[{"id": 5866115, "authorName": "Jy3", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jy3/", "bidAmount": 20000, "content": "$20,000 bid placed by Jy3", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615327728, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5866427, "authorName": "rpmack_nc", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rpmack_nc/", "bidAmount": 21000, "content": "$21,000 bid placed by rpmack_nc", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615328805, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5867935, "authorName": "JohnyLaw", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/johnylaw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Odometer rolled back twice and car backed into a pole... awesome. Now I understand why the video showed a cold start followed by an immediate pull away. Geez.", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1615346310, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5868108, "authorName": "aleccartio", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aleccartio/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@jbarbakow look at the seconds on this auction's first video.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615350187, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5868144, "authorName": "Jbarbakow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jbarbakow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@aleccartio 1 second too long in my opinion...thx for putting a smile on my face.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615351418, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5868146, "authorName": "aleccartio", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/aleccartio/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It\u2019s your favorite number. \r\n\r\nFour. \r\n\r\n@jbarbakow", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615351427, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5868323, "authorName": "vintageair", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/vintageair/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "iPhone video lol, it \"thinks\" it's smarter than you but nope, it isn't.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615360748, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5868577, "authorName": "maxpowermotors", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/maxpowermotors/", "bidAmount": 45678, "content": "$45,678 bid placed by maxpowermotors", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615382472, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5869002, "authorName": "Carrera4.0", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carrera4.0/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "First Ferrari listing that refers to the side-view mirror in the first sentence. I'd have led with the door locks.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1615389316, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5869027, "authorName": "Steveo570", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/steveo570/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "They may want to move the line: \"an accident-free Carfax report\" down next to the actual carfax report to avoid scrolling all the way back up to see if they read that right.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1615389676, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5869840, "authorName": "Carunch", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carunch/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Looks like Spring has come early to Greenwich as I live north of there and we still have deep snow in our yard.\r\n\r\nGoing to watch this one.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615399126, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5870558, "authorName": "Eric_B", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/eric_b/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I love the mirror placement on these early cars!", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1615404314, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5874559, "authorName": "markmnayerji", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/markmnayerji/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "How bad was the accident?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615431861, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5875075, "authorName": "adamderkacz", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/adamderkacz/", "bidAmount": 46000, "content": "$46,000 bid placed by adamderkacz", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615445729, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5875112, "authorName": "Bennywar", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bennywar/", "bidAmount": 48000, "content": "$48,000 bid placed by Bennywar", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615449242, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5875139, "authorName": "Abenibal", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/abenibal/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Do you have pics of pole damage before bodywork ? Who did bodywork , do you have pics during body work ? All OME PARTS ? No bondo I hope", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615453513, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5879363, "authorName": "goldcondor", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/goldcondor/", "bidAmount": 50000, "content": "$50,000 bid placed by goldcondor", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615498874, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5879728, "authorName": "mikeor", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mikeor/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@BaT How can you state \"an accident-free Carfax report\" in the first paragraph and then state \"The Carfax report lists a November 2001 accident\" in the second paragraph?", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1615500355, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5880872, "authorName": "mikeor", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mikeor/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@bimota11 LOL", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615505202, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5881144, "authorName": "Kralcster (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kralcster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As to the accident, it was a minor dent caused by a low speed backing into a pole. I did not own the car at the time but spoke to the seller. The repair is such that you cannot tell in any way it was repaired. Happy to provide even more photos if they would be helpful. \r\n\r\nAs to the clean car fax, BAT drafts these ads and I don\u2019t know why they said that. It should be revised. \r\n\r\nThe odometer has never been touched and the miles are verified and accurate. \r\n\r\nFinally. A new steering rack and new fuel accumulators have been installed in the last five months.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1615509565, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5884043, "authorName": "cy_car_guy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cy_car_guy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Ah, another Montana supercar ;-)\r\nThese are such iconic cars - the photos and videos don't do it justice.\r\nGLWTA", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1615576517, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5885044, "authorName": "mschratter", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mschratter/", "bidAmount": 52000, "content": "$52,000 bid placed by mschratter", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615581087, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5887593, "authorName": "fasteddieh", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fasteddieh/", "bidAmount": 53500, "content": "$53,500 bid placed by fasteddieh", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615599058, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5887940, "authorName": "Ccster", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ccster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Anyone notice the luggage! Just looked it up and it\u2019s around 12k. I probobly would have made this more clear in the description", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1615605818, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5888080, "authorName": "ACDarata", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/acdarata/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Do you know if the accident repair was on the passenger side rear?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615609982, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5888135, "authorName": "carriagemotor", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carriagemotor/", "bidAmount": 54000, "content": "$54,000 bid placed by carriagemotor", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615611628, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5888316, "authorName": "SteveCanuk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stevecanuk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wow!!!, an accident free carfax Ferrari with an accident listed on the second carfax comment. Awesome.", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1615626440, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5888534, "authorName": "BlkonBlk", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/blkonblk/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Someone is going to get a deal here.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615643216, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5888815, "authorName": "MikeDod76", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mikedod76/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Very cool car. Fun ride", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615647642, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5889150, "authorName": "DKKY", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dkky/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Connecticut would *really* like its 7.75% use tax.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1615652553, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5889204, "authorName": "gregorylv", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gregorylv/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I owned a very similar 1986 Testarossa in the early 2000s. Mine had Micheln TRX tires, so the wheel/tire combination on this one is a big improvement.\n\nBest things about this car: the sound of the engine, acceleration that does not quit, the looks of the engine compartment, and the \"click\" you hear with every gear change. \n\nBuy and enjoy! You will grin every time you start it! GLWTA", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1615653569, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5889427, "authorName": "fasteddieh", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fasteddieh/", "bidAmount": 55000, "content": "$55,000 bid placed by fasteddieh", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615656956, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5889712, "authorName": "nhunter245", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nhunter245/", "bidAmount": 56000, "content": "$56,000 bid placed by nhunter245", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615662227, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5891422, "authorName": "Kralcster (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kralcster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Reply to bimota11. No there is no dent. Let me see if I can post a better picture.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615731037, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5892113, "authorName": "coinmachine", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/coinmachine/", "bidAmount": 56500, "content": "$56,500 bid placed by coinmachine", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615744495, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5892265, "authorName": "Blizzard340", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/blizzard340/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "There are a few exotics running around in Montana, with Montana plates. A friend of mine in Lake County ( this Ferrari has Flathead County plates) used to own a 365 GTB/4 and his wife drove a 330 GTC. That Daytona was the first Ferrari I had ever driven, which if I don't say so myself, is a pretty good place to start.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615747931, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5892276, "authorName": "nhunter245", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nhunter245/", "bidAmount": 57000, "content": "$57,000 bid placed by nhunter245", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615748098, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5892500, "authorName": "tiger27", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tiger27/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Great looking car. In 2000 I bought from a friend ( original owner) a 1985 single mirror Black/tan Testarossa. It was one of my daily use cars and drove it to my office in Miami. I loved the car. \r\nEveryone knows that it is a Ferrari and everywhere I went people would stop to talk to me about it. Funny thing in 2003 I bought a Ferrari 550 as one of my daily drivers...and that car people would tell me how nice a Jaguar it was. The Testarossa is a POSTER car and although over the last decade it has not gotten the value it deserves I expect that to change. In my humble opinion it is great investment Ferrari from an analogy period.\r\nBest of luck on the auction. If I did not already have two Ferrari I would be bidding.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1615752839, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5893128, "authorName": "Ddirector1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ddirector1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Can you transfer the Montana LLC with the sale? Do you mind saying who I could ask about an insurance quote?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615766947, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5893495, "authorName": "staceyryals", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/staceyryals/", "bidAmount": 60000, "content": "$60,000 bid placed by staceyryals", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615775387, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5894420, "authorName": "Canadianclassics2", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/canadianclassics2/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "So nice to see an in tact. Watched an Adam Sandler movie called Murder Mystery where he and Jennifer Aniston at the wheel scrap out the sides of a Testarossa in Italy and I nearly came to tears. Noted the $475 4-Wheel alignment on the work paperwork. Only on a Ferrari! Always been a dream car and looks like it will remain that way for the time being for me unfortunately. GLWTA!!!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615820934, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5894440, "authorName": "ack-waves", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ack-waves/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Beautiful car. I believe this is the same one owned by a retired military gentleman who showed it each year at the annual Weston Auto Show for charity (perhaps I'm wrong, but I'd put the over/under on 1986 rosso corsa monospecchio Testarossas registered in MA at 1). He pampered it and if this is the same car, it was always the highlight of the show for me to see it again.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1615821478, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5894558, "authorName": "Wolfenhaus", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wolfenhaus/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I just love these cars - such dramatic styling, especially the strakes on the sides over the air intakes. GLWTA", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615822999, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5897286, "authorName": "FXRcR1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fxrcr1/", "bidAmount": 61986, "content": "$61,986 bid placed by FXRcR1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615841139, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5897793, "authorName": "19gt2rs", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/19gt2rs/", "bidAmount": 62626, "content": "$62,626 bid placed by 19gt2rs", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615843448, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5897794, "authorName": "shervinator", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/shervinator/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I love cars \"from\" Montana. ;-)", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615843449, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5899154, "authorName": "jgilley91", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jgilley91/", "bidAmount": 65000, "content": "$65,000 bid placed by jgilley91", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615857770, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5899456, "authorName": "FXRcR1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/fxrcr1/", "bidAmount": 66666, "content": "$66,666 bid placed by FXRcR1", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615862975, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5899559, "authorName": "Kralcster (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/kralcster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Hey,\r\n\r\nSeller here. Car is shipped baby style to MT in summer for limited rides at Yellowstone Club. LLC holds other collector cars and can\u2019t be sold. \r\n\r\nSome PMs have asked to see car. Car do in Greenwich tomorrow am. Sales will of course still go through BAT.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1615865540, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5899904, "authorName": "gamtmann", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gamtmann/", "bidAmount": 68000, "content": "$68,000 bid placed by gamtmann", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615895537, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5900004, "authorName": "applegate1439", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/applegate1439/", "bidAmount": 70000, "content": "$70,000 bid placed by applegate1439", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615898182, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5900397, "authorName": "mzaina", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mzaina/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "At this price the luggage is free.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615904663, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5900898, "authorName": "HCEdwards", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/hcedwards/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A 6 piece set recently sold for $12.500, and that set included a pair of foldable Ferrari-branded sunglasses, along with a Ferrari patch, belt buckle, sun visor, and Testarossa 1/60-scale model car.\r\n\r\nhttps://bringatrailer.com/listing/schedoni-ferrari-testarossa-luggage/", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615910896, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5900930, "authorName": "JTW", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jtw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I used to collect car brochures. I have them from the late 70's through the early 2000's.\nI was looking through them the other day and I ran across a Testarossa brochure. It is very different from what other manufacturers put in their literature.\nThe Ferrari brochure is about 15 pages, with fold out photos of a car exactly like the one in this auction. It even has photos of the 6 piece luggage set, showing how they fit into the car. There aren't any descriptions of 'why we made the interior this way, or why we styled the car that way'. It's just 15 pages of photos. No text. At the end is a fold out with the engine and chassis specifications, along with a horsepower and torque curve graph.\n\nOther companies, like Porsche (I have Porsche brochures in 3 languages), like to tell you on every page why they did this and why they did that and what it will mean to your driving experience.\nIt's quite a difference.\nFerrari says \"This is what it looks like. Do you need to know anything else?\"", "likes": 20, "timestamp": 1615911374, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5901476, "authorName": "retinaldoc", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/retinaldoc/", "bidAmount": 75000, "content": "$75,000 bid placed by retinaldoc", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615916750, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5901998, "authorName": "RedRacer67", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/redracer67/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Terrific Ferrari, terrific car. The 365BBi was the last of the \"old\" Ferraris, the Testarossa the first of the new. More space, comfortable ride, great acceleration, A/C that really works, always starts, not temperamental. Wonderful car for long-distance rallys. Never disappoints.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1615919123, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5902029, "authorName": "JMac63", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jmac63/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What can you tell us about the bottom of the car in terms of rust, scrapes, etc.?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615919351, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5902030, "authorName": "applegate1439", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/applegate1439/", "bidAmount": 75500, "content": "$75,500 bid placed by applegate1439", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615919352, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5902234, "authorName": "JMac63", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jmac63/", "bidAmount": 77000, "content": "$77,000 bid placed by JMac63", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615920200, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5902241, "authorName": "G2Z", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/g2z/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Can someone buy this and give it to @wagonrocker?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615920237, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5902546, "authorName": "rroddgerr", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rroddgerr/", "bidAmount": 77800, "content": "$77,800 bid placed by rroddgerr", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615921461, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5903107, "authorName": "19gt2rs", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/19gt2rs/", "bidAmount": 86753, "content": "$86,753 bid placed by 19gt2rs", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615923452, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5903301, "authorName": "applegate1439", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/applegate1439/", "bidAmount": 90000, "content": "$90,000 bid placed by applegate1439", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615923971, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5903349, "authorName": "iceman4all", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/iceman4all/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "One of the most iconic super sport cars ever made. GLWTA", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615924081, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5903570, "authorName": "gregryba", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gregryba/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Don't take this as s slight. My first Ferrari was a 512TR and I have fond memories. I think these are iconic cars that should be as collectible as a Countach. @rbliroff I suppose it is perspective, as I said My first Ferrari was a 512TR, my second a Modena. I would consider the TR, 512Tr the last of the old guard. A car that was completely connected to the road. I've never driven a 365BBi, but I grew up with 308's and 328's. I feel a Testarossa is more akin to that generation than the cars that followed.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615924660, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5903678, "authorName": "DaveD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/daved/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The monospecchio (single mirror) does look a bit unbalanced, lacking a matching one on the right-hand A-pillar. I wonder whether one can be fitted to this earlier model?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615924963, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5903757, "authorName": "gregryba", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gregryba/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DaveD It makes life good that we all like different things, but I have always felt this makes the car. When I bought my 512TR, I had visions of having a high mirror car, but wanted to buy new. There were RHD single mirror cars, so anything can be done.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615925222, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5903878, "authorName": "gamtmann", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gamtmann/", "bidAmount": 91000, "content": "$91,000 bid placed by gamtmann", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615925752, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5903904, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Years ago ~ Same era as this car ~ I was walking home from a train commute from NYC and as I was walking up a sidewalk on a bit of a hill I encountered the first Testarossa I had ever seen in person. I pretty much stopped in my tracks to take a good look at it. Same colors as this and the single mirror.\n\nMy first impression from my vantage point at the driver's side was that the single mirror looked like a periscope as the car was on an incline uphill. Secondly, the transition from the wide tail end of the car and wheels towards the front end really set the car off visually showing it's lines very well. What a design.\n\nBeautiful car seller ~ Best of luck to you and the bidders shortly.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615926016, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5903951, "authorName": "Gddy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gddy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DaveD the Monospechhio is the visual signature of this forever classic. This is the first car I saw as a Bburago die cast model toy 1:24 at age 12. It is what sent me onto my career as a Designer. I am forever grateful for this Pininfarina design. If I could attached a \"flying mirror\" to my head, I'd do it! ;)", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1615926072, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5903997, "authorName": "Gddy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gddy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@JTW - I have this same first-issue Testarossa brochure. My dad must've slipped the dealer at Ron Tonkin, Portland OR, a $20... It is such a beautiful work of art, and I hold it dear. The photos, the technical drawings... \"chef's kiss\"", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1615926243, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904051, "authorName": "DaveD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/daved/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Survey says....\"single mirror!\" I'll go along with that!", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1615926443, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904093, "authorName": "grahim", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/grahim/", "bidAmount": 99999, "content": "$99,999 bid placed by grahim", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615926647, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5904148, "authorName": "zachmac", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/zachmac/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "$100k for a Sonny Crocket rocket in your pocket?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1615926997, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904149, "authorName": "Noctilux", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/noctilux/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@daved the single high mirror was a misinterpretation of a law by Ferrari, it doesn\u2019t work well, adding another won\u2019t help.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615926999, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904164, "authorName": "MTS1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mts1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Lot of bragging rights to say you bought a Testarossa for less than $100,000.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1615927142, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904167, "authorName": "applegate1439", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/applegate1439/", "bidAmount": 100500, "content": "$100,500 bid placed by applegate1439", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615927151, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 5904169, "authorName": "borneo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/borneo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The fat lady is warming up and adjusting her horns now", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615927176, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904172, "authorName": "zachmac", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/zachmac/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It's never over until the BaT bloop lady stops singing.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615927205, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904183, "authorName": "Gddy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gddy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I love the BaT soprano. Pretty sure, it's a redhead in this case!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615927254, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904188, "authorName": "applegate1439", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/applegate1439/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sold on 3/16/21 for $100,500 to applegate1439", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615927271, "type": "bat-bid-reserve"}, {"id": 5904193, "authorName": "borneo", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/borneo/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "with the luggage great buy ...congrats !!", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1615927301, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904197, "authorName": "tpatt80", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tpatt80/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Enjoy not needing to use the single-mirror as you pass people @applegate1439. ;)", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1615927323, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904267, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Enjoy your new car @applegate1439", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615927698, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904291, "authorName": "trademark", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/trademark/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Great first auction on BaT seller @Kralcster ~ Well done", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615927817, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904474, "authorName": "testa1986", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/testa1986/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sold mine about a year ago, 86 single mirror also just like this one. It was a blast to drive, but those timing belt costs every 5000 miles got the best of me. Enjoying a cayman now. \r\nKeep those centerlugs tight - i had one fall off once and had to find it in the bushes at an exit - scary day!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615928551, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5904521, "authorName": "DaveD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/daved/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@testa1986 ~ Why do the timing belts wear out so fast on these (and that engine-out service costs as much as a nice MGB)? Why can belts last 100,000 miles on almost every other car but so few on a Ferrari?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615928709, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5905526, "authorName": "RedRacer67", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/redracer67/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DaveD- despite what someone wrote here, the Monospechhio works perfectly for the car, but if you were to install one on the right side (they are available), you would not be able to see it from the driver's seat. I think it gives the car the Italian flair it was meant to. As far as the timing belts, they're rubber not chain, and they actually last longer if you use the car regularly; park it and they will get a \"set\" to them, and starting the engine could be a very expensive mistake. My '86 needs it replaced, but I got 20 years out of it before I parked it.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615934819, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5905541, "authorName": "testa1986", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/testa1986/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Maybe they can last longer. I think orig. factory spec was 15000 miles, but maybe someone had an \"issue\" so they dropped it to 5000 miles. If a belt breaks, I know it costs a lot more than 10k to fix it then. My bmw e30's replacement interval is 60,000 miles, and they might go longer but that one is an easy fix.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615935071, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5906229, "authorName": "DaveD", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/daved/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@rbliroff @testa1986 Modern kevlar/steel-reinforced belts are quite dissimilar from old-style rubber belts, reinforced with nylon. Those did acquire a 'set' much like tires that sat too long. The new stuff should outlast the engine itself, and I'm surprised nobody makes the latest stuff for these older Ferraris and the like. \r\n\r\nEven a 60s Corvair with its tortured 90-degree belt lasted longer than 15M! Is it possible that the urgency to prematurely change belts in these stemmed from the sheer terror of the remote possibility one would break in motion, trashing the engine and costing 10x the cost of a periodic belt change?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1615947044, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 5906580, "authorName": "RedRacer67", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/redracer67/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DaveD- good question, and I don't know if better belts are made for that engine; so far I haven't replaced the belt. I'm going to check into that type of belt. Haven't replaced mine yet, did get at least 20 years out of the original, and it was never suggested to me to change it earlier. The Testarossa series comprised 7177 vehicles, or so i've read; is it possible the market is not large enough to develop a special belt?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1615955597, "type": "comment"}]