[{"id": 1395723, "authorName": "nowhere", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nowhere/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This would have fit in perfectly in my high school parking lot.", "likes": 27, "timestamp": 1487277306, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395726, "authorName": "Slam105", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/slam105/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I thought that \"Moroso\" made after-market-speed-parts for Ford(?).\n\nRegards", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487277323, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395772, "authorName": "Jags_in_the_barn", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jags_in_the_barn/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm with @nowhere - it looks just like so many cars from my misspent youth.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1487277676, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395797, "authorName": "DENWERKS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/denwerks/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Funny, I was looking at the photos, and Im like that looks like were I used to live, saw the water and the scenery, then noticed the lic. plates, then scrolled up to the top to look at location, and Edmonds, WA. I went to college up there, and lived my life down by the Ferry, over to Kingston, and hung out all the time at that marina and fishing dock, what a great place, love it there.", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1487277878, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395801, "authorName": "Thomas54", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/thomas54/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Come on DENWERKS, that should be worth a bid.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487277993, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395805, "authorName": "DENWERKS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/denwerks/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Oh, why not.....", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1487278033, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395807, "authorName": "koolpenguin", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/koolpenguin/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Huh. I like the CB radio. That's kinda cool.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487278042, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395812, "authorName": "DENWERKS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/denwerks/", "bidAmount": 355, "content": "$355 bid placed by DENWERKS", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487278096, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1395816, "authorName": "Satneff", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/satneff/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'll give you a thumbs up for the bid @denwerks", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487278138, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395819, "authorName": "DENWERKS", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/denwerks/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I love that little town, met my wife there of 22 years old, don't tell anyone but we soaped the fountian a few times in the middle of town, lol. If I get arrested now, ill pay my bid when I get out of prison, how much will storage be?", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1487278244, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395856, "authorName": "ckay", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ckay/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Looks like a potentially cheap toy that you can spend hours turning wrenches on to kill time on a Saturday afternoon to run hard on a Sunday morning coffee run.\n\nI dig it for $2,000.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487278894, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395858, "authorName": "Scot_Douglas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scot_douglas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Does Craigslist know you're moving in on its territory?", "likes": 22, "timestamp": 1487278917, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395885, "authorName": "mr_smee", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mr_smee/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Perfect car for rich guys to go 'slumming.'", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1487279197, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395912, "authorName": "Bob_Loblaw", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bob_loblaw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Oh my god I love this. None of my friends, and certainly not my wife, will get it, and that's just fine by me.", "likes": 7, "timestamp": 1487279363, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395919, "authorName": "Tracker1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/tracker1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Ummmm, this is the kind of car Hollywood Wheels would buy to supply Vin Diesel's next vanity project or a Joe Dirt sequel in which it would be destroyed and cubed at the local metal yard. Why is it in a BAT auction? It's a $1000 car - at best. But I guess for that kind of money you could donut it to death.", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1487279557, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395940, "authorName": "blueboss302", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/blueboss302/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Might want to go over the interior with a black light before sitting down or touching anything?", "likes": 18, "timestamp": 1487279747, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395956, "authorName": "Greg_F", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/greg_f/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Next to the word \"hooning\" in the dictionary is a picture of this car. \n\nBut picture this: you have a 15 year son or daughter who is itching to get their hands dirty and learn about cars. This is the perfect set of wheels for those lessons. Anything you do, from interior door panels or headliner replacement to modifying the engine and upgrading the old brakes will only make this car better and teach invaluable lessons along the way. When I was in high school this was just the kind of car the auto shop kids were hoping would roll through the door. Edmonds is right up the road so I'll be watching this one....", "likes": 18, "timestamp": 1487279930, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395983, "authorName": "JohnnyB64", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/johnnyb64/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Because 1\" carb spacer and a Yankee Candle air freshener, that's why.", "likes": 15, "timestamp": 1487280083, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395987, "authorName": "Eric_E.", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/eric_e.-user/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Well....The CB \"Radio Shack\" is certainly period for the age of the car.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1487280200, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395994, "authorName": "Itsanaddiction", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/itsanaddiction/", "bidAmount": 455, "content": "$455 bid placed by Itsanaddiction", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487280402, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1395995, "authorName": "JIMMY", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/jimmy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "The original budget hot rod. Chevelles are too much $$, and nobody wants Grandma's old Buick Special. Too bad it doesn't have a big Buick V8. The hood scoop is gross.", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1487280484, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395996, "authorName": "Boaty", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/boaty/", "bidAmount": 555, "content": "$555 bid placed by Boaty", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487280490, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1395997, "authorName": "mchammersteinn", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mchammersteinn/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sure, but if I see Kurt Russell driving it I'm outta here.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1487280492, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1395999, "authorName": "GTMail", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/gtmail/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Some father out there... buy this for your kid. Build it to your liking, together. Teach him how to re-jet a carb and adjust valves. Get it running well enough so you can trust it. Brakes and suspension. Teach him to respect the power. Enjoy it together, dive it on weekends, let him take it to school. \n\nGive him mechanical know-how and memories of his first car and burnouts in parking lots late nights. Get him off his laptop and video games. Good old quality time with the old man. He'll thank you, I guarantee it.", "likes": 40, "timestamp": 1487280655, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396018, "authorName": "elecktronika", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/elecktronika/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Step 1. Replace the air freshener with a proper \"Pine Tree\" unit\nStep 2. Enjoy\n\nI know its not the correct car or \"PC\" but it just screams Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused \"That's what I love about those high school girls', I get older, but they stay the same age\"", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1487281136, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396028, "authorName": "Steve_S1", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/steve_s1/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Slam105\n\nNope, Moroso just makes cheap, ugly scoops and chromed tin valve covers for just about anything.\n\nI think these shark-nosed Buicks are among the best looking of the GM A-bodies. First thing I'd do is set fire to that Edelbrock air cleaner (or wait for it to start burning itself) then get a proper 455 Buick engine for it.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1487281157, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396041, "authorName": "BigSoren", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigsoren/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Please tell me the CB works...Even in the 90's when I was in high school we all ran them in our cars so we could stay on top of the whereabouts of the fuzz.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1487281561, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396060, "authorName": "David_C.", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/david_c.-user/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I have a bit of a soft spot for these cars, since the first car I ever rode in was a '66 Buick Special. That's what my parents owned when I came home from the hospital after being born. It was a maroon 4-door sedan with the 225 V-6, and huge bumper guards attached (a necessity when living in New York). We got rid of it when our family moved to California -- too expensive to transport and add the necessary smog gear. A coworker of my father bought and drove it well into 1980s. Still one of my Mom's favorite cars. I digress.\n\nIf there ever was a legitimate restomod candidate, this car would be it. Maybe the direction the seller took isn't to everyone's liking, but the bones are decent and nothing looks irreversible, not even the hood scoop. If it was on this coast, I'd find room for it. \n\nI do agree that '66 was a great year across the board for the GM A-bodies. I like the rear fascia of the '66 Special so much better than the '67s.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1487282016, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396073, "authorName": "Butch_from_Harlem", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/butch_from_harlem/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I had a 64 LeSabre. This needs slotted vintage mag wheels or Radirs.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487282362, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396086, "authorName": "BATs_In_My_Belfry", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bats_in_my_belfry/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "355ci SBC. Non-power drum brakes all around. I guess the CB radio PA speaker is for shouting \"get outta the way! I can't stop!\"", "likes": 19, "timestamp": 1487282673, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396133, "authorName": "RSarchet2", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rsarchet2/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I already built this car once, except it was my buddy's Grandma's 66 Oldsmobile Cutlass that he inherited, and it was 1982. This one seems not yet to have taught the lesson about installing more power and weight without installing more brakes, that the Gutless taught us.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487284026, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396135, "authorName": "cowhow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cowhow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "if i were to win this auction what are the chances of this car being loaded on the trailer and magically morphing into that 63 red split window by the time it arrives at my driveway?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487284042, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396136, "authorName": "RWD-FTW", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rwd-ftw/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Wife and I have been looking at new houses - actually older than our current house, but more expensive - this would be AWESOME to show up in just to make the neighbors wonder \"WTF?!?\" lol", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1487284074, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396140, "authorName": "MrBonus", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mrbonus/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'll add this car to my short list of vehicles to own when we're leather-clad and battling for barrels of oil in a post-Apocalyptic desert wasteland.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1487284157, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396146, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@cowhow I'd say 1 in 10", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1487284293, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396149, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@BigSoren oh it does indeed", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487284345, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396152, "authorName": "cowhow", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/cowhow/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@wked12 it never hurts to dream! GLWTS", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487284489, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396153, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@BATs In My Belfry Funny story about that- my sister drove this car for a couple years (pre-mad max modifications) and one of the wheel cylinders failed when she was coming down a steep hill in my hometown. Unfortunately the PA was not yet in there, but she would agree with you 100%.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1487284510, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396170, "authorName": "nowhere", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nowhere/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Does anyone know how and when \"gunmetal\" ended up referring to this sort of colour? Gunmetal is actually a type of bronze and it looks it.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487285008, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396188, "authorName": "Miatadon", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/miatadon/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "If your daughter's new date drove up to your house in this car, would you let her leave the house?", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1487285979, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396223, "authorName": "rghoskins", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rghoskins/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This needs a giant foot for a gas pedal.", "likes": 12, "timestamp": 1487287987, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396224, "authorName": "Dirty_Dingus_McGee", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dirty_dingus_mcgee/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Steve S\n\nI'm glad I'm not the only one who despises those useless \"air cleaners\". As I mentioned in a post previously, after my experience a few years ago, I would duct tape a sock to the carb before I ever used one of these again.\n\nAs for the car, if it was closer to the Mississippi, I might be a player. Looks to have decent bones, and a lot of the \"heavy lifting\" has already been done. As a bonus, you wouldn't see \"your car\" coming down the road at you.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487288085, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396234, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@rghoskins look a little closer", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1487288857, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396240, "authorName": "Carlo_Muro", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carlo_muro/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"Uh hu hu hu....hey look Bevis, Todd got rid of the Duster...\"", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1487289127, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396245, "authorName": "Utah_Colorado_Jones", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/utah_colorado_jones/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "These were attractive cars but this instance rates a nope. At least replace the flat RR tire unless this is touting the clam-shell tool kit the RR rim rests upon.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487289490, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396254, "authorName": "DrDeathrx", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/drdeathrx/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Bring a Nailhead.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487289951, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396268, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@GTMail Your comment hits really close to home for me. I have a photo of me and my father standing in the driveway, hood open, and both of us scratching our heads. I definitely gave him some headaches with my obsession for wanting to be the Duke's. My father wasn't a car guy and really didn't like working on cars, but he put up with my teenage insanity by helping when he could. Aside from the memories and my old obsession with the Duke boys, I definitely learned exactly what I should not do to cars haha.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1487290774, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396273, "authorName": "rghoskins", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rghoskins/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "ROFL! Perfect!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487290884, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396274, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@blueboss302 hahaha", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487290896, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396296, "authorName": "Flathead", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/flathead/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I dunno, I'm digging its gritty bad-assness. ALOT. Always loved the flared pillars on the back window. This has some potential but I might even just leave it as it is.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487292048, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396300, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Tracker1 It's not so much about the money for me. I wanted to put it on here because the community is full of real car people and they seriously care about the cars. If it did sell for a grand, but it was to someone who builds it with their kid as hobby, that's really a win in my book. Watching this car sit has really been a bummer and I can't let that continue.", "likes": 17, "timestamp": 1487292207, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396312, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Greg F if you made that into sticker, I bet you would sell a ton of them to the drifting community haha. \n\nMy auto shop teacher was awesome though- I actually put a Duke's of Hazzard horn in the car during his class (horn is gone now, don't worry) and I think I might have hurried him into retirement because it blasted the entire campus. I want to say it registered at like 120db. I actually feel bad typing that out. If you do make it to Edmonds, let's grab a round at the Churchkey!", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487292947, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396322, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@DENWERKS yep, it was definitely worth a google search for 'edmonds wa soap fountain'", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487293373, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396336, "authorName": "Malahat", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/malahat/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Grandma's car. Kid got it when she had to stop driving. He hot-rodded it on his wages bagging groceries at the local Safeway. It's a time capsule from 1975. I love it. Pretty sure I don't want it, but I love it.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1487294165, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396400, "authorName": "West-Coaster", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/west-coaster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@nowhere\n\n\"Does anyone know how and when \u201cgunmetal\u201d ended up referring to this sort of colour? Gunmetal is actually a type of bronze and it looks it.\"\n\nMaybe only in England?\n\nGunmetal in the U.S. is definitely a blue-gray color, often called \"gunmetal blue.\" It comes from a process called bluing which treats the metal in a firearm to protect against rust. That's why guns that appear black will actually have a blue tint to them when seen in direct sunlight. \n\nSo, to answer your question, I'm going to say long before cars were invented.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487298265, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396415, "authorName": "David_C.", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/david_c.-user/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "In '66, the horn button the Buick Special was the center cap of the steering wheel. You used to really have to give it a \"zetts\" (Yiddish term meaning to hit something hard), as my parents would say, to get it to honk. Don't see a horn button on the replacement wheel. I'm presuming that's what the PA speaker is for?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487298857, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396418, "authorName": "mastenzales", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mastenzales/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I may have been one of the first to Mr. Bubble. the fountain back in '73. Great memories growing up in Edmonds back in the 60s to early 70s.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487298963, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396427, "authorName": "SFMor911", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sfmor911/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@wked12-\nmid 80s my brother drove a 66 Skylark base model beater of a car around Albany,NY with a bumper sticker \"I love old cars\".\nYou've got a real winner here!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487299444, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396451, "authorName": "eatonhong", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/eatonhong/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Somewhere, there's a high school with a fading \"one wheel peel\" the length of the parking lot from this thing.\n\nI love it. Brings back great memories. In 1988, me and a school buddy spent the summer working with a bunch of ex-cons at a factory that made conveyor chain for Big Three auto factories. He spent his earnings on a car that looked a lot like this one.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1487300969, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396453, "authorName": "nowhere", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nowhere/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@West-Coaster: Actually, if the various paints named \"gunmetal\" looked anything like the blued-steel of a nice firearm I could understand it but they're always a variation of a dull darkish-grey with perhaps a bit of metallic additive.\n\nWhat with all the high buck restorations and restomods around now it's refreshing to see a car like this again.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487301346, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396460, "authorName": "sdelliott58", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sdelliott58/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Like Joe Dirt said....\" Chirpin gears and pullin brodies\".... Someone is going to have a blast with this one melting tires down to the chords.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1487301773, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396517, "authorName": "Boaty", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/boaty/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Seller: seriously digging the car. Couple questions: does it have a posi rear end? And does the CB work?", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487305738, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396521, "authorName": "Carbster", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carbster/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "What's happened here? Train wreck", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1487306100, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396539, "authorName": "etip", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/etip/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My second car back in the mid eighties was a '65 Special with a 355 wildcat. Always wanted to get another. \nAlthough this is a bit of a project, it is just a few miles up the road and my MIL lives in Edmonds. \nHmmmmm", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487307455, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396541, "authorName": "Stantz", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/stantz/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Miatadon: Yes, but only if the kid works on it himself... and the seat belts work.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487307773, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396544, "authorName": "Ray_Young", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ray_young/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I don't see a six pack on the floor. No deal.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487308223, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396551, "authorName": "g_force-happy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/g_force-happy/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm going to need a rev report and oil analysis.\nand now I don't see an Elcometer photo. I'm out.\n(who am I kidding).\nGLWTA", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487308870, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396553, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Boaty Sweet! Yeah, CB still works. Unfortunately, it does not have posi.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487308994, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396554, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Carbster high school.", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1487309024, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396559, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@David C. That's pretty funny. I kept the original horn button from the original wheel, but man, the horn did only work when I was going around slight right turns and you did have to push pretty hard. The PA was necessary.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487309435, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396577, "authorName": "Boaty", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/boaty/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Thanks wked12. Does it rid low on the back right hand side? Looks kinda weird in the photo.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487311928, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396578, "authorName": "Boaty", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/boaty/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "sorry edited after the fact. Is it a functional hood scoop?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487312060, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396647, "authorName": "Scot_Douglas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scot_douglas/", "bidAmount": 750, "content": "$750 bid placed by Scot_Douglas", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487334249, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1396649, "authorName": "Scot_Douglas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scot_douglas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "That Yankee Candle air freshener sealed the deal.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487334283, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396679, "authorName": "bobcat64", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bobcat64/", "bidAmount": 850, "content": "$850 bid placed by bobcat64", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487337659, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1396694, "authorName": "Scot_Douglas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scot_douglas/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Dammit.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1487338281, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396696, "authorName": "Scot_Douglas", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/scot_douglas/", "bidAmount": 950, "content": "$950 bid placed by Scot_Douglas", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487338297, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1396724, "authorName": "motorhead63d", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/motorhead63d/", "bidAmount": 1100, "content": "$1,100 bid placed by motorhead63d", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487339449, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1396789, "authorName": "mustangcubed", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mustangcubed/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Clean it up, fix some of the details (missing door cards, hanging wires, etc.), swap some period 15\" wheels, swap a primered stock hood, and go enjoy a low-cost hot rod. I dig it, GLWTS.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1487341980, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396828, "authorName": "SM_Minis", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sm_minis/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@wked12 (The Seller) and BaT - Good for you for getting this on the auction site! Something completely different, things were getting too serious.\n\nI relate it to My Name Is Earl.", "likes": 8, "timestamp": 1487343333, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396903, "authorName": "dantheman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dantheman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Isn't this a 1967?", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487345813, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396919, "authorName": "youbugme", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/youbugme/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I want to put a Nixon bumper sticker on this and terrorize Priuses.", "likes": 13, "timestamp": 1487346606, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396923, "authorName": "savio", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/savio/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "A little variety on BAT. Very cool.", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487346895, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396964, "authorName": "frank_fisher", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/frank_fisher/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "You have to love a seller that is just as interested in a good home and continued building of the car, then just a price and moving on. I have a couple of long term cars I feel the same way about....very cool GLWTS...kudos to the owner!!", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1487348625, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1396968, "authorName": "Nimrod", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/nimrod/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "This baby is perfect except for one thing. She desperately needs a license plate frame that says \"I'm the one your mother warned you about\"", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487348788, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1397019, "authorName": "Caymanorcarrera", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/caymanorcarrera/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Gorgeous setting on Puget Sound.\n\nNicely done. Makes me long for the PNW.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1487350109, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1397028, "authorName": "Caymanorcarrera", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/caymanorcarrera/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I'm surprised one of my daughter's dates in high school DIDN'T show up in this thing!\n\nSo glad those days are over (-:", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1487350370, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1397070, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Boaty I think the front passenger tire is just in a low spot so it's an illusion. Also, the hood scoop is functional. Just pop out those foam plugs and it's free flowing.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487351288, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1397119, "authorName": "Mr._H", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mr._h/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "'Moroso' sounds like the name of the puppet clown star of the saddest Italian children's television show ever made.", "likes": 4, "timestamp": 1487352655, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1397126, "authorName": "Mr._H", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mr._h/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Ah! I actually found footage of Moroso! He appears at the 4:51 mark: \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xKU8eYCFk", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487352844, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1397219, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@mustangcubed for sure. The engine is pretty solid. I wish I would've documented it better, but the rebuild (engine+trans) have somewhere between 5k-10k on them, since rebuilt. We had to get the block stripped to get machined and hot tanked...I got it from this dude that had just rebuilt it for his el camino, had issues during break-in and ground one of the cam lobes to a circle. Well I didn't know that when I got it, so when I brought it to a shop for the swap, my mechanic saw metal flakes in the oil. Huge financial bummer at the time, but the car is still running solid 10 years later on the rebuild.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487355757, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1397288, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Scot_Douglas those air fresheners are magical. They actually make you forget about the copious amounts of work you have to left to do on the car and let you enjoy it with a pleasant, yet not overwhelming, scent.", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487357706, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1397298, "authorName": "bry593", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bry593/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Good entry level car for the aspiring gear head. You can't hurt it, and would make a fine tutor.\n\nDon't see the 2-dr post much. They are actually a better drag car due to the extra stiffness.\n\nThis car totally needs P51 Mustang style, vinyl shark teeth graphics. Then it would be the perfect Mad Max terror ride.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1487357846, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1398060, "authorName": "monita", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/monita/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@GTMail, I'm a 50-year old woman and I wish my Dad had done exactly as you describe. Instead, his hands were for doctoring. Now, my partner is helping me look for a car to work on and teach me. I love my wrench head; he embraces my love of cars. Great post. \nTo the seller: Good luck on the sale!", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1487373118, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1398248, "authorName": "Bigjimbob", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/bigjimbob/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Love your comment, GT Mail! Nothing better than Father/Son/Daughter projects!! My Son and I built a 1970 Datsun 510...renewed all the drivetrain...Little Bigger L series engine...Dogleg 5 speed...threw a Maaco paint job on it...Made my son pick the color...\"I don't know Dad...it's your car\"...but I convinced him he should pick the color 'that suited the car!' He chose Porsche Red...When the shop was done with it...I tossed tossed my son the keys...and told him Have a fun time driving YOUR CAR back to Truckee! He kept it for 9 years...and it ended up getting sold and shipped to the Holden Brothers in Australia! My youngest child...a girl...now 32 yo...had a Honda Accord that needed brakes...she was 16 at the time..we got the parts...I showed her how to replace the front brake pads...and then went to the other side of the car to do the 2nd side...she gently pushed me out of the way...and told me NO...you just need to Watch me and let me know if I am doing it Right!! True GEARHEAD Daughter!...and I could not be prouder of her! She is an AVID F1 fan...and drives a new WRX! Ok...I say Good Parenting Should Involve Cars and how to work on them!!!", "likes": 11, "timestamp": 1487383581, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1398306, "authorName": "dkirwan83", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dkirwan83/", "bidAmount": 1500, "content": "$1,500 bid placed by dkirwan83", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487387027, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1398311, "authorName": "ForgotMyTrailer", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/forgotmytrailer/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It looks like this car had a 1969 Dodge A12 SuperBee for a father and the 1967 Impala from Supernatural for a mother... what's not to like!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487387319, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1398593, "authorName": "SpiceBot", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/spicebot/", "bidAmount": 2000, "content": "$2,000 bid placed by SpiceBot", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487429745, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1398595, "authorName": "SpiceBot", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/spicebot/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I had a 4-door '66 Special in silver over blue in high school. My wife just told me she misses the Buick, so here we are.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1487429842, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1398647, "authorName": "sdean7855", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sdean7855/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Ah well, as to experiencing life by learning about cars...I had the fortune to have an omnivorously Renaissance man for a father in the '60's who got some cars to do just that for my brother and I....so he bought a couple of Bugattis for the price of one (1) new Buick...about $3000 total for the two. I grew up from age 13 with them around, learned to drive on my grandmother's Olds automatic...and then graduated to the Bugs....with straight-cut crashboxes, RHD and the Italian pedal arrangement (L->R: clutch,brake,accel, IIRC). God, what a blast.\nhttp://www.sdean.net/bugattis.htm\nWe pass this way but once.", "likes": 10, "timestamp": 1487433400, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1399111, "authorName": "M3moogle", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/m3moogle/", "bidAmount": 2100, "content": "$2,100 bid placed by M3moogle", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487472960, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1399112, "authorName": "M3moogle", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/m3moogle/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "As someone who has always wanted an old american car but also on a college budget I'll place a bid... even though in reality knowing BAT i know this car will go way past 5k.", "likes": 5, "timestamp": 1487473017, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1399181, "authorName": "Barnawell", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/barnawell/", "bidAmount": 2500, "content": "$2,500 bid placed by Barnawell", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487486696, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1399182, "authorName": "Barnawell", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/barnawell/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "My dad is gonna give me shit for this...", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1487486748, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1399564, "authorName": "Sidepipes", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/sidepipes/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Custom license plate / callsign opportunity: \n\"NOTSO\"\n\n(even though it is....)", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487540057, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1402713, "authorName": "Grueneman", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/grueneman/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "All you need to go with this is a grain still and youre in bidness", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487727191, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1402905, "authorName": "carstruck", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/carstruck/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Kind of a bizarre old beast, but perhaps a good starting point for somebody..\nI'd want to see it parked on somewhere flat and level to see if the car is listing one way or the other. One can never tell with a car sitting on lumpy grass. Agree @ Denworks it is a pleasant area .", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487737585, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1403331, "authorName": "Grunt", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/grunt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Your a car guy for sure is that RTV holding down the hood scoops? This will make the \"Come On Man\" high light reel for sure. Road House!", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487780865, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1404052, "authorName": "Silasmoon", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/silasmoon/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Barnawell - get insurance on it, register it at the DMV and tell him you'll drive it on your paper-route. ;)", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487798965, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1404155, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@Grunt I have a wonderful sob story behind that, but it still ends with, \"I wish I wouldn't have done that.\"", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487801540, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1404316, "authorName": "Grunt", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/grunt/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Ha I would love to hear that. If this was mine I don't think I could give it up, seems like the kind of car that could tell a lot of wonderful stories down over the years. Thanks for keeping her alive. Personally I'm tired of the same old BMW stuff that each wk passes thru Bat, don't get me wrong to each his own and they have their place, but their stories are all snooze fests. We all grow old, and eventually have the coin to buy toys that show the world hey look at me, I've made it! I am guilty myself one guy with 6 cars, but you know what that old jalopy I use to drive hauling my buddies around in high school were the best cars I've ever owned, and believe me I came from a family of eight and my set of wheels were at the best proubably not safe at any speed. Yea thank god for RTV. My best wishes to you and your great ride brother.", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1487809964, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1404549, "authorName": "Szepesy", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/szepesy/", "bidAmount": 2600, "content": "$2,600 bid placed by Szepesy", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487823527, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1404556, "authorName": "Ehaines", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ehaines/", "bidAmount": 2700, "content": "$2,700 bid placed by Ehaines", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487823865, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1404783, "authorName": "mrpotatocat", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/mrpotatocat/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "I did this! The less than stellar body and pain will let you drive the snot out of it and not worry about dents and dings.", "likes": 3, "timestamp": 1487858055, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1404785, "authorName": "artreality", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/artreality/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "@sdean7855...Incredible link, and the Bugs are amazing...worked 4 High sschool summers, right up the road in Cairo (Purling). Kingston was where we spent our day off to take a trip to the \"city\".", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487858185, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1405130, "authorName": "Dazed_and_Amused", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dazed_and_amused/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "\"Moroso\" means \"slow payer\" in Spanish. If you're the winning bidder, don't be one!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487872109, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1405226, "authorName": "Dansilvapinto", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/dansilvapinto/", "bidAmount": 2800, "content": "$2,800 bid placed by Dansilvapinto", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487876020, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1405646, "authorName": "Boaty", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/boaty/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "It's quiet in here...", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487882670, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1405649, "authorName": "Ehaines", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ehaines/", "bidAmount": 2900, "content": "$2,900 bid placed by Ehaines", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487882722, "type": "bat-bid"}, {"id": 1405653, "authorName": "rustylink", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/rustylink/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "that hood scoop is the equivalent of having love and hate tattooed across each set of knuckles....", "likes": 6, "timestamp": 1487882808, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1405655, "authorName": "Zscream", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/zscream/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Add a wifebeater t-shirt, and you're set!", "likes": 2, "timestamp": 1487882894, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1405659, "authorName": "Ehaines", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/ehaines/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sold on 2/23/17 for $2,900 to Ehaines", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487883000, "type": "bat-bid-reserve"}, {"id": 1405660, "authorName": "Boaty", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/boaty/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Nicely done. I would've been fighting for it if it wouldn't have cost $1k to ship it to me... :(", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487883034, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1405661, "authorName": "Satneff", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/satneff/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "And I thought @barnawell is going for it", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487883041, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1405663, "authorName": "140rpm", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/140rpm/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Was this the same winner as the Porsche shell?", "likes": 1, "timestamp": 1487883046, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1405668, "authorName": "agorka", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/agorka/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Damn, can't believe how cheap this thing went. Wrong side of the country for me.", "likes": 0, "timestamp": 1487883160, "type": "comment"}, {"id": 1405670, "authorName": "wked12 (The Seller)", "authorUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/member/wked12/", "bidAmount": 0, "content": "Sweeeeet! Thank you everyone that commented and checked it out- I had a lot of fun reading through these and chatting with you all. Cheers!", "likes": 9, "timestamp": 1487883240, "type": "comment"}]