Understanding (B)at the Movies: Ford v Ferrari (2019)

This weekend, we are all going to be bombarded by advertisements from new car manufacturers and local dealer networks. We don’t know how car-buying and President’s Day got linked up, but we are in the business of selling automobiles, so we are duty-bound to try to entice you, our audience, into purchasing all sorts of different things on wheels (not that you need much prodding). Of the 800 or so listings currently on our live auctions page, we have selected here a handful a of the most interesting, unique, strange, and fantastic from the last seven days. We hope you dig it.

“May you live in interesting times,” said British statesman Joseph Chamberlain, though the saying is often attributed as an ancient Chinese curse. And at the end of another week in which it seems the world has been moving at 3x speed, we have come to offer you a brief respite from the madness—an escape into the world of petroliana obscura. Here you will find a small collection of unique vehicles that we consider “interesting” in a better sense, that is to say: fascinating and enjoyable. Of course, this is just a fraction of those that caught our eye, and an even smaller fraction of the ~900 auctions currently live on the site.

Welcome to the Weekly Weird and Wonderful, our all-too-abbreviated collection of the most interesting, significant, and unusual vehicles to appear on BaT in the last seven days. Think of this as a core sample full of worthwhile information that should ultimately guide you to excavate the full depth of our live auctions page, armed with a brush and a magnifying glass.