r\nhttps://bringatrailer.com/listing/1949-mercury-eight-restomod/\r\n\r\n2. BAT now auctions a lot more cars than they once did. There is just a lot to look at and to try to sift through. \r\n\r\n3. Originality apparently doesn\u2019t have that much appeal to the majority of the BAT audience.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1624295741, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 6634552, "authorName": "mid60soldsfan", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mid60soldsfan/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@luv2box would be interested in talking to you but not sure how this works post auction", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1627854487, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 9241691, "authorName": "aclau415", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aclau415/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Have 49 Convertible Roadmaster which needs some restoration. Do you recommend a shop? In AZ?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1660079350, "type": "comment"}]