This Week’s Weird and Wonderful—June 5, 2026 You Should Know
Welcome to the Weekly Weird and Wonderful, a hand-picked list of the most interesting and unusual vehicles on BaT this week. All this is but a sampling of over 1,200 auctions currently live on the site. So once you’ve finished reading, feel free to make your way over there and spend the rest of your weekend in the healthiest way possible: clicking and drooling away.
Enjoy this week’s selection of Weird and Wonderful BaT auctions, and let us know what else you think should’ve made the list!
Kent Emigh’s 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300Sc Einspritzmotor Cabriolet A
During the 1950s, Kent Emigh quickly rose from farm tractor mechanic to “foreign agent”—just not in the Soviet espionage sense, at least as far as we know. Based in Indianapolis, Emigh and his friend John Schaler began selling a broad swath of cars from British and European marques including Mercedes-Benz—which referred to many of its independent American dealers as “foreign agents” during that time. Somewhere along the way, Emigh was bowled over by the 300Sc. Several trips and tens of thousands of miles later, he found this Cabriolet A.
Mercedes-Benz hammered out just 49 examples of the Cabriolet A, and Mr. Emigh enjoyed this one for more than 60 years, updating it along the way.
E39 M5-Based, Custom-Bodied E9 CS by MKO
A double-take is almost required for this one. MKO—the builder behind this creation—figured that merely plopping a V8 into an E9 was too easy. Apparently the journey mattered more than the destination, and the firm took the scenic route, combining bodywork from two E9s over an E39 M5 chassis with a considerable amount of fabrication to put it all together. The resulting ride is being sold out of München, Germany, which is a few minutes off the Autobahn—just sayin’.
Ex-Bondurant/Guldstrand Dana Chevrolet 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Trans Am Race Car
Trans Am racers from the late 1960s and early 1970s can’t help but grab our attention, and this particular one comes with some serious provenance. For the 1967 season, Dana Chevrolet prepared two Camaros to their own Z/28 spec: a white one for Tom Lynch, and a blue one for his friend Dick Guldstrand. “Old Blue” here debuted at Sebring that year with Guldstrand and Bob Bondurant at the helm.
The car went on to achieve a string of victories in 1967, and most notably became the first Camaro to win a Trans Am event when Guldstrand and co-driver Tom Payne claimed overall victory in the four-hour race at Mont-Tremblant. “Old Blue” has lived out its retirement years on vintage race circuits, and during the 2020s was treated to an engine rebuild, a chassis overhaul, and a replacement fuel cell and racing seat.
One-Owner 2000 Ascari F/GT Prototype and Carter Prototype
The Ascari F/GT prototype was the brainchild of British car designer Lee Noble, who designed and showcased it during the early 1990s. By 1995, Ascari Cars Ltd. bought the design outright and built a limited production version dubbed the Ascari Ecosse. It’s hard to tell how many F/GT Prototypes were built altogether, but this example came to the US in 1999 after being ordered by the seller in 1996. Despite its lack of a VIN due to Noble’s unsuccessful attempt at US DOT certification, this F/GT Prototype has graced the greens at several concours events throughout the years.
BaT member @1953studebaker, maker and seller of this Carter Prototype, seems to have led an extremely productive life. A person of great inventive talents, he developed the first commercial laser-tag system, two-seat amusement race cars, performance ATVs, a powered surfboard, a race track drying system, and a computerized military training simulation system. Based on a C5 Z06, this prototype was one of two street-legal projects he built in the 2010s.
Widebody 300SL Roadster-Style 2005 Mercedes-Benz SLK350
A Glasgow company known as EA Automotive is the builder and seller of this widebody 300SL-style creation. Based on late-model Mercedes-Benz models, EA’s Speedster bespoke tributes have been their sole mission for a while now. This one started life as an SLK350 and features suspension and exhaust modifications aside from its attention-getting bodywork.
1998 Cadillac DeVille Hearse Mobile Taproom Project
According to Brewers Association economists, the frosty beverage industry faces strong headwinds these days. Rather than boosting sales with “smashed meat sliders” (hamburgers), we present an alternative: taking the brew directly to the customer with this 1998 Cadillac DeVille hearse. It’s been built with a fold-down serving counter, exterior taps, and a slide-out keg rack, and even includes spare kegs and a keg lifter. It’s currently offered as a project.
The McLaren P1 is a remarkable creature in that it has the ability to shed and replace its own exoskeleton. In this case, an American collector’s P1 molted its stock body panels in order to be re-clad with full carbon-fiber bodywork. Unlike several species that consume their own discarded shells, the P1 leaves them behind entirely, leaving this particular husk to make its way to BaT courtesy of @silverarrowcarsltd.
1992 Mercedes-Benz 300CE-24 AMG 3.4 Widebody
Pre-merger AMG lore remains ever fascinating, and the cars themselves are often radical artifacts from a different era. Take, for example, this 300CE-24. AMG Germany got their hands on it when new and bumped its twin-cam M104 inline-six to 3.4L, fitted it with a pair of AMG camshafts, and modified it with AMG bodywork. Some 25 examples were converted by AMG; this one left Affalterbach for Japan, where it resided until 2025.
1967 AMC Rambler Rebel SST Convertible
AMC— saddled with a stale reputation in the early 1960s—adopted a rounded “coke bottle” design to refresh its lineup later in the decade, including on the 1967 Rambler Rebel. The top-shelf SST (Super Sport Touring) trim spec could be ordered with a variety of engines; this one is powered by a replacement 290ci V8 and is one of a mere 1,686 SST convertibles built for the model year.
1959 Porsche 356A 1600 Super GT Speedster
Fuhrmann’s crown jewel—the Type 587/1 flat-four—was a legendary performer, though its complexity also made it notoriously temperamental. The lightweight Carrera GT Speedster was built around the exotic quad-cam mill, but late in production, Porsche built a handful of examples with the pushrod 616/2 1600 Super engine seen in this Super GT Speedster.
Honorable Mentions
1971 Ford F-100 Sport Custom 3-Speed
When Larry Mendelsohn made demolition derbies a regular thing at Islip Speedway, somebody had to clean up the aftermath. This old Ford became that somebody’s track maintenance pickup—like the one janitor you could always count on.
Bruce Canepa and his team have been 959 aficionados for over 30 years. When it came time to finally experience the halo car on US roads, Canepa made a point of improving upon it. The 959SC is a culmination of the firm’s work, and this is the ninth of the 50 modified cars.
Predator-V-Twin-Powered Wheel Horse Tractor
This might actually be one of the coolest applications of the Harbor Freight Predator V-Twin engine we’ve ever seen. Also, in case you’ve never seen wheel horse pulling, it looks a little something like this. Consider it a more restrained version of this—FULL SEND AWAY.
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