What to Know About this Week’s Weird and Wonderful—June 12, 2026
Earlier this week, we hit a new record for volume with 1,248 live auctions on the site. That’s great for business, but a little too much for anyone trying to keep up with every single BaT listing of note. That’s why we have assembled The Weekly Weird and Wonderful, a curated list of the 10 most interesting, unusual, and significant cars to appear here in the last seven days, plus a handful of honorable mentions thrown in because we couldn’t help ourselves. Now, this is not comprehensive by any means, so please head over to the live auctions page to spend down the rest of your attention and focus doing something worthwhile.
Enjoy this week’s selection of Weird and Wonderful BaT auctions, and let us know what else you think should be on our list!
Puttering around behind a metal box deceptively labeled “Ice Cream” in the middle of the summer is the kind of trolling that should be designated a federal offense. Hopefully the next owner will grab a few thick sheets of styrofoam and a block of dry ice to make good on this trike’s promise of tasty frozen treats. While we’re here, it’s worth noting that a good percentage of Weekly Weird and Wonderful posts include some sort of vehicle made by the Cushman company. That’s because they were the masters of application. Over the last 100 years, they turned out a wild variety of scooters, trikes, delivery vehicles, minibikes, and even tracked vehicles, most of which were based around their sturdy four-stroke “Husky” single. These days, many automakers portray themselves as “mobility” companies, but Cushman perfected the idea back in the middle of the last century.
Ex–Kelley Racing 2000 Dallara-Oldsmobile IR-00 Indy Car
This car comes from the dark days of the CART vs. IRL feud, when American open-wheel racing was in dire straits. The Indy Racing League, which this car raced in, was formulated to be more a more cost-effective and level playing field for teams and drivers. Dallara was one of two chassis providers, and Oldsmobile and Infiniti were the selected engine suppliers, each providing naturally-aspirated 3.5-liter engines. The tech and many of the top drivers stayed with CART during the early years of the split, but that doesn’t make an IRL car a tame beast by any stretch. After several hundred laps at Indianapolis, this one went into static display, and it’s now back for its third lap on BaT.
200+ MPH 1989 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z Land-Speed Record Car
Two 200+ mph cars in a row! For anyone curious about the various codes scrawled onto salt flats racers, we’ll use this car to explain the basic principles: here, C/G represents displacement (C=306–372.99 cubic inches) and fuel (G for “gasoline”). ALT stands for “altered,” obviously, though this is a broad category that can denote anything from a streamlined nose to a tube frame replacement and/or full reversal of the powertrain layout (for more details, please refer to the guidelines set forth by the Southern California Timing Association and Utah Salt Flats Racing Association). As a C/G Alt Coupe, this Camaro runs a ~750-horsepower Chevy SB2.2 (basically an even more hopped-up NASCAR motor), and hit a top speed of 220 mph at Bonneville. The auction doesn’t close until after this weekend’s El Mirage event has concluded, but that should serve as inspiration enough!
Jaguar E-Type Lightweight Low-Drag Coupe Re-Creation
The story goes that Enzo Ferrari muttered that the Jaguar E-Type was the “most beautiful car in the world” when it debuted at Geneva in 1961. Another version of the tale has him admiring a fixed-head coupe before remarking that it was only missing a Ferrari badge. Automotive lore being what it is, we can only imagine what il Commendatore might’ve said about the Lightweight Low-Drag coupe, a car whose importance transcended mere aesthetics; this was an elite high-performance machine. To best compete with the 250 GTO, Jaguar stamped out 12 Lightweight E-Types, a few of which received Maclolm Sayer’s low-drag bodywork. This Low-Drag tribute—patterned after chassis 4868WK—was built between 2016 and 2022, and it’s offered by Local Partner @1600veloce. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’ll be off perusing the photo gallery for the rest of the afternoon.
We applaud the brave soul who volunteered to have their neck snapped repeatedly in pursuit of performance records aboard a Rimac Nevera. The electric hypercar broke 23 records back in 2023, including accelerating to 249 mph and back to a standstill in just 29.94 seconds! The Nevera Time Attack celebrates that record-setting campaign. Its Lightning Green and Squadron Black livery also pays homage to Mate Rimac’s record-setting electric BMW E30, which he built at age 19, a time when the rest of us were…well, probably not building record-setting BMW EVs. This is the third Nevera that we’ve listed on BaT (yes, we have a model page) and it’s going to be the first one to sell. The reason we’re so confident? It’s being listed at no reserve.
For nearly as long as the ubiquitous VW Beetle has been around, builders have been trying to turn it into something else. History’s field of Bug-based vehicular creations is so diverse that we recently ran a Question of the Week on this very subject. The GT, built by Bradley Automotive, was one of the more successful kits. Founded by Gary Courneya and David Bradley Fuller in 1971, the firm was riding high—at least until Fuller and the company’s top sales staff left in the late ’70s. Courneya named a fictitious version of himself (Gary Bradley) as president, and Bradley morphed into a pyramid scheme that offered all customers the right to regional distributorships, but that’s another story. Around 6,000 cars were built, and this example has been with the selling dealer since 2018.
27-Years-Owned 1953 Singer SM Roadster 4AD
Think of the Singer Roadster as a sort of upscale T-series MG. The car offered a little more style and additional luxury appointments like aluminum bodywork, a rear jumpseat, running boards, semaphores, and a slightly larger motor. This one was made for export to the US; not many came over, but those that did were held in high esteem by their American owners. Marilyn Monroe and Sammy Davis Jr. famously posed with one for an issue of Motor World in 1953.
1971 Boise Cascade Leisure Lodge Motorhome
We can’t quite explain why we are so charmed by this big shed on wheels, but we can try. The Duplo styling certainly stands out, as do the beige shag carpeting, patterned vinyl wet room, and “Aqua Magic” head. Maybe it’s that the package so perfectly conjures a slice of 1970s Americana—it’s easy to envision this rig parked in the infield at a stock car race, surrounded by lawn chairs, mustachioed dudes, and coolers of beer. If that vision is somehow insufficient to attract you, we have one more fun tidbit—it’s got a Spicer diff with 4.56 gears.
Viper-Powered 1979 Jeep Cherokee Chief 6-Speed by Vigilante
As Sigmund Freud famously did not say, “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” No further explanation required. But then something like this Viper-powered 1979 Jeep Cherokee Chief comes along and causes us to question everything. Vigilante, based out of Johnson City, Texas, is best known for reimagining classic Jeeps and stuffing them with modern Hemi power. This particular FSJ does one better with a mammoth 9.0L Viper V10 built by Prefix in Detroit and mated to a Tremec six-speed manual. Additional touches include a four-link rear end with Fox shocks, Baer six-piston disc brakes, and Currie Enterprises Dana 44 and Dana 60 axles. The blue Levi’s denim seats are a nice touch—a reminder that you might need a change of pants after standing on the go pedal of a lifted 4×4 with 800+ horsepower.
Petrol engineering entrepreneur Peter Wheeler had taken the helm at TVR by the 1990s, and his modern Griffith was made to usher in a new era at the old British marque. John Ravenscroft penned its sleek body, and buyers had their pick of three Rover V8s in 4.0, 4.3, or big boy 5.0-liter flavor. TVR built around 2,350 of these pocket rockets between 1991 and 2002, and they remain popular with UK enthusiasts as well as those raised by the Gran Turismo video game franchise. This 4.0L V8-powered example was sold new in Japan came to the States in 2024.
Honorable Mentions:
Turbocharged B23-Powered Volvo 1800 SCCA SPO Race Car
Of all the profiles one could choose for a tube-frame silhouette racer, the Volvo 1800 is one of the prettiest. Bedecked in orange and blue and wearing number 23, we have to assume that this Volvo was built as a tribute to an airborne moose of a man, the New York Knicks’ rim-protector Mitchell Robinson (let’s go Knicks!).
1989 Land Rover 110 Perentie 6×6
Project Perentie was the Australian Army’s official search for a new age of military vehicles, and the 6×6 110 model was one of a handful new vehicles to come out of it. For those curious, the name “Perentie” comes from one of the largest living monitor lizards living in Australia.
22-Years-Owned 1960 Plymouth Valiant V-200 Four-Door Sedan
We have this one titled as a Plymouth Valiant, but that’s so searchers can find it on the site. It’s actually a Valiant Valiant, since the model was marketed as its own marque for the 1960 model year.
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